Mapping the Distance by Ingrid Horrocks
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
This superb collection of poems shows the benefit of ten years gestation. A group of beautiful formal lyrics which recount time spent in Japan is followed by one considering family and ancestry. The major part of the book consists of poems coming from years spent living and studying overseas and then se ...Show more
Lives of the Poets by John Newton
$26.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'The Romantic inheritance may be poison, but it seems to be all we have. When I first began writing I didn't look at it this way, which made being a poet, and writing poetry, easier. Ever since that time I have been trying to teach myself how to write again. This has felt mostly like a kind of beachcomb ...Show more
Koiwi Koiwi / Bone Bone by Hinemoana Baker
$26.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
First published August 2010.
The Movie May be Slightly Different by Vincent O'Sullivan
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The Movie May Be Slightly Different offers a rich harvest of recent poems displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which Vincent O’Sullivan is renowned.
The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire & Damien Wilkins (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: good
Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensa ...Show more
The Hill of Wool by Jenny Bornholdt
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The Hill of Wool is a book about memories. Some memories live in families. Some are inspired by rediscovered children's songs and stories. Others are triggered by chance encounters with old boyfriends. Sometimes personal and lyrical, sometimes jagged and strange like untamed children's rhymes, these poe ...Show more
Inside, Outside by Brian Turner
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This substantial new collection by award-winning poet Brian Turner develops themes characteristic of his poetry. Love poems and elegies keep company with poems of satire, protest and metaphysical speculation. The book concludes with 'Post-operative', a raw and risky sequence written in the wake of major ...Show more
Scenery and agriculture by David Beach
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In his new collection, Harry Ricketts finds room for three songs written in Hong Kong in 1975, and a 1979 poem about a War poet. Other poems remember departed friends and early experiences, and celebrate the abiding pleasure of reading, writing and cricket. Formally adroit, Just Then is by turns tender, ...Show more
The Bengal Engine's Mango Afterglow by Geoff Cochrane
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Bashö alone and walking some high path.Bashö alone and climbing the concrete steps to heaven,a flask of gin in his satchel.A flask of gin and a spring roll gone cold. The great Japanese poet Bashö is just one of the shades that haunt the vividly precise yet deeply mysterious poems in Geoff Cochrane’ ...Show more
Bill Manhire - Selected Poems by Bill Manhire
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This generous selection of Bill Manhire's poems moves from playful early pieces like ‘On Originality’ and ‘How to Take off Your Clothes at the Picnic’ to major works of recent years such as ‘Hotel Emergencies’, a powerful response to contemporary atrocities, and ‘Erebus Voices’, written to be read by Si ...Show more
Magnificent Moon by Young Ashleigh
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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 ...Show more
Graft by Helen Heath
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
To graft something is to fix two things together like tree branches or skin to heal or grow something new. The word graft originates from the Old Norse groftr, meaning to dig, and is also linked with the verb grave, an ancient Germanic one also meaning to dig. The poems in Graft attempt to bring things ...Show more