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Everything Talks
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Sam Sampson
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New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie McKay Best First Book Award for Poetry Winner
A first collection of poetry by Auckland poet Sam Sampson. Sampson has an ear for the lilting phrase, and his poems have a gentle ebb and flow, which is often echoed visually by the way the poems are laid out upon the page. Though experimental in form, Sampson's poems are also grounded in his environment, often the West Coast of Auckland where he grew up. Karekare, the Manukau Harbour and the Waitakere Ranges all feature, but in poems that reach from ancient Egypt to 15th-century France to 19th-century Tahiti to the United States in 1963, while touching on biography, archaeology, astronomy, Sampson proves that he can handle global ideas and universal concerns.
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Listening to the Girl Next Door
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Catherine Livingstone
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Catherine Livingstone is fresh off the first ever New Zealand Apprentice TV show where she came away with the achievements of - last woman standing, in the final three and the only person to beat the winner!
She has self published her own book of poetry titled
Listening to the Girl Next Door
. The book is where she poured out the experiences of heartache, empowering friendships and things that changed her life.
On
The Apprentice
Catherine was labelled the ‘Hard Woman’ and asked on a radio interview ‘how does it feel to be the most hated woman in New Zealand at the moment’. Her abstract poetry expresses her romantic side accompanied by the why she interrupts her own memory book of moments.
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Live Lines Volume 3
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anthology
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With its recorded beginnings at the Globe Tavern in 1980, Poetry Live has been a gathering point for poets in Auckland for decades. This anthology collects work by the poets who read at Poetry LIve in 2009.
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Selected Poems of James K Baxter
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James K Baxter (edited by Paul Millar)
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By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by New Zealand's leading Baxter scholar. With a range of poems from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the Jerusalem period, full texts of major sequences 'Pig Island Letters' and the 'Jerusalem Sonnets', and key new poems directly from manuscript, Millar's selection reveals the breadth of Baxter's achievement, not merely its peaks - from the comic and bawdy to the political and devotional. Selected Poems of James K Baxter also includes an insightful introduction by Baxter expert Paul Millar and short prefaces to the four parts, plus four Baxter photos, useful notes, a glossary of Maori words and index.
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Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From : A comedy with interruptions
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Murray Edmond
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Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From: A Comedy with Interruptions
is a new poetry collection from Murray Edmond. Arranged in six acts, 'Exposition', 'Complication', 'Revelation', 'Peripety', 'Catastrophe' and 'Denouement', it merrily experiments with voice and performance, including, in various forms, monologues, dialogues, choruses, songs, scene sets and storyboards. Edmond writes that 'there isn't a poem which couldn't have been otherwise / than it is', and in his poems form is aptly married to content. Language plays a starring role - 'lobal glooming', 'mobile grooming', 'focal warping', 'glottal warbling' runs a poem on global warming. A consummate director, he arranges his dramatic and mock dramatic pieces with swagger and panache, but never without a glint of self-irony. The collection's surprises and surreal moments (a seal reciting RAK Mason, a goat tied to the theatre door) are balanced with more serious lyric poems, of ...
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A Well Written Body (poems and paintings)
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Poems by Karlo Mila (paintings by Delicia Sampero)
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A clever, modern and sensitive collection of poetry - a collaborative venture between artist (Delicia Sampero) and poet (Karlo Mila). After reading the first draft of the poems, Delicia envisaged a ten metre painting - a continuous allegory of hte black butterfly. As Delicia's paintings emerged, Karlo wrote new pieces inspired by the images. The book explores issues of desire and longing, identity and belonging, all with Karlo's refreshing honesty and wit.
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Because Paradise
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Charlotte Trevella
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"A debut collection from a rising star..."
Charlotte Trevella was born in 1992 and is a pupil at Rangi Ruru Girls' School. She began writing poetry at age seven and had her first poem published in the NZ Listener when she was ten.
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Cup
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Alison Wong
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First published 2006.
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Dear Shelley
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Kathryn Gilkison
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Aucklander Kathryn Gilkison's exquisite book of poems celebrates the life of her daughter Shelley Mather, the young NZ woman killed in the London underground bombings July 7, 2005. Kathryn' sister, respected poet Bernadette Hall writes: "These poems are part of a continuing conversation between Kathryn and her beloved daughter. Some of these poems will hurt you with their raw power. Some will make you cry. Others, to your surprise, will make you laugh out loud. This is the kind of love that is brave enough to walk open-eyed into hell. A love so big and generous that it refuses to be silenced by unimaginable tragedy. The world needs words like these."
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Dream Fish Floating
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Karlo Mila
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where the free market meets the fleamarket
it's all keynesian mystical
Karlo Mila’s voice travels from urban Aotearoa to Tonga and Samoa via friendships and family relationships. In this first collection of poetry she explores the intergenerational tensions between migration and returning, the new and the traditional, the emergent professional classes and their working-class migrant communities of origin. The poems take delight in language itself and the possibilities afforded by a Tongan–Samoan–Maori–Palangi fusion.
Dream Fish Floating
is a polyglot chanting back to genealogical and literary bones. It is also a meditation on friendship, family and love.
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Fast Talking PI
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Selina Tusitala Marsh
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Winner of the 2010 NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry.
Fast Talking PI
is the first 'singular, confident and musical' collection of poetry by Auckland writer Selina Tusitala Marsh. 'Tusitala' means writer of tales in Samoan, and Marsh here lives up to her name with stories of her life, her family, community, ancestry, and history. Her poetry is sensuous and strong, using lush imagery, clear rhythms and repetitions to power it forward. The list poem is a favourite style, but she also writes with a Pacific lyricism entirely her own.
