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In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun explores a range of Pakeha oral poetic forms; sea shanties, hymns, ballads, nursery rhymes and clapping songs. It is a companion volume to Three Women, his collection of poetry in Te Reo Māori, and is richly illustrated by Nigel Brown. "It was by looking ...

In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun writes to his daughter, former partner, and mother, using the medium of Maori oral poetry. In doing so he explores oriori, karakia, haka, moteatea, patere, waiata aroha and waiata tangi. It is a companion volume to Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pakeha, his collection of oral poetry in English.

I am seconds away from everything. I am the bullseye of the world. a book of poetry that carries us through many realms - Greek myth, the Bible, dream, and the earthly world, with all its beauty and violence. An eclectic range of speakers, from deities to inanimate objects, describe encounters and t...

In stone men, the myths of Medusa become a lens to examine attitudes to women and womanhood - from ancient to modern, from virgin to whore, from mother to child. Political, and deeply personal, stone men is about power and the lack of it, those who speak out and those who must remain silent. In the ...

Editor Robert McLean describes In the supplementary garden as a generous harvest from Bridge's five previous books of poetry including a number of the lyric sequences at which she especially excels along with a suite of new poems which for me contains some of her finest work. Janet Hughes in her int...

Ruth France published two collections of poetry in the 1950s and 1960s under the pseudonym Paul Henderson. A selection of these along with poems from a third collection which remained in manuscript at the time of her death are published here for the first time. M. H. Holcroft captured the gist of Fr...

Michael Harlow’s poems are small detonations that release deeply complex stories of psychological separations and attractions of memory and desire. Frequently they slip into the alluring spaces just at the edges of language dream and gesture as they carefully lower like measuring gauges into the i...

Robert McLean is a defiantly modernist poet who often uses traditional metres and rhyme to explore the complexities of history and selfhood. His intellectually cosmopolitan and questioning verse attempts to re-illuminate how acts of attention-by Nijinsky Andrea del Sarto David Esterley Charles Fouri...

Koenraad Kuiper's poems are animated by a frugal, astringent, ironic intelligence that reminds me of when the word 'wit' was used to describe or even name the verse of the Metaphysical poets. However, these poems are not historical pastiche, but are unmistakably contemporary, as in the several forma...

A beautiful and faithfully reproduced slipcase edition of the best-selling, revolutionary publication from one of history's most visionary artists.Widely recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, Songs of Innocence and of Experience also occupies a key position in the history of Western art...

The best things come in little packages. This latest mini-anthology from Candlestick belongs to our new 'Christmas Collection' series and contains brand new poems by ten leading contemporary poets. The poems range from the surreal to the tenderly nostalgic, taking in the perils of an over-crowded sh...

First published in 1885, master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tribute to the lives of children has delighted readers for more than a century. From flying through the air on a swing to building an imaginary world out of blocks to being tucked into bed for a night of sweet dr...

The greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres ...

The sixth book in the remarkable korero series, edited by Lloyd Jones, features Jan Medlicott Acorn Fiction Prize winner Whiti Hereaka and the acclaimed artist Peata Larkin, cousins who share the same whakapapa, in a collaboration based on the Fibonacci number sequence. In a feat of managed imaginin...

Koe invites readers to explore human connections with nature through a selection of over 100 poems composed in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-European times to the present day. Including a substantial introduction and editors' notes, Koe is the first anthology to provide a comprehensive overview of e...

Edward Lear's nonsense poem about two unlikely sweethearts-an elegant owl and a beautiful cat-has found a perfect match in artist Jan Brett. She traveled to the Caribbean (the land where the Bong-tree grows, perhaps?) to research her illustrations as well as the settings, costume details, plants, an...

James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his variou...

Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the \"death poem.\" Such a poem is often written in the very last moments ...

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. Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, the new collection by Ōtepoti poet ...

In The Midnight Plane , Dame Fiona Kidman, one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished writers, to her first and deepest literary love, poetry. This beautifully curated volume opens with selected work from Kidman's six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the present ...

FRIDAY PRAYERS is a chapbook of five poems from Tony Beyer whose ANCHOR STONE was a finalist in the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 'Island time' is a meditation on impermanence and identity ( we who so loved the world / are its destroyers') while the title poem in the aftermath of the Christch...

A beautifully illustrated collection of haiku poetry from the 100 most famous Japanese poets.Ongoing spring; a nameless mountain under a light mist - BashoThis beautifully illustrated collection of haiku poems by Japan's best-known poets is perfect for poetry lovers and anyone who wants to learn mor...

In , Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Māori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form these poems range from plain-speaking prose and concrete poetry to odes and spells; in mood th...

a landmark debut collection by Nafanua Purcell Kersel. Restless in form and address, these engaging and generous poems ricochet from light to dark, quiet to loud, calm to violence. We meet a loved twin sister as she dives towards the Sacred Centre, a grandmother who knows everything by heart, a shru...