Lost and Somewhere Else by Jenny Bornholdt
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Where do I stand? Usually in the little square of sunlight by the back door. In Lost and Somewhere Else, Jenny Bornholdt finds many places to stand: at home, in memories of places and people, and in the Ernst Plischke-designed Henderson House in Alexandra, Central Otago, in which she lived while writi ...Show more
How I Get Ready by Ashleigh Young
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In her latest poetry collection How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book. An Ashleigh Young poem is a world: hospitable, strange, a little off kilter. The poems in How I Get Ready bristle with humour and curiosity; they ...Show more
Saying Farewell by Robert Allen
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
I always thought that people, who are vibrantly individual creatures, deserve more than a mere formal ritual at their farewell, so I began to write individual pieces to help say farewell in a more personal way. Then it became clear that others would like to use some of these, so they have been generalis ...Show more
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog... or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert... this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness... heartbreaking and charged with trees.. ...Show more
Horse with Hat by Marty Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Marty Smith grew up in remote hill country between Pahiatua and the sea. Although her father and grandmother lived on the same farm, one at each end, her father never spoke to her grandmother in her living memory, and their feud is the subject of quite a few poems. They also look at the effects of the g ...Show more