Mutzig the Clown Cat by Peter Wells
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
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.
Katūīvei - Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Katuivei) by David Eggleton (Editor); Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Mere Taito (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices ...Show more
Rupi Kaur Trilogy Boxed Set by Rupi Kaur
$85.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A celebration of the journey that started it all.From international best-selling poet Rupi Kaur comes this beautifully designed, three-book boxed set of the poetry collections that solidified her as the poetic voice of a generation. This set includes her striking debut, milk and honey, her transcendent ...Show more
Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
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
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
My American Chair by Elizabeth Smither
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
White lies, hip replacements and ballet with a sawhorse. Parisian drycleaners and the brush of the grass in Central Park. In My American Chair, Elizabeth Smither leads us through serendipitous encounters, the uncanny in the ordinary, the intricacies of friendship and ruminations on mortality. Assured, i ...Show more
The River in the Sky by Clive James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday TimesClive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Inju ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
People Person by Joanna Cho
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on the NBA highlights. You relaxed immediately. This is intimacy. People Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in wh ...Show more
The Stupefying by Nick Ascroft
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
It is the time of the stupefying. Just when we least expected it, when we thought the show was over, it clonked out into the limelight, and the world was split in two. The Stupefying is a bruised arm firmly removed from its sling. It isn’t funny ha-ha but funny that-can’t-be-true-but-I-know-it-is. In p ...Show more
A Question Bigger Than A Hawk by Fitzgerald Jan
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Questions burrow through the fourth poetry collection by Jan FitzGerald. An only child until a brother appears in a cradle one day, she wonders about the circumstances of her birth and delves into the memories she has of a childhood in 1950s Tauranga - making traps for birds that she cares for in her be ...Show more
Poems for New Parents by Various
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A beautiful gift anthology of classic poetry which captures the excitement and joy of a new arrival in the family.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This editio ...Show more