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9780864735911
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NZ$ 26.00 each
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Author: Brian Turner
Published by: Victoria University Press
In Stock: 5
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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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
Published by: Auckland University Press
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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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9781877228759
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Glenn Colquhoun
Published by: Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
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Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Poetry Section & Reader's Choice).
Glenn Colquhoun’s The Art of Walking Upright won the 2000 Montana NZ best first book award for poetry. He has also published a children’s book and An Explanation of Poetry to my Father, which sold over 1000 copies.
This new collection of poems is based on Glenn’s experiences as a doctor, a profession often described as — or accused of — ‘playing God’. Often funny, sometimes serious, always compassionate, the poems explore a range of medical experience as diverse and dramatic as life itself.

First published 2002.
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9781869404611
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NZ$ 41.00 each
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Author: James K Baxter (edited by Paul Millar)
Published by: Auckland University Press
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By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by New Zealand's leading Baxter scholar. With a range of poems from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the Jerusalem period, full texts of major sequences 'Pig Island Letters' and the 'Jerusalem Sonnets', and key new poems directly from manuscript, Millar's selection reveals the breadth of Baxter's achievement, not merely its peaks - from the comic and bawdy to the political and devotional. Selected Poems of James K Baxter also includes an insightful introduction by Baxter expert Paul Millar and short prefaces to the four parts, plus four Baxter photos, useful notes, a glossary of Maori words and index.

This edition first published June ... more
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Diana Bridge
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 1
Awarded Gold in the Books category of the 2010 Pride in Print Awards.


An aloe - spiky, soothing, fragrant, bitter - opens Diana Bridge's new collection of poetry. Aloe is structured in four parts: 'The compulsion to catch it', 'Into words', 'Among the Freuds' and 'It's their century'. The first section looks outwards to the natural world, opening with a stunning set of tree poems that begin with close observation and move on to contemplate loss, hesitancy, generation and repetition (repeat, diversify, diversify, repeat). The second section explores how words affect everyday life and how everyday life may be turned into words. Other voices and stories are used to convey psychological and physical suffering in 'Among the Freuds' - the furies, Penelope, Sylvia Plath and Medea all appear. The final section, 'It's their century', returns to the Chinese and Indian source material that Bridge has mined with such success in ... more
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An Explanation of Poetry to My Father order quantity
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NZ$ 15.00 each
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Author: Glenn Colquhoun (illus Nikki Slade Robinson)
Published by: Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
In Stock: 1
Poetry explained for those not yet captivated.

In this new collection Glenn uses hands-on language and humour to explain poetry to his builder father ("a man of few words") - and anyone else not yet captivated with the magic of words.

'Verbs are Estwing hammers... Ideal for putting some whack into a sentence. They come in black and blue and have a good feel hung from a leather pouch firm against your thigh.'
First published 2001.
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9781877228209
Art of Walking Upright order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Glenn Colquhoun
Published by: Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
In Stock: 1
Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2000 winner Best first book - poetry.

Glenn is a doctor. During his training he took a year off to live in a remote Bay of Islands community.
This is a profound, beautiful and funny distillation of that experience. Rich insights into Maori and Pakeha - a vision of Aotearoa New Zealand now and for the future.

We've published some very good poetry but this is ... extraordinary.

With photos by the author.
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9781869693213
A Well Written Body (poems and paintings) order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Poems by Karlo Mila (paintings by Delicia Sampero)
Published by: Huia Publishers
In Stock: 1
A clever, modern and sensitive collection of poetry - a collaborative venture between artist (Delicia Sampero) and poet (Karlo Mila). After reading the first draft of the poems, Delicia envisaged a ten metre painting - a continuous allegory of hte black butterfly. As Delicia's paintings emerged, Karlo wrote new pieces inspired by the images. The book explores issues of desire and longing, identity and belonging, all with Karlo's refreshing honesty and wit.
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Backroads : Charting a Poet's life order quantity
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Author: Sam Hunt
Published by: Craig Potton Publishing
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Sam Hunt's life as a poet and performer has always strayed far off the straight and narrow, more akin to following a series of winding backroads that have led to places and people away from the mainstream. As a child, Hunt was surrounded by 'a lot of words, a lot of poems,' and from the age of eight, he knew he wanted to live the life of a poet. His parents and grandparents were his earliest influences, and later it was the likes of W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda and Dylan Thomas; while within New Zealand, Alistair Campbell, James K. Baxter and Denis Glover, among others, inspired and nurtured him. Backroads is a memoir, a series of reflections by Sam Hunt on his life as a poet. He talks about inspiration and its unwelcome antagonist, drying up; the importance of performing, of 'saying poems out loud'; his good friends, like artist Robin White and his faithful canine companion Minstrel; his early publishing ventures and his experiences with ... more
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9780864735836
Beauty of the Badlands order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Cliff Fell
Published by: Victoria University Press
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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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9780864735935
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Tusiata Avia
Published by: Victoria University Press
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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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9781869404055
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Bob Orr
Published by: Auckland University Press
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Following his very popular collection, Valparaiso, poet Bob Orr presents his new book Calypso. Orr's poems have a wistful yet forceful beauty, presenting images with depth, colour, light, and the narrative drive and cadences of a true storyteller. In the first of Calypso's four sections, 'Purple Octopus', the poet guides us on a voyage though space and time from Troy to Waiheke to San Francisco to Spain, through poems in which everything - clouds, ants, trains, winds, kites - and everyone are travelling, but only some are lost. In 'Seven Songs and an Anchor' Calypso sings of desks, chairs, bookshelves, typewriters, the ordinary things of the world made extraordinary. In the third section, he writes movingly of his family and his past with great simplicity and feeling. Finally, in 'Cicada Summer', Orr closes with short, intensely New Zealand lyrics combining the everyday with a visionary sense of mystery and wonder.
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9781869403676
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2 CD set) order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author: Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (selection) ; Jack Ross (ed)
Published by: Auckland University Press
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This is a 2-CD set of 27 classic New Zealand poets, from Fairburn to Brian Turner, reading their own work. The CDs are accompanied by a book of the texts of the poems reproducing them exactly as read, as well as brief biographies and bibliographies of each poet. The poets are arranged chronologically by date of birth and each reads for approximately five minutes (2-5 poems) in recordings made in 1974 and/or 2004. They include the leading voices of NZ poetry, Mason, Curnow, Glover, Baxter, Edmond, Tuwhare, Frame, Campbell, and were chosen for the quality and significance of their work and their commitment to voice and performance as an integral part of their poetry.


Paperback with flaps, 2 x audio cds, 160p,

First published July 2006.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869403959
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance(2Cd set) order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author: Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (eds)
Published by: Auckland University Press
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Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance collects the work of 27 poets who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s, stamping their mark irrevocably on the New Zealand poetic scene and introducing new forms, new language and new freedoms. We hear the instantly recognisable, laconic but swaggering voice of Sam Hunt as he performs one of his 'road songs'; the understated reading of Bill Manhire; the plain-spoken storytelling of Keri Hulme; and the quiet humour of Cilla McQueen - lively, entertaining and moving work from some of New Zealand's best-loved poets. Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance is a follow-up and companion to last year's bestselling Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance. Once again, Jack Ross and Jan Kemp have selected and presented on two CDs material from the Waiata Recordings Archive, collected in 1974 and the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive, completed in 2004. There are more than two hours ... more
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9781877333811
Doubtless : New and Selected Poems order quantity
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NZ$ 36.00 each
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Author: Sam Hunt
Published by: Craig Potton Publishing
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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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9781869620875
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Lauris Edmond & Bill Sewell (eds)
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 1
Essential New Zealand Poems brings together over 200 outstanding and accessible New Zealand poems from a generous range of poets - from Hone Tuwhare to Elizabeth Smither, from Emma Neale to Chris Orsman.

Intended for the widest possible audience - for every New Zealand home and classroom - Essential New Zealand Poems is a broad and satisfying picture of the achievements and promise of New Zealand poetry at the end of the millennium.

++ Finalist for the Montana Medal for non-fiction (Reference & Anthology) 2002 ++

Vinyl 320pp h198mm x w129mm 463g
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9781869404321
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Selina Tusitala Marsh
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 1
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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ISBN / ISSN:
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
Published by: Victoria University Press
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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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9781869404239
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Sonja Yelich
Published by: Auckland University Press
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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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9780473135980
It's Love Isn't It? The love poems order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Alistair Te Ariki & Meg Campbell
Published by: HeadworX
In Stock: 1
Poet Meg Campbell, not long before she died, expressed the wish to be published with her husband, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, in a joint collection of their poems. Sadly, she died before this could be accomplished.
Campbell has now carried out her wish with this striking and unusual collection of love poems mainly from the exacting early and middle years of their marriage. Tested by mental illness, infidelity, doubt, and independence, their love remained strong to the end.
Campbell has matched the love poems, his and hers, which appear on facing pages throughout the book. The result is never less than cogent and illuminating. If you like poems that are frank, direct and passionate, this is the book for you.

First published August 2008, Wellington, New Zealand.
 
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