Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fine
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
Tunui | Comet by Robert Sullivan
$15.00 NZD
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Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
my old friend I wonder how far north you travel?The road goes west starting two doors up from The Dog’s Bollix ending at sunset. So many sunsetsFacebook and Instagram couldn’t contain them. Tūnui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Māori poets. Roll ...Show more
Unseasoned Campaigner by Janet Newman
$18.00 NZD
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Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
Unseasoned Campaigner is a layered collection exploring the complexities of farming life in Horowhenua. Poet Janet Newman uncovers territory ripe for exploration as she juxtaposes the often troubled aspects of commercial farming –the life and death of animals – with loving family relationships. The coll ...Show more
Little Ache, The by Ian Wedde
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Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
The Little Ache – a German notebook was written in 2013–14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler. In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.
The Empty Grandstand by Lloyd Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to watch rugby with his father. The experience was baptismal. From his new elevated perspective Jones believed he could see everything that mattered - a field of play that rolled out, green with promise, from suburban New Z ...Show more
Koe: An Aotearoa Ecopoetic Anthology by Jante Newman, Robert Sullivan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Koe invites readers to explore human connections with nature through a selection of over 100 poems composed in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-European times to the present day. Including a substantial introduction and editors' notes, Koe is the first anthology to provide a comprehensive overview of ecopo ...Show more
Tarot by Jake Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Here are the cards. Put your hand on them, Close your eyes. You don't want to? But you are blind with them open. Jake Arthur's beguiling second poetry collection opens with a tarot reader coaxing us into a reading over a cup of tea. And in a rush of vivid scenes and impressions, we begin to imagine epi ...Show more
Still Is by Vincent O'Sullivan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
The thrushes are back. The blackbirds too are back, already worrying the thrushes, filching their choice worms. The gorse is running the hills along the Aramoana Road, spills the slopes yellow; the broom, so much more politely, you call it gold. Look again, the gorse walks prickling against the skyline. ...Show more
Revelations: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 by Edited by Tracey Slaughter
$37.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Ser.
For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 101 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.Another packed issue, #58 showcases the raw and the vital - including from this year's featured poet, Carin Smeaton - and ...Show more
Plastic by Stacey Teague
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvy In Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Māori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form th ...Show more
Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā by Glenn Colquhoun; illustrations by Nigel Brown
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun explores a range of Pākehā oral poetic forms; sea shanties, hymns, ballads, nursery rhymes and clapping songs. It is a companion volume to Three Women, his collection of poetry in Te Reo Māori, and is richly illustrated by Nigel Brown. A soundtrack to the poem ...Show more