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Burst Kisses on the Actual Wind by Courtney Sina Meredith
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
"Courtney Sina Meredith is one of New Zealand's most talented and influential authors. Burst Kisses On The Actual Wind will find an eager audience." Paula Morris. Award winning author MNZM. Rangatira, Queen of Beauty. 'Everyone thinks you dream in foreign prose.' 'Everyone stands in front of you like a ...Show more
Tatai Whetu: Seven Maori Women Poets in Translation by Maraea Rakuraku; Vana Manasiadis
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Tātai Whetū: Seven Māori Women Poets in Translation is a ground-breaking bilingual poetry collection, which features a poem each by seven Māori women writers, originally written in English, and a translation in Māori. The two version of the poems are presented on facing pages. The fourth book in the Ser ...Show more
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick by Courtney Sina Meredith
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an e ...Show more
Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In her bestselling Mophead, poet laureate and fast talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a difference. In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westm ...Show more
How To Live by Helen Rickerby
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell ...Show more
Felt by Johanna Emeney
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
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
Nouns Verbs Etc: Selected Poems by FIONA FARRELL
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are ...Show more
How To Be Old by Rachel McAlpine
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Wellington writer Rachel McAlpine blogs and podcasts about living and ageing and is celebrating her 80th birthday with a book of poems. How to Be Old is an explosion of humanity on the page with some practical tips from the author and sage advice from Elsie aged five. Rachel has also written novels, son ...Show more
Tōku Pāpā / Toku Papa by Ruby Solly
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now it’s time for you to believe me. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival ...Show more
Funkhaus by Hinemoana Baker
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A queer / takatapui Maori writer living in Berlin, Germany since 2015, Hinemoana Baker brings a unique perspective both to and from the 'global North'. Drawing on the German meaning of the word 'funken' - to send a radio signal - her latest collection broadcasts unsettling songs of rebirth, love, friend ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more
Wow by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
