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Drawing its title from one of the last pages of Scott's journal, the book captures the harsh reality of an unforgiving environment as experienced firsthand by Bill Manhire and Anne Noble and dwells on the human spirit and its will to explore, to endure, and ultimately to accept.

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In Anna Jackson's fifth collection of poetry, a rich and leafy life is closing in on the poet. Anna Jackson constantly turns her attention to the brambled path, the track less followed, the subterranean presences in everyday life.

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Poetry gift book. The ideal gift for all parents!

'Nic Aubury's poetry is proper poetry in the Betjeman/Wendy Cope tradition, and it's an utter delight memorable, musical, witty and just brilliant in every way. Nic is hands down the best new poet to emerge in the last 20 years.' Sophie Hannah

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In her latest collection, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood.

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A rich and fractured first book in which two authors, their families and their many ghosts navigate oceans, forests, gardens, dreams and houses in New Zealand, Singapore and China. This Paper Boat follows the author as he traces his own history through the lives and written fragments of his parents, and their parents, while examining the public and private rituals of institutions.

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Rachel Bush's distinctive, haunting poems acknowledge the consolations and undoings of thought. In Thought Horses we encounter a speaker who as she is stepping outside, or googling an old friend, or lying awake too early is sometimes lifted up, and sometimes overtaken by thought. A beautifully wrought new collection by the author of The Hungry Woman.

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The debut collection from Christchurch poet Kerrin Sharpe is an extended imaginative exercise, where she invites the reader to experience life in the well containing dreams and desires, peering up as wishes are dropped into it.

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Brent Kininmonts first collection of poetry musters scenes from antiquity, a life in Japan, and a preoccupation with flight in its varied forms. Islands are stepping stones far below; plains are bused, hiked, cycled across. At any moment a colossus might appear. Throughout these beautifully voiced and distilled pages, loud and faint thuds can be detected.

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How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.

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Time Will Tellis a collection of introspective poetry from bestselling author Courtney Peppernell. Discover what it means to start inward and evolve into the version of yourself the world knows you can be.

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"You cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself." This book poses the ever-lingering question: What happens when someone dies before they're able to redeem themselves

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"What happens when the man of your dreams turns out to be a nightmare with sharp teeth and claws"

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On January 10, Ben touched the hearts of Australians with the reading of his poem To My Country in response to the Australian bushfires. This gorgeous 4 colour book combines Ben's heartfelt words with stunning illustrations by Bruce Whatley.

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Serves as a map of survival for Maori growing up outside of their papakaika. These poems look at how we take the knowledge we are given by our ancestors and hide it beneath our tongues for safekeeping. They show us how we live with our tupuna, without ever fully understanding them.

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A fierce, tender, political collection that asks how to express the fullness of identity and desire in the face of a hostile state.

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Trap Landscape charts a course through poetic topography: from cubist paddocks approaching Paris, past council roadworks, and on to the terraced slopes of Hvar. Nicholas Powell surveys the sacred miscellany as word play and vernacular collide to re-imagine language in a dreamscape that is by turns pastoral and surreal, ominous & absurd.

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Maria McMillan's first full collection creates a new, invigorating space in New Zealand poetry. These are poems that refuse to settle, that grow and climb fearlessly into unknowable places within science, personal history, politics, and ethics. Language breaks apart and fuses back together. Our edges blur with those of other species, creating a brilliant, shimmering cacophony.

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