Selected Poems 1963 - 2013 by Kevin Ireland
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Kevin Ireland lives in Devonport and is one of New Zealand's most prominent and well-loved writers. This is his 20th book of poetry, 50 years after his first book in 1963, Face to Face. His most recent book was Dreamy Days & Nothing Done (2012). He has also published a collection of short stories, S ...Show more
Expecting Miracles by Peter Bland
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Poems of love, loss, comic insight and sensory delight. At 81, Peter Bland’s new work continues to dazzle and amuse. PN Review praises his ‘gentle but powerful assurance’ and Poetry London the ‘intoxicating feeling’ his poetry evokes.
A Place to Go on from: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie by Iain Lonie
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Dunedin poet Iain Lonie (1932–1988), a Cambridge scholar who enjoyed an international reputation as a medical historian, died before his poetry was fully appreciated. He published five slim volumes but his style was not the one that dominated New Zealand poetry at the time. And yet, argues Damian Love i ...Show more
Taking My Mother to the Opera by Diane Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Piquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly marbled throughout with social history. From carefully chosen anecdotes it slowly unfolds a vivid and compelling sense of character and the psychological dynamics within the family. Many readers will recognize th ...Show more
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