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
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
33.00 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
No Other Place to Stand - An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Jordan Hamel; Rebecca Hawkes; Erik Kennedy; Essa Ranapiri
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Ninety-one writers with connections to these islands grapple with the biggest issue facing people and the planet. What, then, for the work of poetry? It's at the very periphery of popular speech, niche even among the arts, yet it's also rooted in the most ancient traditions of oral storytelling, no matt ...Show more
Echidna by essa may ranapiri
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Echidna is a dangerous animal; she pokes holes in men just to remind them what kind of monster she is wakes up every single morning and chooses violence cos what choice does she really have? essa may ranapiri's second poetry collection follows the story of Echidna, their own interpretation of the Greek ...Show more
Ransack by essa may ranapiri
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In ransack, essa may ranapiri addresses the difficulty of assembling and understanding a fractured, unwieldy self through an inherited language - a language whose assumptions and expectations ultimately make it inadequate for such a task. These poems seek richer, less hierarchical sets of words to descr ...Show more
Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at hers ...Show more
The Artist by Ruby Solly
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so bright that sound becomes sight . . . And so from the black the world is sung into being, not for us, but for itself, but for the song. In a Southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin, tw ...Show more
Transposium by Dani Yourukova
30.00 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
Kerrin P Sharpe - Hoof by Kerrin P Sharpe
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe arrives with new urgency and longing. These are poems about a father who can only remember one word, ponies that grow hooves of basalt as they pull Scott and Shackelton around ?tamahua in sledges, and a woman named Johanna living in a small village in Greenland. She writes about ...Show more
Remember Love: Words for Tender Times by Cleo Wade
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Category: Poetry
The beloved, bestselling author of Heart Talk, hailed as "the poet of her generation" (Time), charts a path away from exhaustion and endless crises and toward a place of renewal and radiant love with a new, soulful collection of original poetry and prose.Cleo Wade is that friend you dream of having - th ...Show more
Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand by Anne Kennedy (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 2 ...Show more
Calamities! by Jane Arthur
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in everything from meteorites and distant planets to pomanders and cat’s ears. Whether contemplating time, regr ...Show more