The Goose Bath Poems by Janet Frame
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more
The Hill of Wool by Jenny Bornholdt
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The Hill of Wool is a book about memories. Some memories live in families. Some are inspired by rediscovered children's songs and stories. Others are triggered by chance encounters with old boyfriends. Sometimes personal and lyrical, sometimes jagged and strange like untamed children's rhymes, these poe ...Show more
The Internet of Things by Kate Camp
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Kate Camp's new book begins in John Lennon's childhood kitchen, and ends at the prow of ship, surveying what has been and what is yet to come. The internet of things speaks to loss and hope, and to the stories we weave into the things around us. Kate Camp's sharp eye for detail and refusal to avoid life ...Show more
The Lakes of Mars by Chris Orsman
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
The Lakes of Mars is a stunning new collection of poems by Chris Orsman that follow on from his most recent book, South: An Antarctic Journey, a sequence about Captain Scott's final expedition to Antarctica. These new poems are a characteristic mix of thoughtful reflection and precise imagery of landsca ...Show more
The Land Ballot by Fleur Adcock
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. When things ...Show more
The Letterbox Cat and other Poems by Paula Green
$12.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A perfect first poetry book to inspire your little writers! Well-known poet and author Paula Green combines with the talents of Myles Lawford to create a unique poetry book for children.
The Lifeguard : Poems 2008-2013 by Ian Wedde
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life's pool-side surfa ...Show more
The Lustre Jug by Bernadette Hall
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Finalist in the Poetry category. In 2007 Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland, not far from Blarney, on the Rathcoola Fellowship. The poems in this collection arise from that experience. With light-heartedness and daring, they track between dualities: the North and the South in Ireland; the rain- ...Show more
The Merino Princess by Bernadette Hall
$15.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Bernadette Hall is one of the most widely admired contemporary New Zealand poets, with a range that extends from the wickedly funny to the hauntingly beautiful. The Merino Princess brings together the best of her five previous collections. First published 2004.
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The first Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls caused its author to be burnt at the stake for heresy in 1310. Kate Camp's fourth collection of poems demonstrates a darker turn in the work of this popular poet. Shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, it establishes her in the front rank of New Z ...Show more
The Moonmen by Anna Livesey
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Building on the impressive debut of Good Luck, this new collection from Anna Livesey contains poems that capture the eerie and exhilarating aspects of daily life. All the poems combine a crisp and shapely style with breathtaking openness and urgency in addressing personal material, particularly in the p ...Show more
The Movie May be Slightly Different by Vincent O'Sullivan
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The Movie May Be Slightly Different offers a rich harvest of recent poems displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which Vincent O’Sullivan is renowned.