Toku Papa by Solly Ruby
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
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
Geoff Cochrane - Selected Poems by Geoff Cochrane
$40.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Geoff Cochrane's many published collections, from Aztec Noon (1992) to Chosen (2020). 'Geoff Cochrane's is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.' -Damien Wilkins 'Over the years, Cochrane's work has been a jo ...Show more
Little Doomsdays (Korero series) by Nic Low; Phil Dadson (Artist)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
A unique collaboration in words and art It’s said — in the quiet between buses, down the back of the pub, in the hushed elevator rising to the penthouse — that in the late twentieth century an unstable grouping of scholars, writers and fanatics from several Ngāi Tahu hapū in Murihiku created what has c ...Show more
Calamities! by Jane Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fine
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in everything from meteorites and distant planets to pomanders and cat’s ears. Whether contemplating time, regr ...Show more
Past Lives by Leah Dodd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fine
Grounded in the urgency of the moment - motherhood, housing precarity, politics - Past Lives also surges along on the nervous and joyful electricity of Leah Dodd's voice, taking us from buses to poetry readings, rental bathrooms to Runescape, sometimes through the power of astral projection. These poems ...Show more
Shared Histories by John Tane Christeller
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Across the motu there are places that remind those who stop there of the bloody battles between Maori iwi and the Crown known as the New Zealand Wars. Many don’t know where these places are, most don’t stop. In 2021 Palmerston North poet and artist John Tane Christeller decided to visit the sites and r ...Show more