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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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9781869621773
Where Your Left Hand Rests 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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9780864736222
The Victims of Lightning order quantity
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Author: Bill Manhire
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Bill Manhire's first new book since Lifted shows him building on the themes and expanding the techniques of that prize-winning collection. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, and even a bracket of songs. The Victims of Lightning is Bill Manhire at the height of his powers.
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9781877333811
Doubtless : New and Selected Poems order quantity
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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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Further Convictions Pending : Poems 1998-2008 order quantity
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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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9781877333682
Our Favourite Poems : New Zealanders choose their best-loved poems order quantity
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Author: various
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What is your favourite poem? Who is it by? Why do you love it? When do you recite it? How does it make you feel? A poem's ability to create an emotional response is quite remarkable. A favourite poem may capture something everyday and domestic, or try and answer one of life's big questions. Our Favourite Poems is a quite different anthology, because it asks the New Zealand public, 'Which piece of verse moves you the most?' Canvassing the country, New Zealanders are voting for their favourite poem, with the top 100 or so poems being published in this unique new publication. Through the voting, the public will have a hand in the book's creation and will feel a sense of ownership toward it. Promoted through Sunday Star Times, bookstores, schools, and local libraries it will contain accessible poems that refl ect the country's poetic palate, rather than the tastes often contained in highbrow, literary anthologies. Based on a hugely ... more

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9780864736185
Since June order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Louise Wallace
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Since June is a poised and confident first book of poems. These deceptively simple, conversational poems tell stories and capture details of daily existence, but then take odd and surprising turns. Language slips and miscommunications lead to suddenly unnerving perceptions, and leave the reader both moved and a little unbalanced.

First published 2009.
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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.
Tim Upperton teaches creative writing at Massey University. He has won several prizes for his poems, which have been published in literary magazines in New Zealand and overseas. He is a former poetry editor for Bravado and judged its International Poetry Competition in 2008.

First publishd 2009.
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9781869404161
AUP New Poets: Volume 3 order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Janis Freegard & Katherine Liddy & Reihana Robinson
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This is the third book in AUP's New Poets series, which began in 1999 and has launched an oustanding range of poets.
The new poets in this third volume, Janis Freegard, Katherine Liddy and Reihana Robinson, all have vastly different yet complementary styles.
Freegard writes quirky and often surreal poems about a Wellington inhabited with strange animals, art and people; the humorous prose poem is a favourite vehicle but there are also serious, luminous moments in this selection, called 'The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider and Other Tales.
Liddy is a promising young poet with an unusual interest in and ear for rhyme and rhythm. While some of her poems are texturally dense she has an impressive range and there is a pleasing variety in her selection, 'Artefacts Exhibiting Love', which is ordered chronologically from the Bronze Age to the space age.
Finally, Robinson's poems are tropical but gritty, set as many ... more

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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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Everything Talks order quantity
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Author: Sam Sampson
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New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie McKay Best First Book Award for Poetry Winner

A first collection of poetry by Auckland poet Sam Sampson. Sampson has an ear for the lilting phrase, and his poems have a gentle ebb and flow, which is often echoed visually by the way the poems are laid out upon the page. Though experimental in form, Sampson's poems are also grounded in his environment, often the West Coast of Auckland where he grew up. Karekare, the Manukau Harbour and the Waitakere Ranges all feature, but in poems that reach from ancient Egypt to 15th-century France to 19th-century Tahiti to the United States in 1963, while touching on biography, archaeology, astronomy, Sampson proves that he can handle global ideas and universal concerns.
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9781869404321
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NZ$ 28.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author: Selina Tusitala Marsh
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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.

Ultimately, though, Marsh exhorts herself to 'be nobody's darling', as a ... more

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9781877372056
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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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Author: Sonja Yelich
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Sonja Yelich's new collection is a daring departure from the award-winning Clung. It follows an American marine, Edgar, serving in Iraq, and the responses of his family back home to his tour of 'doody'. Yelich vividly contrasts his life with his family's, and serves up a whirlwind of perspectives on the war and contemporary American life from The Sopranos to Black Hawk Down, YouTube to SUVs.

The narrative of Edgar and his family begins to fragment through the book as the horror of war deepens - a marine loses a leg and a plane
'breaks its nose on
Poor visibility in summer'.
Yelich, highlighting the confusion of war, leaves a reader guessing as to Edgar's eventual fate.

Chilling, funny, deeply sad and immensely thought-provoking, Get Some is the work of a writer pushing the capacities of language to express the potential of violence to erupt in everyday life.

Shortlisted for Montana New Zealand Book ... more

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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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Audio CD
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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