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9781877448638
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Glenn Colquhoun (illus and hand lettered by Nigel Brown)
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An extraordinary collaboration between two of New Zealand's most stirring and popular artists - poet Glenn Colquhoun & painter Nigel Brown. Nigel Brown creates a unique vision of Aotearoa New Zealand while revisiting and reinterpreting our past. In North South he goes deep into the tribal roots of our country's imagination. Glenn Colquhoun imagines the northern gods of his Celtic heritage engaging with the atua Maori of the south, and creates a new mythology for this country. Nigel Brown has handwritten and illustrated Glenn's words. The poems sprawl across the page to clash, bend and ultimately fuse traditional Celtic and Maori motifs, song forms and poetry.

First published 2009.
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Where Your Left Hand Rests : A collection of poems order quantity
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Author: Fiona Kidman
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It's been 35 years since Dame Fiona Kidman's first book - of poems - was published, and now she is back
with another, perfectly timed for her 70th birthday in March 2010. There has been renewed interest in her
poetry since the recent publication of her memoirs, and this exquisitely packaged collection will not
disappoint. Ranging over wide territory, from imagining her Irish grandmothers' arrival in New Zealand, to
wearing Katherine Mansfield's shawl, to time spent in Greece and in her garden, the poems are by turns
tender and funny, candid and brave. They bear all the hallmarks of Kidman's writing: acute observation, a
telling eye for detail, a wry humour and great empathy.
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Overnight Downpour : Poems order quantity
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Author: Andrew Fagan
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A new collection of poems by the former Mockers' rock star.
This is his fourth collection of poetry.
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9781877448683
A House On Fire: Poems order quantity
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Author: Tim Upperton
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The first book of a significant new talent in the New Zealand literary scene.
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9780864735836
Beauty of the Badlands order quantity
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Author: Cliff Fell
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The poems in the first part of this new collection are located in the poet's home on the marginal clays and farms of the Moutere hills, the 'badlands' that rise west of the village of Brightwater, where Ernest Rutherford, the father of atomic physics, was born. Delivering a highly original vision of the 'new world'of the 21st century, confirming Cliff Fell's place as a compelling and distinctive voice in New Zealand poetry.

First published October 2008.

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9780908783601
Big Weather: Poems of Wellington order quantity
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NZ$ 24.95 each
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Author: Gregory O'Brien & Louise White (eds)
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Every Wellingtonian - dammit, every New Zealander - should be severely tempted to buy Big Weather for the home bookshelf.
It's a lovely book to handle, with a cool cover and excellent layout. If you think these are trivial aspects in a poetry book, think again.
Design messages hit most readers subliminally.
When poems are presented crowded or cramped or sloppy on the page, we tend to assume the poems themselves are too hard or too many or too bad to bother with.
The designer, Margaret Cochran, is largely responsible for the fact that you'll actually enjoy these poems.
And you will.
The O'Brien/White selection is worthy of the design. The editors had a tough call, finding a range of poems about Wellington that didn't focus on bad weather.
And that's odd, because as you know, Wellington's weather is generally gorgeous, with just a few agitated days each year to liven us up.
At the book launch someone explained that ... more

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9780864735935
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Author: Tusiata Avia
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The astonishing new auto-mythographical book by the author of Wild Dogs Under My Skirt tells the story of Nafanua, the Samoan goddess of war, who came from Pulotu to avenge her people, established the traditional system of government in Samoa and predicted the coming of the Palagi and the new religion.

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9781869404185
C K Stead : Collected Poems, 1951-2006 order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author: C. K. Stead
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REFERENCE & ANTHOLOGY Category Winner

This Collected Poems includes the work of fourteen volumes of poetry, from Stead's first collection, Whether the Will is Free, to The Black River of 2007. In addition, it reprints 22 early previously uncollected poems that date from 1951 to 1961. Annotated by the author, the Collected Poems illustrates more than fifty years of the range and ambition of Stead's verse, in which the world always looks 'hard / at the word and the / word at the world'.

First published December 2008.

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9781877333811
Doubtless : New and Selected Poems order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author: Sam Hunt
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Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known poet. For almost 40 years he has been writing, reading and performing poetry, touring New Zealand constantly and reading his poems in pubs, theatres, schools and many other venues. No other poet in New Zealand has managed to make a living by performing their poems, and it says much about the affection with which Sam is regarded in New Zealand that he has continued to do this for so long. It is well over ten years since a new collection of Sam's poems has appeared and over 15 years since a volume of selected poems was published, so the publication of Doubtless is very timely. It includes new work as well a comprehensive selection of his best poems from the last 40 years, all of which are currently unavailable in print.

First published August 2008.

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9781869404321
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NZ$ 28.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author: Selina Tusitala Marsh
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Winner of the 2010 NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry.

Fast Talking PI is the first 'singular, confident and musical' collection of poetry by Auckland writer Selina Tusitala Marsh. 'Tusitala' means writer of tales in Samoan, and Marsh here lives up to her name with stories of her life, her family, community, ancestry, and history. Her poetry is sensuous and strong, using lush imagery, clear rhythms and repetitions to power it forward. The list poem is a favourite style, but she also writes with a Pacific lyricism entirely her own. Fast Talking PI is structured in three sections, 'Tusitala(personal), 'Talkback' (political and historical) and 'Fast Talking PI' (already a classic). In poems like 'Guys Like Gauguin' she writes as a 'calabash breaker', fighting back against historic injustices; but in other poems she explores the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. ... more

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9781877372056
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author: Cilla McQueen
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Poems in Fire-Penny range from snapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote St Kilda Island to observations from Bluff. Even the simplest of topics, such as eating cake or meeting a newborn baby, are taken by McQueen and transformed into thoughtful works.

