Middle Youth by Morgan Bach
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems of Middle Youth look directly into the fire. Sometimes they find joy and the possibility of sustaining oneself; sometimes they feel the sense of an ending. Morgan Bach writes with a dark, crackling energy and controlled rage about the world we find ourselves in. Here are the loves that fi ...Show more
All Tito's Children by Tim Grgec
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Who is Marshal Tito? His accent is strange, his birthdate and name uncertain. He addresses his people in a voice that might be his own, or perhaps it is the voice of someone else. Stjepan and Elizabeta are siblings in Kotoriba, a small village between two rivers in Yugoslavia. They want to know everythi ...Show more
Katūīvei - Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Katuivei) by David Eggleton (Editor); Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Mere Taito (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices ...Show more
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
Lemon Juice Issue 3
$6.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Issue 3 pieces include - Interview on Assembling and Reassembling Text in Poetry with Gregory Kan, I Interrupt This Broadcast: Voice and Silence in Contemporary Translations of Ancient Fragmentary Texts by Claudia Jardine, Breaking the Form: The Evolution of Free Verse by Devon Webb
Divisible by Itself and One by Kae Tempest
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper.I want to take you back where you began,Find the scraps of you you hid in secretAnd bring them back to life beneath my tongue. Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, ...Show more
Liveability by Claire Orchard
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
any home boils down to one of two options:the place you're on your way back toor the place you're leaving. In Liveability, Claire Orchard places us vividly in the lives, pasts, futures and homes of others: A young farmer obsessively photographs snowflakes in wintry Vermont. A pair of geckos named Romeo ...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
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...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
Kerrin P Sharpe - Hoof by Kerrin P Sharpe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe arrives with new urgency and longing. These are poems about a father who can only remember one word, ponies that grow hooves of basalt as they pull Scott and Shackelton around ?tamahua in sledges, and a woman named Johanna living in a small village in Greenland. She writes about ...Show more