Shaggy Magpie Songs by Murray Edmond
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: New
A little bubbly, a little bitter, a little absurd, and echoing with the sound of laughter, these poem-songs have shaggy tales to tell. Shaggy Magpie Songs is a celebration of poetry's potential - for drama and comedy, narrative and nonsense. Presented in four parts - Praise, Nonsense, Blues and Pop - th ...Show more
Shards of Silver: Paul Thompson's Images on Language - New Zealand Poets on Photography by Paul Thompson; Anna Jackson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A kind of photographs made with words is how New Zealand poet Riemke Ensing describes what a poem is. Like many of our finest poets, she draws inspiration from photographs andphotography. Paul Thompson has investigated the interplay between photography and poetry to see if there were deeper corresponden ...Show more
Shift by Rhian Gallagher
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Rhian Gallagher's second collection - her first with a New Zealand publisher - encompasses a departure from London, where she lived for 18 years, and a return to her country of birth. In three parts, Shift takes us both back and outwards - from the poet's early history out towards the wider world - Lond ...Show more
Short Poems of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
"I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller." —Jenny Bornholdt Funny, ...Show more
Sing-song by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Winner of the Poetry section Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004. Anne Kennedy's first book of poems, a natural progression from her fiction, deals with the domestic life of a family, but in particular about the gruelling experience of eczema from which the little girl suffers. This may not seem a pr ...Show more
Slip Stream by Paula Green
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Through Slip Stream, Paula Green is interested in how to balance a challenging experience against the continuation of everyday life, and proposes small distractions and coping strategies solving cryptic crossword puzzles, for example, the mock-clues of which are scattered through the poems. Making up a ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence - Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
'A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed'. Hone Tuwhare, one of this country's best-loved poets, died in 2008. He was New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate and in 2003 was among ten of New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of NZ Icon Artists. His rhythmic voice ran ...Show more
Snow White's Coffin by Kate Camp
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
These poems were written in Berlin while Kate Camp held the Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency between September 2011 and October 2012.
Sol by Andrew Johnston
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Solitude, solace, consolationÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàsun in its onlyness ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàare some of the motifs that play through Andrew JohnstonÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs marvellous new collection, illuminating with humour ...Show more
Some Things to Place in a Coffin by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Bill Manhire's first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its heart is the sequence 'Known Unto God', commissioned by the BBC for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of mem ...Show more
Some of Us Eat the Seeds by Morgan Bach
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Morgan Bach weaves a line between waking life and the unstable dreamworld beneath, disorienting and reorienting us from moment to moment. In poems of childhood, family, travel and relationships, she responds to the ache and sometimes horror of life in a voice that is restless and witty, bold and sharp-e ...Show more
Song of the Ghost in the Machine by Horrocks Roger
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Song of the Ghost in the Machine is a free-wheeling philosophical poem that emerged during the walks Roger Horrocks took over a year of his life. In this striking, one-of-a-kind work, he seeks to engage as directly as possible with the basic elements of life - the self and the body, sleeping and waking, ...Show more