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Mutzig the Clown Cat by Peter Wells (Illustrator)
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Eccentric and charming, Mutzig the Clown Cat is the first ever book by Peter Wells. In 1981 he made 30 copies of this book by hand to celebrate a stray cat that wandered into his life and took over his heart. A small art book, tactile and inviting, with drawings by the author.
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
$28.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and th ...Show more
The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white ‘Savage is as savage does. And we’re all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world – outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeous collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These po ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Kahlil Gibran's best-known work, The Prophet, is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English. Kahlil Gibran took more than 11 years to formulate and perfect this book. The Prophet represents the height of Gibran's literary career as he came to be noted as 'the bard of Washington Street'. The twelve il ...Show more
Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and b ...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
How to Live with Mammals by Ash Davida Jane
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
we love an underdog especially when it’s a whale we see ourselves in them literally in them lounging in their cathedral of a mouth just looking for love All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others an ...Show more
On We Go by Catherine Bagnall & L. Jane Sayle
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A remarkable collaboration between an artist and a poet, On We Go belongs to the emerging forms of ecological thinking that cross genres and scientific disciplines, speaking directly about global warming and the perils facing the natural world.
I Am In Bed With You by Emma Barnes
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A bold, playful, poetic exploration of sex, gender and identity. I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I’m always on the left. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winter I left myself behind in the 90s. I’m coming back now. You can see the light touching me. I can see layers of ti ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021 by Edited by Tracey Slaughter
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. This issue, #55, features 182 poems by 129 poets, including Elizabeth Morton, Michele Leggott, essa may ranapiri, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Jordan Hamel, David Eggleton and Mere Tai ...Show more
More Favourable Waters: Aotearoa poets respond to Dante’s Purgatory by Marco Sonzogni (Edited by) , Timothy Smith (Edited by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
More Favourable Waters is an anthology of contemporary poets from Aotearoa New Zealand commemorating one of the world's great poets, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), 700 years after his death. The anthology was published on 25 March 2021, which is Dante Day, chosen by the Italian Government to celebrate th ...Show more