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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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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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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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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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Poet Siobhan Harvey's latest collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with, including the ones who occupy our memories, ancestries and stories.

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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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An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that he's written over the years about paintings and the visual image.

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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