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
Little Ache, The by Ian Wedde
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Little Ache – a German notebook was written in 2013–14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler. In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.
Bordering on Miraculous (Korero Series) by Saskia Leek; Lynley Edmeades
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Korero Series 4 | Reading Level: near fine
In this luscious collaboration poet Lynley Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek explore ideas of the quotidian and its everyday miracles. Their close, intense domestic observations merge with the philosophical, in a quest for deeper meaning. Leek's high-colour palette and symbolic investigation of the domes ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (PB) by T. S. Eliot
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new edition of T. S. Eliot's beloved cat poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, containing enchanting new colour illustrations by Julia Sarda.The naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a ca ...Show more
AUP New Poets 8 by Lily Holloway & Modi Deng & Tru Paraha
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Lilting bees and unidentifiable birds, long-division problems and continental cornflakes: three remarkable voices arrive in AUP New Poets 8. In AUP New Poets 8, Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng come together to produce a volume of remarkable inventions and intoxications. Lily Holloway leads off w ...Show more
Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In their generous and often euphoric first book, Sylvan Spring is constantly and irresistibly in motion. These are poems for the sad bitches, the silly billys, the divine transsexuals, the girls who were first to get piercings not in their ears, the ones who dream of dissolving into a river, the Cocte ...Show more
Night School by Michael Steven
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.
Unseasoned Campaigner by Janet Newman
$27.50 NZD
$28.00 (1% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Unseasoned Campaigner is a layered collection exploring the complexities of farming life in Horowhenua. Poet Janet Newman uncovers territory ripe for exploration as she juxtaposes the often troubled aspects of commercial farming –the life and death of animals – with loving family relationships. The coll ...Show more
Transposium by Dani Yourukova
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Part philosophy thesis and part psychosexual Ancient Greek fever dream, Dani Yourukova' s Transposium adapts Plato into poetry, featuring queer longing, a choose-your-own-adventure apocalypse, Les Misé rables slash fiction and love poems about dead philosophers.Shameless, witty and hot with curiosity, t ...Show more