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The Sets returns again and again to the ever-present sea as a metaphor, a mirror, a companion and an otherworld that contains our dreams and nightmares. Dunedin poet Victor Billot finds in the South Pacific Ocean an oracle of the future and a keeper of our histories.

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First winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry, this book reveals an exciting new Australasian voice.

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David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019-21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a 'Best Of '. The Wilder Years: Selected Poems is a hardback compendium of the poet's own selection from 35 years of published work, together with a handful of new poems.

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Although Tennyson has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems still have relevance. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages.

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The Yield is the lyrical new collection from award-winning poet Sue Wootton. Wootton addresses subjects as various as the relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energising power of solitude and the rewarding demands of creativity and love.

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This beautifully packaged and richly illustrated poetry collection is the perfect gift for 21st century women and poetry lovers.

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This collection of new work by award-winning New Zealand poet Frankie McMillan features the horse as a central motif. The poems tingle with a sense of the ineffable, like certain chords in musical pieces. One poem causes another, they glint and glance off each other, depicting a world of real emotion and psychological mystery.

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In lieu of flowers, bring weeds. Elizabeth Mortons poems look unflinchingly at a raw and unstable world the crash, the aftermath, the comeback, the black heat at the centre of things. The poems in Mortons second collection are charged with a visceral energy. This is poetry as incantation: an intense, larger-than-life, tactile experience.

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Much of Time of the Icebergs was written while David Eggleton was a Writer-in-Residence at the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland in 2009. These are poems about the world we live in, tracing a dystopian present 'hurtling globalisation's highway' where 'Google tells Google that Google saves' .

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"A spry collection of poems reflecting on art, the aging body, and the experiences of a lifetime"--

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A strong new poetry collection from a leading New Zealand writer of her generation. Innovative, confident and powerful.

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"An excavatory collection of poems tracing the connections between Jewish transfemininity, queer desire, and cultural histories"--

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"The Kathleen Grattan award for poetry, 2011."

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Award-winning poet Joanna Preston's beautifully crafted second collection charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space.

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Tung is the debut collection from award-winning poet, Robyn Maree Pickens. Attuned to the fine murmurings of the earth and to the louder sound and content of human languages (English, Spanish, Japanese and Finnish), these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in the grips of a socio-ecological crisis.

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Michael Giacons first volume is a dishevelment of self, sexuality, relationships, nature: his Pkeh-Italian upbringing; tense routines of the recent present; scenes from a gay play; barefoot on the spirited whenua of the Tutukk coast, his favourite surface, sand.

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"The work of a poet who knows how important people and places are... I kept thinking, too, about life's voyagings. I found the whole very affecting - touching, tender, rueful at times... And all the more impressive for being unsentimental." - BRIAN TURNER