A Small Room with Large Windows by Allen Curnow
$47.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Secondhand. A small book about what a New Zealand poet had to say about kiwi's own place in the world.
A Splinter of Glass: Poems 1951-55 by Charles Doyle
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Secondhand. A collection of poems from author Charles Doyle, of Irish descent but a Kiwi by choice.
A Treasury of New Zealand Verse-Being a New Edition of "New Zealand Verse" by W.F. Alexander and A.E. Currie
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Secondhand. In 1906, journalist W.F. Alexander and lawyer A.E. Currie published New Zealand Verse, the first multi-author anthology of English-language ‘New Zealand’ poetry. The publication represented a growing need for the colonists to show themselves worthy as a burgeoning nation with its own value ...Show more
A Venture in Verse, "Gathered Leaves", & Thirdly: Three volumes by Marjory Nicholls by Marjory Nicholls
$125.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Secondhand. Rare. "Nicholls was adept with the various rhyme schemes and dominant forms of the period, including the sonnet. She wrote beautiful poems on the changing seasons, New Zealand landscapes and the native flora and fauna of the bush. Her other subjects included domestic life, the Great War, f ...Show more
A centennial treasury of Otago Verse by A.E. Currie (compiler)
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Secondhand. Selected contributors: A. H. Adams; J. K. Baxter; C. Brasch; D. M. W. Burn; D. Ferguson; Edith Hodgkinson; H. P. Kelk; F. W. G. Miller; Marie Randle; D. M. Ross; W. M. Stenhouse; H. Thomson; Alice Woodhouse
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 ...Show more
Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand by James K. Baxter
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Secondhand. A pamphlet of James K. Baxter's talk, given in July, 1967, at Victoria University of Wellington as one of a series of six lectures on the Arts by the university'.
Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand by James K. Baxter
$23.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Secondhand. This talk was given in July, 1967, at Victoria University of Wellington as one of a series of six lectures on the Arts organised by the university.
Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at hers ...Show more
Bounty by Koenraad Kuiper
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Bounty is a cornucopia and a ship. Ships envelop you and land you in new worlds. The opening sequence of sonnets pays hommage to Frank Hurley, the photographer on Shackleton's Endurance, which was crushed in the pack-ice in Antarctica in 1915. The central sequence of the collection recounts the voyage o ...Show more