Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at hers ...Show more
Divisible by Itself and One by Kae Tempest
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper.I want to take you back where you began,Find the scraps of you you hid in secretAnd bring them back to life beneath my tongue. Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, ...Show more
Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand by Anne Kennedy (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 2 ...Show more
Te Rā: The Maori Sail by Ariana Tikao; Mat Tait
$24.90 NZD
Category: Poetry
Te Rā, which means the sail in te reo Māori, is the last remaining customary Māori sail in the world. Woven from harakeke more than 200 years ago, Te Rā has for many years been held in storage at the British Museum in London. In July 2023, our oldest taonga will once again be brought into the light as i ...Show more
Middle Youth by Morgan Bach
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems of Middle Youth look directly into the fire. Sometimes they find joy and the possibility of sustaining oneself; sometimes they feel the sense of an ending. Morgan Bach writes with a dark, crackling energy and controlled rage about the world we find ourselves in. Here are the loves that fi ...Show more
A Garden is a Long Time by Jenny Bornholdt; Annemarie Hope-Cross
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The photographs in A garden is a long time take us beyond the perimeter of the Central Otago garden where they were created. Incorporating processes and materials from the darker, more mysterious corners of early photographic history, the images offer an account of the life and sensibility of a remarkab ...Show more
Āria by Jessica Hinerangi
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Where is my tongue? On display, a trophy of war. Where is my tikanga? Kept in the basement. Where is my mana? Locked in the museum. And where are my whanau? Scattered like dandelion seeds, from the grating city, to the harnessed horizon. Drawing moko kauae on Barbies. Reading Ranginui Walker in rahui. S ...Show more
Calamities! by Jane Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in everything from meteorites and distant planets to pomanders and cat’s ears. Whether contemplating time, regr ...Show more
The Artist by Ruby Solly
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so bright that sound becomes sight . . . And so from the black the world is sung into being, not for us, but for itself, but for the song. In a Southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin, tw ...Show more
This Is a Story about Your Mother by Louise Wallace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In her latest collection, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood. Is this universal rite-of-passage really an intimately personal event, down to the degree of fluid rising in your ankles, or is it a societal machine, forever churning out the next generation to an unre ...Show more
Since June by Louise Wallace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Since June is a poised and confident first book of poems. Language slips and miscommunications lead to suddenly unnerving perceptions and leave the reader both moved and a little unbalanced. Louise Wallace can start a poem in the “real” world, then take it off to somewhere else entirely. She’s not afrai ...Show more
Bad Things by Louise Wallace
$25.00 NZD
Category: 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