Poetry

Unfolding in the strobe-lit landscape of the club, this latest collection from Chris Tse reflects on joy, nostalgia and legacy – and what it means to make a vocation of vulnerability. Words hit the page like light on...

This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature’s most beloved writers. Because it defines human existence, love is one of art’s...

For this 75th anniversary edition of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter rounds up essential new poetry, reviews and essays from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. Another packed issue, #60 showcases the raw and vital in 138...

This elegant pocket hardback edition brings together the best-loved poetry of John Keats, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges. John Keats was one of the leading romantic poets. His verse found little appreciation during his own lifetime...

"I still haven’t figured out how to keep / my shower floor clean or make morning / smoothies or respond to stress calmly. / Same, same, same my friends tell me, a love note of sorts." The debut collection from...

Funerals happen.You walk past oneand call it a Tuesday afternoon; the suncomes down. Thisis how it happens. A crowd gathers like black water, the mind forgets the mind, memories come knocking in the hallway, a pair of hands...

A collection of life-affirming poems to guide you through. Settle down with 100 Poems to Live By and learn which verses can be dispensed to lift your spirits.A brilliant new anthology of 100 poems designed to lift your mood and help you...

An inspirational poem about those friends who have loved us unconditionallyWhat Do You Do When Your Dog Grows Old? is a tender, poetic tribute to the dogs who've walked beside us through the seasons of life. With soft, heartfelt...

 Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. This wide-ranging selection of Keats's poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem 'Imitation of Spenser'; poems...

It’s getting colder as the flamesrise from the bonfires, real and virtual.See how they flicker in the darkling air.What is happiness in a suddenly unfamiliar world? What happens to us once the old connections spark and disappear? With...

A beautiful gift book contains a selection of essays, stories and poems on cats by writers from across the centuries. For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift book contains a...

'The world is blood-hot and personal': in her moving and illuminating introduction, the poet Emily Berry remembers her own teenage encounters with Ariel and offers a personal way into this definitive collection. She shows us how Plath can crystallize our...

My father has been chipping himself down since he arrived here,he is half man and half vessel, readying for the journey to Hawaiki.Giving Birth to My Father is about learning to live with a loss that at first seems...

Pill-Rolling Fingers is a series of poems by Marsden-funded researcher Tara Coleman. It brings together personal poems from her own experience of early-onset Parkinson's and research poems crafted from the stories of 48 other New Zealanders living with...

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, beliefs. My prayers...

What would he have wanted? As little fuss as possible. But, reading between the lines: a little help. All the latest gossip and complaints. An arse that is not wrong. Opulence. One leap from the rope ladder. The...

A Chorus of Cradles: Ten Poems About Babies These ten poems have been chosen to help welcome a new baby into the world. They capture the joy of the new arrival, relishing the many ways in which life...

I stored my plan for world peace safely in my coat pocket, and then I washed the coat. Sick Power Trip is Erik Kennedy's most personal and vulnerable book yet. These are poems that tell us: the world is...

A hand-stitched seascape of words and images from an award-winning writer. I lay strips of pale peach cotton and cloud-printed cloth side by side.Each becomes a strange, asymmetric quilt block.Each block like a sentence, each sentence an island,...

In an expansive new collection encompassing myths and science, the political and personal, the local and global, lyrical and technical language, from outer space to the microscopic, Nyman ask us to pay attention to how our present-day actions...

Certainly, there was an uneasiness to the place Certainly, I felt like we didn't belong there Clay Eaters traverses a network of fault lines diverging and converging at unexpected angles: a mysterious jungle island, military reconnaissance training, the...

From the presenter of the Poetry Unbound podcast comes an illuminating anthology exploring human connection through 44 poems This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems carefully curated by the host of the internationally acclaimed Poetry Unbound podcast.With an...

Poetry by New Zealanders whose lives have been affected by neurological conditions Poetry can be brainy, and the brain is certainly very poetic.The Poetical Lobe Project is the first of its kind: a community poetry anthology bringing together...

The ultimate Pam Ayres collection showcasing Britain's favourite poet's lifetime of work, stretching back over more than 50 years 'Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of...