James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his various quarrels with ...Show more
Face to the Sky by Michele Leggott
$35.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
A new collection by award-winning poet Michele Leggott.In her latest collection, Michele Leggott speaks to the art and writings of nineteenth-century New Zealand painter Emily Cumming Harris. Face to the Sky tells stories of love and loss from two woman in the shadow the same mountain, more than a centu ...Show more
Poems: 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Gl ...Show more
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
The Heeding by Rob Cowen, Nick Hayes
$27.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Dazzling, moving... A book that will touch many, and be given often: here, take this, you must read this." --Robert Macfarlane "So vivid... A call out to our elemental relationship with love and nature. Beautiful." --Willem Dafoe The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and i ...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