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Bad Things, the new collection by Louise Wallace - poet, not celebrity housewife - is about the different ways in which we survive.

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Gravity as a physical influence, the weight of gravity, and gravity of thought and action are central to Andrew Sant's new collection of poems - and so too is the means of baffling gravity, not the least by the deployment of wit. Gravity here is also baffling in the alternative sense, as a force or as a theory, which summons perplexity.

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The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Australia.

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Bantam, a poetry collection from Jackie Kay, the Scottish Makar, is a collection about the fighting spirit, at a time when we need that spirit more than ever.

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Centres on the octagonal pool of the Waitemata Harbour. A gazing ball, an infinity pool, an endless sea, an organic compass, a contrapuntal spring, a glorious parrot, a bounded harbour the octagonal pool might reflect where weve been to, or where we are going. This is a good place to be marooned.

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In The Beautiful Anxiety, Jill Jones continually breaks across boundaries of the intimate and the global with an urgent momentum. She offers the reader an invigorating and unsettling mix of materialist and speculative, even metaphysical, writing on the interconnectedness of life amidst the environmental and cultural turmoil of the 21st century.

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Always more than a pop musician, David McComb was a perceptive poet who explored and confronted addiction, pop culture, the colloquial and the metaphysical. Published for the first time, this is the poetry McComb wrote when the Triffids' musical output was at its height. It illuminates a hitherto neglected aspect of his creative brilliance.

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From the marginal clays and farms of the poet's hometown to the mountains and deserts of the American southwest, this wistful and wise collection offers poems that are fiercely honest and contain a wide variety of images, from science to religion to American life since 9/11.

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A first collection from a significant new voice in New Zealand poetry.

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Surveys the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature's finest poets.

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In this Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes.

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A bilingual edition of Heaney's prize-winning bestseller, Beowulf.

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The oldest epic tale in the English language composed between the 7th and 10th century.

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Tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland.

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Beowulf tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland. Through its blend of myth and history, Beowulf vividly evokes a twilight world in which men and supernatural forces live side by side.

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An anthology of best-loved verse for all ages, illustrated by Isabelle Brent.

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The first and only collection based on MacCaig's poetry written in or about his beloved Assynt in Sutherland.