Poems About Birds by H. J. Massingham
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds - their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially our poetry, is full of them. This annotated edition of Poems About Birds selects the very best from H. J. ...Show more
Calamities! by Jane Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in everything from meteorites and distant planets to pomanders and cat’s ears. Whether contemplating time, regr ...Show more
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
Sedition - Poems by Anahera Maire Gildea
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
Sedition is Anahera's long-awaited first full-length volume of poetry. Comprising a significant body of previously unpublished work, Sedition represents a vital political intervention in the poetic landscape of Aotearoa. The work ranges and rages through generations, taking in a mother's anguish and a ...Show more
The Pistils by Janet Charman
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Category: Sale Books (non-returnable)
The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutr ...Show more
Night School by Michael Steven
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Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.
Echidna by essa may ranapiri
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Category: Poetry & Anthology
Echidna is a dangerous animal; she pokes holes in men just to remind them what kind of monster she is wakes up every single morning and chooses violence cos what choice does she really have? essa may ranapiri's second poetry collection follows the story of Echidna, their own interpretation of the Greek ...Show more
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
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
The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser
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Poetry Book Society Wild CardWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets'It's thrilling to discover such a staggeringly self-assured debut, to feel in the unmistakable presence of The Real Thing' Kaveh AkbarThe Yemeni American poet Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistr ...Show more
Landfall 244 - Spring 2022 by Lynley Edmeades (editor)
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Category: Sale Books (non-returnable) | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealands foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews, and biographical and critical essays. The 2022 Spring edition, Landfall 24 ...Show more
Emily Dickinson: A selection of poems from one of America s most iconic poets by Emily Dickinson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted: 'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all' Emily Dick ...Show more
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Great Poets Series by Alfred Tennyson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die' 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all' His genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language o ...Show more