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Glenn's third collection of poetry, this work received the Montana Award for Poetry and the Montana Readers Choice Award at the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. He was the first poet to be awarded the Readers Choice Award in a readers vote. In October 2006, went Platinum with Booksellers New Ze...

We are delighted to present our beloved friend Rose Collins stunning debut poetry collection, My Thoughts Are All of Swimming'. Please note this is the second edition of this book, published December 2023, and has a beautiful foreword from her mother Siobhan Collins. Published by Sudden Valley Press...

This stunning book features three beautiful Japanese art forms in one gorgeous gift format. For each animal or object, children will be able to read the haiku, enjoy a painting from the British Museum collection. and then make the origami figure

Tui Pea Luva. meaning weave then gift, is the heartfelt offering of strength, memories and love gifted down from mothers, sisters and aunts. Each poem is a delicate weaving of wisdom and a celebration of the timeless bond of family, the beauty of female resilience and a tribute to its enduring legac...

As with her most recent publications, a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author. Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking t...

Many of the poems in Dunstan Ward's second collection are set in France where he has lived since 1973. Some look back to his New Zealand childhood others are aphoristic or commemorative. In his Landfall Online review of Ward's rst collection Beyond Puketapu (Steele Roberts 2015) Denys Trussell prais...

Good Islamic short stories are almost as rare as red diamonds, but prove as dazzling and entrancing when found. This collection of unique, intriguing and powerful stories written in eloquent and captivating prose by an accomplished scholar, poet, and storyteller who converted to Islam after falling ...

Embedded in every civilisation is a poetic history of its people. The stanzaic, metric, and rhythmical structure has shaped, ordered, and re-ordered our understanding of humanity since the beginning of language. Many biographers have written about Muhammad. the Prophet of Islam, but none have employ...

Welcome back to Planet Omar The fourth book in Zanib Mian's laugh-out-loud series, with amazing cartoon-style illustrations. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Wimpy Kid. When Omar's best friend Daniel messes up at school, Omar decides to take the blame to save him from getting in trouble - which mak...

contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as The Battle of Maldon', The Dream of the Rood', The Wanderer and The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, ...

A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year - Kid's Indie Next List - Featured in Today Show's AAPI Heritage Month list - A Kirkus Children's Best Book of 2021 - A National Council of Teachers of English Notable Verse Novel - Jane Addams 2022 Children's Book Award Finalist - 2021 Nerdy Award Winn...

A beautiful new collection from this country's leading poet.

After rejoining social media, Robert Sullivan wrote and posted a poem a day over two and a half months - the poems collected in Hopurangi-Songcatcher. Inspired by the cyclical energies of the Maramataka, these poems see the poet re-finding himself and his world - in the matauranga of his kuia from t...

Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade ...

Welcome, readers, to the imaginative brain of Omar You might not know me yet, but once you open the pages of this book you'll laugh so hard that snot will come out of your nose (plus you might meet a dragon and a zombie - what more could you want ) My parents decided it would be a good idea to move ...

Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, is cursed with the gift of true prophecies that are not believed by anyone. She foretells the city's fall should Paris bring Helen as his wife, as well as the death of several of Troy's heroes and her family. The classic myth turns into much more in Les...

From award-winning and highly acclaimed author and poet Maria Takolander comes her most impressive and personal poetry collection yet. is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Compris...

Pasifika Navigators are constantly trying to find their place in the world while still wanting to find, reconnect and honour who they are, what they are and everything that comes with this. Pasifika students across Aotearoa share their dreams, aspirations, life changing challenges and learnings. Th...

A humorous look at the game of golf through verse, cartoons and observations from one of New Zealands best-loved cartoonists. His earlier book of verse, Nursery Rhymes your mother never read you (2005) was the first New Zealand poetry book to have been awarded both a New Zealand bestseller Gold meda...

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When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now its time for you to believe me. is a book that serves as a map of survival for Mor...

'One of the best poets we have MATT HAIG The new collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody Told Me From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, is a book which holds a mirror lovingly up to the world, past ...

Winner of the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry 2017 this impressive debut has established as a good girlwith many beneficial thoughts and feelings with themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she isjuxtaposing many classica...