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AFRICAKABBO

Africa : Kabbo, Mantis and the Porcupine's Daughter

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NZ$ 42.50 each

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Author: Alistair Paterson

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'This is a poem intended to be experienced in the way that a musical composition such as an orchestral piece by Dmitri Shostakovich or Felix Mendelssohn might be experienced.' It reflects the myths and beliefs of a now vanished group of South African Bushmen who saw the past and present as coexistent, and the people, animals and events occupying them as always together.

First published September 2008
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9781869404031

A Good Handful : Great New Zealand Poems About Sex

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NZ$ 28.00 each

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Author: Stu Bagby (ed)

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In this collection New Zealand poets tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny, or disturbing. It can be ordinary, extraordinary, lusty or tender. Poets range from the classic to the contemporary and write from a variety of perspectives.

First published January 2008.

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9780473124908

All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens

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NZ$ 24.00 each

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Author: Tim Jones

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All Blacks’ Kitchen Gardens is Tim Jones’ second collection of poetry from HeadworX, following Boat People in 2002. It includes his poem “The Translator”, which was selected for inclusion in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, and poems which have been published in the Listener, North & South, New Zealand Books, JAAM, and a number of other venues, including US and Australian magazines.
The poems in the book range all the way from Southland to Iraq, from a backyard telescope to Mars, from the Rapture to rugby league. Along the way, there’s love, sex, children, and Motorhead. These poems are full of surprises.

In his review in "Southern Ocean Review" 45, Trevor Reeves said:

"This is Jones' third book and it has me captivated. The tasteful photo in
the front has been lovingly prepared. I liked 'Bloody but Unbowed' best, a
short poem lovingly crafted, with pungency and feeling. The personal
melds, rather than intrudes, in 'Two Creek ... more

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9780195583861

Autumn Testament (out of print)

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NZ$ 32.95 each

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Author: James K Baxter

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At the time of his death in 1972 James K. Baxter was in the process of correcting the proofs of Autumn Testament. The book thus acquired a symbolic significance beyond the poet's intention.

What the title might reasonably have implied - the articulation of a covenant worked out by a man at the height of his creative power - would be overshadowed by the legal connotations of a man in decay disposing of his property. Inevitably Autumn Testament has been read as a presentiment of impending death and searched for clues that might explain Baxter's final days.

As Paul Millar's introduction argues, Autumn Testament should also be seen as Baxter writing at his most creative. The three sequences of poems and the two prose pieces of his last collection synthesize the best features of his other Jerusalem volumes: Jerusalem Sonnets (1970) and Jerusalem Daybook (1971).

With apparent simplicity, ... more

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9780476000001

Boy

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9780959799064

Caboodle

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NZ$ 12.95 each

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Author: Marlene J. Bennetts

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Collection of Peoms for Children

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CHERRY

cherry now (out of print)

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9781869404185

C K Stead : Collected Poems, 1951-2006

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Author: C. K. Stead

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REFERENCE & ANTHOLOGY Category Winner

This Collected Poems includes the work of fourteen volumes of poetry, from Stead's first collection, Whether the Will is Free, to The Black River of 2007. In addition, it reprints 22 early previously uncollected poems that date from 1951 to 1961. Annotated by the author, the Collected Poems illustrates more than fifty years of the range and ambition of Stead's verse, in which the world always looks 'hard / at the word and the / word at the world'.

First published December 2008.

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9781869403676

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2 CD set)

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NZ$ 45.00 each

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Author: Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (selection) ; Jack Ross (ed)

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This is a 2-CD set of 27 classic New Zealand poets, from Fairburn to Brian Turner, reading their own work. The CDs are accompanied by a book of the texts of the poems reproducing them exactly as read, as well as brief biographies and bibliographies of each poet. The poets are arranged chronologically by date of birth and each reads for approximately five minutes (2-5 poems) in recordings made in 1974 and/or 2004. They include the leading voices of NZ poetry, Mason, Curnow, Glover, Baxter, Edmond, Tuwhare, Frame, Campbell, and were chosen for the quality and significance of their work and their commitment to voice and performance as an integral part of their poetry.

Paperback with flaps, 2 x audio cds, 160p,

First published July 2006.

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9781869403805

Cold Snack

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NZ$ 25.00 each

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Author: Janet Charman

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Winner of the Montana 2008 Poetry Award.

