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"Poems are born to blow a kiss at everlasting life as they rise to the rim of language then bubble and cascade over" says Kevin Ireland, one of New Zealands best-loved and richly lived poets in this, his 24th collection. Here are poems that make us laugh, reflect, question, celebrate "its poetry going about its stunning business once again."

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Peter Bland's poems have an ecstatic sensibility and a vividly personal voice, or voices. In this new collection Peter continues his search for 'a lost sense of the sacred' and explores his 'wanting to be a child again.' These are poems of recovery and intervention, full of the intoxicating feeling his work evokes.

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90-year-old Christchurch author lives through a pandemic and keeps writing about the joys of the life in front of her.

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Poems about growing up in the 1950s and a love of the natural world. Author Jan FitzGerald was involved in the literary scene in NZ as Jan Coad in the 1960s and 1970s but didn't release her first collection until 2005.

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In Anatomy, Jamie Trowers unique voice took the reader into the world of a person living with physical disability. In his new work he delves into mental health and its many faces.

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Wes Lees second collection of poetry is raw, frank, yet exquisitely crafted, covering themes like violence domestic and sexual and mental health.

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Former Listener columnist Denis Welch branches into poetry personal and political, with a splash of satire.

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John Davidson reinvents myths and historical events, shamelessly diving into fantasy.

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Mark richards has been writing poetry for over 60 years. In this volume of collected works are poems from the second half of a distinguished writing career which has seen him produce 17 books, comprising poetry, drama and a series of novellas. An accompanying CD features Mark reading a selection of his poems.

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Elizabeth's father took his own life in 2012. Unable to find words of her own to write about what had happened, she took them instead from 'Twelve Angry Men' and combined them with the NZ Govt's `Fact Sheet 4 - Suicide and Self-Harm'. Armed with this limited dictionary, she was able to write poems that are by turns mournful, angry and searching.

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From a long-drop that demands binoculars to Caberfeidh in the Catlins where his father picked plums from the passing train, Richard Langston writes poems that return over and over to the land.

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Fly Boy - poems about planes and the people who fly them - celebrates a lifelong fascination with flight.

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A collection that celebrates a lifetime love of language, and creating poetry and art.

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With an Introduction by Ian Mune and artwork by Robyn Gibson, Ian Rockels third collection of poems meditates on family and other intimate relationships.Early reviewers have commented that it contains what may come to be acknowledged as Ians finest work.

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The bounty of women, how far theyll go, how far they can stretch to love, to encompass, to bear. Find them here: bosom-packed, dreamy, dragging their offspring, twinsets askew, peeling, darning, preening. In Her Limitless Her Reihana Robinson has created a beguiling space for her to stretch on the page, and for joy to dance and grief to spin.

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Home Base is a candid and often humorous look at the lives of Regular Force Cadets. It's also a memoir of Keith's adolescence depicted through handwritten diary entries, photographs, maps and poems.