The Blind Singer by Chris Price
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
How does 'music hold us up'? In The Blind Singer, Wellington writer Chris Price 'cultivates the art / of listening' to explore this question. She has a clear and precise ear and the poems dance and shimmer around a??the heart of our hearing'. And she draws on wider material: Music and Science meet, shak ...Show more
The Blue Coat by Elizabeth Smither
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Whimsical and tender, this poetry collection examines the commonplace and the quirky for resonance, contemplation, and verve. From an out-of-season daffodil and a chipped Limoges plate to a lipstick stain on a poem and a bee being released, it illuminates the poetry in the everyday by focusing on a sing ...Show more
The Cat's Whiskers: New Zealand Writers on Cats by Peter Wells(ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The cat has purred its way into the hearts of many a New Zealander, and into the pages of this country's writers. Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, James K. Baxter and Frank Sargeson all wrote about cats, and here many current writers - from Fiona Kidman to Sarah Quigley, Brian Turner to Kevin Ireland - ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell is the definitive edition of one of the most important bodies of work in New Zealand poetry. Based on a spiral-bound manuscript entitled ‘Complete Poems 1947–2007’ found among Campbell’s papers after his death, this is his most substantial collection to ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
$32.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of t ...Show more
The Conch Trumpet by David Eggleton
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
The Conch Shell calls to the scattered tribes of contemporary New Zealand. It sounds the signal to listen close, critically and 'in alert reverie'. David Eggleton's reach of references, the marriage of high and low, the grasp of popular and classical allusion, his eye both for cultural trash and epiphan ...Show more
The Dark Lord Of Savaiki - Collected Poems by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Having just turned 80, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell presents the best of his early and middle period poems, as well as his latest collections, Gallipoli and other Poems, Maori Battalion and an autobiographical poem in letters, Poets in Our Youth. Few New Zealand poets have treated the natural world with g ...Show more
The Darling North by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
This unique collection both longs for and resists the North. In storytelling couplets, the title poem engages with a woman’s past as she looks outward from the shores of the Hokianga harbor in New Zealand. Other poems also explore present and future, dislocation and migration, north and south, and Earth ...Show more
The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny
$27.50 NZD
Category: World poetry
Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In 'The Magnetic Process' sequence a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ...Show more
The Friday Poem - 100 New Zealand Poems by Edited by Steve Braunias
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
An anthology of new New Zealand verse, which first appeared in the popular Friday Poem slot in The Spinoff website. It features some of the most well-known and established names in New Zealand poetry as well as new, exciting writers. It is a showcase of New Zealand poetry. It includes hilarious poems a ...Show more
The Glass House: Stories & Poems by J C Sturm
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
In her first collection since 2000, award-winning writer J. C. Sturm (Jacquie Baxter) presents short stories that are full of honesty, intimacy and subtle humour. A coda of poems aptly complements each story. This is a marvellous new offering from one of our most talented writers. First published July 2 ...Show more
The Goose Bath by Janet Frame
$29.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: very good
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more