Second Person by Gordon Rata
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The only thing to bring this frozen world to life is an imagination. Who has one? Do I? Let me check. Rata Gordon's first poetry collection is both graceful and restless, sorrowful and witty. In poems about childhood, travelling, the body and the earth, Gordon describes the freedom and disorientation we ...Show more
The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white ‘Savage is as savage does. And we’re all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world – outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade ...Show more
Dark Sparring: Poems by Marsh Selina Tusitala
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Where Selina Marsh’s first collection, Fast Talking PI, boldly, insightfully, and lyrically wrestled with the realities of being an individual of Pacific descent in a primarily European world, her latest offering fiercely combats the loss of a loved one with all of the techniques of poetry and the Thai ...Show more
Tightrope by Marsh Selina Tusitala
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, ...Show more
Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The dazzling and outrageous debut from one of the brightest new talents in New Zealand poetry.
Mezzaluna: Selected Poems by Michele Leggott
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Thirty years of selected poems by the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. Mezzaluna gathers work from critically acclaimed poet Michele Leggott's nine collections, from Like This? (1988) to Vanishing Points (2017). In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush tex ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 by Johanna Emeny (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. Issue #54 features 133 new poems (including by this year's featured poe ...Show more
How to Fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.
Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They ...Show more
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY. "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each wo ...Show more
We’re All Made of Lightning by Khadro Mohamed
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim woman in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her wor ...Show more
House and Contents by Gregory O'Brien
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Our mother's clouds and insects fly to embrace your clouds and insects. Her architecture, roads, bridges and infrastructure rush to greet yours. Her molecules on their upward trajectory entwine with yours, the colour of her eyes, hair and skin. Her language, with its past participles, figures of speech, ...Show more