Fast Talker by David Eggleton
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A new collection of poetry by a self-confessed 'ranter', Fast Talker is energetic, contemporary, and filled with an emphatic, punchy political and social awareness. Some of the poems are Eggleton's well-known 'rants' - part showman patter, part incantation, part prophetic diatribe - that range helter sk ...Show more
Dead Reckoning by Michael Jackson
$22.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Dead Reckoning is a wonderful new collection by Michael Jackson, an expatriate New Zealander who has lived and worked overseas most of his adult life,far too long / in another hemisphere, while continuing to publish in New Zealand. This distance and global reach form the poems in Dead Reckoning, which s ...Show more
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2 CD set) by Jack Ross (ed.); Jan Kemp (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
This is a 2-CD set of 27 classic New Zealand poets, from Fairburn to Brian Turner, reading their own work. The CDs are accompanied by a book of the texts of the poems reproducing them exactly as read, as well as brief biographies and bibliographies of each poet. The poets are arranged chronologically by ...Show more
The Black River by C K Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
In May 2005 Karl Stead suffered a stroke which left him briefly dyslexic and innumerate but otherwise unaffected. During the days that followed he composed a series of short poems in his head, scribbling them into a notebook kept by his bed, ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃ ...Show more
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, ...Show more
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2 audio CD set) by Jack Ross (ed.); Jan Kemp (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance collects the work of 27 poets who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s, stamping their mark irrevocably on the New Zealand poetic scene and introducing new forms, new language and new freedoms. We hear the instantly recognisable, laconic but swaggering voi ...Show more
A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex by Stu Bagby
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In this collection New Zealand poets tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny, or disturbing. It can be ordinary, extraordinary, lusty or tender. Poets range from the classic to the contemporary and write from a variety of perspectives. First published January 2008.
Calypso by Bob Orr
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Following his very popular collection, Valparaiso, poet Bob Orr presents his new book Calypso. Orr's poems have a wistful yet forceful beauty, presenting images with depth, colour, light, and the narrative drive and cadences of a true storyteller. In the first of Calypso's four sections, 'Purple Octopus ...Show more
The Lakes of Mars by Chris Orsman
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
The Lakes of Mars is a stunning new collection of poems by Chris Orsman that follow on from his most recent book, South: An Antarctic Journey, a sequence about Captain Scott's final expedition to Antarctica. These new poems are a characteristic mix of thoughtful reflection and precise imagery of landsca ...Show more
New New Zealand Poets in Performance (With 2 audio-CDs) by Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (selection); Jack Ross (ed)
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
A collection of the work of 28 young and mid-career poets - who came to prominence in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s - notable for their variety, their fresh approaches to poetic form and subject - and their distinctive but complementary voices. This book is a companion to the bestselling Classic New ...Show more
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie McKay Best First Book Award for Poetry Winner A first collection of poetry by Auckland poet Sam Sampson. Sampson has an ear for the lilting phrase, and his poems have a gentle ebb and flow, which is often echoed visually by the way the poems are laid out upon the pa ...Show more