Town by MADELEINE SLAVICK
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Welcome to 'Town', fifty stories and fifty images by writer and photographer Madeleine Slavick, who lived in Hong Kong for almost twenty-five years before moving to a Wairarapa country road that runs from state highway to bush.
Biter by Claudia Jardine
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Ancient Greek epigrams drive a bitingly contemporary first poetry collection.Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine's debut collection of verse. Fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets, ecstatic odes and startlingly v ...Show more
Katūīvei - Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Katuivei) by David Eggleton (Editor); Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Mere Taito (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices ...Show more
Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In their generous and often euphoric first book, Sylvan Spring is constantly and irresistibly in motion. These are poems for the sad bitches, the silly billys, the divine transsexuals, the girls who were first to get piercings not in their ears, the ones who dream of dissolving into a river, the Cocte ...Show more
AUP New Poets 8 by Lily Holloway & Modi Deng & Tru Paraha
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Lilting bees and unidentifiable birds, long-division problems and continental cornflakes: three remarkable voices arrive in AUP New Poets 8. In AUP New Poets 8, Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng come together to produce a volume of remarkable inventions and intoxications. Lily Holloway leads off w ...Show more
Bordering on Miraculous (Korero Series) by Saskia Leek; Lynley Edmeades
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Korero Series 4 | Reading Level: near fine
In this luscious collaboration poet Lynley Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek explore ideas of the quotidian and its everyday miracles. Their close, intense domestic observations merge with the philosophical, in a quest for deeper meaning. Leek's high-colour palette and symbolic investigation of the domes ...Show more
Little Ache, The by Ian Wedde
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Little Ache – a German notebook was written in 2013–14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler. In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.
Transposium by Dani Yourukova
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Part philosophy thesis and part psychosexual Ancient Greek fever dream, Dani Yourukova' s Transposium adapts Plato into poetry, featuring queer longing, a choose-your-own-adventure apocalypse, Les Misé rables slash fiction and love poems about dead philosophers.Shameless, witty and hot with curiosity, t ...Show more
Naag Mountain by Manisha Anjali
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A remarkable debut collection by an Australian and New Zealand poet of Indo-Fijian background, the descendant of indentured labourers. Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, w ...Show more