A Book of New Zealand Verse by Chosen by Allen Curnow

$35.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

A Field Officer's Notebook by Dan Davin

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: New

Dan Davin, best known for his prose fiction, memoirs, and work in academic publishing, also wrote poetry. Not that he wrote poetry throughout his life; rather, it was almost exclusively written in three discrete periods: during the mid-to-late thirties while at university in New Zealand and England; dur ing the Second World War while on service in Greece, North Africa, and Italy; and after his retirement from the Clarendon Press in Oxford and in nearby Dorchester in the mid-eighties. A FIELD OFFICER'S NOTEBOOK makes this body of work available to general readers for the first time. Although all Davin's poems deserve to be read, those he wrote during his time as an intelligence officer with the Second New Zealand Division are revelatory and ought to be given their due as much by students of literature as by those of modern warfare. Quite unlike anything in New Zealand literature--exacting yet generous, angry but tender, almost sui generis--they speak strangely of even stranger things that defined a generation. Davin's poems speak unguardedly and disarmingly about one man's life . . . in a voice that haunts long after it has been heard.' --from the introduction by Robert McLean. ...Show more

A Place to Return To - New and Uncollected Poems by John Allison

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

John Allison's new collection comprises 29 new poems along with 22 previously uncollected poems.

A Splinter of Glass by Charles Doyle

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

Anchor Stone by Tony Beyer

$40.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good

ANCHOR STONE by Tony Beyer is "a significant book by a significant poet" (Mark Young). It includes several longer works & a significant proportion which deliberately address issues relevant to contemporary concepts of New Zealand identity and culture. Importantly for the work of a senior pakeha poet , there is a strong Maori element, as for example in "At Ratana" a vivid depiction of events at Wiremu Ratana's annual birthday celebrations. The approach throughout is vigorous, often entertaining, and consistently stimulating. As fellow New Zealand poet David Howard remarks: "Tony Beyer has never followed signposts; he has always attended to the road, rewarding us with a considered prosody that honours the moment yet goes beyond it. His language is disciplined, almost ascetic, but there is a generosity in even the most clipped line, a kind of `elated patience' that is rare, and all the more welcome for its rarity, in New Zealand poetry. It is clear to me that Beyer's lifelong focus on the vocation of making poems rather than the business of literary politics has come to a wonderful maturity in Anchor Stone." ...Show more

Angel Gear by Colin Hogg

$20.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand by James K. Baxter

$23.50 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

At This Distance

$28.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

Clutha - River Poems by Denis Glover

$15.00 NZD

Category: Otago

Enduring Love

$40.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

From Cairo to Cassino: A Memoir of Paddy Costello by Dan Davin

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: new

In From Cairo to Cassino Dan Davin writes of the wartime days of his friendship with the extraordinary Paddy Costello. Paddy Costello, along with John Mulgan, Geoffrey Cox, Ian Milner, James Bertram, and Dan Davin, was one of a cast of young scholars who made seemingly peripheral yet lasting contributio ns to the New Zealand post-war cultural landscape. But Costello, despite his great many gifts, never quite found his place in the world and he remains an elusive and contradictory figure, someone whose reputation rests on what he could have done rather than on what he did. Yet he continues to fascinate by his very elusiveness. vPaddy Costello was also the best friend of Dan Davin: expatriate publisher, editor, novelist, short-story writer, poet, raconteur, and not least of all an indefatigably generous host and friend to many New Zealand writers. From Cairo to Cassino recounts the beginnings and the deepening of their friendship as they talked, tippled and fought their way through North Africa and Italy. Spanning Davins embarkation with 2 New Zealand Division at Alexandria, as it headed towards its mauling in Greece and on Crete, through to the day of the bombing of Monte Cassino, this book is many things: gentle and impassioned, candid and ironical, recondite and visceral. It is also often very funny. One of Davins last significant works and perhaps the one in which he made his deepest personal investment, From Cairo to Cassino confirms that he was one of our finest memoirists, as he lovingly brings Costello back to life in all his sound and fury. A significant addition to New Zealands literature of the Second World War, this is a special book that deserves to be read and reread. While it has been quoted from in biographies of Davin and Costello, this is the first publication of the full text. ...Show more

Giotto's Elephant by Michael Harlow

$20.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry