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9781869404321
Fast Talking PI order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Selina Tusitala Marsh
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 10
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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9781869621773
Where Your Left Hand Rests order quantity
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author: Fiona Kidman
Published by: Godwit
In Stock: 5
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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9781877228759
Playing God 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: 3
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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9781869404468
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Jessica Le Bas
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 3
Walking to Africa is an intensely felt narrative collection portraying a mother's experience of coming to terms with a new and frightening world of mental health care, diagnosis and treatment - for her daughter.

Jessica Le Bas describes numerous visits to doctors, treatments that don't work and people who suddenly have answers - or poignant histories of their own to tell. At the heart of the book ('nothing else is working working nothing else is is is is') is a heart-rending set of poems about electroconvulsive therapy. Ultimately, however, Le Bas ushers in understanding: mental illness may have no definitive cure, but there are ways of living with it.

Powerful but healing, stark yet illuminating, Walking to Africa is without doubt the most moving collection of poems to appear in New Zealand in many years.

First published October 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877228445
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: 2
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: 2
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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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869404185
C K Stead : Collected Poems, 1951-2006 order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Hardback
Author: C. K. Stead
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 2
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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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
In Stock: 2
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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9781869404345
James K. Baxter : Poems order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: James K. Baxter (selected & introduced Sam Hunt)
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 2
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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9781877448638
North South order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Glenn Colquhoun (illus and hand lettered by Nigel Brown)
Published by: Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
In Stock: 2
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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9780864735805
The Rocky Shore order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Jenny Bornholdt
Published by: Victoria University Press
In Stock: 2
POETRY Category Winner

A collection of longish poems. In these talky poems, Bornholdt ranges over a wide variety of territory - love, death, children, illness, bread-making and the garden. All the big themes.

First published October 2008.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877257797
A Canoe In Mid-Stream : Poems New and Old order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Apirana Taylor
Published by: Canterbury University Press
In Stock: 1
Poems new & old
Apirana Taylor is a popular and acclaimed poet, short-story writer, novlist, playwright, actor, musician and painter. This, his fifth volume of poetry, includes much new work, together with many old favourites (the ones most requested at readings).

First published May 2009, Christchurch
Softcover

172pages
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9781877393341
Airports and Other Wasted Days order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Kevin Ireland
Published by: Hazard Press Limited
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Kevin Ireland’s sixteenth book of poems takes a wry, comic-serious look at the glorious ways we fritter away our days. It opens with reflections on airports – those necessary yet infuriating hijackers of our time and patience – then returns home again to puzzle at, satirise and celebrate the intricate and devious manner in which we fill our minds, hopes and activities with rich delays, breathless foolishness and gorgeous squanderings. As Ireland puts it:

From the first moment
of forgetfulness to the final
going down of whatever it was,
there’s nothing but talk and wine
and books and food. Life is enriched
by indolence. I think of things
not done as buried treasure.
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9780473124908
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NZ$ 24.00 each
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Author: Tim Jones
Published by: HeadworX
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All Blacks’ Kitchen Gardens is Tim Jones’ second collection of poetry from HeadworX, following Boat People in 2002. It includes his poem “The Translator”, which was selected for inclusion in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, and poems which have been published in the Listener, North & South, New Zealand Books, JAAM, and a number of other venues, including US and Australian magazines.
The poems in the book range all the way from Southland to Iraq, from a backyard telescope to Mars, from the Rapture to rugby league. Along the way, there’s love, sex, children, and Motorhead. These poems are full of surprises.

In his review in "Southern Ocean Review" 45, Trevor Reeves said:

"This is Jones' third book and it has me captivated. The tasteful photo in
the front has been lovingly prepared. I liked 'Bloody but Unbowed' best, a
short poem lovingly crafted, with pungency and feeling. The personal
melds, rather than intrudes, in 'Two Creek ... more
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9781869404413
Aloe order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Diana Bridge
Published by: Auckland University Press
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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 the past. Using various touchstones - an ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864735690
A Long Girl Ago - Finalist Montana Poetry Award 2008 order quantity
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Author: Johanna Aitchison
Published by: Victoria University Press
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A Long Girl Ago draws on ten years experience and writing. At its heart are three years Aitchison spent living in a remote fishing village in Hokkaido, Japan, where she taught English in junior high and primary schools and was extensively involved in karaoke and snowboarding. Other poems go back to her previous life, or deal with re-entry into New Zealand society.

First published October 2007.
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ISBN / ISSN:
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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9781877517051
Backroads : Charting a Poet's life order quantity
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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Author: Sam Hunt
Published by: Craig Potton Publishing
In Stock: 1
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
In Stock: 1
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
Bloodclot order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Tusiata Avia
Published by: Victoria University Press
In Stock: 1
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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