This Is a Story about Your Mother by Louise Wallace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In her latest collection, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood. Is this universal rite-of-passage really an intimately personal event, down to the degree of fluid rising in your ankles, or is it a societal machine, forever churning out the next generation to an unre ...Show more
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Alarm & Longing: 2022 New Zealand Poetry Society anthology by Tim Jones (editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Love. Longing. Alarm at the state of the world. Joy and despair at the slipperiness of words. They're all in Alarm & Longing, the 2022 New Zealand Poetry Society anthology: the latest in a series of annual anthologies that began in 1987. Alarm & Longing includes the winning poems and haiku ...Show more
AUP New Poets 7 by Rhys Feeney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
From Apia to Parnell, ancient Rome to Aro Park and on to the furthest reaches of the internet, AUP New Poets 7 takes readers on an eye-popping journey through contemporary New Zealand poetry. The collection opens with Rhys Feeney's passionate take on contemporary global politics and ecological collapse. ...Show more
Neither by Liam Jacobson
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Neither is the first collection of poems from Liam Jacobson (Kāi Tahu). Written among shadows of Tāmaki Makaurau, it honours fog and bus-rides, being broke and public dreams. It’s an intimate attempt to chronicle a long remembering among the city’s blurry romance.
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.
Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love by Jessica Urlichs
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to scho ...Show more
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
Green Rain by Alistair Clarke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Alastair Clarke’s poetry considerably addresses his re-seeing his country after living for many years overseas. Though this element is not explicit, it does underlie the feelings and ideas of much of the poetry. Returning to live in the Wairarapa - a rich, wide valley bordered by mountains (frequently ...Show more
Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Carrie Rudzinski, Grace Iwashita-Taylor
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
From the South Auckland Poets Collective to regional writers festivals, at poetry slams and open mic nights, in theatre works like Show Ponies and Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, performance poetry has taken off in Aotearoa.In this anthology, ninety performance poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, slam poets, ...Show more
Some of Us Eat the Seeds by Morgan Bach
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Morgan Bach weaves a line between waking life and the unstable dreamworld beneath, disorienting and reorienting us from moment to moment. In poems of childhood, family, travel and relationships, she responds to the ache and sometimes horror of life in a voice that is restless and witty, bold and sharp-e ...Show more
In the Temple by Catherine Bagnall; L. Jane Sayle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2021 collaboration On We Go, artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle return with another collection of watercolours and poems inspired by their contemplation of nature within the context of the feminine sublime. In the Temple maintains a focus on ecological thin ...Show more