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9781869404338
The Blind Singer
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NZ$ 24.99 each
Paperback
Author:
Chris Price
Published by:
Auckland University Press
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Drawing on a wide range of material, this compendium of poetry integrates science, legend, history, biography, and film into a fiery collection of verse. From melody and empiricism to skepticism and superstition, the work's dialogue between poetry and science is by turns observant, charming, and dramatic. Bursting with musical elements from bells, nursery rhymes, and traditional ballads to Chaplin and Einstein playing string quartets, this poetry collection is a luminous performance that reverberates long after the reading is finished.
First published May 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864736086
The Lustre Jug
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Bernadette Hall
Published by:
Victoria University Press
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Finalist in the Poetry category.
In 2007 Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland, not far from Blarney, on the Rathcoola Fellowship. The poems in this collection arise from that experience. With light-heartedness and daring, they track between dualities: the North and the South in Ireland; the rain-washed skies of Donoughmore, Co. Cork and the Queensland rainforest. Between national and personal histories. As for poetry, what is it to be, an axe or a peace offering?
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780473144999
First Anniversary
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NZ$ 10.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Simon Reeve
Published by:
Sugar loaf press
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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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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864735911
Just This
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Brian Turner
Published by:
Victoria University Press
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Finalist in the Poetry category.
Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems. Turner is one of New Zealand's leading poets. His first collection,
Ladders of Rain
(1978) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and his sixth,
Beyond
(1992), the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. He was New Zealand Poet Laureate 2003-2005. His acclaimed work in other genres includes co-authorship of the autobiographies of All Black stars Josh Kronfeld and Anton Oliver, a biography of Colin Meads, significant contributions to
Timeless Land
and
The Art of Grahame Sydney
, and
Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780473119102
The Raw Men
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NZ$ 45.00 each
Published by:
O-A-Tia
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9781869403959
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance(2Cd set)
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NZ$ 45.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author:
Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (eds)
Published by:
Auckland University Press
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Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance collects the work of 27 poets who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s, stamping their mark irrevocably on the New Zealand poetic scene and introducing new forms, new language and new freedoms. We hear the instantly recognisable, laconic but swaggering voice of Sam Hunt as he performs one of his 'road songs'; the understated reading of Bill Manhire; the plain-spoken storytelling of Keri Hulme; and the quiet humour of Cilla McQueen - lively, entertaining and moving work from some of New Zealand's best-loved poets. Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance is a follow-up and companion to last year's bestselling Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance. Once again, Jack Ross and Jan Kemp have selected and presented on two CDs material from the Waiata Recordings Archive, collected in 1974 and the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive, completed in 2004. There are more than two hours ...
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9781869404604
Dear Sweet Harry
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NZ$ 24.99 each
Paperback
Author:
Lynn Jenner
Published by:
Auckland University Press
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1
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 her grandfather, a recipe for cough mixture - as well as detritus from other lives. Dear Sweet Harry is a tender and virtuoso 'Hey presto!' with a global reach and an offbeat charm unlike anything else in New Zealand literature.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869404321
Fast Talking PI
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NZ$ 27.99 each
Mixed-media pack
Author:
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Published by:
Auckland University Press
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Winner of the 2010 NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry.
Fast Talking PI
is the first 'singular, confident and musical' collection of poetry by Auckland writer Selina Tusitala Marsh. 'Tusitala' means writer of tales in Samoan, and Marsh here lives up to her name with stories of her life, her family, community, ancestry, and history. Her poetry is sensuous and strong, using lush imagery, clear rhythms and repetitions to power it forward. The list poem is a favourite style, but she also writes with a Pacific lyricism entirely her own.
Fast Talking PI
is structured in three sections, 'Tusitala(personal), 'Talkback' (political and historical) and 'Fast Talking PI' (already a classic). In poems like 'Guys Like Gauguin' she writes as a 'calabash breaker', fighting back against historic injustices; but in other poems she explores the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. ...
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9781869404345
James K. Baxter : Poems
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NZ$ 29.99 each
Hardback
Author:
James K. Baxter (selected & introduced Sam Hunt)
Published by:
Auckland University Press
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Poet and performer Sam Hunt first became aware of the poems of James K Baxter as a schoolboy. Aged 14, he was strapped for reciting Baxter's poem 'Evidence at the Witch Trials' in an English lesson (one of the final in a series of events resulting in his expulsion from college). James K Baxter later became a friend and mentor who greatly influenced the unconventional poetic course Sam Hunt's life would take. Here, Hunt offers a selection of almost 50 poems by Baxter that have made an indelible impression on the grooves of his brain and tongue; poems he has lived with, road-tested and recited around New Zealand for more than 40 years. Hunt has included in the selection a range of the very familiar and the less familiar of Baxter's poems, dating from 1945 to 1972. In his substantial introduction, Hunt offers his memories of Jim Baxter and explains his selection. James K Baxter: Poems offers a fresh, uniquely personal look at the work of ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864736314
Koiwi Koiwi / Bone Bone
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Hinemoana Baker
Published by:
Victoria University Press
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1
In this compelling second collection from one of New Zealand's most exciting rising poets, Hinemoana Baker amplifies what's usually whispered, magnifies the microscopic and x-rays the mundane.
First published August 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864736284
Lives of the Poets
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
John Newton
Published by:
Victoria University Press
In Stock:
1
'The Romantic inheritance may be poison, but it seems to be all we have. When I first began writing I didn't look at it this way, which made being a poet, and writing poetry, easier. Ever since that time I have been trying to teach myself how to write again. This has felt mostly like a kind of beachcombing, fossicking beyond the high-tide mark of expressivism, never entirely giving up hope of discovering something that might still be useable. While the bulk of these poems were written recently, a few of them go back twenty-five years; but all are part of this search for new terms of engagement with a language of longing and excitability.' John Newton's debut volume Tales from the Angler's Eldorado came out in 1985, and his work is represented in most of the major anthologies to have appeared since that time. Lives of the Poets is the long-awaited follow-up. In poems that range from lyric to satire, and from formalist set-pieces to ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869404611
Selected Poems of James K Baxter
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NZ$ 39.99 each
Paperback
Author:
James K Baxter (edited by Paul Millar)
Published by:
Auckland University Press
In Stock:
1
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 manuscript, Millar's selection reveals the breadth of Baxter's achievement, not merely its peaks - from the comic and bawdy to the political and devotional. Selected Poems of James K Baxter also includes an insightful introduction by Baxter expert Paul Millar and short prefaces to the four parts, plus four Baxter photos, useful notes, a glossary of Maori words and index.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869790172
The Goose Bath: Poems
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NZ$ 29.99 each
Paperback
Author:
Janet Frame
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock:
1
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.'
Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was brought indoors as a receptacle into which Janet piled her poems and jottings as she reworked and developed them. Over time the goose bath overflowed with paper, including hundreds of unpublished poems. By the time Janet died she had named her hoped-for but elusive new selection
The Goose Bath
.
From this treasure trove, Pamela Gordon, Denis Harold and Bill Manhire have selected over a hundred poems that illustrate the shape of her life. First published in hardback in 2006, the collection received critical acclaim and won the poetry category at the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. This flexibind edition links ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780958250900
The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest : Travels in the South Pacific
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NZ$ 29.95 each
Paperback
Author:
Graeme Lay
Published by:
Awa Press
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1
For intrepid traveller Graeme Lay the islands of the South Pacific are the most intriguing places on earth: sublimely beautiful, blissfully remote, full of wonderful people and cultures - and a haven for bizarre misfits, would-be adventurers, and artists and writers in search of an earthly paradise.
In this marvellous collection of travels stories, Lay uncovers Gauguin's shocking secrets in Tahiti, is haunted by Herman Melville in the remote Marquesas, is forced to impersonate a Mormon missionary in Tonga, attempts to seduce the Solvenian Olympic ski team in Rarotonga, retraces the tragic last days of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, gets embroiled in a wild canoe race in Bora Bora, and much, much more.
"Witty, vivid, sometimes bizarre - Greame Lay has a wicked eye for incident and character" - Kevin Ireland
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864736260
The Moonmen
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Anna Livesy
Published by:
Victoria University Press
In Stock:
1
The follow-up to Anna Livesey's acclaimed 2003 debut collection Good Luck, The Moonmen contains poems that capture the eerie and exhilarating edges of daily life, poems which draw on her experience of the American Midwest, and poems responding to her mother's illness. These poems combine a crisp and shapely style with breathtaking openness and urgency in addressing personal material.
First published May 2010.
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