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Sam Hunt: Off the Road by Sam Hunt; Colin Hogg
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Thirty years after Hogg and Hunt collaborated on the now-legendary Angel Gear: Off the Road with Sam Hunt, the pair have decided to throw caution to the wind and proceed without doctors' certificates, to create an older, possibly wiser twin to that earlier book. A backstage pass to the private side of o ...Show more
Tatai Whetu: Seven Maori Women Poets in Translation by Maraea Rakuraku; Vana Manasiadis
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Tātai Whetū: Seven Māori Women Poets in Translation is a ground-breaking bilingual poetry collection, which features a poem each by seven Māori women writers, originally written in English, and a translation in Māori. The two version of the poems are presented on facing pages. The fourth book in the Se ...Show more
Short Poems Of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller. -Jenny Bornholdt Funny, ...Show more
Poems to Live Your Life By by Chris Riddell
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This gorgeously illustrated collection includes forty-six poems and is divided into sections covering: musings, youth, family, love, imaginings, nature, war and endings. Chris Riddell brings them to life with his exquisite, intricate artwork in this beautiful anthology. Perfect as a gift, it features fa ...Show more
Amid Thirsty Vines: Poems by Alfa Holden
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
So here I sit,alone with dried flowersand yellowed pages of the past.Reading the fairytalefrom beginning to end.And knowing that no rewritecan change our story. Themes of self-discovery, tending the garden of the soul, and nurturing yourself into blossom, Amid Thirsty Vines by Instagram poetry star Alfa ...Show more
Louder by Kerrin Sharpe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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
BONSAI : Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand by Michelle Elvy (Editor); Frankie McMillan (Editor); James Samuel Norcliffe (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Slippery, and exciting ... The stories come at you directly, and then turn askance, and then slap you in the face' Allan Drew'Bonsai' brings together a pioneering collection of flash fiction and associated forms (prose poetry and haibun) from 165 writers in Aotearoa New Zealand, along with intriguing e ...Show more
XYZ of Happiness by Mary McCallum
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
These are poems of happiness … as it comes, when it’s missing and when it is hoped for. Pastel and glib or orange and high-vis, it is almost invisible in a chemical cocktail and strangely visible – but unreachable – in an equation etched into glass. It is a dog unleashed on the ...Show more
The Dark Between Stars (HB) by Atticus Poetry
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Now a New York Times bestseller From the internationally bestselling author of LOVE HER WILD comes THE DARK BETWEEN STARS, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus. Atticus has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followe ...Show more
The River in the Sky by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday Times Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In In ...Show more
She Felt Like Feeling Nothing by R. H. Sin
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish. In She Felt Like Feeling Nothing, r.h. Sin pursues themes of self-discovery and retrospection. With this book, the poet intends to create a safe space where women can ...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 fetis ...Show more
