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Poetry Books
Otago University Press Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa
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£28.44
Otago University Press 仁 Surrender
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£14.24
Otago University Press Walking to Jutland Street
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£13.29
Otago University Press Landfall 234: Spring 2017: 2017
Book SynopsisFeatured Artists: James Robinson, Jenna Packer, Andrew McLeod. Writers: Alie Benge, Marianne Bevan, Tony Beyer, Owen Bullock, Kate Camp, Medb Charleton, H.E. Crampton, John Dennison, Doc Drumheller, Breton Dukes, Lynley Edmeades, Ben Egerton, Riemke Ensing, Sisilia Eteuati, Laurence Fearnley, Rachel J. Fenton, Rhian Gallagher, René Harrison, Ingrid Horrocks, Mark Anthony Houlahan, Stephanie Johnson, Judith Lofey, Owen Marshall, Samantha Montgomerie, Claire Orchard, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Brian Potiki, Joanna Preston, Vaughan Rapatahana, Rebecca Reader, Sue Reidy, James Robinson, Ali Shakir, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Sarah Shirley, Carin Smeaton, Ruby Solly, Michael Steven, Mua Strickson-Pua, Tayi Tibble, Albert Wendt, Sue Wootton, Phoebe Wright. Reviews: Landfall Review Online books recently reviewed, Martin Edmond on Charles Brasch: Journals 19451957 ed. Peter Simpson, Iain Sharp on Selected Poems by Ian Wedde, Jenny Powell on Die Bibel and Collected Poems 19812016 by Michael OLeary, Johanna Emeney on Te Arrow that Missed by Ted Jenner and Te Ones Who Keep Quiet by David Howard, Denis Harold on Te New Animals by Pip Adams, Charlotte Graham on The Suicide Club by Sarah Quigley, Katie Pickles on The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 18002000 by Vincent OMalley, Edmund Bohan on The World, the Flesh and the Devil: The life and opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes 17651838 by Andrew Sharp. Awards and competitions: Results of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2017 and judges report by Bill Manhire, results of the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize and judges report by Riemke Ensing, results and winning essays from Landfall Essay Competition 2017, and judges report by David Eggleton
£999.99
Otago University Press Landfall 235
Book SynopsisLandfall is New Zealand''s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Writers: Aimee-Jane Anderson-OConnor, Nick Ascroft, Joseph Barbon, Airini Beautrais, Tony Beyer, Mark Broatch, Danny Bultitude, Brent Cantwell, Rachel Connor, Ruth Corkill, Mark Edgecombe, Lynley Edmeades, Johanna Emeney, Bonnie Etherington, Jess Fiebig, Meagan France, Kim Fulton, Isabel Haarhaus, Bernadette Hall, Michael Hall, Rebecca Hawkes, Aaron Horrell, Jac Jenkins, Erik Kennedy, Brent Kininmont, Wen-Juenn Lee, Zoë Meager, Alice Miller, Dave Moore, Art Nahill, Janet Newman, Charles Olsen, Joanna Preston, Jessie Puru, Jeremy Roberts, Derek Schulz, Sarah Scott, Charlotte Simmonds, Tracey Slaughter, Elizabeth Smither, Rachael Taylor, Lynette Thorstensen, James Tremlett, Tam Vosper, Dunstan Ward, Susan Wardell, Sugar Magnolia Wilson.
£14.25
Otago University Press Edgeland: and other poems
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£13.30
Otago University Press The Farewell Tourist
Book SynopsisPushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In The Magnetic Process sequence a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ships. Their scientific instruments and observations measure a fragmented and uncertain space where conventional perspectives are violated. In a series of histories of the Atmosphere, of the Honeymoon footnotes reference vanished texts. By turns mysterious, ominous and evocative, they represent connections to an obscured narrative of disintegration and icy melancholy.Trade ReviewWinner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2017"There is an elegance and poise and care in the language of these poems, an unobtrusive mastery and ease in their cadences and rhythms. Here is writing so close to the sound of how our speech usually arranges itself, and yet set with a hard delicacy that makes it quite something else memorable, direct, focused to the movement of how the poems present both thought and feeling." - Bill Manhire, judge of the 2018 Kathleen Grattan Award, has written
£14.36
Otago University Press Poeta
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£18.90
Otago University Press Landfall 236
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£14.25
Otago University Press The Moon in a Bowl of Water
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£14.24
Otago University Press Two or More Islands
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£14.24
Otago University Press Deadpan
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£13.30
Otago University Press Listening In
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£13.30
Otago University Press This is your real name
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£13.30
Otago University Press The Lifers
Book SynopsisGet in! Hurry the fuck up! Go! Go! Go! From Sean Macgregors lounge occupied by stoned youths, to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Stevens second collection presents his clear, clean vision of the lifers who inhabit these islands and beyond. A generations subterranean memories of post-Rogernomics New Zealand are a linking thread, in the decades straddling the millennium, while other poems echo with the ghostly voices of the dead, disappeared and forgotten. Stevens writing neither patronises nor romanticises in its intricate depictions of small worlds of violence, despair, love and struggle. Always it refers back to the redemption of human connection as its magnetic pole.
