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AUP New Poets 10 by Tessa Keenan, Sadie Lawrence, romesh dissanayake (Anne Kennedy - editor)
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Distinctive, fresh and compellingly present, AUP New Poets 10 features three exciting new voices. Looking out from today at a landscape peopled with her tupuna, Tessa Keenan (Te Atiawa) writes poems filled with quiet rage and remarkable lyricism. Meanwhile romesh dissanayake plays with language to explo ...Show more
Anne Noble - States of Grace by Justin Paton (ed.); Anne Kennedy; Lydia Wevers
59.95 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
This edition is out of print. Expressionist photography from around New Zealand. Acknowledged as a major figure in the evolution of photography in New Zealand, Anne Noble addresses a remarkable range of social, ethical and poetic issues, from landscape to religion, from the personal to the political. Pa ...Show more
Moth Hour by Anne Kennedy
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The family didn’t know what to do about grief. The noisy house went silent. I was fourteen. I lay on the red rug in the sitting room and listened to Beethoven’s Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 – over and over because it was there. In 1973, Anne Kennedy’s brother Philip was ...Show more
Ragweed's Farm Dog Handbook by Anne Vittur Kennedy
27.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
This tongue-in-cheek primer on how to be a good farm dog and how ignoring the rules may result in a biscuit is a guaranteed treat. Being a farm dog is a tough job, but luckily, Ragweed s handbook will tell you everything you need to know. Step one: don t wake the farmer! You may really, really want to, ...Show more
Ragweed's Farm Dog Handbook by Anne Vittur Kennedy
18.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
This tongue-in-cheek primer on how to be a good farm dog--and how ignoring the rules may result in a biscuit--is a guaranteed treat. Being a farm dog is a tough job, but luckily, Ragweed's handbook will tell you everything you need to know. Step one: don't wake the farmer You may really, really want ...Show more
Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand by Anne Kennedy (Editor)
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 2 ...Show more
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
The Darling North by Anne Kennedy
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
This unique collection both longs for and resists the North. In storytelling couplets, the title poem engages with a woman’s past as she looks outward from the shores of the Hokianga harbor in New Zealand. Other poems also explore present and future, dislocation and migration, north and south, and Earth ...Show more
The Farmer's Away! Baa! Neigh! by Anne Vittur Kennedy
18.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
In a rhythmic read-aloud picture book, brimming with the irresistile sounds that farmyard animals make, Anne Vittur Kenny wonders, What mischief do the horses and cows and sheep get up to when the farmer's back is turned? Well, there's boating (of course!), as well as a picnic, a rollercoaster ride, a h ...Show more
The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Ice Shelf - an eco-comedy. On the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she's away. En route she ...Show more
The Last Days of the National Costume by Anne Kennedy
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Narrated by one of the funniest, wisest literary observers of all time this is a brilliant, charming and heartwarming novel about illicit love, sewing, blackouts and Belfast.
The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In The Sea Walks into a Wall, the natural world around us hits back. "The sea crashes its glass onto the bar. You watch from afar. You’d take it all back if you could. Everything.You’d go down there and you’d." And talks back too. "If I’m fucked, you’re coming with me. Sincerely, the stream." From rai ...Show more