Occasional: 50 Poems by Owen Marshall
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Owen Marshall has been writing occasional poems as the mood struck him hence the title of this, his first book of poems. The volume Occasional consists of 50 poetic texts celebrating a variety of occasions some small, some larger, but always thought-provoking. There are poems in honour of recently dec ...Show more
Sleepwalking In Antarctica and Other Poems by Owen Marshall
$5.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This fine new collection of poetry, Owen Marshall's second, is rich in the themes and preoccupations that have made his short stories and novels so admired. Here are wise, elegiac poems on love and loss, longing and regret, and ageing; beautifully observed, affectionate poems about New Zealand countrysi ...Show more
Wild Honey by Paula Green
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were ...Show more
Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The dazzling and outrageous debut from one of the brightest new talents in New Zealand poetry.
How to Take off Your Clothes by Hadassah Grace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Hadassah's book deals with themes of love, sex and depression. The author describes it as: "Politically it's about leaning in to the negative stereotypes projected onto women, and exploring what it means to embrace and humanize them. Personally it's about me working through the loss of the life I thoug ...Show more
Therese Lloyd - The Facts by Lloyd Therese
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
She is made of blood she raises herself up to be seen The superb second book by the author of the acclaimed 2013 collection Other Animals traces the course of a failing marriage, while illuminating the ways in which art and poetry are essential to life. Deeply felt and lyrically arresting, The Facts off ...Show more
Bill Manhire - Collected Poems by Bill Manhire
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Bill Manhire's Collected Poems brings together thirty years of work from the outstanding poet of his generation.
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog... or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert... this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness... heartbreaking and charged with trees.. ...Show more
Selected Poems of James K Baxter by edited by Paul Millar
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by ...Show more
How I Get Ready by Ashleigh Young
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In her latest poetry collection How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book. An Ashleigh Young poem is a world: hospitable, strange, a little off kilter. The poems in How I Get Ready bristle with humour and curiosity; they ...Show more
How to Live by Rickerby Helen
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tel ...Show more
Moth Hour by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The family didn’t know what to do about grief. The noisy house went silent. I was fourteen. I lay on the red rug in the sitting room and listened to Beethoven’s Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 – over and over because it was there. In 1973, Anne Kennedy’s brother Philip was ...Show more