Her Limitless Her by Reihana Robinson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The bounty of women, how far they’ll go, how far they can stretch – to love, to encompass, to bear. Find them here: bosom-packed, dreamy, dragging their offspring, twinsets askew, peeling, darning, preening. In Her Limitless Her Reihana Robinson has created a beguiling space for her to stretch on the pa ...Show more
He's So Masc by Chris Tse
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. He's So MASC confronts a contemporary world of self-loathing poets and compulsive liars, of youth and sexual identity, and of the author as character - pop star, ac ...Show more
How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do ...Show more
How We Fell (a love story) by Glenn Colquhoun
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Faster than a speeding simile! Able to leap hyperbole in a single bound! Can Poetryman rescue the damsel from catastrophic cliches Award-winning poet Glenn Colquhoun's innovative new collection describes his ten year relationship with his former wife through all its highs, cries, lies and sighs. Vivid i ...Show more
How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other East Asian immigrants. Chris Tse uses this story - and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later - to reflect on the experien ...Show more
I Thought You Were Dead Michael by Michael Fitzsimmons
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
I have a growing number of scars. A three-inch horizontal scar across the stomach, very tidy. Two more small ones either side of the rib cage and now one on the hand and arm to deal with a Viking inheritance. I look at them in the mirror. I hope they don't fade away completely. They are my body art. My ...Show more
In Memoriam: Thirty Poems of Bereavement by VARIOUS AUTHORS
$18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful alternative to a sympathy card, this lovely collection of thirty poems comes complete with an envelope -a perfect gift for anyone who needs solace.
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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
Just Looking by Peter Bland
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that hes written over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child alongside art by Br ...Show more
Lost Relatives by Siobhan Harvey
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Siobhan Harvey is the editor of Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion and Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many New Zealand and international magazines and anthologies, and have been broadcast on Radio New Zealand.
Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Mophead
In her bestselling Mophead, poet laureate and fast talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a difference. In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westm ...Show more