£14.36
Otago University Press Every Now and Then I Have Another Child
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£14.25
Otago University Press Sinking Lessons
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£13.30
Otago University Press Nouns, Verbs, Etc.
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£17.10
Otago University Press Letters of Denis Glover
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£35.70
Otago University Press The Sets: 2021
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£13.30
Otago University Press Ghosts
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£14.25
NeWest Press That Light Feeling Under Your Feet
Book SynopsisFinalist for The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize at the New Brunswick Book Awards!Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers. These masterfully crafted poems challenge perpetuating colonial and class relations, as well as the hedonistic lifestyle attributed to the employees of these floating resorts. Kayla Geitzler''s debut collection interprets isolation, alienation, racism and assimilation into the margins as inevitable consequences for the seafaring workforce of the most profitable sector of the tourism industry.Exploring the liminal space between labour and leisure, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet are at once buoyant and weighty, with language that cuts like a keel through the sea.
£14.39
NeWest Press Tar Swan
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award!Finalist for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!Tar Swan is a multi-voiced reckoning that surveys the mythos of the Alberta oil sands with an approach that is both lyrical and experimental. The poems feature four voices: an oil sands developer, his plant mechanic, an archaeologist excavating the remains of the operation in the present day, and a mythical swan. David Martin''s debut collection is comprised of expansive and richly written poems, built on a lore-laden language, which explore the human and environmental cost of drawing too much from the land. As the three humans come into contact with the otherworldly swan, the voices bubble and churn together, and what is distilled is a psychological breakdown paralleling the toll taken on the earth.
£14.24
NeWest Press Paper Caskets
Book SynopsisEmilia Danielewska''s debut book of prose-poetry reveals the dead. Divided into four parts, Paper Caskets proposes a poetics of the box - as coffin, as prose parameters of the page, as photograph, and as state of mind and body in the face of death. From the act of photographing the dead, to mourning the dead, and to preparing for death that is coming, here is work startling in its clarity, which exposes, as a photograph does, the complicated relationship humans have with mortality.Paper Caskets looks beyond grief to see the dead as dynamic places where memory and body collide, where flesh rots and fluid seeps and we de/compose prose-poetry.
£13.49
NeWest Press The Mighty Carlins and Other Plays
Book SynopsisLet the Light of Day Through is a finalist for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at the 2019 Alberta Literary Awards!Award-winning playwright Collin Doyle has crafted three gripping plays that display a keen understanding of human relationships, both functional and dysfunctional.In The Mighty Carlins, an irascible father reunites with his two sons - one a naïve idealist, the other a compulsive manipulative liar - to commemorate the anniversary of their mother''s death. In the dynamic Let the Light of Day Through, a couple in their thirties reimage their relationship and their future, in order to leave behind the memory of their dead teenage son. And in Routes, a lonely teenager rides the Mill Woods bus almost every night to escape the violence of his home life, only to find that violence cannot be avoided with the purchase of a bus ticket.
£14.39
NeWest Press Let Us Not Think of Them As Barbarians
Book SynopsisPeter Midgley''slet us not think of them as barbariansis a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple poetic traditions. Gradually, the poems assemble anombindi-an ancestral cairn-from a history of violent disruption. Underlying the intense language is an exploration of African philosophy and its potential for changing our view of the world. Even as the poems look to the past, they push the reader towards a future that is as relevant to contemporary Canada as it is to the Namibian earth that bledthem.
£13.49
NeWest Press Lullabies in the Real World
Book SynopsisLong-listed for the 2021 Raymond Souster Award!Finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Meredith Quartermain''s Lullabies in the Real World is a sequence of poems about a train journey from West Coast to East Coast that invokes a patchwork of regions, voices and histories. Her language zings with train rhythms as she unfolds a complex conversation with poets such as bpNichol and Robin Blaser.This collection reflects and refracts Canada from diverse angles, and challenges colonizing literatures such as the Odyssey and various canonical British and US voices. As it moves from west to east, the book journeys back in time to interrogate historical events such as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the exclusion of Acadians. It ends by imagining a time before or outside colonization.Rich, playful and confrontational, Lullabies in the Real World widens the poetic lens of poetry to investigate the place of a colonial nation in history, and the place of a poet vis-à-vis the voices of other poets.
£13.49
NeWest Press The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for PoetryWinner of a 2021 High Plains Book Award for First Book!Finalist for the 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!A 2020 CBC Poetry Book of the Year!Finalist for a 2021 High Plains Book Award for PoetryBertrand Bickersteth''s debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often overlooked contributions to the province''s character and provides personal perspectives on the question of black identity on the prairies. Through these rousing and evocative poems, Bickersteth uses language to call up the contours of the land itself, land that is at once mesmerizing as it is dismissively effacing. Such is black identity here on this paradoxical land, too.
