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Terry Locke's reveals the deeper complexities of what it means to be human.

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This collection comprises the works of John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and contemporary of Byron and Shelley. The collection includes "Endymion", "Lamia", "Isabella" and "Hyperion".

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Simon Sweetman blogger, reviewer, podcaster, and author of On Song: Stories Behind New Zealands Pop Classics, releases his first poetry collection, The Death of Music Journalism.

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Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet "Divine" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.

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A thoughtful and grounded collection of poetry.

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Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal.

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Richards thinks his way into and through moments in the human condition, pausing to be surprised, to tease out a realisation, to share a half-shrugging joke or a laconic, lyrical epiphany. - David Hill

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A beautifully illustrated collection of haiku poetry from the 100 most famous Japanese poets.

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The poems in this fine collection reveal Lorna Staveley Anker as New Zealand's first woman war poet. She was a "war widow" of WWII--a civilian casualty in the "unsung generation." This collection contains the best of her published poems and a substantial number never seen before.

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Bound together by myth and music, Michael Harlows The Moon in a Bowl of Water is a stunning new collection from a poet in complete control of his craft.

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The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutral.

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First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.

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In The Radio Room, Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the ancient Celtic islands of her ancestors. These are words to be visited again and again, by one of this country's most talented writers.

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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 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.