B E Baughan - Verses by B E Baughan

$80.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

The Other Side of Dawn by Hilary Baxter

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: good

The Long Sleep is Over by Jan Hutchinson

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Location of the Least Person by Gregory O'Brien

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

This Change in the Light by Fiona Kidman

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

A superb collection of poetry from one of New Zealand's top writers. Fiona Kidman's exquisite and adroit poetry invites the reader into her life, introducing us to her family, friends and places she has loved. In turn it touches our own experiences, offering universal relevance and insight.

Fast Talking PI by Selina Tusitala Marsh

$12.00 NZD

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

Fast Talking PI is the first 'singular, confident and musical' collection of poetry by Auckland writer Selina Tusitala Marsh. 'Tusitala' means writer of tales in Samoan, and Marsh here lives up to her name with stories of her life, her family, community, ancestry, and history. Her poetry is sensuous and strong, using lush imagery, clear rhythms and repetitions to power it forward. The list poem is a favourite style, but she also writes with a Pacific lyricism entirely her own. Fast Talking PI is structured in three sections, 'Tusitala (personal), 'Talkback' (political and historical) and 'Fast Talking PI' (already a classic). In poems like 'Guys Like Gauguin' she writes as a 'calabash breaker', fighting back against historic injustices; but in other poems she explores the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. Ultimately, though, Marsh exhorts herself to 'be nobody's darling', as a writer she is a self-proclaimed 'darling in the margins', and Fast Talking PI proves it - a generous work that will thrill readers; 'a map in our arms / to get us over the reef'; and a tremendous first book. Includes an audio CD. First published March 2009. ...Show more

Approaches to Paremata by Sam Hunt

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

The Pistils by Janet Charman

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutr al. She dissects her Pakeha sensibilities towards colonizing privilege as well as her gender-critical feminist's astonishment at attacks from allies in the realm of sexual politics. In The Pistils, Charman regards her separation from her grown children in the light of her own parents' deaths. And she looks to a future in which the crises she anticipates, both personal and environmental, are treated as no less inevitable than they will be mysterious. ...Show more

O Me Voy o Te Vas / One of Us Must Go by Rogelio Guedea

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry

In Rogelio Guedeas bold new poetry collection, O me voy o te vas / One of us must go (with English translations by Roger Hickin), love is a powerful magnet that attracts and repels in equal measure. In language both lyrical and spare, Guedea examines what it means to share ones life with another person and questions whether and how love can survive realitys steady tapdrip repetitions. This is the mesmerising tale of two people who stumble over one another time and time again, yet whose every word and action adds another stitch to a close, personal tapestry of memories and familiarity. Unashamedly domestic, this collection captures every kind of tenderness felt in an intimately involved life. O me voy o te vas / One of us must go is a true love story, a chronicle of romantic survivalism. To write against your love, is to write about your love: is to love you another way, is to love you in every way. XXVIII ...Show more

Naming the Beasts by Elizabeth Morton

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world. Within these pages wilderness and suburbia collide. The 'I' in these poems takes many forms: a wolf, a waterbuck, a bird 'stuck circling the carnage'. Whether soaring above or prowling through the nei ghbourhood, Morton's beasts bear witness to an unremitting vision of pain and ecological damage. As the flames climb higher, the beasts in this collection are left to wander and live out their lives. There is love and loneliness, passivity and rage. Yet there is always hope. Hoof and hide, fang and gut, these images and insights are those of an artist in a war zone intent on chronicling beauty in a world that's falling apart. Morton's poems take a bite out of the world around us, as they explore reality through the vitality and immersiveness of their imaginative powers. ...Show more

The Stupefying by Nick Ascroft

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

It is the time of the stupefying. Just when we least expected it, when we thought the show was over, it clonked out into the limelight, and the world was split in two. The Stupefying is a bruised arm firmly removed from its sling. It isn’t funny ha-ha but funny that-can’t-be-true-but-I-know-it-is. In p oems of eavesdropping and invention, deflation and elation, Nick Ascroft’s poetic sensibilities and craft are always surprising, sometimes morally questionable, always a delight. His fifth collection may be his most personal yet, with a sweetness that stings us repeatedly. The Stupefying is not to be missed. 'Nick Ascroft is a wonderfully adroit poet . . . They’re not always an easy read, these poems, but they’re always a rewarding one.’ —Harry Ricketts, Nine to Noon, RNZ ...Show more

Speaking to the Islands of the Ancestors - Four long poems and commentaries by Denys Trussell

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: new

This is Denys Trussell's seventh book of poems. It presents a condensation of a range of our history, not just in its poetry, but in its succinct prose commentaries. In the four long poems and the accompanying commentaries, Trussel explores our cultural roots, an exploration involving journies in countr ies of the Northern hemisphere, as well as in New Zealand. ...Show more