Landfall 219 On Music by William Direen (ed.)
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Landfall | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand music has been made with electric guitars, European orchestral instruments, laptops, bones, voices, skin, wood, pvc piping, air, magnetic tape and digital media. For this special Music issue, the editor seeks to demonstrate the essential cultural value of music and ways of making it in New Z ...Show more
The Word Went Round: Poems by David Howard by David Howard
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Powerful historical poems about nineteenth-century Irish emigration to New Zealand, the colonial wars, Von Tempsky and Te Kooti, moving elegies for poet/painter Joanna Margaret Paul, the artist Reiko Kunimatsu and the poet's late father, love poems, and meditations on the nature of spiritual existence i ...Show more
Musings: about poetry by Pooja Mittal
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A passionate and brilliant poet since childhood, Pooja Mittal has explored the concept of poetry in her diary over many years - what poetry is, what it might be and what it should be. This young, gifted poet is a product of today's connected world; born in Nigeria of Indian parents, she spent her early ...Show more
Parallel Lines : Riding the Central Otago Rail Trail by Annie Villiers (poetry); & John Z Robinson (paintings)
7.99 NZD
29.99 (73% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'This is the place where souls come To be mended' Every year thousands of people travel to Central Otago to ride, or walk, the rail trail. Formally completed in 2000, the rail trail now hosts visitors and cyclists from all over the world. Its scenic and varied route stretches from Middlemarch to Hyde, a ...Show more
Painted Poems : One artist - 20 Poems by Eion Stevens
34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Painted Poems painter Eion Stevens has responded to 20 New Zealand poems -- poems from poets as diverse as Jenny Bornholdt and Katherine Mansfield, James K Baxter and Cilla McQueen -- with an intelligent playfulness. Encountering the paintings alongside their companion poems is a thought-provoking an ...Show more
Table Talk by Kevin Ireland
25.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
The first group of these 57 new poems is in the form of a conversation between friends. The talk over the table is open and robust - occasionally wry or comic, sometimes sardonic or grumpy. Then the wine is opened and the main course arrives. The mood changes, and the talk becomes hushed, amused, warm a ...Show more
How to Survive the Morning - New Poems by Kevin Ireland
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This is the 18th book of poetry from award winning poet Kevin Ireland.
How We Fell (a love story) by Glenn Colquhoun
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Faster than a speeding simile! Able to leap hyperbole in a single bound! Can Poetryman rescue the damsel from catastrophic cliches Award-winning poet Glenn Colquhoun's innovative new collection describes his ten year relationship with his former wife through all its highs, cries, lies and sighs. Vivid i ...Show more
The Glass House: Stories & Poems by J C Sturm
24.99 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In her first collection since 2000, award-winning writer J. C. Sturm (Jacquie Baxter) presents short stories that are full of honesty, intimacy and subtle humour. A coda of poems aptly complements each story. This is a marvellous new offering from one of our most talented writers. First published July 2 ...Show more
Tender by Lynn Davidson
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Lynn Davidson's poetry collection Lynn Davidson is from Pukerua Bay. Her poems and short stories have been widely published in literary journals including Sport, Turbine, and Landfall. In 2003 she was awarded the Louis Johnson Writer's Bursary. First published 2006.
Like Smoke in a Wheelbarrow by Martyn Sanderson
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Art & Poetry Born in Westport, Martyn read English at Oxford, taught briefly, studied for the priesthood, dropped out, came home and helped found Downstage Theatre. Martyn first appeared on the literary scene with eleven poems in the NZ Poetry Yearbook 1964. Ten years later, Wai-Te-Ata P ...Show more
Conversation with a Moahunter by Rangi Faith
19.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
The second collection from Rangi Faith. "I dozed. The thunder of tyres gave way to the thunder of feet, & beside me a moahunter fresh from the hunt, panting. How did it go? I asked. Just one, he said. Just one." First published November 2005.