Poetry Rebellion: Poems and Prose to Rewild the Spirit by Paul Evans (Editor)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Life in the 21st century is throwing up challenges across the globe. From climate emergency to extreme politics, from women's rights to gender identity. We can often feel powerless and unable to make a difference in these bewildering times. But throughout history, poets, writers and campaigners have use ...Show more
Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts by Harry Ricketts
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. From his 1989 collection Coming Here – in which he wrote the first of his ‘Secret Life’ poems – to his 2018 collection Winter Eyes, which reviewer Tim Uppert ...Show more
Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology by Mikaela Nyman & Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women – and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 to Vanuatu's coming of age in 2020. Most of these ...Show more
Things OK With You? by Vincent O'Sullivan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Know what a thing’s called, and we own it; if not, there’s really only pointing, our still wishing we knew. The afternoon wilts round its edges, unless we’ve said it. Things OK with you? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems ...Show more
Toku Papa by Solly Ruby
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now it’s time for you to believe me. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival ...Show more
Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: 1st
Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at ...Show more
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems l ...Show more
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent' Mary Karr 'Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent' Washington Post Nobody wrote about police hassle like she did. Nobody wrote about making ends meet, about the history of the slave trade or the comedy of the daily grind, with the sa ...Show more
A Poem for Every Summer Day by Allie Esiri
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: A\Poem for Every Day and Night of the Year Ser.
Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous collection, A Poem for Every Summer Day, you will find verse that will transport you to striking summer scenes and inspire adventure. The poems are selected from Allie Esiri's bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021 by Tracey Slaughter (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. This issue, #55, features 182 poems by 129 poets, including Elizabeth Morton, Michele Leggott, essa may ranapiri, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Jordan Hamel, David Eggleton and Mere Tai ...Show more
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' -- Boston Globe In Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed ...Show more
The: Selected Poems Wilder Years by David Eggleton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019-21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a 'Best Of '. The Wilder Years: Selected Poems is a hardback compendium of the poet's own selection from 35 years of published work, together with a handful of new poems. Cover art by Nige ...Show more