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The title of James Norcliffes tenth poetry collection points deftly to the way it conveys big emotions without cracking a smile or shedding a tear. In Deadpan, Norcliffe writes in an alert, compassionate yet sceptical voice.

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Deep Colour, by acclaimed poet Diana Bridge, is a fiercely sensory and meticulously crafted collection. These prismatic poems, including some exquisite English translations of fifth-century classical Chinese poetry, respond with graceful precision to the immediate physical world, and meditate on time, beauty and the nature of being.

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The poetry in David Eggleton's new collection possesses an intensity and driven energy, using the poet's recognisable signature oratory voice, strong in beat and measure, rooted in rich traditions of chant, lament and ode.

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Published in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library.

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Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child is an inventive and heartfelt meditation on motherhood, the creative impulse and the blurred line between imagination and reality.

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101 classic poems that every child should read, from Tennyson, Keats, Wordsworth, Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare and many more!

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Mary Cresswell is at her imaginative best in this new collection, built from her experiments with the ghazal, a traditional form, which she first met via the work of Agha Shahid Ali and Mimi Khalvati. The poems are presented as an intellectual challenge to students of the ghazal and glosa forms, encouraging them to develop their own craft.

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Koenraad Kuipers poems are animated by a frugal, astringent, ironic intelligence that reminds me of when the word wit was used to describe or even name the verse of the Metaphysical poets. However, these poems are not historical pastiche, but are unmistakably contemporary, as in the several formal variations of his Benedictine Sonnets.

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Poet Siobhan Harvey's latest collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with, including the ones who occupy our memories, ancestries and stories.

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The poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. The collection meditates on love and relationships and explores identity, culture, community and belonging with a voice that does not shy away from the difficult.

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The poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. The collection meditates on love and relationships and explores identity, culture, community and belonging with a voice that does not shy away from the difficult.

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This choppy mix of a book divulges Pam Brown's bemused attitude to poetry's insignificance and dubious usefulness, salted with an odd kind of sceptical optimism.

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This book reproduces works by the great 17th and 18th century poets such as Basho, Buson and Issa, as well as later works by contemporary writers and novelists.

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This book is for anyone who is experiencing or has experienced a mental health wobble. Its the story of someone who lives with and manages a major mental illness and who found that writing healed her and helped her process her experiences. Catie hopes to help others by sharing what helped her when faced with overwhelming challenges.

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Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, the author's poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality.

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This poetry collection humorously and faithfully depicts the inner thoughts of dogs.