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
Blood Ties by Holeman Jeffrey Paparoa
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: good
Description: Woven from the sharp and tensile strands of memory, many of the poems in this collection return to the primal pains of neglect and damage in childhood. Emotional memory is anchored in the specific detail of an era - the selection is laced with dreams of flight and memories of West Coast tow ...Show more
Close to the Bone by Charlotte Trevella
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A collection of poems by Charlotte Trevella.
Breath Dances by Peter Bland
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Following the publication of his critically acclaimed Collected Poems, Peter Bland's new work has a startling freshness and immediacy. These poems celebrate a growing spiritual awareness of everyday life and the gifts of the natural world. They are spoken in a wonderfully fluent and imaginative voice. ...Show more
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