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With more than 100 poems of celebration, elegy, fear, hope and activism, Koe An Aotearoa Ecopoetry Anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the traditions, development and heritage of a unique Aotearoa New Zealand ecopoetry derived from both traditional Mori poetry and the English poetry canon.

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All the poems are written in a form traditional to Japan, an ancient poetic form known as tanka (or waka).

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Exciting contemporary New Zealand art and writing, featuring results and winning essay from the Charles Brasch Young Writers Essay Competition 2019

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Exciting contemporary art and writing from New Zealand. Announcing winners of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry, Landfall Essay Competition 2019, and the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2019.

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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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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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Moving and poignant, the poems offer deep observation and insight into the diversity and lived experiences of nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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A charmingly illustrated collection of swoon-worthy poems celebrating the joys of true love.

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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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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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In Necessary Wonder Peter Bakowski prescribes an antidote to faceless demographics and statistics, drawing the reader back to the sanctity of the individual through a series of portraits of real and fictitious persons.

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Writing from the eighth and ninth decades of his life, Alan Roddick's third collection of poetry, Next, examines the past, observes the present and speculates on the future.

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Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Stevens Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.

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The shepherd has been a constant presence in folklore and religion. Bill Bradford contemplates these connections as he moves from being a herder of sheep to an activist and trade unionist. These poems reflect his love of the animals he worked with, his thirst for social justice, and his concern for the environment.