£13.49
Otago University Press Landfall 241
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£14.25
Otago University Press Unseasoned Campaigner
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£13.30
Otago University Press tumble
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£13.30
Otago University Press Next
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£13.30
Otago University Press The Pistils
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£12.35
Otago University Press Night School
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£12.35
Otago University Press O me voy o te vas / One of us must go
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£12.35
Otago University Press Naming the Beasts
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£12.35
Otago University Press Deep Colour
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£12.35
Freehand Books You Still Look the Same
Book SynopsisA moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor. This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous decade of her forties. Through crisp and vivid language, Doctor explores mid-life breakups and dating, female genital cutting, imprints of racism and misogyny, and the oddness of sex and love, and urges us to take a second look at the ways in which human relationships are never what we expect them to be.Trade ReviewThese poems are clean, tight, wry, luscious, kvetchy and up-close-to-brown-skin. - Sonnet L'Abbe, author of Sonnet's Shakespeare In this collection, love, disappointment and possibility collide, at home and unhomed in spare, precise language. - Larissa Lai, author of Iron Goddess of Mercy These poems travel across a range of experiences, but what pulls them together is the essential yearning for connection - in defiance of pain and grief, in spite of anger, fear, exclusion and sheer human blundering. The voices here are vulnerable, imperfect, but they are bolstered by their wry wit and an irrepressible desire to embrace life and love with all its complications. - Adam Sol, author of How a Poem Moves Farzana Doctor's You Still Look The Same unfolds in filmic moments which cluster with insight, itches like the discomfort of a hard news story, yet reads with all the intimacy of confessional memoir. This is a book of observation from a keen eye for what it means to be human in the 21st century. Here is a book that invites us to see with fresh perspective what we might yet be. - Michael V. Smith, author of Bad Ideas This book is a tender tour of the love, loss, and lament that comes with the messiness of living. - Dena Igusti, author of Cut Woman
£10.99
Massey University Press Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
Book SynopsisEach year Poetry New Zealand, this country’s longest-running poetry magazine (established in 1951 by Louis Johnson), rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #56 features 130 new poems—including by this year’s featured poet, Wes Lee, and by David Eggleton, Janet Newman, Amber Esau, Elizabeth Morton, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor, Alistair Paterson, essa may ranapiri, Nikki-Lee Birdsey, Iain Britton, Jordan Hamel, Jack Ross, Dominic Hoey, Owen Bullock, Semira Davis, Rata Gordon, Adrienne Jansen, Olivia Macassey, Vaughan Rapatahana, and Kerrin P. Sharpe—and essays and reviews of new poetry collections.
£21.95
Massey University Press Raiment: A Memoir
Book SynopsisPioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhoodto the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed into the then male poet club.Weaving its own patterns and colours, Raiment shines a clear-eyed light on the heady, hedonistic hothouse of our literary community in the 1970s and reveals what it took, back then, to be an independent woman.
£24.29
Dalen Newydd Hen Lyfr Bach Carolau Haf Huw Morys ai Gyfoeswyr
Book SynopsisA selection of the carols sung on Mayday mornings in Wales four hundred years ago by joyful throngs to rouse families, wish them well, welcome the coming of summer, celebrate the renewal of life and thank God for his gifts.
£7.61
Jean Boite editions Poetic? Poétique?
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£33.25
Small Press Poems
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£14.25
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG A Commentary on the Aspis of Menander: Part One:
Book SynopsisThis commentary on the comedy Aspis des Menander mainly deals with text-critical and linguistic questions. The introduction also deals with observations on the dramaturgy, the actors and the Attic law. It provides highly insightful insights into Menander's linguistic art and uses the analysis of numerous parallel texts to refer to the gradations of expression from colloquial colloquialism to paratro-tragedy, which are used in accordance with the dramatic situation. As a result, the commentary is very suitable as an introduction to the Menander reading, but also offers considerable new knowledge for the connoisseur.
£52.19
Wartelsteiner GmbH Hamlet Minibook: Gilt Edged Edition: Prince of
Book SynopsisBook & slipcase. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet''s father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet''s mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness -- from overwhelming grief to seething rage -- and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
£21.24
Wartelsteiner GmbH Selected Poems Minibook - Limited Gilt-Edged
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£21.24
Wartelsteiner GmbH As You Like It Minibook -- Limited Gilt-Edge
Book SynopsisBook in slipcase. Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These books will impress you with their readability and perfect quality right down to the last detail. Features: Unabridged original text; Complete new typesetting for an optimum of readability; Hardcover books with slipcases; Standard & Limited Edition gilt-edged editions available.
£21.24
Wartelsteiner GmbH As You Like It Minibook
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£17.99
