R A K Mason - Uncollected Poems by R A K. Mason; Roger Hickin (ed.)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: NEAR FINE
Allen Curnow called R. A. K. Mason (190571) New Zealand's 'first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet'. His Collected Poems, first published in 1962, was arigorous selection made before Mason's 'late flowering' of 196265. Some of the excluded poems and some of the late poems have since seen the lig ...Show more
We Came from Hamburg by V. Ullrich
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
It is Hamburg, 1920. Abruptly Erna leaves her marriage and her three daughters, and disappears from the family. No one speaks of her again. One by one the other members of the Simon family begin to disappear, with death from natural causes and then as a response to what is happening in Germany with the ...Show more
A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
The third poetry collection from Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton. I was Dick. I teased Anne and George.I was Edmund, betrayed my friendsfor a sweet. Something rotten in me. — from ‘My childhood’ In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the ...Show more
Night School by Michael Steven
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.
Echidna by essa may ranapiri
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Echidna is a dangerous animal; she pokes holes in men just to remind them what kind of monster she is wakes up every single morning and chooses violence cos what choice does she really have? essa may ranapiri's second poetry collection follows the story of Echidna, their own interpretation of the Greek ...Show more
Actions and Travels - How Poetry Works by Anna Jackson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fine
A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonan ...Show more
Super Model Minority by Chris Tse
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE'S SO MASC - by looking to a future where 'it's enough to look up at a sky blushing r ...Show more
Formica by Maggie Rainey-Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Formica begins in 1950s Richmond with the author’s family struggling in the aftermath of a war that took her father to Crete to fight and then Poland as a prisoner of war. At the Formica kitchen table, Maggie’s mother is reciting poems while chopping the veggies for tea. Maggie listens while tying her b ...Show more
Dark Love by P. J. Shaw
$21.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
'Dark Love' is a journey through a lifetime of writing poetry. It includes childhood poems, dreams and nightmares, and later reflections on childhood, dreams and nightmares. The culmination is a more appreciative and romanticised imagination looking at the universe and all forms of life including humani ...Show more
Things OK With You? by Vincent O'Sullivan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
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