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
Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In their generous and often euphoric first book, Sylvan Spring is constantly and irresistibly in motion. These are poems for the sad bitches, the silly billys, the divine transsexuals, the girls who were first to get piercings not in their ears, the ones who dream of dissolving into a river, the Cocte ...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
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
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
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