Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
"Peat starts out as Lynn Jenner's study of the Kāpiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre from her own house. She decides to create a kind of archive of the construction of this so-called Road of National Significance. How did it come to be built ...Show more
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A collection of poems which draw on the landscape, history and mythology of Ireland, sharing a sense of discovery. This title also makes connections with home, New Zealand, childhood.
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson¿s riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with extravagant and surprising imagery, only to re ...Show more
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In Lay Studies, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage. Beneath their formal dexterity and variety, these études sustain a continuous meditation on the concords and dissonances of worsh ...Show more
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Series: International Poets Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Dop 2008, Auckland softcover Editor Stu Bagby has attempted to cover the geological, cultural and historical aspects of the city while keeping a focus on the people;Auckland sprawls between 2 magnificent and quite different coastlines, the biggest Polynesian city in the world. This collection hopefully ...Show more
Category: New Zealand 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
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
As well as being one of New Zealand's most celebrated living writers, C.K. Stead has earned an international audience for his poetry and fiction.
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: good
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known and, arguably, best-loved poet. Since the publication of Doubtless: New and Selected Poems in 1998 (which has sold over 5000 copies), his career has been having a significant renaissance. He continues to regularly perform, has published a memoir, Backroads, a new col ...Show more