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 Holiday Idyll by Rewa Glenn

$45.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

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

Early Muster by Allister Evans

$22.50 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

Enduring Love

$40.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry