Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1 by Karlo Mila et al
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
A fascinating collection of poetry, short stories and novel extracts by Pacific writers, mostly based in New Zealand. They span the streets and sands of the diverse South Pacific, and their themes include love, relationships and identity. Among the authors are strong women, new and notable names such as ...Show more
Swings and Roundabouts: Poems on Parenthood by Emma Neale Ed.)
36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Eighty of the finest poems on parenthood brought together in an endearing, intelligent and accessible anthology by editor Emma Neale. Attractively packaged to be of gift-book quality, this anthology is beautifully illustrated with outstanding photographs of babies and young children. Editor Emma Neale's ...Show more
Here Comes Another Vital Moment by Diane Brown
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Memoir, poetry and travel intertwine in this lively, thoughtful and very readable book that considers when the ordinary becomes vital. For Diane such moments come when crossing boundaries: of countries, cultures and language; from poetry to prose; from past to present; personal to universal. First publ ...Show more
Spirit Abroad : A second selection of New Zealand spiritual verse by Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts & Mike Grimshaw (eds)
39.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
This selection, like its predecessor Spirit in a Strange Land, comprises approximately 100 poems. It is divided into six sections - these sections are frames around the notion of New Zealand identity and the hotly contested debates about who we are: * Iconic Kiwis * Waitangi and beyond * Anzacs * W ...Show more
Footfall (Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate 04) by Brian Turner
34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Brian Turner was appointed New Zealand's fourth Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate in March 2003: The laureateship has a term of 2 years with twin aims of honouring the work of New Zealnd's foremost poets and raising the profile of poetry in the community. Brian Turner has published eight other collections of ...Show more
121 New Zealand Poems by 121 New Zealand Poets by Bill Manhire (ed.)
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of NZ - from the country's earliest poems to work by the new poets of the 21st century.Bill Manhire - prize-winning poet, editor of several anthologies, lecturer in creative writing at Victoria University, 2004 Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Mento ...Show more
Spirit in a Strange Land - A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse by Edited by Michael Grimshaw, Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts
39.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Reference & Anthology Section) SPIRIT IN A STRANGE LAND is the first-ever collection of poetry that focuses on a rich vein in New Zealand writing: our spiritual experience. Religious poetry has always been evident in anthologies, but by exp ...Show more
Piggy-back Moon by Hone Tuwhare
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A collection of poems that results from Hone Tuwhare's term as Poet Laureate. ++ Finalist for the Montana Medal for non-fiction (Poetry) 2002 ++
Dear to Me - 100 New Zealanders Write About Their Favourite Poems
36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Published to coincide with Montana Poetry Day, this anthology brings together the 100 favourite poems of 100 well known New Zealanders - with a twist. The 100 Kiwis were approached by the Amnesty International group at Auckland Girls Grammar and asked to include a letter explaining why their chosen poem ...Show more
The Goose Bath Poems by Janet Frame
9.99 NZD
39.99 (75% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more
Whim Wham's New Zealand: The Best of Whim Wham 1937-1988 by Allen Curnow
34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Whim Wham was the pen-name of the major New Zealand poet Allen Curnow. His highly entertaining verses, commencing in the Christchurch Press in 1937 and in the New Zealand Herald from 1951, voiced the awkward questions so many New Zealanders wanted to ask. Whim Wham became a Saturday institution and requ ...Show more
Selected Poems of James K Baxter by edited by Paul Millar
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by ...Show more