Fleur Adcock Collected Poems - (Expanded Edition) by Fleur Adcock
50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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.
Revelations: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 by Edited by Tracey Slaughter
37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | 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
Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In their generous and often euphoric first book, Sylvan Spring is constantly and irresistibly in motion. These are poems for the sad bitches, the silly billys, the divine transsexuals, the girls who were first to get piercings not in their ears, the ones who dream of dissolving into a river, the Cocte ...Show more
Āria by Jessica Hinerangi
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Where is my tongue? On display, a trophy of war. Where is my tikanga? Kept in the basement. Where is my mana? Locked in the museum. And where are my whanau? Scattered like dandelion seeds, from the grating city, to the harnessed horizon. Drawing moko kauae on Barbies. Reading Ranginui Walker in rahui. S ...Show more
The Big Amazing Poetry Book: 52 Weeks of Poetry From 52 Brilliant Poets by Gaby Morgan
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
From John Agard and Julia Donaldson to Nikita Gill, Brian Bilston and Carol Ann Duffy, The Big Amazing Poetry Book is a brilliant, accessible introduction to poetry and to fifty-two fantastic poets. Introduced by Roger McGough, the book features the illustrations of former Children's Laureate and belove ...Show more
The Poetry of Birds by Samuel Carr
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy. Poets and artists have always looked to birds for inspiration. In this collection Audubon's iconic birds illuminate, as well as illustrate, the poems. Since the poets and the painters here ...Show more
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
I Am in Bed with You by Emma Barnes
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A bold, playful, poetic exploration of sex, gender and identity. I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I’m always on theleft. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winterI left myself behind in the 90s. I’m coming back now. Youcan see the light touching me. I can see layers of tissu ...Show more
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A moving tale of recovery and reconnection and an immersive journey through British wetlandsGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . .Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible light. In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett ce ...Show more
Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 by Sigrid Rausing
33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Since the first 'Best of Young British Novelists' issue in 1983, Granta has championed the work of authors who have changed the landscape of British literature. In 1983, featured writers included Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker, among many others. Subsequent edi ...Show more
Saga by Hannah Mettner
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Saga, the permafrost is melting and the secrets frozen within are emerging. Nothing is spared, from the old family recipe for pineapple cheesecake to the portrait of an ancestor, from the wife who sleeps with an axe under her bed to the tough heart of a man that beats beneath the skin. With an uneas ...Show more
Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay by Max and Olive
23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay is a collection of experimental poetic attempts and gestures: towards something big, deep, fundamental, sick. It paddles through art, pop culture, humour, lyric, psychology and the absurd on its long swim towards ...Show more