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
Fleur Adcock Collected Poems - (Expanded Edition) by Fleur Adcock
$50.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
This expanded edition of Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, includes her latest collection The Mermaid's Purse, and twenty new poems. It is published simultaneously with Bloodaxe Books (UK) on the occasion of Fleur Adcock's 90th birthday on 10 February 2024.
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infeste ...Show more
Detritus of Empire by Robin Peace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
Detritus are the pieces that are left when something or someone breaks, falls apart or is destroyed: gravel from rocks, the organic matter from plants. At the edge of an endangered wetland in Te Ika-a-Māui, Robin Peace writes of what is left of a country colonised not just by people but by the plants an ...Show more
Heart Stood Still by Miriam Sharland
$30.00 NZD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Series: Ka Haea Te Ata Ser.
Heart Stood Still is an eco-memoir and a lyrical portrait of Manawatu, Aotearoa. In early 2020, Miriam Sharland was nearing the end of a 17-year adventure in Aotearoa and was set to return to her family and friends in England when Covid put an end to her travel plans. Facing isolation, Sharland turned ...Show more