Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2 audio CD set) by Jack Ross (ed.); Jan Kemp (ed.)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance collects the work of 27 poets who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s, stamping their mark irrevocably on the New Zealand poetic scene and introducing new forms, new language and new freedoms. We hear the instantly recognisable, laconic but swaggering voi ...Show more
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2 CD set) by Jack Ross (ed.); Jan Kemp (ed.)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
Ten Poems about Wine by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
John Keats' beaker of the warm South must be the most famous glass of wine in poetry. Who could fail to remember the beaded bubbles and the purple-stained mouth ? We can almost taste the rich berry notes as we read. This selection features part of that much-loved paean to a luscious red, alongside poems ...Show more
Ten Poems about Bees by BRIGIT STRAWBRIDGE HOWARD
Category: Poetry
Bees work hard, and there is something in their diligence that touches us. Most of us see only a fraction of their absorbing routines but their 'bee-lines' through our parks and gardens are more than enough to suggest their dedication: "...they make a life for themselves that knows no let-up through hou ...Show more
All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney
Category: Poetry
The new collection from feminist Irish poet and multi-awarding winning author of As You Were and How to Build a Boat Elaine Feeney brings her poetry to Harvill Secker and Vintage with this powerful, personal, fierce collection about women's lives, bodies, battles and triumphs. From a searing meditation ...Show more
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Category: Poetry
A moving tale of recovery and reconnection and an immersive journey through British wetlandsGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . .Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible light. In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett ce ...Show more
Saga by Hannah Mettner
Category: Poetry
In Saga, the permafrost is melting and the secrets frozen within are emerging. Nothing is spared, from the old family recipe for pineapple cheesecake to the portrait of an ancestor, from the wife who sleeps with an axe under her bed to the tough heart of a man that beats beneath the skin. With an uneas ...Show more
Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay by Max and Olive
Category: Poetry
Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay is a collection of experimental poetic attempts and gestures: towards something big, deep, fundamental, sick. It paddles through art, pop culture, humour, lyric, psychology and the absurd on its long swim towards ...Show more
James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
Category: Poetry
James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his various quarrels with ...Show more