Fiction

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...

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...

Spanning across centuries and genres, this comprehensive collection of poetry and quotes celebrates the LGBT experience in all its varied, complex ...

Saradhas new poetry collection, Photos of the Sky, starts with a declaration; ends in realisation. In between is a journey of reaching across the T...

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...

This collection brings together verses that mark the last moments of life, the passing of one stage to another. At a time of grief, we often search...

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...

Fragments from an Infinite Catalogue is a vivid and eclectic collection of words and images by a scientist and artist who is fascinated by language...

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. ...

Sure to delight and inspire, this elegant anthology of translated Chinese Poetry features treasured poems, accompanied by lush, colourful artworks,...

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. ...