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Contending that James K. Baxters use of Greek myth is close to the heart of his poetic vision, this draws on the subjects entire career, mounting the first-ever sustained investigation of his vast corpus of unpublished poems. Baxters mythic figures and ambiguous symbols are explored, to which he repeatedly returned in his attempts to establish patterns out of the 'chaos' of his experiences.

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Celebrated poet, novelist and critic Ian Weddes third collection of essays.

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The Stories of Eileen Duggan presents the two collections of short stories Eileen Duggan wrote but did not offer for publication, and includes a Preface by the editor, Helen J. ONeill, and a substantial introduction by John Weir.

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It is the time of the stupefying. Just when we least expected it, when we thought the show was over, it clonked out into the limelight, and the world was split in two.

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Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany.

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The Vulgar Wasp tells the story of the common wasp and its impact on us and our biodiversity.

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James Brown shakes out oblivions final sieve in The Tip Shop. Found poems jostle with autobiographical poems, essayistic with epigrammatic, formally expert with some of his very best freeform sprawls.

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Uniquely combining conceptual academic theory with grounded and realistic suggestions for improving the ways the New Zealand government deals with the Maori, this comprehensive account outlines the significance behind an unresolved controversy that affects New Zealand's identity and culture, as well as their constitution, law, and economy.

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A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintners Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages.

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An Antarctic anthology like no other, this book is about the imaginative uses writers have made of Antarctica. It spans eight centuries of writing - from Dante's famous account of Ulysses' last southbound ocean journey, to Monty Python's Scott of the Sahara.

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Combining the urgency of the Canadian Bunchberry Dogwood with the suspended time of the lyric poem, this book introduces a courageous and innovative new voice in New Zealand poetry. Charlotte Simmonds is best known as a writer, director and actor in Wellington theatre.

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'Geoff Cochrane's is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.' - Damien Wilkins. Geoff Cochrane's new book is a bracing and invigorating distillation of his distinctive talent.

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The conservation movement opposing the 19th-century torching of forests by British settlers is appraised in this collection of essays from a leading New Zealand environmentalist. The book delves into subjects as diverse as William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, the rise of nature tourism, and the ecology of the inhabited landscape.

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Drawing its title from one of the last pages of Scott's journal, the book captures the harsh reality of an unforgiving environment as experienced firsthand by Bill Manhire and Anne Noble and dwells on the human spirit and its will to explore, to endure, and ultimately to accept.

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Things OK with you is Vincent OSullivans first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems (2016). His Selected Stories was published in 2019 and The Dark Is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere in 2020.

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In her latest collection, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood.

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Tara Black's comic is surreal, dark, sad, perversely joyful, and if you bet someone they couldn't find another book remotely like it, you would win. It's a little bit about being married to Kenneth. It's a little bit about losing your cat. It's definitely not about the pole.

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Rachel Bush's distinctive, haunting poems acknowledge the consolations and undoings of thought. In Thought Horses we encounter a speaker who as she is stepping outside, or googling an old friend, or lying awake too early is sometimes lifted up, and sometimes overtaken by thought. A beautifully wrought new collection by the author of The Hungry Woman.

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The debut collection from Christchurch poet Kerrin Sharpe is an extended imaginative exercise, where she invites the reader to experience life in the well containing dreams and desires, peering up as wishes are dropped into it.

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Brent Kininmonts first collection of poetry musters scenes from antiquity, a life in Japan, and a preoccupation with flight in its varied forms. Islands are stepping stones far below; plains are bused, hiked, cycled across. At any moment a colossus might appear. Throughout these beautifully voiced and distilled pages, loud and faint thuds can be detected.

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Serves as a map of survival for Maori growing up outside of their papakaika. These poems look at how we take the knowledge we are given by our ancestors and hide it beneath our tongues for safekeeping. They show us how we live with our tupuna, without ever fully understanding them.