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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
a - wake - (e)nd by Audrey Brown-Pereira
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
What does it mean to be a good Pacific woman? Audrey doesn’t care. In her third collection a - wake - (e)nd, acclaimed poet Audrey Brown-Pereira turns a lens to her own life, transforming a mid-life crisis into opportunity. Set against an unkind pandemic, a Pacific evolving revolving, and a deteriorati ...Show more
Since June by Louise Wallace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Since June is a poised and confident first book of poems. Language slips and miscommunications lead to suddenly unnerving perceptions and leave the reader both moved and a little unbalanced. Louise Wallace can start a poem in the “real” world, then take it off to somewhere else entirely. She’s not afrai ...Show more
The Artist by Ruby Solly
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so bright that sound becomes sight . . . And so from the black the world is sung into being, not for us, but for itself, but for the song. In a Southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin, tw ...Show more