Magnificent Moon by Young Ashleigh
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Magnificent Moon is the eagerly awaited debut collection from one of the new stars of New Zealand poetry. Ashleigh Young's poems have been appearing in magazines for 10 years. She gained an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2009, winning the Ad ...Show more
Man of Stone by John Irvine
$23.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Stunningly crafted, lively, readable and accessible, Man of Stone offers a compelling mix of intimacy, alcoholism, writing, love and despair. Share the essence of John Irvine?s soul through these free-spirited poems. John Irvine's poems have a strong sense of narrative, painting a kind of poetic self-po ...Show more
Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems by Philip Temple; Emma Neale
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets from diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to ...Show more
Mapping the Distance by Ingrid Horrocks
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
This superb collection of poems shows the benefit of ten years gestation. A group of beautiful formal lyrics which recount time spent in Japan is followed by one considering family and ancestry. The major part of the book consists of poems coming from years spent living and studying overseas and then se ...Show more
Matuhi: Needle by Hinemoana Baker
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Best-known nationally for fronting National Radio show, Waiata, Hinemoana Baker is a talented writer and musician with an MA in Creative Writing. This first book, illustrated in colour by Ngai Tahu artist Jenny Rendall, comprises poems with diverse themes including love and gratitude, Te Reo and Maori c ...Show more
Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Whetu Moana II | Reading Level: very good
First published in 2003, the award-winning Whetu Moana was the first anthology of contemporary Polynesian poetry in English edited by Polynesians and was lauded by reviewers and widely read around the world. Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English is the follow-up volume to Whetu Moana - Wh ...Show more
Milk & Honey by Leggott Michele
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂNo brief review can hope to do justice to this dense, intricate and vivid collection. Not to be consumed rapidly like verbal takeaways, but sipped and savoured; soul food, mind food.ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà- NZ Herald Canvas Magazi ...Show more
Mirabile Dictu by Michele Leggott
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Twelve months of a laureate: in 2008 Michele Leggott wrote a poem a week to record her term as the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. In her new collection of poems Mirabile Dictu ('mi.rah.buh.lay dik.tu' - Wonderful to relate; amazing to say), she relates the wonders of those 12 months, which took he ...Show more
Moth Hour by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The family didn’t know what to do about grief. The noisy house went silent. I was fourteen. I lay on the red rug in the sitting room and listened to Beethoven’s Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 – over and over because it was there. In 1973, Anne Kennedy’s brother Philip was ...Show more
Mr Maui's Monologues by Peter Bland
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
DoP - April 2008 80pp Peter Bland's seventh collection of poems. In this new collection his use of the dramatic monologue and his mastery of everyday speech show him to be as moving, humorous and insightful as ever.
Mr Short, Mr Thin, Mr Bald and Mr Dog by Glenn Colquhoun
$10.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Mr Short was very tall. Mr Thin was fat. Mr Bald had lots of hair And Mr Dog kept cats Glenn Colquhoun is best known for his three highly-acclaimed collections of poetry: An Explanation of Poetry to my Father,The Art of Walking Upright and Playing God. This wacky picture book is Glenn ColquhounÂs thi ...Show more