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ONE HUNDRED POEMS AND A YEAR by Bob Orr
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Rucksack Consider this book of mine as if it were a rucksack containing what you might need if you were to step outside your door. There are poems heavily knitted as fishermen's jerseys in case you should find yourself all at sea. others are like handkerchiefs you can put in your pocket - some of these ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisati ...Show more
How to Take off Your Clothes by Hadassah Grace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Hadassah's book deals with themes of love, sex and depression and she describes it as: Politically it's about leaning in to the negative stereotypes projected onto women, and exploring what it means to embrace and humanize them. Personally it's about me working through the loss of the life I thought I w ...Show more
Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Are Friends Electric? offers a vivid and moving vision of a past, present and future mediated by technology. The first part of Helen Heath's bold new collection is comprised largely of found poems which emerge from conversations about sex bots, people who feel an intimate love for bridges, fences and b ...Show more
Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean by Sugar Magnolia Wilson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson¿s riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with extravagant and surprising imagery, only to re ...Show more
Search Party by Richard Meier
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Richard Meier's first collection of poetry won many admirers for its wry, wise and sharp-eyed insight into the minutiae of daily life, and for the poet's remarkable ability to uncover the little abysses that lurk just below the domestic familiar. As the title indicates, his second, Search Party, casts i ...Show more
Sparks of Phoenix by Najwa Zebian
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Sparks of Phoenix--Najwa Zebian's third book of poetry--she takes her readers on a powerful journey of healing. As the phoenix emerges from its ashes, Zebian emerges ablaze in these pages, not only as a survivor of abuse, but as a teacher and healer for all those who have struggled to understan ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 by Jack Ross (Editor)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcasesnew writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices. Issue #53 features 130 new poems (including work by this year's featured poet, Stephanie Christie), es ...Show more
Empty Bottles Full of Stories by R. H. Sin; Robert M. Drake
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A joint poetry collection from the virally popular and bestselling poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake. What are you hiding behind your smile? If those empty bottles that line the walls of your room could speak, what tales would they spill? So much of your truth is buried beneath the lies you tell yourse ...Show more
Collected Poems : Fleur Adcock by Fleur Adcock
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealand's most significant writers, combining Poems 1960 - 2000 and four subsequent collections in one beautifully produced hardcover volume. Collected Poems will be published in February 2019, for the author's 85th bir ...Show more
Cat Poems by Various
$18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James LaughlinAcross the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affecti ...Show more
Louder by Kerrin Sharpe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In her arresting new book, Kerrin P. Sharpe raises her voice to address with passion and urgency the political, moral and ecological injustices of the world today. Kerrin P Sharpe has published three previous collections of poetry, all with VUP: three days in a wishing well (2012), theres a medical name ...Show more
