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Uppish Hen and other poems | Robin Hyde
In 1934, four-year-old Derek Challis found a homemade book in his Christmas stocking. On the typed pages bound with pink ribbon were poems written ...
View full detailsGreen Rain | Clarke Alistair
Alastair Clarke’s poetry considerably addresses his re-seeing his country after living for many years overseas.Though this element is not explicit,...
View full detailsBeginner's Guide to Japanese Haiku
An old pond; a frog jumps in: the sound of water - Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book fo...
View full detailsHeart of God | Rabindranath Tagore
"Tagore's life reminds me to take a step back. The time he allowed himself to learn and dream was a commitment of years and decades."--Rupi Kaur R...
View full detailsFive O'Clock Shadows | Richard Langston
From a long-drop that demands binoculars to Caberfeidh in the Catlins where his father picked plums from the passing train, Richard Langston writes...
View full detailsOn elephant's shoulders | Sudha Rao
With themes of longing, transition and memory, 'On elephant's shoulders' explores the poet's South Indian heritage relocated to New Zealand and tri...
View full detailsQuestion Bigger than a Hawk | Jan FitzGerald
Questions burrow through the fourth poetry collection by Jan FitzGerald. An only child until a brother appears in a cradle one day, she wonders abo...
View full detailsWriting Haiku - Bruce Ross
A world of dew And within every dewdrop A world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its si...
View full detailsWordsworth - Selected Poems (Crane Classics) - William Wordsworth
A collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to William Wordsworth's poetry. Printed in a high quality, cloth edition thi...
View full detailsCrane Classics: John Donne - Selected Poems
General Fields ISBN : 9781912945160 Publisher : Mount Orleans Press Imprint : Mount Orleans Press Publication date : May ...
View full detailsFalling In Love With Where You Are - Jeff Foster
As we open up to life and love and each other, as we awaken from our dream of separation, we encounter not just the bliss of existence, but its pai...
View full detailsByron Selected Poems - Crane Classics - Lord Byron
A collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to Lord Byron's poetry. Printed in a high quality hardback edition, this vol...
View full detailsHome Base - Keith Westwater
Keith's stepmother 'Maw' gives him an ultimatum - at fifteen he either leaves school to work or joins the army. So, Keith departs Auckland and repo...
View full detailsSinging with Both Throats - Maris O'Rourke
A colleaction of poetry by Maris O'Rourke.
New Sea Land - Tim Jones
In New Sea Land, Tim Jones tells the intimate story of the land and the sea. Awarded the New Zealand Society of Authors' Janet Frame Memorial Award...
View full detailsBrown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick - Courtney Sina Meredith
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputati...
View full detailsShelter - Kirsten Le Harivel
Where she came from was a place of kippers and chip butties, castles and cagoules and bluebells. Where she came to was a place of plum-sized cherri...
View full detailsWorking the tang - Easthope Nicola
From the Orkney Islands to Coastlands shopping mall, Working the tang is liberally seasoned with salt and spit, kelp and wrack, and the creatures w...
View full detailsWilliam Blake: Poetry - Emma Suret
Visionary poet, artist and engraver William Blake is now recognised among the greatest contributors to English literature and art. His writing, oft...
View full detailsWe are tiny beneath the light - H North
'We are tiny beneath the light' charts the end of a marriage and the tumble of tiny moments that make up a life under stress, including the unexpec...
View full detailsThe Death Of Music Journalism - Simon Sweetman
Simon Sweetman - blogger, reviewer, podcaster, and author of On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand's Pop Classics, releases his first poetry collecti...
View full detailsSocial Media - Mary Macpherson
Is our identity more of a composite than we realise? We often think of ourselves as formed from our core values or our DNA, but in Social Media, Ma...
View full detailsShakespeare: Sonnets - Kate Gath
A stunning foiled cover does justice to Shakespeare's elegant sonnets in this first book of a new series of inspirational writing. The sonnets here...
View full detailsReading The Signs - Freegard Janis
The poems in Janis Freegard’s new collection take their starting point from the poet’s daily ritual of reading the tea leaves while writing in...
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