Wild Dogs Under My Skirt by Tusiata Avia
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
This vivacious collection of poetry charts the author's experience with the sometimes painful intersection of New Zealand and Samoan cultures in her life. Alive with the energy and rhythm of performance poetry and oral traditions, these poems reshape common understanding of New Zealand culture.
The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white ‘Savage is as savage does. And we’re all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world – outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade ...Show more
More Favourable Waters - Aotearoa poets respond to Dante’s Purgatory by Marco Sonzogni (ed.); Timothy Smith (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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 the ...Show more
Skinny Dip: Poetry by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals. A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranh ...Show more
Poems of Love by Various Authors
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Signature Select Classics Ser.
This stunning keepsake comprises more than 30 love poems by world-renowned poets. Poems of Love will be counterbalanced by Poems of Hate--a collection of poems on wrath, jealousy, revenge, and hatred--which is publishing simultaneously.
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Tung is the keenly anticipated debut collection from award-winning Otepoti-Dunedin poet, Robyn Maree Pickens. Earth-centred and life-affirming, these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in the grips of a socio-ecological crisis. Pickens is an eco-pioneer of words, attuned to the fine murmuri ...Show more
Kerrin P Sharpe - Hoof by Kerrin P Sharpe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe arrives with new urgency and longing. These are poems about a father who can only remember one word, ponies that grow hooves of basalt as they pull Scott and Shackelton around ?tamahua in sledges, and a woman named Johanna living in a small village in Greenland. She writes about ...Show more
Geoff Cochrane - Selected Poems by Geoff Cochrane
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Geoff Cochrane's many published collections, from Aztec Noon (1992) to Chosen (2020). 'Geoff Cochrane's is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.' -Damien Wilkins 'Over the years, Cochrane's work has been a jo ...Show more
Christmas Crackers: Ten Poems to Surprise and Delight by VARIOUS AUTHORS
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The best things come in little packages. This latest mini-anthology from Candlestick belongs to our new 'Christmas Collection' series and contains brand new poems by ten leading contemporary poets. The poems range from the surreal to the tenderly nostalgic, taking in the perils of an over-crowded shoppi ...Show more
A Lack of Good Sons by Jake Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
I am seconds away from everything. I am the bullseye of the world. A Lack of Good Sons is a book of poetry that carries us through many realms - Greek myth, the Bible, dream, and the earthly world, with all its beauty and violence. An eclectic range of speakers, from deities to inanimate objects, descri ...Show more
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more