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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
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
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
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
The Friday Poem: 100 New Zealand Poems by Edited by Steve Braunias
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An anthology of new New Zealand verse, which first appeared in the popular Friday Poem slot in The Spinoff website. It features some of the most well-known and established names in New Zealand poetry as well as new, exciting writers. It is a showcase of New Zealand poetry. It includes hilarious poems a ...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
A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter (Compiled by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Celebrate nature every day of the year with 365 of the most beautiful poems ever written. From William Wordsworth's springtime daffodils and Christina Rossetti's birdsong to John Keats's autumnal odes and Longfellow's "Woods in Winter," these poems pay tribute to the beauty of nature and the changing s ...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
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 fetishisati ...Show more
