Fiction

No One Home tells the story of Keith Westwater growing up in 1950s New Zealand. At age seven he loses his mother to a botched operation and with he...

More Favourable Waters is an anthology of contemporary poets from Aotearoa New Zealand commemorating one of the world's great poets, Dante Alighier...

An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday tha...

Wellington writer Rachel McAlpine blogs and podcasts about living and ageing and is celebrating her 80th birthday with a book of poems. How to Be O...

The bounty of women, how far they’ll go, how far they can stretch – to love, to encompass, to bear. Find them here: bosom-packed, dreamy, dragging ...

Helen Jacobs wrote her first poem nearly fifty years ago in response to a TV programme on nuclear war. Elaine Jakobsson in her life as a local body...

This is so often our response to grief and loss, when dealing with it ourselves or consoling others. Elizabeth’s father took his own life in 2012. ...

Burst Kisses of an Actual Wind is a tapestry of surprising and shifting verse, focused on connection and displacement, the blurring between interna...

African poetry is unique in its complexity, both because of its linguistic diversity and the devastating impact of colonialism and slavery. From th...

Birdboy observes the world through a pair of binoculars. Dog trots behind him at a distance, tongue lolling from its slobbery jowls, tail wagging. ...