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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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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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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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Wellington writer Rachel McAlpine blogs and podcasts about living and ageing and is celebrating her 80th birthday with a book of poems.

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Whether he's speculating about Bogart and Bergman, redefining the days of the week, celebrating days of nothing done, remembering the joys of being 83, or just laying down the law on dogs, Kevin Ireland, here in his twenty-third collection of poems, is as irreverent, incisive and enjoyable as ever.

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

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Part of theCrane Classicsseries, featuring the poetry of John Keats.

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We have no poet quite like Jan Hutchison - a nature poet of course, but so much more than this: her imaginative leaps are startling; her mind ever quizzical, puzzling at what is just beyond perception. - James Norcliffe

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An earlier draft of this book won the 2014 International Writers Workshop Kathleen Grattan prize for a sequence of poems. Award judge Janet Charman said that the poems jumped out at her as intellectually chewy; fascinating; astutely and provocatively nutty; overall an entirely rewarding read.

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A collection that brings together verses that mark the last moments of life, the passing from one stage to another. The poems and readings offer a wide variety of beautiful, lyrical, insightful writings on death, grieving and healing by poets including Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson and John Keats. A source of comfort, solace and fortitude.

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Richly illustrated with his own drawings, Douglas's poems contain a raw truthfulness that will be a revelation for those unfamiliar with his earlier works and a must for those rediscovering his wide-ranging talent.

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Ten poems by lesbian and gay poets over the centuries.

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Peter Bland has been published widely as a poet and is well known as a broadcaster, actor and co-founder of Wellington's Downstage Theatre. This moving sequence of poems, written in the year following his wife Beryl's death, is poetry of memorable intimacy.

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Siobhan Harvey is the editor of Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion and Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many New Zealand and international magazines and anthologies, and have been broadcast on Radio New Zealand.

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The third collection of poems from Gordon Challis.

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In Mad Diva, poet Cadence Chung takes us wheeling and diving through a scintillating whirl of ideas, experiences and imagery. In opera houses, art galleries, dive bars, bedrooms; in the purple light of Whitcoulls at dusk and in Wakefield Street at midnight, the divas in these poems keep on testing the world for meaning, acceptance and love.

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A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets rally for justice in 101 explosive new poems for election year.