The collection closes with a section entitled A Widow's Songs, in which the poet mourns her late partner.

First published July 2005.

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9780864736062
Further Convictions Pending : Poems 1998-2008 order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Vincent O'Sullivan
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Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-two new poems, displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is renowned.

DoP May 2009, Wellington



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9781877340178
How to Survive the Morning: New Poems order quantity
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Author: Kevin Ireland
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This is the 18th book of poetry from award winning poet Kevin Ireland.
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9781869404345
James K. Baxter : Poems order quantity
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Author: James K. Baxter (selected & introduced Sam Hunt)
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Poet and performer Sam Hunt first became aware of the poems of James K Baxter as a schoolboy. Aged 14, he was strapped for reciting Baxter's poem 'Evidence at the Witch Trials' in an English lesson (one of the final in a series of events resulting in his expulsion from college). James K Baxter later became a friend and mentor who greatly influenced the unconventional poetic course Sam Hunt's life would take. Here, Hunt offers a selection of almost 50 poems by Baxter that have made an indelible impression on the grooves of his brain and tongue; poems he has lived with, road-tested and recited around New Zealand for more than 40 years. Hunt has included in the selection a range of the very familiar and the less familiar of Baxter's poems, dating from 1945 to 1972. In his substantial introduction, Hunt offers his memories of Jim Baxter and explains his selection. James K Baxter: Poems offers a fresh, uniquely personal look at the work of ... more
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9421002391667
Jenny Bornholdt - (The NZ Poets: The Laureate Series) order quantity
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Author: Jenny Bornholdt
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Jenny Bornholdt has written seven books of poetry, including a selected poems Miss New Zealand (VUW,1997).
Jenny Bornholdt was Poet Laureate in in 2005/06 during which she produced Mrs Winter's Jump (Godwit,2007). Her previous book Summer (VUW,2003) was written in Menton, France when she held the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Scholarship.

The 34 poems on this CD can be found in Miss New Zealand (tracks 1-17), Summer (tracks 18-29) and Mrs Winter's Jump (tracks 30-34)

The Poems are: In The Garden, Rodnie And Her Bicycles, Instructions for how to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines, Poem, Paul And His Ancestors, In Love, The Man Dean Went To Photograph, Weighing Up The Heart, Make Sure, The Baters, Cast In Order Of Appearance, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Annunciation, Wedding Song, Estonian Songs, Please Pay Attention, Then Murray Came, Being A Poet, Jack's Shirt, Villanelle, ... more

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9780864735911
Just This order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Brian Turner
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Finalist in the Poetry category.

Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems. Turner is one of New Zealand's leading poets. His first collection, Ladders of Rain (1978) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and his sixth, Beyond (1992), the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. He was New Zealand Poet Laureate 2003-2005. His acclaimed work in other genres includes co-authorship of the autobiographies of All Black stars Josh Kronfeld and Anton Oliver, a biography of Colin Meads, significant contributions to Timeless Land and The Art of Grahame Sydney, and Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany.
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9780864736314
Koiwi Koiwi / Bone Bone order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Hinemoana Baker
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In this compelling second collection from one of New Zealand's most exciting rising poets, Hinemoana Baker amplifies what's usually whispered, magnifies the microscopic and x-rays the mundane.

First published August 2010.
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9781877448959
Leaving the Tableland order quantity
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Author: Kerry Popplewell
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Apart from four years while studying at the University of Chicago, Kerry Popplewell has lived in Wellington all her adult life. Despite this, she grew up in Hawke's Bay and thinks of the Kaweka and Ruahine ranges as her home territory. Since she stopped teaching over ten years ago, her poems have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. This first collection would have happened sooner had she not been distracted by grandchildren and her interest in tramping.



First published April 2010

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9780864736284
Lives of the Poets order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: John Newton
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'The Romantic inheritance may be poison, but it seems to be all we have. When I first began writing I didn't look at it this way, which made being a poet, and writing poetry, easier. Ever since that time I have been trying to teach myself how to write again. This has felt mostly like a kind of beachcombing, fossicking beyond the high-tide mark of expressivism, never entirely giving up hope of discovering something that might still be useable. While the bulk of these poems were written recently, a few of them go back twenty-five years; but all are part of this search for new terms of engagement with a language of longing and excitability.' John Newton's debut volume Tales from the Angler's Eldorado came out in 1985, and his work is represented in most of the major anthologies to have appeared since that time. Lives of the Poets is the long-awaited follow-up. In poems that range from lyric to satire, and from formalist set-pieces to ... more
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9781869404024
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Paula Green
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A new collection from this now-established poet, Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins is a poetic memoir in the light of art. It follows on from Paula Green's previous solo poetry collection, Crosswind, which included collaborations with artists. Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins was inspired by an invitation from the Auckland City Art Gallery to talk about their 2005 Frances Hodgkins exhibition. The eight opening poems focus on eight Hodgkins paintings and often use Green's characteristic list structure; the next part includes a number of autobiographical poems, lyrical and often beautiful, about the role art has played in her life. In the third section art moves into poetry, they intermingle in the works of some favourite artists and in the context of a recent illness; and, finally, a long poem 'Letter to Anne Kennedy' brings the main themes together. This is a polished collection from a fine poet.

First published December 2007.
 
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