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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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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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Kevin Irelands 27th collection is brimful of poems that are never predictable. Whether he is writing about writing, ruminating on the mixed blessings of ageing, or reflecting on love and other viruses, Kevins poems are peppered with wry humour and celebrate a sparkling pleasure in life.

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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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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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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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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.