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Burst Kisses On The Actual Wind is a tapestry of surprising and shifting verse, focused on connection and displacement, the blurring between internal landscapes and longed for realities - we travel with the voice, invited into moments both cinematic and achingly tender.

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Wes Lees second collection of poetry is raw, frank, yet exquisitely crafted, covering themes like violence domestic and sexual and mental health.

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"Published with the assistance of Creative New Zealand"--Back of title page.

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Rhondda Greigs artistic eye guides her poetic perspective. The poetry lives in the greens and seasonal kaleidoscope of the Wairarapa, home throughout her adult life, and in the wintry greys of Scotland.

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Former Listener columnist Denis Welch branches into poetry personal and political, with a splash of satire.

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John Davidson reinvents myths and historical events, shamelessly diving into fantasy.

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Mark richards has been writing poetry for over 60 years. In this volume of collected works are poems from the second half of a distinguished writing career which has seen him produce 17 books, comprising poetry, drama and a series of novellas. An accompanying CD features Mark reading a selection of his poems.

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The title of James Norcliffes tenth poetry collection points deftly to the way it conveys big emotions without cracking a smile or shedding a tear. In Deadpan, Norcliffe writes in an alert, compassionate yet sceptical voice.

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Deep Colour, by acclaimed poet Diana Bridge, is a fiercely sensory and meticulously crafted collection. These prismatic poems, including some exquisite English translations of fifth-century classical Chinese poetry, respond with graceful precision to the immediate physical world, and meditate on time, beauty and the nature of being.

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The poetry in David Eggleton's new collection possesses an intensity and driven energy, using the poet's recognisable signature oratory voice, strong in beat and measure, rooted in rich traditions of chant, lament and ode.

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Published in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library.

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Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child is an inventive and heartfelt meditation on motherhood, the creative impulse and the blurred line between imagination and reality.

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Elizabeth's father took his own life in 2012. Unable to find words of her own to write about what had happened, she took them instead from 'Twelve Angry Men' and combined them with the NZ Govt's `Fact Sheet 4 - Suicide and Self-Harm'. Armed with this limited dictionary, she was able to write poems that are by turns mournful, angry and searching.

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Mary Cresswell is at her imaginative best in this new collection, built from her experiments with the ghazal, a traditional form, which she first met via the work of Agha Shahid Ali and Mimi Khalvati. The poems are presented as an intellectual challenge to students of the ghazal and glosa forms, encouraging them to develop their own craft.

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From a long-drop that demands binoculars to Caberfeidh in the Catlins where his father picked plums from the passing train, Richard Langston writes poems that return over and over to the land.

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Fly Boy - poems about planes and the people who fly them - celebrates a lifelong fascination with flight.

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A collection that celebrates a lifetime love of language, and creating poetry and art.

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Koenraad Kuipers poems are animated by a frugal, astringent, ironic intelligence that reminds me of when the word wit was used to describe or even name the verse of the Metaphysical poets. However, these poems are not historical pastiche, but are unmistakably contemporary, as in the several formal variations of his Benedictine Sonnets.