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2016 goodreads choice award-winning poet amanda lovelace returns in the witch doesn't burn in this one the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series.

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An open heart can never be broken.

This collection of poetry is dedicated to those who have ever felt broken by love, loss, and the uncertainty of self-discovery; this collection is the remedy with which to heal.

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Combining the urgency of the Canadian Bunchberry Dogwood with the suspended time of the lyric poem, this book introduces a courageous and innovative new voice in New Zealand poetry. Charlotte Simmonds is best known as a writer, director and actor in Wellington theatre.

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The poet confronts a wired, technological world, often in the mirror, in these inventive, daring and subversive poems.

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'Geoff Cochrane's is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.' - Damien Wilkins. Geoff Cochrane's new book is a bracing and invigorating distillation of his distinctive talent.

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The first published collection of poetry by literary legend Thea Astley

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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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Create your own silver linings.

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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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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.