The Stupefying by Nick Ascroft
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
It is the time of the stupefying. Just when we least expected it, when we thought the show was over, it clonked out into the limelight, and the world was split in two. The Stupefying is a bruised arm firmly removed from its sling. It isn’t funny ha-ha but funny that-can’t-be-true-but-I-know-it-is. In p ...Show more
Granta 159 by Sigrid Rausing
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
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A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The third poetry collection from Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton. I was Dick. I teased Anne and George.I was Edmund, betrayed my friendsfor a sweet. Something rotten in me. — from ‘My childhood’ In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the ...Show more
Tauhou by Kotuku Titihuia Nuttall
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. Dear grandmother, I am writing this song for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. Tauhou envisions a shared ...Show more
The Pistils by Janet Charman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutr ...Show more
Super Model Minority by Chris Tse
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE'S SO MASC - by looking to a future where 'it's enough to look up at a sky blushing r ...Show more
Just Like That - New Poems by Kevin Ireland
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Poems greet Kevin Ireland in the morning with a crafty smile, or fly into his kitchen out of nowhere. Some dream themselves into his mind, or twist a bottle-cap and offer to share a cup of friendship. Lively words vie for places in his poems, or catch alight from cheerful thoughts. They are never predic ...Show more
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems l ...Show more
Felt by Johanna Emeney
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Couples in last-chance therapy, friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game--this collection of poems is concerned with the things that make us feel. The felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the calm of a sleeping doe to the slow unwinding of the last bee on Earth, ...Show more