Eileen Duggan: Selected Poems by Peter Whiteford
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classic Ser.
Eileen Duggan (1894-1972) was New Zealand's best known poet while she was writing and publishing - for many years her reputation outside New Zealand exceeded that of any other New Zealand poet - but today her work is largely out of print. Duggan's poetry showed an undeniable lyric gift and genuine skill ...Show more
Always Song in the Water : An Oceanic Sketchbook by Gregory O'Brien
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Every morning Gregory OBrien looks out his window to see an upside down rowboat on his front lawn, deposited many years ago after some adventure and now covered in creeping vines. In this meditation on land and water, art and literature, OBrien goes in search of this country and our place as dwellers on ...Show more
Ransack by essa may ranapiri
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In ransack, essa may ranapiri addresses the difficulty of assembling and understanding a fractured, unwieldy self through an inherited language - a language whose assumptions and expectations ultimately make it inadequate for such a task. These poems seek richer, less hierarchical sets of words to descr ...Show more
We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa by Chris McDowall
$76.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary visual data book like no other. Clustered yet scattered, we New Zealanders live across the country's physical landscapes, experiencing its varied weather and environments. We co-create its political, economic and social systems on a daily basis. Each of us has a particular view of Aotea ...Show more
Lay Studies by Steven Toussaint
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In Lay Studies, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage. Beneath their formal dexterity and variety, these études sustain a continuous meditation on the concords and dissonances of worshipful life in an age d ...Show more
AUP New Poets 5 by Decarlo Carolyn Van Waardenberg Sophie
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In a New Zealand poetry scene overflowing with energy, the return of AUP New Poets introduces three extraordinary new voices. Launched in 1999, AUP New Poets first introduced readers to Anna Jackson, Sonja Yelich, Janis Freegard, Chris Tse and many more significant New Zealand voices. Relaunching this y ...Show more
How to Live by Rickerby Helen
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tel ...Show more
Wild Honey by Paula Green
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were ...Show more
Three Words: An anthology of Aotearoa/New Zealand women's comics by Rae Joyce; Sarah Laing; Indira Neville Indira
$54.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics is a manifold, brilliant, collaborative survey of the past twenty years of New Zealand women's comics. Bringing together over 60 contributors from all walks of life, the brief was simple: to submit any works of your choosing, as well as any three w ...Show more
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick by Meredith Courtney Sina
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an e ...Show more
Peat by Jenner Lynn
$38.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: near fine
"Peat starts out as Lynn Jenner's study of the Kāpiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre from her own house. She decides to create a kind of archive of the construction of this so-called Road of National Significance. How did it come to be built ...Show more
Queer Objects by Judith Chris Collard Brickwell
$49.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes ...Show more