Unmooring by Bridget Auchmuty

$12.00 NZD

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

Udon by the Remarkables by Harvey Molloy

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Series: Hoopla | Reading Level: very good

Withstanding by Helen Jacobs

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Series: Hoopla | Reading Level: very good

How We Talk To Each Other by Victoria Broome

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

"In Victoria Broome's long-awaited ?rst collection of poems, against the darkly-lit gloss of past and present Christchurch, Mum and Dad whirl in a dance at The Latimer. Myra and Cissy pose in Cathedral Square, Myra in a white hat, gloves and pearls, and Cissy: 'All I needed was one good frock.' A little girl goes ?shing with a knitting needle and a length of wool and a little boy makes aviaries out of tea chests for his canaries. There are lines here that wring the heart with hurt and loss. And lines that reassert hope and the prospect of healing. A lovely opening psalm locates us inside life: 'Eyes that will ?nd you / a throat that will let you sing / ears that listen for the sound of mercy.' And as for death, here we go, 'Back in time, forward in time / until you are tucked up again and uterine.' ...Show more

Bad Appendix by Jen Crawford

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Dop 2008, Auckland 72pp Jen Crawford's bad appendix may be the most daring book of poetry published anywhere this year. Crawford often writes about everyday, apparently uncomplicated subjects - a walk down the road, a kiss, a patch of grass with sun on it - but her language is dense and mysterious. Reading bad appendix is like walking through a formal garden that gradually becomes a tangled forest. ...Show more

Wellington Letter by Lauris Edmond

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Erebus: A Poem by Bill Sewell

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

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South - An Antarctic Journey by Chris Orsman

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

An account in verse of Captain Robert Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.

Selected Poems by James K Baxter

$20.00 NZD

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

The Lark Quartet by Elizabeth Smither

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Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Selected for the 1999 Listener Women's Book Festival catalogue. Winner of the 2000 Montana NZ Book Awards, poetry section. Elizabeth Smither, one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets, has perfected a distinctive and elegant style in such a way that it is easy to take the real quality of these poems for granted. But this is among her best collections, moving through a range of attentions - friends, gardens, works of art - with great charm and an unexpected and quirky wit. Her use of language is always precise and this book is full of vivid images, often in a small space, and odd illuminating juxtapositions. ...Show more

The Comforter by Helen Lehndorf

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

In this much anticipated debut poetry collection Helen Lehndorf explores the joys, pains, beauty and ugliness of life. These poems don't shy away from the dirt, don't give trite answers and show love, not as sentimental, but as fierce.

Magnificent Moon by Ashleigh Young

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Magnificent Moon is the eagerly awaited debut collection from one of the new stars of New Zealand poetry. Ashleigh Young's poems have been appearing in magazines for 10 years. She gained an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2009, winning the Ad am Prize. While living in London she has won many new readers with her blog eyelashroaming.wordpress.com.  ...Show more