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Working-class poets major new collection

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Pakiaka, the lean, essential debut volume by Gabrielle Huria, is a timely reminder of how good poetry can be at storytelling. The stories Huria tells are local and cosmic, firmly rooted in Ngi Tahu whakapapa and Te Waipounamu history but always attuned to the wide, interconnected world.

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In his sixth collection, John Davidson writes warm, wise poems about encounters with people and situations, both real and imaginary, over many decades, and reflects on some of the issues that life confronts us with.

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Photos of the Sky starts with a declaration; ends in realisation. In between is a journey of reaching across the Tasman, shifting to a new home, reaching a place of disquiet and starting again. The full spectrum of emotions brings with it rain, sweat, tears, wildflowers and the promise of snow.

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Poeta gathers together poems from the poets 14 previous volumes, punctuated by 11 striking drawings, and also includes a range of new work that shows her riddling creativity continuing to grow and evolve.

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New poetry by Ockham 2018 longlistee,Tom Weston

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Reading the Signs is a series of linked poems that are thoughtful and humorous, provocative and tender, and come together as a quiet epic about a planet that is fast running out of puff.

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Poems about Titahi Bay beach.

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Who is Rumpelstiltskin Misshapen spinner of straw into gold Evil or misunderstood Would a good lawyer have helped In this new collection, John Adams tries on aspects of Rumpelstiltskin. The poems tell of joy and death, disappointment and celebration.

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In words that are vivid and spare and spiked with wry humour, Kirsten Le Harivel explores connections and disconnections and the unexpected places we belong.

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This fine new collection of poetry, Owen Marshall's second, is rich in the themes and preoccupations that have made his short stories and novels so admired.

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Is our identity more of a composite than we realise

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These are poems about water, its healing powers and nourishment of life. Some are about Lake Rotorua itself, lying in the dormant crater of a volcano; signs of its past can still be seen in hot springs at its foreshore.

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Somewhere in August is a careful selection from Leonard Lambert's extensive body of work: A Washday Romance (1980), Park Island (1990), Natural Anthem (2004), Skywire: love poems (2008), A morning Walk in the Later Days (2010) and Remnants (2013). A number of recent poems round out a substantial & rewarding collection.

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A collection of poetry and drawings by Bluff based poet, in which she explores the themes of homeland and loss and colonisation and displacement. Her writing also reflects the history and present reality of the Maori of southern New Zealand.

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Ginny Sullivan's poems move in and out of landscape, love, loss and enlightenment. Spare, lyrical, they celebrate moments of stillness and realisation, the sustaining importance of the small triumphs of the every day.

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.".. this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history. From carefully chosen anecdotes it slowly unfolds a vivid and compelling sense of character and the psychological dynamics within the family ... marshals deeply personal events and childhood memories in a delightfully astute, understated poetic form"--Publ