This immensely readable collection is among the most accessible well loved poet Janet Charman has written. Her poems always emerge out of ordinary daily experience, the life with which her readers are only too familiar. By illuminating this world she broadens perceptions and understandings without romance or melodrama.
The stunning first part of Cold Snack explores the pains and pleasures (mostly the pains) of becoming a schoolteacher in midlife;
the second, a single long sequence, 'Televisioner', recalls a period spent as receptionist for a television broadcaster.

First published April 2007.

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9780195583373

Collected Poems of James K. Baxter

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NZ$ 85.00 each

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Author: Baxter, James K.

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Includes all poems from collections and broadsheets, of James K. Baxter (1926-1972), a complex and gifted poet at the forefront of his generation. The poems are carefully edited, with brief textual notes where necessary, and are arranged in chronological order of composition. The publication date of each poem is given, along with a full bibliography of Baxter's verse.

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9780195584899

Collected Poems of James K. Baxter

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NZ$ 115.00 each

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Author: James K Baxter (ed John Weir)

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First published in 1980, this selection of 200 poems from all periods of Baxter’s writing has become the standard introduction to his work for the student and the general reader. A landmark publication in New Zealand literature, this reissue includes all poems from collections and broadsheets. The full range of his poetry has been represented and the important sequences have been included in full. Arranged in chronological order of composition, the publication date for each poem is given, along with a full bibliography of Baxter’s verse. Also included is a glossary of Maori words and phrases.

First published 1980; this edition 2004.

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9780958270908

Cuban cocktail

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NZ$ 20.00 each

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9781869418328

Dear To Me : 100 New Zealanders Write About Their Favourite Poems OUT OF PRINT

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NZ$ 36.99 each

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Author: Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand

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Published to coincide with Montana Poetry Day, this anthology brings together the 100 favourite poems of 100 well known New Zealanders - with a twist.

The 100 Kiwis were approached by the Amnesty International group at Auckland Girls Grammar and asked to include a letter explaining why their chosen poem was dear to them, hence the title. The replies are astounding, with moving letters from such luminaries as Dave Dobbyn, Dame Sylvia Cartwright, Mike Chunn, Jacqui Brown, Sir Bob Jones and Lesley Max, accompanied by a treasure trove of poetry that's for dipping into both by poetry lovers and poetry newbies alike.

All royalties go to Amnesty International New Zealand.

First published 20 July 2007.

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9781877333811

Doubtless : New and Selected Poems

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NZ$ 31.00 each

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Author: Sam Hunt

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Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known poet. For almost 40 years he has been writing, reading and performing poetry, touring New Zealand constantly and reading his poems in pubs, theatres, schools and many other venues. No other poet in New Zealand has managed to make a living by performing their poems, and it says much about the affection with which Sam is regarded in New Zealand that he has continued to do this for so long. It is well over ten years since a new collection of Sam's poems has appeared and over 15 years since a volume of selected poems was published, so the publication of Doubtless is very timely. It includes new work as well a comprehensive selection of his best poems from the last 40 years, all of which are currently unavailable in print.

First published August 2008.

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9780473126520

Dream Boat : Selected Poems

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NZ$ 35.00 each

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Author: Beyer Tony

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DoP - 2007 Wellington
224pp / Dream Boat is the selected poems of Tony Beyer, a well-known and widely anthologized New Zealand poet.
The book presents a major selection of his poems from the 1970s to the new millennium. Since his first publication Jesus Hobo with Caveman Press in Dunedin in the 1970s, Beyer has chosen to publish his work through the small presses, and this book brings together for the first time a considerable body of his work with much of it being out-of-print and hard to find. This book makes a significant and real addition to New Zealand poetry and is a must-have for any discerning reader’s bookshelf.

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9780958258630

Either Side the Horizon

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NZ$ 24.00 each

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Author: Stephen Oliver

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9780908943258

Electric Yachts

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NZ$ 25.00 each

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Author: Tony Beyer

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9781869684457

English Through Poetry - Book A

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NZ$ 43.00 each

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Author: Vaughan Rapatahana

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An innovative addition to the support materials used by English teachers and teachers who work with students from non-English speaking backgrounds. The series aims to help students develop skills in English through discussing and writing about a number of accessible New Zealand and Australia contemporary poems.

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9781869684464

English Through Poetry -Book B

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NZ$ 43.00 each

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Author: Alan Chamberlain

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An innovative addition to the support materals used by English teachers and teachers who work with students from non-English speaking backgrounds. The series aims to help students develop skills in English through discussing and writing about a number of accessible New Zealand and Australian contemporary poems.

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