| Author: | Ben Kemp; Vanessa Crofskey; Chris Stewart; Anna Jackson (Foreword by) |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Series: | AUP New Poets Ser. |
Post-it notes and shopping lists, Japanese monks and children's lungs: AUP New Poets 6 is a deep dive into the rich diversity of New Zealand poetry today. Relaunched under the editorship of Anna Jackson in 2019, AUP New Poets 6 features substantial selections from the poetry of BenK... read more
| Author: | Jane McMorland Hunter (Editor) |
| Category: |
Poetry |
365 classic poems celebrating friendship, love, and constancy. Some of the most beautiful poems ever written give us insight into the important things in life: the joys of companionship, encouragement, consolation, humor, and love. Friends: A Poem for Every... read more
| Author: | Peter Bland |
| Category: |
Poetry |
An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that hes written over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child al... read more
| Author: | Ashleigh Young |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2020 |
In her latest poetry collection How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book.
An Ashleigh Young poem is a world: hospitable, strange, a little off kilter. The poems in How I Get Ready bristle with ... read more
| Author: | Brian Turner |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Reading Level: | near fine |
This book is the first to represent the full extent of Brian Turner's achievement as a poet, from his Commonwealth Poetry Prize-winning debut, Ladders of Rain, to poems written in 2018. One of New Zealand's most acclaimed and widely read contemporary poets, Turner is a p... read more
| Author: | Walt Whitman; Brian Selznick (Illustrator); Karen Karbiener (Afterword by) |
| Category: |
Poetry |
As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme o... read more
| Author: | Robin Robertson |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Reading Level: | very good |
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, Guardian A noir narrative written ... read more
| Author: | Bruce Mason |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Series: | VUP Classics |
Description: First performed in 1959, The End of the Golden Weather has become a part of New Zealand history, a touchstone of New Zealand experience. Unable to earn a living as a playwright in a country without a professional theatre, Bruce Mason presented, in fear and tr... read more
| Author: | Kate Tempest |
| Category: |
Poetry |
Running Upon The Wires is Kate Tempest's first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the ... read more
