Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
When I Reach for Your Pulse by Rushi Vyas
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this electrifying debut, Rushi Vyas untangles slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent' s suicide. ' When my father finally / died,' he writes, ' we [... ] burned, / like an effigy, the voiceless body.' In this tough and tender, gently powerful collection, grief returns us to ...Show more
Birdspeak by Arihia Latham
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
‘Let me speak as if a birdLet me speak of you in our reo as if your memories have wings’ In Arihia Latham’s debut collection of poems, birdcall resounds through poetry that is both personal and political, as fierce as it is tender. Arihia (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) is a writer, rongoā practitioner ...Show more
A Random Caller - Cancer Poetry by Heather Cameron
$39.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Cancer is a disease with a persona of mystery, often referred to through the use of negative metaphors such as alien, evil, and foreign, while its medical treatment and recovery phases are described with warfare metaphors, and sadly when death is the end result, one is said to have lost their battle wit ...Show more
Andrew Johnston - Selected Poems by Andrew Johnston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This Selected Poems presents the best of Andrew Johnston's five published collections, from How to Talk (1993) to Fits & Starts (2016).'Andrew Johnson does the best titles. And then he puts the best poems underneath them.' -Bill Manhire'Andrew Johnston's first collection, How to Talk, is a book of s ...Show more
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
A Lack of Good Sons by Jake Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
I am seconds away from everything. I am the bullseye of the world. A Lack of Good Sons is a book of poetry that carries us through many realms - Greek myth, the Bible, dream, and the earthly world, with all its beauty and violence. An eclectic range of speakers, from deities to inanimate objects, descri ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
We Came from Hamburg by V. Ullrich
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
It is Hamburg, 1920. Abruptly Erna leaves her marriage and her three daughters, and disappears from the family. No one speaks of her again. One by one the other members of the Simon family begin to disappear, with death from natural causes and then as a response to what is happening in Germany with the ...Show more
Roll & Break by Adrienne Jansen
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
What defines a place like Tītahi Bay? The rolling waves, the turning tide, the crescent-cleft coast? It is the people. It is the stories handed down through generations. It is this rugged beauty that links us to each other. These are not your usual beach poems. An African refugee staggers from the ...Show more