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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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In Letter to 'Oumuamua, James Norcliffe makes succinct observations about human life that traverse the personal and political. Grounded in the local but encompassing the global, they range through subjects such as commuting, insomnia and faltering health to the contemplation of current events and issues such as gun violence and climate change.

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Fibs, porkies, little white lies, absolute whoppers and criminal evasions: the ways we can deceive each other are legion. Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, the new collection by tepoti poet and writer Emma Neale combines a personal memoir of lies with an exploration of wider social deceptions.

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Ten poems by lesbian and gay poets over the centuries.

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In this original second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation that characterised her first collection, but it also shows the poet pushing the form into new territories.

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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.

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Presents a collection of poems and drawings by award winning poet, tracing the lives and voyages of her ancestors, and the living history of her husband's people. This work features themes that include: memory, loss, displacement and dispossession, history, home and family.

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, eighteen thousand kilometres lay between poet Majella Cullinane in Aotearoa New Zealand and her mother in Ireland, a distance unbridgeable even by phone as Cullinanes mothers language was lost to dementia. Meantime calls across this terrible distance with attentiveness, tenderness and extraordinary vulnerability.

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A second collection of poetry by Nicholas Reid

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Poems by 46 writers from 29 countries, about coming to New Zealand as migrants or refugees.

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Sarah Lindsays debut collection is inspired by the liminal space between girlhood and motherhood.

It explores the way we reinvent ourselves, as we move through the world across continents and through time, inhabiting archetypes of womanhood that seem laid out for us, but dont have to be.

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Trish Harriss first collection of poetry navigates the currents of the hospital from the moorings of a wide white bed. On this poignant journey through the swells and up draughts of recovery, hope and humour are never far away.

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Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world. Mortons poems take a bite out of the world around us, as they explore reality through the vitality and immersiveness of their imaginative powers.

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