Dead Reckoning by Michael Jackson
21.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Dead Reckoning is a wonderful new collection by Michael Jackson, an expatriate New Zealander who has lived and worked overseas most of his adult life,far too long / in another hemisphere, while continuing to publish in New Zealand. This distance and global reach form the poems in Dead Reckoning, which s ...Show more
The Devil in My Shoes by Phil Kawana
21.99 NZD
24.99 (12% off)
Category: Poetry
The first full collection of poetry by Phil Kawana, The Devil in my Shoes is engaging, readable and personable. Kawana?s New Zealand childhood, ?built with ice block sticks? where ?Even the dog / was communal?, is the source of the poems? strong and angry voice confronting political and social injustice ...Show more
The Time of the Giants by Anne Kennedy
27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Another original, delightful book of poems from the winner of the poetry section in the 2004 Montana Book Awards. This new work, also a sequence, is much less tied to the poet's own experience. Wonderfully inventive and both disturbing and amusing, it focuses on a family of giants and in particular the ...Show more
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty by Ian Wedde
21.99 NZD
24.99 (12% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Five extended poems linked by themes of beauty and language make up this lively new collection from one of the best New Zealand poets writing today. The long poem gives Wedde room to explore these themes in detail, weaving back and forth, accumulating phrases, images and sounds, always with characterist ...Show more
Voice Carried My Family by Robert Sullivan
21.99 NZD
24.99 (12% off)
Category: Poetry
Voice has particular meaning for the inheritor of an oral tradition. This striking new collection from a popular poet has great variety but also strong pervasive themes, both synthesizing and expanding the ideas of Sullivan's previous successful collections. This poet places his voice in Oceania, among ...Show more
Red Leaves by Diana Bridge
22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The sources of her poetry and her spare, elegant style give Diana Bridge an indicidual voice unlike any other. This collection teems with vivid images often drawn from Indian or Chinese sources of the poet's own experience of those places. At its emotional core there are also the deaths of her mother an ...Show more
Cassandra's Daughter - Poems by Michael Harlow
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
After a gap of thirteen years this is a new collection by a gifted poet. Michael Harlow's poetry has always embodied a dialogue with European literary traditions and his abiding theme, here as in his earlier books, is the search for language to express and convey the strangeness and mystery of the every ...Show more
Wild by Anne French
21.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The unknown and uncultivated, the outdoors, the past, the power of passion: all these emerge in Anne French?s wonderful new collection of poems. Travel evokes memories of antipodean landscapes and family; it is also a setting for considering the changing shape of relationships. Witty reflections on love ...Show more
Fool Moon by Murray Edmond
27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Murray's new collection moves through elergies and ballads, to poems of landscape and history in New Zealand, Europe and the Pacific. Also songs, and a poem disguised as a short play. The books four sections lead off with photographs by Joanna Forsberg that supply a parallel visual text, ambient, intr ...Show more
People with Real Lives Don't Need Landscapes by John Dolan
21.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A big bouncy collection, displaying a voice quite unlike any other in New Zealand at the moment and one which has fruitful connections elsewhere. This is the kind of collection which makes other poets sit up and think and which startles and intrigues audiences.
Sing-song by Anne Kennedy
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Poetry section Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004. Anne Kennedy's first book of poems, a natural progression from her fiction, deals with the domestic life of a family, but in particular about the gruelling experience of eczema from which the little girl suffers. This may not seem a pr ...Show more
Late Song by Lauris Edmond
19.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Poetry section. A last collection by a much-loved poet, this was accepted for publication just before Lauris Edmond's death in January 2000. Inevitably there are poems, poised and calm, about death. But there are many also about new life: her gra ...Show more