Victims of Lightning by Bill Manhire
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Bill Manhire's first new book since Lifted shows him building on the themes and expanding the techniques of that prize-winning collection. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, and even a bracket of songs. The Victims of Lightning is Bill Manhire at the height of his powers. First published March ...Show more
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The first Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls caused its author to be burnt at the stake for heresy in 1310. Kate Camp's fourth collection of poems demonstrates a darker turn in the work of this popular poet. Shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, it establishes her in the front rank of New Z ...Show more
Lives of the Poets by John Newton
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'The Romantic inheritance may be poison, but it seems to be all we have. When I first began writing I didn't look at it this way, which made being a poet, and writing poetry, easier. Ever since that time I have been trying to teach myself how to write again. This has felt mostly like a kind of beachcomb ...Show more
Further Convictions Pending : Poems 1998-2008 by Vincent O'Sullivan
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-two new poems, displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is re ...Show more
The Lustre Jug by Bernadette Hall
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Finalist in the Poetry category. In 2007 Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland, not far from Blarney, on the Rathcoola Fellowship. The poems in this collection arise from that experience. With light-heartedness and daring, they track between dualities: the North and the South in Ireland; the rain- ...Show more
Just This by Brian Turner
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems.
How to Live by the Sea by Lynn Davidson
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Settle for disorder. All summer you will swim before you wake.' Captured within this vivid and engaging collection of poems are the tides of order and disorder ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàthe multitudinous vitality of the shoreline, the warmth and wildness of family, Mediaeval Fools and the excitement o ...Show more
Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets: An Anthology by Andrew Johnston (Editor); Robyn Marsack (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
TWENTY CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND POETS showcases the freshness and vitality of current New Zealand poetry. Starting in 1986, it captures turning points in the work of Allen Curnow and Bill Manhire, and charts the wave of major poets who started publishing in the late 1980s, like Jenny Bornholdt and Berna ...Show more
84-484 by Geoff Cochrane
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
'84-484 was my grandparents' telephone number in the 1950s. Absent from my head for donkey's years, it made its return last night as I was watching Antiques Roadshow...
Manhire at 60: A book for Bill by Fergus Barrowman
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Out of print February 2007. Memoirs, essays, poems, stories and extracts from work-in-progress have been contributed by over 40 writers who have been inspired by Bill as writer, teacher and friend: Michele Amas, Barbara Anderson, Angela Andrews, Hinemoana Baker, Fergus Barrowman, Rachel Barrowman & ...Show more
Sol by Andrew Johnston
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Solitude, solace, consolationÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàsun in its onlyness ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàare some of the motifs that play through Andrew JohnstonÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs marvellous new collection, illuminating with humour ...Show more
Blame Vermeer by Vincent O'Sullivan
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Vincent O'Sullivan delights his many enthusiastic readers with another fine collection of poems, playfully entitled Blame Vermeer. He is the author of two novels - Let the River Stand, which won the 1994 The Montana NZ Book Awards, and Believers to the Bright Coast, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Ta ...Show more