Nothing for it but to Sing: New Poems by Michael Harlow
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Michael Harlows poems are small detonations that release deeply complex stories of psychological separations and attractions, of memory and desire. Frequently they slip into the alluring spaces just at the edges of language, dream and gesture, as they carefully lower, like measuring gauges, into the ine ...Show more
Getting it Right - Poems 1968-2015 by Alan Roddick
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
"After establishing a poetic presence on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Dunedins Alan Roddick published his first collection, The Eye Corrects: Poems 19551965, in 1967. A mere 49 years later comes the sequel, Getting it Right. Writes C.K. Stead: I was a great admirer of the economy and the quiet ...Show more
River Flow: New and Selected Poems (Revised) by David Whyte
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
River Flow contains over one hundred poems selected from five previously published works, together with 23 new poems, including a tribute to an Ethiopian woman navigating her first escalator, a meditation of love and benediction for his young daughter, and a cycle of Irish poems that convey David's deep ...Show more
Edgeland and Other Poems by David Eggleton
$27.50 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The poetry in David Eggletons new collection "possesses an intensity and driven energy, using the poets recognisable signature oratory voice, strong in beat and measure, rooted in rich traditions of chant, lament and ode.Mashing together the lyrical and the slangy, celebrating local vernaculars whilesim ...Show more
The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny
$27.50 NZD
Category: World poetry
Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In 'The Magnetic Process' sequence a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ...Show more
Family Instructions Upon Release by Elizabeth Kirby-Mcleod
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
'I have no words.' This is so often our response to grief and loss, when dealing with it ourselves or consoling others. Elizabeth's father took his own life in 2012. Unable to find words of her own to write about what had happened, Elizabeth took them instead from the 2006 Penguin Classics edition of 'T ...Show more
The Yield by Sue Wootton
$12.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Wootton addresses subjects as various as the fraught relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energizing power of solitude and the rewarding demands of creativity and love. This is a collection about give and take, loss and gain; ab ...Show more
The Trials Of Minnie Dean: A Verse Biography by Karen Zelas
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Minnie Dean: the first - and only - woman to be hanged in New Zealand. Baby farmer and child murderer, or hardworking wife and mother, supporting her family by caring for unwanted children in a society that shunned her? Karen Zelas explores the trials of Minnie Dean using a myriad of voices, including D ...Show more
Wild Honey by Paula Green
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were ...Show more
Tightrope by Marsh Selina Tusitala
$29.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, ...Show more
Vanishing Points by Michele Leggott
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: New
It's an optical amusement, a punctured surface letting light pour through holes cut out of the picture. Moon, army tents and the windows of houses and St Mary's church glow or flicker with luminance. Between them move women and children as well as soldiers. Steamers, a brig and a schooner ride on the mo ...Show more
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C.K. Stead
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
" All his life he¿d measured the worth of a work by its cost in effort. Only at the last came this `certainty of execution¿ costing him next-to-nothing, receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead¿s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, ...Show more