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Includes 14 poems by well known New Zealand poets.
Includes Allen Curnow, sam Hunt, Vincent O'Sullivan, Bill Manhire, Fiona Farrell, Charles Brasch, Jo Randerson, ARD Fairburn and Kateherine Mansfield.

DoP December 2008, Wellington Simon Reeve was the winner of the Novice Writer's division of the 1991 Katherine Mansfield Awards, and has published short stories in Landfall, Listener and NZ Short Short Stories 4. First Anniversary marks a return to poetry after an 18 year gap. Simon Reeve is married with two children and works as a patent examiner. He lives in Wellington.

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This book celebrates the richness and variety of New Zealand poetry by outlining many of the numerous ways to read - and write - poems.

It offers 80 key poems that showcase different aspects of the genre, as well as commentary from 25 poets about what inspired them to write specific works.

With insightful and wide-reaching chapters from Paula Green and Harry Ricketts on such elements as form, context, features, effects and identity, this is a lively and accessible introduction to New Zealand poetry. Pack... read more

By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by New Zealand's leading Baxter scholar. With a range of poems from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the Jerusalem period, full texts of major sequences 'Pig Island Letters' and the 'Jerusalem Sonnets', and key new poems directly from manus... read more

This Collected Poems includes the work of fourteen volumes of poetry, from Stead's first collection, Whether the Will is Free, to The Black River of 2007. In addition, it reprints 22 early previously uncollected poems that date from 1951 to 1961. Annotated by the author, the Collected Poems illustrates more than fifty years of the range and ambition of Stead's verse, in which the world always looks 'hard / at the word and the / word at the world'.

Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems.

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagatanei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, as he recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearsome warrior queen, before whose powers Palagi priests and travelling chroniclers still bow down today.

Exotic, erotic, sexy little treats fill this anthology that features Maori authors Hone Tuwhare, Briar Grace-Smith, Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace and Robert Sullivan alongside a who's who of the world's established and emerging indigenous writers: Haunani-Kay Trask, Sherman Alexie, Richard Van Camp, Linda Hogan, Joseph Bruchac, Alootook Ipellie, Gregory Scofield, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Basil Johnston, Maria Campbell, Dan Taulaitu McMullin, Tiffany Midge, Armand G. Ruffo, Melissa N. Begay, Gloria Bird, Thom E. Hawke, Marcie Rendon, ... read more

Poems new & old Apirana Taylor is a popular and acclaimed poet, short-story writer, novlist, playwright, actor, musician and painter. This, his fifth volume of poetry, includes much new work, together with many old favourites (the ones most requested at readings). First published May 2009, Christchurch Softcover 172pages

From Baxter to Hunt, Frame to Glover, Curnow to Edmond, animals are widely found in New Zealand verse, and are the subject of some of our most famous and endearing poems. In her selection Siobhan Harvey brings them together in an intelligently and affectionately chosen anthology that's beautifully enhanced by outstanding animal photographs by Mark Smith. This just-published anthology provides something for everyone, and is divided into sections headed: * Bow-Wow * Miaow * A Box of Birds * Other Pets * Creepers and crawlers * Moana * Zoo * Farm.

Dear Sweet Harry is Lynn Jenner's first collection - the autobiography of an obsession linking the author's own family history with that of two famous deceivers, Harry Houdini and Mata Hari. In an act of imaginative will Jenner assembles 'factions' and ephemera, poems and scraps that summon other diverse characters, objects and places: France, ham radio, World War I, trains, TB, her grandfather Harry (who saw Houdini perform in London), Katherine Mansfield and Paraparaumu. The pieces include family memories and tokens - a letter to... read more

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A collection of six poems, published as Baxter Basics in 1979 in separate booklets: Rain, I'm a Tree, The Tree House, The Seagull, The Ships and The Fireman. Here for the first time in one volume, and accompanied by their original illustrations, they remain some of the finest examples of children's poetry produced in this country.

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Why don't more guys read poetry? Because it doesn't speak to them. As contemporary poets tackle subjects like incest, menstruation, and pine cones, regular guys are left scratching their heads. Who can speak for Everyman? Who will give voice to his passions, his fears, his dreams? Who can articulate his love for Xbox 360, for Mama Celeste's Frozen Pizzas, for virtually any movie starring Bruce Willis? Enter "Broetry" - a stunning debut from a dazzling new literary voice. Broet Laureate Brian McGackin gives voice to the trials and t... read more

At the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival recently, Fiona Farrell was the star of the opening night with her stories of the Christchurch earthquake - this book takes those stories and gives them weight and heft and context. Fiona Farrell's meandering travel book shows how an earthquake can change everything in a flash: the book you were writing, the house you were living in, the thoughts that preoccupied you. The Broken Book consists of four essays about life and walking bookended by a preamble and an afterword and interrupted b... read more

Sam Hunt has always believed in the essential musicality of a good poem, a belief that has become more intense over the years.Part 1 of this book, ‘the Chords’ that give this collection its title, are a loosely connected group of poems that he feels are best described as a musical score. Stripped down, bare and lyrical,they all have their beginnings in the ‘chord’ heard before any words come.These, and the other poems that make up Part 2, are the work of a masterful, mature poet, whose themes of ageing and d... read more

Love - that complicated, delicious, pleasurable, necessary feeling ties us to another human, to a mother, father, son, daughter, sibling, lover or friend. Love can also tie us to a place, an experience, an object. We love and we are loved; unexpectedly, gloriously, painfully, deeply. The majority of the 150 New Zealand love poems selected by antholigist Paula Green for this gorgeous clection reveal adult love - from the sparks of youth to the changing nature of love in old age - but she has also included examples of the love of off... read more