Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Tung is the keenly anticipated debut collection from award-winning Otepoti-Dunedin poet, Robyn Maree Pickens. Earth-centred and life-affirming, these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in the grips of a socio-ecological crisis. Pickens is an eco-pioneer of words, attuned to the fine murmuri ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in t ...Show more
A Working Life by Eileen Myles
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
From 'the closest thing we have to a celebrity poet' (Paris Review) comes a stunning new collection of euphoric, anxious and indelible poems, perfectly in tune with our strange present. The first new poetry collection since Evolution from the peerless writer, activist and poet Eileen Myles, a "Working L ...Show more
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In late 2019, his fascination with old church buildings turned into a life-changing encounter with the God he had never believed in, and he was baptised in the Anglican church. In this new poetry collection, Jay details his ...Show more
Funeral Diva by Pamela Sneed
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that she defies genre."--Hilton Als "Pamela Sneed's Funeral Diva charts the 'grieving patterns' informing a life with unflinching honesty and clarity. This notable achievement, tra ...Show more
Slug by Hollie McNish
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight' SCOTSMAN'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPESTThe new collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of ...Show more
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
Devotions by Mary Oliver
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Devotions is a stunning, definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty ...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
A Garden is a Long Time by Jenny Bornholdt; Annemarie Hope-Cross
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The photographs in A garden is a long time take us beyond the perimeter of the Central Otago garden where they were created. Incorporating processes and materials from the darker, more mysterious corners of early photographic history, the images offer an account of the life and sensibility of a remarkab ...Show more
Talia by Isla Huia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Talia is the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a critique of hometowns, an analysis of whakapapa, and a reclamation of tongue. It is an ode to the earth she stands on, and to a sister she lost to the skies. It is a manifesto for a future full of aunties an ...Show more