Whim Wham's New Zealand: The Best of Whim Wham 1937-1988 by Allen Curnow
34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Whim Wham was the pen-name of the major New Zealand poet Allen Curnow. His highly entertaining verses, commencing in the Christchurch Press in 1937 and in the New Zealand Herald from 1951, voiced the awkward questions so many New Zealanders wanted to ask. Whim Wham became a Saturday institution and requ ...Show more
Selected Poems of James K Baxter by edited by Paul Millar
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by ...Show more
Slip Stream by Paula Green
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Through Slip Stream, Paula Green is interested in how to balance a challenging experience against the continuation of everyday life, and proposes small distractions and coping strategies solving cryptic crossword puzzles, for example, the mock-clues of which are scattered through the poems. Making up a ...Show more
Tigers at Awhitu by Sarah Broom
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In these poems characters appear in the landscape, situated, as in a story. They rage against it, consider it, interact with it, abandon themselves to it. A family walks north along a frozen road; a fugitive crouches in the long grass of a field; a woman driving around the harbour's edge points out the ...Show more
Dear Sweet Harry by Lynn Jenner
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Dear Sweet Harry is Lynn Jenner's first collection - the autobiography of an obsession linking the author's own family history with that of two famous deceivers, Harry Houdini and Mata Hari. In an act of imaginative will Jenner assembles 'factions' and ephemera, poems and scraps that summon other divers ...Show more
Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing from: A comedy with interruptions by Murray Edmond
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From: A Comedy with Interruptions is a new poetry collection from Murray Edmond. Arranged in six acts, 'Exposition', 'Complication', 'Revelation', 'Peripety', 'Catastrophe' and 'Denouement', it merrily experiments with voice and performance, including, in various forms, m ...Show more
Walking to Africa by Jessica Le Bas
24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Walking to Africa is Jessica Le Bas's second book of poetry, a major departure from her first collection, Incognito (Auckland University Press), which won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry. Walking to Africa is a narrative collection, portraying a parent's experience of coming t ...Show more
Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan
19.99 NZD
49.99 (60% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Whetu Moana II | Reading Level: very good
First published in 2003, the award-winning Whetu Moana was the first anthology of contemporary Polynesian poetry in English edited by Polynesians and was lauded by reviewers and widely read around the world. Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English is the follow-up volume to Whetu Moana - Wh ...Show more
James K. Baxter - Poems selected and introduced by Sam Hunt by James K. Baxter; Sam Hunt
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Poet and performer Sam Hunt first became aware of the poems of James K Baxter as a schoolboy. Aged 14, he was strapped for reciting Baxter's poem 'Evidence at the Witch Trials' in an English lesson (one of the final in a series of events resulting in his expulsion from college). James K Baxter later bec ...Show more
Mirabile Dictu by Michele Leggott
9.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Twelve months of a laureate: in 2008 Michele Leggott wrote a poem a week to record her term as the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. In her new collection of poems Mirabile Dictu ('mi.rah.buh.lay dik.tu' - Wonderful to relate; amazing to say), she relates the wonders of those 12 months, which took he ...Show more
The Blind Singer by Chris Price
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
How does 'music hold us up'? In The Blind Singer, Wellington writer Chris Price 'cultivates the art / of listening' to explore this question. She has a clear and precise ear and the poems dance and shimmer around a??the heart of our hearing'. And she draws on wider material: Music and Science meet, shak ...Show more
Collected Poems, 1951-2006 by C. K. Stead
59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This collection of poetry culls Karl Stead's most lasting and memorable works into a single volume. Drawn from previously published works though his distinguished career, from his debut collection Whether the Will is Free to his recent publication The Black River, this resource also contains 22 previous ...Show more