Because Paradise by Charlotte Trevella
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
'There was the wind too, that scoured bald hills for answers, finding only insects to shatter against our skin, our crib rocked in the night: the house built on sand. You held the weather in your eyes, dark and writhing when you turned them to the sky, watched clouds smoulder among the stars.'
Chords by Sam Hunt
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Secondhand. Sam Hunt has always believed in the essential musicality of a good poem, a belief that has become more intense over the years.Part 1 of this book, ‘the Chords’ that give this collection its title, are a loosely connected group of poems that he feels are best described as a musical score. Str ...Show more
Lost Relatives by Siobhan Harvey
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Siobhan Harvey is the editor of Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion and Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many New Zealand and international magazines and anthologies, and have been broadcast on Radio New Zealand.
The little enemy by Nicholas Reid
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A collection of poetry.
Peter Bland - Collected Poems 1956 - 2011 by Peter Bland
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This volume makes possible a proper assessment of the scope and stature of Peter Bland's work. These poems - often witty and beautiful - are a lifetime's achievement, a testament to an ongoing power to engage us in his vision. Peter Bland arrived in New Zealand in 1954 and since the 1970's has divid ...Show more
Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life by Leigh Davis
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Simple Broken Beautiful is the title on a notebook of poetry written by Leigh Davis in 2008. This was during radiotherapy treatment following surgery for a brain tumour, which was affecting his ability to express himself in words. The notebook writing was the beginning of a work that developed into a lo ...Show more
The Radio Room by Cilla McQueen
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In The Radio Room, Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the ancient Celtic islands of her ancestors ('On a cliff-top above screeching gulls I stand still thinking backwards, antipodean poet grafted from ancient taproot i ...Show more
Charles Brasch: Selected Poems by Charles Brasch
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Charles Brasch (1909-1973) was the founder and first editor of Landfall, New Zealand's premier journal of literature and ideas. Born in Dunedin, he grew up to be at home in the literature, art and architecture of Europe, but returned to devote his life to the arts in his own country - as editor, critic, ...Show more
Cloudboy by Siobhan Harvey
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
"Cloudboy" is a deep-mulling, richly senstive account of a mother's ajustments to the needs of an autistic child. This prize-winning suite of poems grows out of extremes of love and frustration, as the poet introduces a bright, unpredictable, markedly individual boy to the rigid, often airless routines ...Show more
Generation Kitchen by Richard Reeve
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Description: Much sought after by oil companies, generation kitchens are sites where geological forces have combined to create conditions for oil production. By turns brooding and wittily observant, Richard Reeve s fifth book of poetry meditates on the intrigues of fossil fuel companies and ecological ...Show more
The Conch Trumpet by David Eggleton
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
The Conch Shell calls to the scattered tribes of contemporary New Zealand. It sounds the signal to listen close, critically and 'in alert reverie'. David Eggleton's reach of references, the marriage of high and low, the grasp of popular and classical allusion, his eye both for cultural trash and epiphan ...Show more