People Person by Joanna Cho
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on the NBA highlights. You relaxed immediately. This is intimacy. People Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in wh ...Show more
Calamities! by Jane Arthur
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in everything from meteorites and distant planets to pomanders and cat’s ears. Whether contemplating time, regr ...Show more
Hopurangi Song Catcher: Poems for the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
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Toitoi #10 (Summer 2018) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With 100 pages of original stories, poetry and artwork, Toitoi gives our young writers and artists a real purpose and a wide audience. Toitoi can be read at home or at school and is a valuable classroom resource.
Magnetic Maori Poetry (Magnetic Learning Resources)
10.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Learn & Practice the Maori language with over 100 words to form and create your own sentences. Great for the fridge or whiteboard.
More of Us by Adrienne Jansen
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Families, language, fear, loss, food and the victories that can come slowly. These are at the heart of this collection of poems by people who have come to New Zealand as migrants or refugees. More Of Us provides a glimpse into the experiences of this diverse group of people, which includes those who mad ...Show more
Toitoi #15 (Autumn 2019) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With over 100 pages of original stories, poetry and artwork, Toitoi gives our young writers and artists a real purpose and a wide audience. Toitoi can be read at home or at school and is a valuable classroom resource. ...Show more
How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do ...Show more
Seagull Seagull: Poems by James K. Baxter (HB) by James K. Baxter; Kieran Rynhart
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A new gift edition of James K Baxter's classic poems for children, illustrated by Kieran Rynhart. The poems in Seagull Seagull are light and easy read-alouds for classrooms or with toddlers-on-the-couch. James K Baxter wrote these poems when he was teaching in Lower Hutt in the 1950s. Successful in the ...Show more
Short Poems of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
"I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller." —Jenny Bornholdt Funny, ...Show more
Wild Honey by Paula Green
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were ...Show more
Craven by Jane Arthur
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Craven is an exceptional debut: Jane Arthur delights, unnerves and challenges in poems that circle both the everyday and the ineffable - piano practice, past lives, being forced onto dancefloors. This is a smart and disarming collection that traces the ever-changing forms of light and dark in our lives ...Show more