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These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at the supermarket and they are fearless in form and address.

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Grounded in the urgency of the moment - motherhood, housing precarity, politics - Past Lives also surges along on the nervous and joyful electricity of Leah Dodd's voice, taking us from buses to poetry readings, rental bathrooms to Runescape, sometimes through the power of astral projection.

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Theres Di, waking up in hospital, feeling scrubbed raw. Ritchie and Willy, toasting their dead friend with ginger beer. Kiri, frantically searching for a lost child. Ember Eyes, with his goat and his too-powerful gun. Rachel clambering up a cliff face. Ellen and her friends bashing through the bush.

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Sam Duckor-Joness wonderfully fresh, funny, dishevelled poems are alive with art-making and fuelled by a hunger for intimacy.

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People Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in when the goalposts are constantly changing.

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David Coventry takes us into his experience of ME, a debilitating systemic disease which took hold in March 2013 but has roots in his childhood.

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Pestilence is a word that conjures up destruction at a large scale. It can be a plague of ravenous rabbits, millions of wilding pines that swallow up landscapes, a virus that brings the world to its knees within weeks of emergence.

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Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher, and longs to be her pet.

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Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher, and longs to be her pet.

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This provocative collection contains pieces both older and previously unpublished from the author's 20 year career. Readers will especially value the new material, pulled from his journalistic pieces written during his five-year employment at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

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At the centre of this book-length poem is a sisters disappearance, and a peculiar inheritance: an obsession with pins. Pins held between the teeth to tell a fortune, a downpour of a thousand pins, precious pins borrowed for an art installation.

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Each of these three plays - Horseplay , Flipside and Trick of the Light - takes as its kernel a news story from the past that captured the imagination of New Zealanders.

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Each of these three plays captures a moment in three different eras when music and pop culture turned New Zealand upside down.

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Bruce Mason (1921-1982) was a playwright by vocation and widely regarded as New Zealand's best. In this critical overview, Smythe interrogates Masons texts to reveal a master craftsman's artistry, at the cutting edge of socio-political awareness. Revelations about Mason's private life and the discovery of a very personal play text, add to our understanding of his works.

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Illuminating personal trials and triumphs against the backdrop the author's home city of Wellington, New Zealand, this title describes a world of jagged and narrow rocks, and shelter from the tepid rain's puce music. It features poems of literary allusions and memories that record the author's life as a poet and his former drinking years.

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2020 was a year unlike any other. Still in her first term as prime minister, Jacinda Ardern found herself facing her biggest challenge yet - protecting New Zealanders against a worldwide pandemic. In the midst of all this an election was held. Politics in a Pandemic provides a deeper understanding of what happened during the election.

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While Sarah Tandy is determined to nurture her talent as a painter and keep her marriage intact, her husband, Jack Macalister, is equally determined to remain the cheerfully philandering and selfish man that he is.

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This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality.

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James Prendergast is the most infamous figure in New Zealand's legal history, known mainly for his condemnation of the Treaty of Waitangi as a simple nullity in 1877. But during his lifetime Prendergast was a highly respected lawyer and judge. This biography charts Prendergast's life from his upbringing in the heart of London's legal world to eventful reign as New Zealand's third Chief Justice.