The Dead Are Always Laughing At Us by Dominic Hoey; design by Trudi Hewitt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Dead Are Always Laughing At Us is a collaboration between Dominic Hoey and designer Trudi Hewitt. The poems were mostly written during lock-down as a way to try and stay sane while the world lost its collective mind. “Accessibility has shaped the way I write and perform. I’ve always resisted the id ...Show more
Talia by Isla Huia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Talia is the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a critique of hometowns, an analysis of whakapapa, and a reclamation of tongue. It is an ode to the earth she stands on, and to a sister she lost to the skies. It is a manifesto for a future full of aunties an ...Show more
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.
Cocktails & Peacock Feathers by Jane Barr
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This short anthoogy of poetry is made up of poems about: The workload of women, Katherine Mansfield, cats, wine, writing, gardening, war, loss, grief, sport, Art Deco, emigration, environmnetal issues, pregnanacy and labour, ancestry, domestic abuse, The practical versus the aesthetic, and the importan ...Show more
Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year by Colin Salter (Editor)
$52.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every night of the year. Chosen especially by a Shakespeare fanatic to reflect the changing seasons and yearly events, the entries in this glorious book include Romeo and Ju ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell (editor)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration, passion and married bliss to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the unive ...Show more
Poems to Save the World With by Chris Riddell (editor)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This uplifting anthology contains classic and modern poems to galvanize and inspire you which are brought to life with exquisite, intricate artwork. Chosen and illustrated by Chris Riddell, Poems to Save the World With -the follow-up to Poems to Live Your Life By and Poems to Fall in Love With - will ig ...Show more
Ngā Wāhine E Toru / Three Women by Glenn Colquhoun
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun writes to his daughter, former partner, and mother, using the medium of Māori oral poetry. In doing so he explores oriori, karakia, haka, mōteatea, pātere, waiata aroha and waiata tangi. It is a companion volume to Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā, his ...Show more
Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā by Glenn Colquhoun
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun explores a range of Pākehā oral poetic forms; sea shanties, hymns, ballads, nursery rhymes and clapping songs. It is a companion volume to Three Women, his collection of poetry in Te Reo Māori, and is richly illustrated by Nigel Brown. A soundtrack to the poem ...Show more
Revelations: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 by Edited by Tracey Slaughter
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Ser.
For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 101 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.Another packed issue, #58 showcases the raw and the vital - including from this year's featured poet, Carin Smeaton - and ...Show more
Plastic by Stacey Teague
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvy In Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Māori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form th ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more