Calypso by Bob Orr
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Following his very popular collection, Valparaiso, poet Bob Orr presents his new book Calypso. Orr's poems have a wistful yet forceful beauty, presenting images with depth, colour, light, and the narrative drive and cadences of a true storyteller. In the first of Calypso's four sections, 'Purple Octopus ...Show more
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie McKay Best First Book Award for Poetry Winner A first collection of poetry by Auckland poet Sam Sampson. Sampson has an ear for the lilting phrase, and his poems have a gentle ebb and flow, which is often echoed visually by the way the poems are laid out upon the pa ...Show more
New New Zealand Poets in Performance (With 2 audio-CDs) by Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (selection); Jack Ross (ed)
44.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
A collection of the work of 28 young and mid-career poets - who came to prominence in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s - notable for their variety, their fresh approaches to poetic form and subject - and their distinctive but complementary voices. This book is a companion to the bestselling Classic New ...Show more
Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins by Paula Green
24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
A new collection from this now-established poet, Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins is a poetic memoir in the light of art. It follows on from Paula Green's previous solo poetry collection, Crosswind, which included collaborations with artists. Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins was inspired by an invitat ...Show more
A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex by Stu Bagby
27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In this collection New Zealand poets tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny, or disturbing. It can be ordinary, extraordinary, lusty or tender. Poets range from the classic to the contemporary and write from a variety of perspectives. First published January 2008.
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2 audio CD set) by Jack Ross (ed.); Jan Kemp (ed.)
45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance collects the work of 27 poets who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s, stamping their mark irrevocably on the New Zealand poetic scene and introducing new forms, new language and new freedoms. We hear the instantly recognisable, laconic but swaggering voi ...Show more
Incognito by Jessica Le Bas
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Incognito is a first, rather engaging, collection by a Nelson poet whose work has already appeared in many literary journals and general magazines such as North & South and the Listener. It is well organized into six sections. The book's dedication reads 'for my father', and a lot of the poems are a ...Show more
Elizabeth Smither - The Year of Adverbs by Elizabeth Smither
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Eight years after her last, prize-winning, collection, The Lark Quartet, this is a new book of poems from a major poet. The Year of Adverbs is full of the stuff of daily life, fizzing with personalities, alive with incidents and travelling from New Plymouth to Paris and back again. There is a wedding, a ...Show more
The Black River by C K Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In May 2005 Karl Stead suffered a stroke which left him briefly dyslexic and innumerate but otherwise unaffected. During the days that followed he composed a series of short poems in his head, scribbling them into a notebook kept by his bed, ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃ ...Show more
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, ...Show more
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2 CD set) by Jack Ross (ed.); Jan Kemp (ed.)
19.99 NZD
45.00 (55% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This is a 2-CD set of 27 classic New Zealand poets, from Fairburn to Brian Turner, reading their own work. The CDs are accompanied by a book of the texts of the poems reproducing them exactly as read, as well as brief biographies and bibliographies of each poet. The poets are arranged chronologically by ...Show more
Fast Talker by David Eggleton
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A new collection of poetry by a self-confessed 'ranter', Fast Talker is energetic, contemporary, and filled with an emphatic, punchy political and social awareness. Some of the poems are Eggleton's well-known 'rants' - part showman patter, part incantation, part prophetic diatribe - that range helter sk ...Show more