Spirit in a Strange Land - A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse by Edited by Michael Grimshaw, Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Reference & Anthology Section) SPIRIT IN A STRANGE LAND is the first-ever collection of poetry that focuses on a rich vein in New Zealand writing: our spiritual experience. Religious poetry has always been evident in anthologies, but by exp ...Show more
Star Trails by Alexandra Fraser
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The book had its genesis in my thesis Deconstructing Light, which I wrote for Master of Creative Writing AUT. The poems are an investigation of the impact of my father’s influence on me - his scientific mind, his love of photography and astronomy and how this influence has shaped my own development, car ...Show more
Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life by Leigh Davis
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Simple Broken Beautiful is the title on a notebook of poetry written by Leigh Davis in 2008. This was during radiotherapy treatment following surgery for a brain tumour, which was affecting his ability to express himself in words. The notebook writing was the beginning of a work that developed into a lo ...Show more
Swings and Roundabouts: Poems on Parenthood by Emma Neale Ed.)
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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 ...Show more
Taking My Mother to the Opera by Diane Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Piquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly marbled throughout with social history. From carefully chosen anecdotes it slowly unfolds a vivid and compelling sense of character and the psychological dynamics within the family. Many readers will recognize th ...Show more
Tell Me My Name by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Bill Manhire riddles Norman Meehan music Hannah Griffin song Peter Peryer photographs Tell Me My Name is a sequence of thirteen riddles by Bill Manhire, set to music by composer Norman Meehan and sung by Hannah Griffin. This hardback book includes the full texts and eight photographs by celebrated artis ...Show more
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C.K. Stead
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
" All his life he¿d measured the worth of a work by its cost in effort. Only at the last came this `certainty of execution¿ costing him next-to-nothing, receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead¿s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, ...Show more
The Art of Walking Upright by Glenn Colquhoun
$24.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2000 winner Best first book - poetry. Glenn is a doctor. During his training he took a year off to live in a remote Bay of Islands community. This is a profound, beautiful and funny distillation of that experience. Rich insights into Maori and Pakeha - a vision of Aotearo ...Show more
The Ballad of Fifty-one by Bill Sewell
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2004 NZ Montana Book Awards, Poetry section. The 1951 Waterfront Lockout is, according to Bill Sewell, "one of the more shameful episodes in New Zealand history." The reason is that the government of the time, under Prime Minister Sidney Holland, set out to destroy the self-assertive ...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
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 Black River by C K Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
In May 2005 Karl Stead suffered a stroke which left him briefly dyslexic and innumerate but otherwise unaffected. During the days that followed he composed a series of short poems in his head, scribbling them into a notebook kept by his bed, ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃ ...Show more