Fast Talking PI
is structured in three sections, 'Tusitala(personal), 'Talkback' (political and historical) and 'Fast Talking PI' (already a classic). In poems like 'Guys Like Gauguin' she writes as a 'calabash breaker', fighting back against historic injustices; but in other poems she explores the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. ...
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James K. Baxter : Poems
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James K. Baxter (selected & introduced Sam Hunt)
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Poet and performer Sam Hunt first became aware of the poems of James K Baxter as a schoolboy. Aged 14, he was strapped for reciting Baxter's poem 'Evidence at the Witch Trials' in an English lesson (one of the final in a series of events resulting in his expulsion from college). James K Baxter later became a friend and mentor who greatly influenced the unconventional poetic course Sam Hunt's life would take. Here, Hunt offers a selection of almost 50 poems by Baxter that have made an indelible impression on the grooves of his brain and tongue; poems he has lived with, road-tested and recited around New Zealand for more than 40 years. Hunt has included in the selection a range of the very familiar and the less familiar of Baxter's poems, dating from 1945 to 1972. In his substantial introduction, Hunt offers his memories of Jim Baxter and explains his selection. James K Baxter: Poems offers a fresh, uniquely personal look at the work of ...
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Just This
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Author:
Brian Turner
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Finalist in the Poetry category.
Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems. Turner is one of New Zealand's leading poets. His first collection,
Ladders of Rain
(1978) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and his sixth,
Beyond
(1992), the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. He was New Zealand Poet Laureate 2003-2005. His acclaimed work in other genres includes co-authorship of the autobiographies of All Black stars Josh Kronfeld and Anton Oliver, a biography of Colin Meads, significant contributions to
Timeless Land
and
The Art of Grahame Sydney
, and
Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany
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Mapping the Distance
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Author:
Ingrid Horrocks
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This superb collection of poems shows the benefit of ten years gestation. A group of beautiful formal lyrics which recount time spent in Japan is followed by one considering family and ancestry. The major part of the book consists of poems coming from years spent living and studying overseas and then settling back in New Zealand and starting a family. With its broad scope and variety of lyric styles, Mapping the Distance is a landmark book.
First published May 2010.
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Moonlight : New Zealand Poems on Death and Dying
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author:
Andrew Johnston (ed)
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This intelligent, moving collection taps into the extraordinarily powerful way New Zealand poets address the subject of death, dying and grief. There are 65 poems from poets as diverse as Janet Frame and Glen Colquhoun, James K Baxter and Michael Jackson, drawn together by one of this country's finest mid-career poets, Andrew Johnston.
All royalties go to Hospice New Zealand and the book is being launched on Montana Poetry Day 2008 at the Mary Potter Hospice, Wellington. This charitable connection was the editor's plan, as a mark of gratitude for the quality of care given to his late father by hospice several years ago.
First published July 2008.
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North South
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Glenn Colquhoun (illus and hand lettered by Nigel Brown)
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An extraordinary collaboration between two of New Zealand's most stirring and popular artists - poet Glenn Colquhoun & painter Nigel Brown. Nigel Brown creates a unique vision of Aotearoa New Zealand while revisiting and reinterpreting our past. In North South he goes deep into the tribal roots of our country's imagination. Glenn Colquhoun imagines the northern gods of his Celtic heritage engaging with the atua Maori of the south, and creates a new mythology for this country. Nigel Brown has handwritten and illustrated Glenn's words. The poems sprawl across the page to clash, bend and ultimately fuse traditional Celtic and Maori motifs, song forms and poetry.
First published 2009.
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The Lustre Jug
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Author:
Bernadette Hall
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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-washed skies of Donoughmore, Co. Cork and the Queensland rainforest. Between national and personal histories. As for poetry, what is it to be, an axe or a peace offering?
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The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
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Kate Camp
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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 Zealand poets.
First published March 2010
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Where Your Left Hand Rests : A collection of poems
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Author:
Fiona Kidman
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It's been 35 years since Dame Fiona Kidman's first book - of poems - was published, and now she is back
with another, perfectly timed for her 70th birthday in March 2010. There has been renewed interest in her
poetry since the recent publication of her memoirs, and this exquisitely packaged collection will not
disappoint. Ranging over wide territory, from imagining her Irish grandmothers' arrival in New Zealand, to
wearing Katherine Mansfield's shawl, to time spent in Greece and in her garden, the poems are by turns
tender and funny, candid and brave. They bear all the hallmarks of Kidman's writing: acute observation, a
telling eye for detail, a wry humour and great empathy.
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Aloe
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Author:
Diana Bridge
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Awarded Gold in the Books category of the 2010 Pride in Print Awards.
An aloe - spiky, soothing, fragrant, bitter - opens Diana Bridge's new collection of poetry.
Aloe
is structured in four parts: 'The compulsion to catch it', 'Into words', 'Among the Freuds' and 'It's their century'. The first section looks outwards to the natural world, opening with a stunning set of tree poems that begin with close observation and move on to contemplate loss, hesitancy, generation and repetition (repeat, diversify, diversify, repeat). The second section explores how words affect everyday life and how everyday life may be turned into words. Other voices and stories are used to convey psychological and physical suffering in 'Among the Freuds' - the furies, Penelope, Sylvia Plath and Medea all appear. The final section, 'It's their century', returns to the Chinese and Indian source material that Bridge has mined with such success in ...
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