To Catch a Cloud by Elena de Roo
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
An epic story, full of danger wrapped up as a sea shanty from enormously talented poet Elena de Roo and rising star illustrator Hannah Peck. I spy a cloud go floating byWhere do you go, Cloud, so high?To the seaShe singsWhere the wild gulls flyThen catch me if you canI cryWe race each other to the seaC ...Show more
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
Across the Pass: A Collection of Tramping Writing by selected by Shaun Barnett
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Tramping is a journey into mountainous country, across passes, along ridges, beside rivers or through forests. It is a journey also, perhaps, to discovering more about the native plants and animals existing in these wild ecosystems, and a journey into friendship or self-discovery. New Zealand trampers h ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more
No Other Place to Stand - An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Jordan Hamel; Rebecca Hawkes; Erik Kennedy; Essa Ranapiri
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Ninety-one writers with connections to these islands grapple with the biggest issue facing people and the planet. What, then, for the work of poetry? It's at the very periphery of popular speech, niche even among the arts, yet it's also rooted in the most ancient traditions of oral storytelling, no matt ...Show more
The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white ‘Savage is as savage does. And we’re all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world – outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade ...Show more
Groovy Fish and Other Poems by Paula Green
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Author of the award-winning Letterbox Cat, Paula Green's bright new poems have grown out of titles collected from her fans: the children who follow her online at Poetry Box and curl up inside the covers of her books. These poems dash and dart, whisper and purr tell of tap-dancing fish, cheese-spaghetti ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. "A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ..." This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his f ...Show more
How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other East Asian immigrants. Chris Tse uses this story - and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later - to reflect on the experien ...Show more
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems l ...Show more
Wizardry to Weta Verse by Elena de Roo
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
75 poems for 5-10 year olds Keeping you awake poems DO NOT EAT THIS CAKE poems Blustery and breezy poems Sweeping through the seasons poems Metaphors and weather verse Wizardry to weta verse Lonely and alone poems Poems about poems poems The universe, the earth and space Stranger wor ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more