Let's Meet - Poems 1985 - 2000 by Peter Bland

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Peter Bland has enjoyed an outstanding career in the arts in New Zealand and the UK. Born in Yorkshire, he emigrated in 1954 and worked with the NZBC to establish some of New Zealand?s first arts and social commentary programmes, He was a co-founder of Downstage theatre and its artistic director from 19 64?68. He was associated with the Wellington group of poets and a close friend of James K Baxter, Louis Johnson and Alistair Campbell. As an actor in the 1970s and ?80s Peter appeared in numerous West End comedies, as a guest artist on many UK television programmes, and at the Bristol Old Vic, the Chichester Festival Theatre and The Palladium.. He returned to New Zealand in 1984 to star in Came a Hot Friday, for which he won a GOFTA best film actor award. He was also twice nominated for best TV actor. Peter Bland?s Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in the UK in 1998. He was for many years poetry critic for The London Magazine, and has twice been a major prizewinner in the Observer/Arvon Foundation international poetry competition. Peter has received both a British Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award and a Melbourne Festival Literary Award for his poetry. He lives in Auckland and regularly reviews poetry for the NZ Listener. ...Show more

Dream Fish Floating by Karlo Mila

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

where the free market meets the fleamarket it's all keynesian mystical Karlo Mila’s voice travels from urban Aotearoa to Tonga and Samoa via friendships and family relationships. In this first collection of poetry she explores the intergenerational tensions between migration and returning, the new and the traditional, the emergent professional classes and their working-class migrant communities of origin. The poems take delight in language itself and the possibilities afforded by a Tongan–Samoan–Maori–Palangi fusion. Dream Fish Floating is a polyglot chanting back to genealogical and literary bones. It is also a meditation on friendship, family and love. ...Show more

sap-wood & milk by Hone Tuwhare

$125.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: good-very good

Borrow Pit by D S Long

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: good

Peter Bland - Selected Poems by Peter Bland

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Setting the best of his earlier work beside a full volume of new poems, Peter Bland offers a collection of 40 years' poetry. Bland's example helped establish an urban subject matter in New Zealand in the early-1960s.

Sam Hunt: Selected Poems by Sam Hunt

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Swings and Roundabouts: Poems on Parenthood by Emma Neale

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand 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 approach is to bring together around 90 wonderful poems, both by New Zealand and international poets, which are accessible but also strong and important. Beautifully packaged, this volume features stunning photographs by well-known photographer Mark Smith. The Southern Ocean Review had this to say: "Any book of parenthood is going to be welcome anywhere and this one certainly should be. Edited by Emma Neale, and with welcome photos by Mark Smith, this is a carefully presented volume of poems that will certainly be of great interest. I particularly like the work of Ruth Arnison and Joanna Paul, showing a side of them not many would know. Poems of a subject seem to draw out the best of some pretty well known poets familiar to us in different subject matter. Peter Bland's poems are mature and interesting - a sure hand here. And the photos are nothing short of brilliant. I am grateful for the biographical material too, to show who's who etc. Quite often in anthologies like this, it is left out. One has many memories of youth and this brings it all out for me. In 'Birdlings' the late Ruth Pettis shows some very deft technique which should be a lesson to all aspiring poets. I cannot find a single dud poem in all of these and thoroughly recommend this book for everyone to read." ...Show more

The Mechanics of Popular Music - A New Zealand Perspective by Mike Chunn; Jeremy Chunn

$12.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

The Scenic Route by Fleur Adcock

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

The Bone Chanter Unpublished Poems 1945-72 by James K. Baxter; John E. Weir (Editor)

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: good

Surrender by Janet Charman

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

"As one of eight writers, poet Janet Charman was invited in 2009 to take part in a hectic, immersive literary residency in Hong Kong. Written out of this time of stimulating buzz, 仁 surrender chronicles the tensions, translations and literary crushes that ensue, with ever-present comedy. From this inten se hothouse and these privileged constraints flow narrative poems that capture the creative and cultural dislocation of travel, with its petty irritants and constant surprises. " ...Show more

Unmooring by Bridget Auchmuty

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

"The work of a poet who knows how important people and places are… I kept thinking, too, about life’s voyagings. I found the whole very affecting — touching, tender, rueful at times… And all the more impressive for being unsentimental." - Brian Turner We are unmoored by circumstances that set us adrift from our normal lives into unknown waters. The poems in this debut collection range from the luxury of certainty, through the loss of a partner, to establishing a new life in a different part of the country. But nothing is secure, and a global pandemic again threatens to disrupt the familiar. Through it all, there is reassurance in recognising the perfection in arising and passing away. About the author: Bridget Auchmuty was born in Britain in 1951, came to New Zealand to visit her sister, and never went home. She spent more than thirty years in the Nelson region, where she and her partner lived on ten acres in the Motueka Valley. After his death, she shifted to the Ida Valley in Central Otago, where she lives in a yurt. The core of this collection formed one component of the author’s Master’s degree in Creative Writing at Massey University, and several of the poems have appeared in prominent poetry journals. ...Show more