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Winner, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024, Mary and Peter Briggs Award for PoetryWinner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2024Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024, PoetryWhen Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of...

Uplifting poetry for children from the UK's no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild Hope.This enchanting poetry collection serves as a compassionate guide through the journey of childhood, crafted with wisdom and warmth by No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Ashworth.The perfect gift f...

A collection of poems both old and new, spanning a career of ground-breaking writing. Dearly gave us Atwood's first new poetry collection in over a decade; Paper Boat not only provides us with new wise, playful and thought stirring poems, but also for the first time collects a lifetime's worth of ol...

Let us praisethe small evasions:the missed callthe slight sore throat,the prior engagement … From ‘Little Fibs’Fibs, porkies, little white lies, absolute whoppers and criminal evasions: the ways we can deceive each other are legion., the new collection by Ōtepoti poet and writer Emma Neale, i...

From romance to rejection, the complex themes of love and desire have inspired some of the greatest poetry ever written. The collection of classics in to takes this tradition and reframes it within the bewildering experience of modern dating. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of st...

This volume comprises the full poetic works of one of our wittiest, most beloved writers, and includes many previously uncollected poems.'Her poetry stands unsurpassed in its popularity and technical accomplishment - there's no better contemporary writer of forms such as the triolet - and in the wit...

In this wonderful mini-anthology of poems celebrating brothers (a companion to Ten Poems about Sisters) we meet brothers of all ages and of all shapes and sizes, including the brother who: "has made, out of petrol and hormones, a little world for himself, a paradise of hang-gliders and cars;" - from...

Being old isn't what it used to be. Sixty is the new forty. The world is full of expressions designed to make us feel better about the inevitable passing of the years. This fascinating mini-anthology of poems selected by John McCullough - which includes the three winners of our 'getting older' poetr...

How many ways are there to say the words "I love you"? According to poetry, the ways are countless and rich with room for humour, lust, tenderness and a healthy dose of self-mockery. These fourteen poems are not about love but declare it with an immediacy that's captivating and irresistible. Longing...

This title from Candlestick Press is something of a departure: all the poems have been chosen by pupils at Headington School and the selection includes contributions written by the students themselves and by their English teacher, Liz Soar. The pupils were diligent editors and their choices reflect ...

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 life.' The Sunday TimesPam Ayres has spent a lifetime bring...

Poetry by New Zealanders whose lives have been affected by neurological conditionsPoetry 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 fifty-five New Zealanders affected in different ways by ne...

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

Certainly, there was an uneasiness to the place Certainly, I felt like we didn't belong there traverses a network of fault lines diverging and converging at unexpected angles: a mysterious jungle island, military reconnaissance training, the spirits in the trees and abandoned temples, old family hom...

In The Intimacy Bus, award-winning poet Janet Charman reckons with some of life’s heaviest traffic: bereavement, grief, ageing, loneliness, gender, sexual identity, power and inequality. Along the way, the collection gathers up encounters with friends and strangers, and reflections on matters as v...

A daughter will always be a daughter, and this beautiful and tender selection celebrates that joyful fact. We begin with a birth and progress through the years via familiar landmarks; the beloved toys of early childhood and tricky teenage arguments lead to the inevitable moment when a daughter must ...

In this delightful mini anthology we find touching and uplifting poems exploring sons as babies and sons as young men, as well as everything in between. We meet a boy daydreaming in bed on a summer's evening, his mother delighting in his wakefulness as his imagination roams in the dark. There's a so...

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, all the islands loosely touching.In her second book of ...

I stored my plan for world peacesafely in my coat pocket,and then I washed the coat.is Erik Kennedy's most personal and vulnerable book yet. These are poems that tell us: the world is unwell, and sometimes writers are, too. Kennedy scrutinises the broken social contract and the dangerous actors who ...

A Chorus of Cradles: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 will be transformed and enriched.In the opening poem, the family home becomes a place of softness and calm:“We brought you ...

', the lean, essential debut volume by Gabrielle Huria, is a timely reminder of how good poetry can be at storytelling. The stories Huria tells are local and cosmic, firmly rooted in Ngai Tahu whakapapa and Te Waipounamu history but always attuned to the wide, interconnected world. These are account...

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 final word.It's What He Would've Wanted is the sixth book of poetry from the author of t...

In journals and pubs, on TikTok and the bestseller lists, the current generation of New Zealand poets is finding new voices, new platforms and new readers. It is a poetry of now: of emojis and hashtags, of bodies and flesh, of identity and aspiration.How to take the measure of this new rush of poeti...

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, belief.My prayers are my poems are my p...