Back With the Human Condition by Nick Ascroft
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Love. Work. Death. Complaints. It's the human condition. Whether you wrestle with it, bear it aloft, taste a little schmeck of it on your tongue or pass it along to some other unfortunate, you can't hope to fathom where you came upon it or whether there's a returns policy. Some say poetry is pulled unkn ...Show more
Bad Things by Louise Wallace
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
No one can imagine how bad things must be. They sprout in the dark, damp folds of my mind. They grow there- a forest of tiny umbrellas. They flourish- a crown of terrible heads. Bad Things, the new collection by Louise Wallace - poet, not celebrity housewife - is about the different ways in which we sur ...Show more
Beauties of the Octagonal Pool by O'Brien Gregory
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Gregory O'Brien's first collection of poems since Afternoon of an Evening Train (2005), Beauties of the Octagonal Pool is centred on the 'octagonal pool' of the Waitemata Harbour. In an eight-armed embrace, Beauties of the Octagonal Pool collects poems written from and out of a variety of times, locatio ...Show more
Beauty Sleep by Kate Camp
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Yes, sleep treats her bad like a man in a country song and it never stays long so says established poet Kate Camp in this, her third collection. It's her best so far, and will both excite existing admirers and win new ones.
Beauty of the Badlands by Cliff Fell
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: good
The poems in the first part of this new collection are located in the poet's home on the marginal clays and farms of the Moutere hills, the 'badlands' that rise west of the village of Brightwater, where Ernest Rutherford, the father of atomic physics, was born. Delivering a highly original vision of the ...Show more
Because Paradise by Charlotte Trevella
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
'There was the wind too, that scoured bald hills for answers, finding only insects to shatter against our skin, our crib rocked in the night: the house built on sand. You held the weather in your eyes, dark and writhing when you turned them to the sky, watched clouds smoulder among the stars.'
Being Here: Selected Poems by Vincent O'Sullivan
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Being Here is the first book to survey the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature's finest poets.
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
Blame Vermeer by Vincent O'Sullivan
$12.50 NZD
Category: World poetry
Vincent O'Sullivan delights his many enthusiastic readers with another fine collection of poems, playfully entitled Blame Vermeer. He is the author of two novels - Let the River Stand, which won the 1994 The Montana NZ Book Awards, and Believers to the Bright Coast, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Ta ...Show more
Blood Ties by Holeman Jeffrey Paparoa
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: good
Description: Woven from the sharp and tensile strands of memory, many of the poems in this collection return to the primal pains of neglect and damage in childhood. Emotional memory is anchored in the specific detail of an era - the selection is laced with dreams of flight and memories of West Coast tow ...Show more
Breath Dances by Peter Bland
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Following the publication of his critically acclaimed Collected Poems, Peter Bland's new work has a startling freshness and immediacy. These poems celebrate a growing spiritual awareness of everyday life and the gifts of the natural world. They are spoken in a wonderfully fluent and imaginative voice. ...Show more