Burst Kisses On The Actual Wind by Courtney Sina Merdith

$30.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

"Courtney Sina Meredith is one of New Zealand's most talented and influential authors. Burst Kisses On The Actual Wind will find an eager audience." Paula Morris. Award winning author MNZM. Rangatira, Queen of Beauty. 'Everyone thinks you dream in foreign prose.' 'Everyone stands in front of you like a mirror.' "Courtney Sina Meredith has grown a distinctive voice. Her arrangements are formally inventive. She surprises in ways that writers ought to." Lloyd Jones. Mister Pip, Commonwealth Writer's Prize winner & Booker Prize nominee. ...Show more

More Favourable Waters: Aotearoa poets respond to Dante’s Purgatory by Marco Sonzogni (Edited by) , Timothy Smith (Edited by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

More Favourable Waters is an anthology of contemporary poets from Aotearoa New Zealand commemorating one of the world's great poets, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), 700 years after his death. The anthology was published on 25 March 2021, which is Dante Day, chosen by the Italian Government to celebrate th e poet's legacy. For this project we are honoured to be working with the Embassy of Italy in New Zealand and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Sydney, alongside editors Marco Sonzogni (Victoria University of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka), an Italian-New Zealander, and Timothy Smith (Oxford University), a New Zealander. Each of the 33 poets has written a poem of 33 lines inspired by and including a short passage from one of the 33 cantos of Dante's Purgatory, the second part of his epic The Divine Comedy. ...Show more

Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell

$24.99 NZD

Category: Poetry

In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeous collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These po ems speak of the universal experiences of the heart and are brought to life by Juliet Stevenson and David Rintoul.This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems from Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Carol Ann Duffy, E. E. Cummings, Shakespeare, Leonard Cohen, Derek Walcott, Hollie McNish, Kate Tempest, John Betjeman and Roger McGough and many more. ...Show more

How to Live with Mammals by Ash Davida Jane

$25.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

we love an underdog especially when it’s a whale we see ourselves in them literally in them lounging in their cathedral of a mouth just looking for love All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others an d so many last things? How to Live With Mammals is not a book of instruction but a book of reimagining and a book of longing. In these funny and often poignant poems, Ash Davida Jane asks how we might reorient ourselves, and our ways of loving one another, as the futures that we once imagined grow ever more precarious. 'Urgent, funny and tender: these poems shine.' —Louise Wallace ...Show more

Felt by Johanna Emeney

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Category: Poetry

Couples in last-chance therapy, friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game--this collection of poems is concerned with the things that make us feel. The felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the calm of a sleeping doe to the slow unwinding of the last bee on Earth, Johanna Emeney seems to say that there is a message in the air--for those who listen with all of the senses. ...Show more

Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick by Meredith Courtney Sina

$30.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult

Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an e ducated, politically aware, international voice. Courtney Sina Meredith is a fulltime Arts Advisor for Auckland Council where she develops programmes for young artists, diverse communities and community artists. She is of Samoan, Mangaian and Irish descent. ...Show more

Things OK With You? by Vincent O'Sullivan

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Category: Poetry

Know what a thing’s called, and we own it; if not, there’s really only pointing, our still wishing we knew. The afternoon wilts round its edges, unless we’ve said it. Things OK with you? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poem s (2016). His Selected Stories was published in 2019 and The Dark Is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere in 2020. ...Show more

Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021 by Slaughter Tracey

$40.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook

Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. This issue, #55, features 182 poems by 129 poets, including Elizabeth Morton, Michele Leggott, essa may ranapiri, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Jordan Hamel, David Eggleton and Mere Tai to, the winning entries in the Poetry New Zealand Prize, essays, and reviews of 25 new poetry books. Compiled in a time of pandemic, these are poems written -- in the words of editor Tracey Slaughter -- when 'the only line to follow was deeper in, darker down, to poetry. The page was the only safe place our breath could go.' ...Show more

On We Go by Catherine Bagnall & L Jane Sayle

$35.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

A remarkable collaboration between an artist and a poet, On We Go belongs to the emerging forms of ecological thinking that cross genres and scientific disciplines, speaking directly about global warming and the perils facing the natural world.

I Am In Bed With You by Emma Barnes

$24.99 NZD

Category: Poetry

A bold, playful, poetic exploration of sex, gender and identity. I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I’m always on the left. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winter I left myself behind in the 90s. I’m coming back now. You can see the light touching me. I can see layers of ti ssue finally making a body. And once I have a body I have a head. And in my head are these thoughts. —From ‘I am in bed with you’ Playful and fluid but completely serious, Emma Barnes’s surreal phantasmagoria I Am in Bed with You leads us through the very personal worlds of sex, gender and the body. Barnes cracks jokes, makes us uncomfortable, shows us a little tenderness, leaves a lot unsaid and does it all with language that provokes and confounds. ‘I’m a mentally ill, / married, chronically ill, queer woman with two feet underground’, the author reveals. ‘I birth Sigourney Weaver’s android baby’, they tell us next. This collection is personal and fantastical, funny and excruciating. It’s poetry in the process of unravelling most of what you thought you knew. ...Show more

Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles

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Category: Poetry

Shanghai, Aotearoa, Malaysia, London-all are places poet Nina Powles calls home and not-home; from each she can be homesick for another. A gorgeous bittersweet longing and hunger runs through the poems in this new collection from one of our most exciting poetic voices. In Magnolia Powles explores her e xperience of being mixed-race and trying to find her way through multiple languages: English, Mandarin, Hakka, Maori. Powles uses every sense to take us on a journey through cities, food and even time, weaving her story with the stories of women from history, myth and film. ...Show more

The Tasman Journey by W.F. Stubbs

$25.00 NZD

Category: Poetry