This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from explaining the Meaning of Life. In an firework-display of......more
With its rich selection from each of Sarah Holland-Batt’s books of poetry up to her Stella prize-winning collection The ......more
Distinctive, fresh and compellingly present, AUP New Poets 10 features three exciting new voices. Looking out from today......more
After rejoining social media, Robert Sullivan wrote and posted a poem a day over two and a half months - the poems colle......more
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIZE FOR POETRY, 2024 VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS ’I keep looking at the stars to see the u......more
From poet Courtney Peppernell comes the story of a very long winter, a month of dark and unforgiving Sundays, that will ......more
History-making author and theatre practitioner, Susan Marshall, sets our spirits alight in this sensual and exclusive po......more
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotia......more
He’s like the bird in a cage in a pit in a tunnel, and he sings just to celebrate air. Something . . .Everything . . .No......more
he is positioned to catch good light on his back with one leg held straight the other bent upwards . . . In this volume,......more
For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her se......more
he counts as a year goes by measures the time in heartbeats . . . The Cielonaut is lost in the vastness of space. He is ......more
Fleur Adcock is one of Britain’s most accomplished poets, unmasking the deceptions of love and unravelling family lives ......more
In Dublin Wandering, Nathanael O’Reilly rearranges, remixes and recombines words and phrases from James Joyce’s Ulysses ......more
An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea work......more
An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea work......more
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera ......more
Part philosophy thesis and part psychosexual Ancient Greek fever dream, Dani Yourukova’s Transposium adapts Plato into p......more
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She ......more
A major work in ecopoetics from Astrid Lorange, one of the most important contemporary Australian poets. RAW MATERIALS t......more
At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so bright that sound beco......more
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed,......more
Greening the Earth is a rare anthology that brings together global poetic responses to one of the major crises faced by ......more
A first book of poetry and a Maori coming-of-age story....more
As far as I can tell, my first "A line from..." poem used as its prompt words found in a Ron Silliman piece. Jackson Mac......more
"For the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, a new collection by Australian poet Simon West that explores childhood ......more
"For the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, a new collection by Australian poet Simon West that explores childhood ......more
The need for narrative and the desire for beauty will be satiated by" Greatest Poetry By Australian Writers ". This coll......more
The need for narrative and the desire for beauty will be satiated by" Greatest Poetry By Australian Writers ". This coll......more
I am seconds away from everything. I am the bullseye of the world. A Lack of Good Sons is a book of poetry that carries ......more
Shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2023 Ockham NZ Book Awards People Person is a debut col......more
It is the time of the stupefying. Just when we least expected it, when we thought the show was over, it clonked out into......more
James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand’s greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was a seven-year-old pupil at Brighto......more
New CHamoru Literature highlights an intergenerational selection of eighteen emerging, mid-career, and established CHamo......more
’Layering comedy over insight over rue and pathos over comedy, mixing its flexible couplets with beautifully spiky free ......more
In these exquisite, delicate, succinct poems Susanna Enso Huang shines a light on the natural world with precision and w......more
Diamond in the Dark is more than a book about the fantasies of love and life. It’s an expression of self - turning heart......more
With electrifying boldness, Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portra......more
James Brown shakes out oblivion’s final sieve in The Tip Shop. Found poems jostle with autobiographical poems, essayisti......more
"Echidna is a dangerous animal; she pokes holes in men just to remind them what kind of monster she is wakes up every si......more
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country’s longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews an......more
we are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you’re gasping for air On a da......more
Dr James Barry was many things. He was a pistol-toting dueller, an irascible grudge-holder, a vegetarian, an obsessive c......more
These poems take the reader on a fantastic journey through the first season of the hit 1960s TV series I Dream of Jeanni......more
The poems in Dinah Hawken’s Sea-light illuminate the forces--personal, ecological and political--that are re-forming our......more
Who is Marshal Tito? His accent is strange, his birthdate and name uncertain. He addresses his people in a voice that mi......more
Second Fleet Baby examines birth and motherhood, drawing on the playful energies and powers of 18th and 19th century ’co......more
The Little Ache - a German notebook was written in 2013-14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed......more
Seasons is the third collection of poetry by Elaine T. Stockdale. In her most vulnerable book to date, Stockdale shares ......more
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-caree......more
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-caree......more
In this luscious collaboration poet Lynley Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek explore ideas of the quotidian and its every......more
the light we cannot see traverses a globe caught in the combined turmoil of the climate crisis, COVID-19 and humanitaria......more
PROLOGUE This brutally honest Anthology relays the harrowing account of a slow and painful recollection of childhood tor......more
PROLOGUE This brutally honest Anthology relays the harrowing account of a slow and painful recollection of childhood tor......more
Grayscale Noun: /ˈɡreɪskeɪl/ A range of grey shades from white to black, as used in a monochrome display or printout. A ......more
Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt’s celebrated columns on contemporary......more
From award-winning and highly acclaimed author and poet Maria Takolander comes her most impressive and personal poetry c......more
Eileen Chong’s luminous poetry examines the histories--personal, familial, and cultural--that form our identities and ob......more
Tåoku Påapåa is a book that serves as a map of survival for Måaori growing up outside of their papakåaika. These poems l......more
"Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Leg......more
Brilliant songwriter and lead singer of the Triffids, David McComb died in 1999 leaving behind a legacy of evocative mus......more
"Poet Siobhan Harvey’s latest collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with,......more
Poetry. David Musgrave’s SELECTED POEMS presents four decades of work, from seven collections and includes some poems wh......more
The Extasie is a compelling book of love poems with its lyrical roots deep in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries an......more
Gathering inspiration from a life of travel, hope, long-distance relationships, healing, and adventure, Frayne invites r......more