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$ This bilingual poetry collection (English and Fijian) fuses sea creatures, myths and themes from around the Pacific. Category: Daren KamaliThis bilingual poetry collection (English and Fijian) fuses sea creatures, myths and themes from around the Pacific.Daren Kamali is a Pacific performance poet,...

$ A collection of poetry and short prose pieces exploring the concept of mana. Completed on the Michael King Writer’s Centre Māori Writer’s Residency 2011. Sku: ISBN Unknown Category: Ben BrownA collection of poetry and short prose pieces exploring the concept of mana. Completed on the ...

$ In her first attempt to pin tongue to page, Jess Holly Bates has penned an unsettling commentary on the quality of whiteness in New Zealand. It is a gauntlet of words thrown at her readers’ feet—at times a white-eyed challenge, at others an invitation to engage. Picking its way through colonia...

$ In , poet Leilani Tamu delves into the complex and multifaceted nature of the region that we know as the Pacific. In poetry that is by turns fierce and political, tender and insightful, contemplative and intimate, Leilani creates a beautiful ‘ie tōga (finely woven mat) that weaves together livi...

$ a love story set in tiny natural worlds sheltering from the encroaching urban dystopia of 1980s Auckland. In lyrical prose poetry, the author draws you into a beguiling world where wildness prowls the neighbourhood. Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-36751-0 Category: Simone Kaho

$ Mack is a larger-than-life street philosopher and Puti’s a former gang member looking for something more. Together, they’re at the bottom of the heap. They live out their lives in a haze of smoke and alcohol, accompanied by a host of other characters scraping by on the fringes of society. Will...

$ In (meaning ‘overseas’), poet Briar Wood weaves lyrical seascapes revealing people and places inspired by her home in New Zealand, her travels and time living overseas. journeys from Aoteaora New Zealand to London, Europe and back again. Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-40338-6 Category: Briar Wood

$ In this new collection of poetry and short stories, beloved Pacific writer Serie Barford reflects on the entangled history of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Here peoples and cultures meet and intertwine in a medley of memories, imagination and genealogy. invites the reader to enter a lyrical, vividly drawn world. Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-33082-8 Category: Serie Barford

$ In , beloved Pasifika poet Serie Barford navigates seasons of grief. As she moves through autumn, winter, spring and summer, she traverses the pain, anger, longing and heartache of losing a loved one in poetry that is both steely with resolve and exquisitely tender. Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-57618-9 Category: Serie Barford

$ Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa / the mighty Pacific Ocean pervades N ight Swimming — whether swimming or sailing, surfing or drifting, or just quietly contemplating, the author is never far from its shores. These are lyrical poems of aroha and whanau, loss and yearning, renewal and erasure — the tide going out, the tide coming in. Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-24555-9 Category: Kiri Piahana-Wong

$ In this stunning collection, poet Briar Wood reimagines the lives of Rongo and Te Rangahau, nineteenth-century wāhine toa, tūpuna of Ngāpuhi, in radiant verse. The collection also stretches across time into today’s world with poetry about contemporary Te Tai Tokerau Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-62998-4 Category: Briar Wood

$ In Arihia Latham’s debut collection of poems, birdcall resounds through poetry that is both personal and political, as fierce as it is tender. Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-67852-4 Category: Arihia Latham

$ interweaves the poet’s own life with the tragic story of Hinerangi, who lived at Karekare in the distant past. These are poems of Auckland’s west coast, reflecting the steady rhythms of daily existence, alongside grief, mental unwellness, disintegration and resolution. Sku: ISBN 978-0-473-71016-3 Category: Kiri Piahana-Wong

$ In an ailing Moana poet ponders her mortality while visiting the devastated yet rejuvenating Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. Nuclear medicine and surgery in Aotearoa had revealed biological bombs on short fuses. Lymph nodes dancing a cancerous fandango. Serie decides to accept adjuvant therap...