Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English by Edited by: Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
In this pioneering anthology, two leading Māori poets and scholars collect together many Māori poetic voices in English and let flow a wellspring of poetry. From revered established writers as well as exciting new voices, the poems in Puna Wai Kōrero offer a broad picture of Māori poetry in English. The ...Show more
essa may ranapiri - Ransack by essa may ranapiri
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
In ransack, essa may ranapiri addresses the difficulty of assembling and understanding a fractured, unwieldy self through an inherited language - a language whose assumptions and expectations ultimately make it inadequate for such a task. These poems seek richer, less hierarchical sets of words to descr ...Show more
Red Leaves by Diana Bridge
$22.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
The sources of her poetry and her spare, elegant style give Diana Bridge an indicidual voice unlike any other. This collection teems with vivid images often drawn from Indian or Chinese sources of the poet's own experience of those places. At its emotional core there are also the deaths of her mother an ...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
Rural Delivery: Poems and Images from New Zealand Farms by Stephen Robinson
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Who knew that inside the rugged exterior of many a farmer beats the heart of a poet? Photographer Stephen Robinson came across some of these poems on his travels and set out to collect up more of them to accompany a wide-ranging set of his farm-themed images. From the joys and exhaustion of high-country ...Show more
Salt River Songs by Sam Hunt
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Salt River Songs is Sam Hunt's latest collection of poems, written over the last few years in his house that sits amongst a grove of totara trees on the Arapaoa, one of the five main salt rivers of the Kaipara Harbour. As always, his unflinchingly honest, elegiac and moving poems roam around familiar th ...Show more
Scenery and agriculture by David Beach
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In his new collection, Harry Ricketts finds room for three songs written in Hong Kong in 1975, and a 1979 poem about a War poet. Other poems remember departed friends and early experiences, and celebrate the abiding pleasure of reading, writing and cricket. Formally adroit, Just Then is by turns tender, ...Show more
Secret Heart by Airini Beautrais
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Sarcastic and ironic on the surface, this collection of autobiographical prose poems seems cynical and introspective at first, but its sharp-tongued sense of humor helps turn the poems outward, embracing society and creating a wry self-portrait of a young woman’s urban world.
Selected Poems by Jenny Bornholdt
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Jenny Bornholdt is the major New Zealand poet of her generation. Her new Selected Poems provides a full representation of her work through nine collections and nearly thirty years. Favourite short poems like 'How to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines' and 'Being a poet' are here alongsid ...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
Selected Poems of James K Baxter by edited by Paul Millar
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by ...Show more
Sex, with Animals by Laura Borrowdale
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine