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
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
Owls and Other Fantasies - Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A perfect introduction to Mary Oliver's poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner's life. Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; ...Show more
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows, and, of course, the snowy owl; among a dozen others-including ten poems original to this v ...Show more
Haikubes
$60.00 NZD
Category: Games & Puzzles
Perfect for individual inspiration or as an after-dinner game with friends or family, Haikubes is a set of 63 word cubes that is attractive enough to display on the coffee table. Simply roll the cubes and use the words that come up to create an expressive haiku. Includes two cubes with inspirational cue ...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