Ngā Wāhine e Toru / Three Women by Glenn Colquhoun
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun writes to his daughter, former partner, and mother, using the medium of Māori oral poetry. In doing so he explores oriori, karakia, haka, mōteatea, pātere, waiata aroha and waiata tangi. It is a companion volume to Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā, his ...Show more
Root Leaf Flower Fruit by Bill Nelson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fine
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
We’re All Made of Lightning by Khadro Mohamed
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim woman in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her wor ...Show more
Surrender - Poems by Michaela Keeble
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
Surrender is Michaela Keeble's remarkable first full-length collection of poems. It responds to the call of indigenous and other radical poets – as well as to the deafening silence in white poetry – to face our colonial past and our increasingly appropriative present. In challenging herself, Michaela's ...Show more
Motherland by Kathy Frantz
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
I leave my footprintsfirm nowstrong nowsure now I look behind me I have arrived Motherland is the debut collection of poems from one of Auckland’s rising literary stars and centres around pain, joy, memories, hopes, resilience and loss.
Rust Belt by Jamie Trower
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: new
"At an unknown train station, a fair goddess waits for her next ride to Paradise. Across the platform, two brothers farewell each other for what feels like the last time. The dusk sky outside is blanched in mocked orange from the blister of a meteor as it crumbles into orbit. Out there, the world is cha ...Show more
Stones & Kisses by Peter Rawnsley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Peter Rawnsley writes of movement even as his own world becomes increasingly still. He is acutely aware of the natural world around him – its softness and light as well as its brutality – from Karehana Bay to Castlepoint to Tijuana, and of his own place in it. He nods to the inevitable passing of time, ...Show more
Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Ngā mihi whakawhetai nui ki a rātou e whai ana i te ara mātauranga o ō mātou mātua tūpuna! A new collection from acclaimed poet Robert Sullivan, inspired by the Māori lunar calendar. Three birds flew from me: a sparrow from my chesta tūī out my throata pīwaiwaka from my thigh they flew to see my fat ...Show more
The Singing Stream - A Collection of Poetry by Ingrid Prosser
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
The Singing Stream is Kapiti-based performance poet Ingrid Prosser’s first full-length collection of poems (following three A6 books sold mostly at performances). The poems are in three cycles, inspired by holidays in Wales, France and Cornwall. In each place, the poet immersed herself in local history ...Show more
Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Carrie Rudzinski, Grace Iwashita-Taylor
$50.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
From the South Auckland Poets Collective to regional writers festivals, at poetry slams and open mic nights, in theatre works like Show Ponies and Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, performance poetry has taken off in Aotearoa.In this anthology, ninety performance poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, slam poets, ...Show more
At The Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Ōtepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching’s poems bestow a unique attention upon the world. Her eye is finely attuned to the well-trodden yet overlooked – the places between ‘dirt and thumb’ ...Show more
Andrew Johnston - Selected Poems by Andrew Johnston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fiine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Andrew Johnston's five published collections, from How to Talk (1993) to Fits & Starts (2016).'Andrew Johnson does the best titles. And then he puts the best poems underneath them.' -Bill Manhire'Andrew Johnston's first collection, How to Talk, is a book of s ...Show more