Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

The dazzling and outrageous debut from one of the brightest new talents in New Zealand poetry.

New Transgender Blockbusters by Oscar Upperton

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

The dead should come back changed, or what¿s the point? Why do you hide your head beneath the bedclothes? Doesn¿t everyone name themselves? Is your house a bottle? Are you trapped in there? Isn¿t it nice to be this close to someone? Can we go back to our notes? Please? Urgent, witty an d unnervingly beautiful, Oscar Upperton¿s first collection takes familiar language and makes it uncanny. Suns detach. The ocean climbs a mast. Someone forgets where their haunted house is. These poems are vitally human and consoling; they reframe the ordinary as something to yearn for. ...Show more

By Sea Mouths Speaking - Collected Poems 1973-2018 and Related Prose by Denys Trussell

$45.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine

Stone Rain - The Polynesian Strain by Alistair Campbell

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

Under Glass by Gregory Kan

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

'The things that are really big and really close are too big and too close to be seen.' A colossal jungle. Two suns. The sea on fire. If the mind were a place, what might it look like? Under Glass is an ambitious new collection by one of the most exciting young poets writing today. Gregory Kan's second book is a dialogue between a series of prose poems, following a protagonist through a mysterious and threatening landscape, and a series of verse poems, driven by the speaker's compulsive hunger to make sense of things. Kan's explorations of the outer and inner landscapes frequently cross paths but leave the reader in doubt. This is a collection full of maps and trapdoors, labyrinths and fragmented traces. Under Glass opens up new ways of telling stories, while questioning the value of storytelling itself. Beautifully crystalline and emotionally powerful, this poetry collection takes readers on a journey that is frightening yet tender, imperfect but triumphant. ...Show more

Polynesian Literature: Maori Poetry Waiata and Tangi by Johannes C. Andersen (ed.)

$35.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good

Louis Johnson Selected Poems edited by Terry Sturm by Sturm, Terry

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Louis Johnson was one of New Zealand's major poets, with many volumes of verse published over a period of 45 years. In his youth Johnson was at the centre of the 'Wellington group', who were noted for writing about contemporary life, society and the city suburbs, rather than 'approved' themes of New Zea land landscape and identity. This definitive selection has been made by Louis Johnson's longtime friend Terry Sturm. It represents all the phases of his career and also includes a substancial introduction, as well as notes on the poems. ...Show more

No Ordinary Sun by Hone Tuwhare

$60.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Spirit in a Strange Land: A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse by Edited by Michael Grimshaw, Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Reference & Anthology Section) SPIRIT IN A STRANGE LAND is the first-ever collection of poetry that focuses on a rich vein in New Zealand writing: our spiritual experience. Religious poetry has always been evident in anthologies, but by e xpanding the notion of relgion beyond a narrow doctrinal frame and the portals of the church, a surprising abdundance of treasures is revealed. This collection is religiously, spirtually, historically and culturally diverse, reflecting the mutliplicity of our spiritualities. ...Show more

The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire & Damien Wilkins (ed.)

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: good

Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensa ble guide to the richness, strangeness, and liveliness of contemporary poetry. With over sixty poets appearing, there's classic work by some of the best-known figures in our writing, including Sam Hunt, Allen Curnow, Jenny Bornholdt, Cilla McQueen, Elizabeth Smither, and Ian Wedde; there are also compelling poems from new writers. Each poet's own note on the selection illuminates the work and takes us inside the writer's personal workshop. The first decade of the new century comes into view as a vibrant, argumentative, restless period, with our poets unafraid of either political engagement or strong personal feeling. The extraordinary range of forms and voices immediately makes this book the most inviting and enjoyable collection of New Zealand poetry available. ...Show more

Parallel by Jillian Sullivan

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

'A sensitively connected sequence... held me from beginning to end with its tender, understated sophistication.' Selina Tusitala Marsh. Jillian Sullivan has published novels, collections of stories, a book on mythology and one on writing, Fishing from the Boat Ramp: A guide to creating. Her awards inclu de the Highlights Fiction Award in the United States, and the Kathleen Grattan Prize for the sequence of poems on which this book is based. Jillian, who is a grandmother and builder, lives in the Ida Valley in Central Otago. This is her first collection of poems. ...Show more

Anchor Stone by Tony Beyer

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

ANCHOR STONE by Tony Beyer is "a significant book by a significant poet" (Mark Young). It includes several longer works & a significant proportion which deliberately address issues relevant to contemporary concepts of New Zealand identity and culture. Importantly for the work of a senior pakeha poet , there is a strong Maori element, as for example in "At Ratana" a vivid depiction of events at Wiremu Ratana's annual birthday celebrations. The approach throughout is vigorous, often entertaining, and consistently stimulating. As fellow New Zealand poet David Howard remarks: "Tony Beyer has never followed signposts; he has always attended to the road, rewarding us with a considered prosody that honours the moment yet goes beyond it. His language is disciplined, almost ascetic, but there is a generosity in even the most clipped line, a kind of `elated patience' that is rare, and all the more welcome for its rarity, in New Zealand poetry. It is clear to me that Beyer's lifelong focus on the vocation of making poems rather than the business of literary politics has come to a wonderful maturity in Anchor Stone." ...Show more