Signs of Life by Amy Head
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, whose inhabitants waver - like their city - suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony, very much alive, is declared dead, Gerald misreads one too many situations in his community patrol, and boomer Carla ...Show more
Burning Angel and Other Stories by Lawrence Osborne
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
The first collection of stories by 'The bastard child of Patricia Highsmith and Graham Greene' (Metro) perfectly showcases Osborne's talent for tension, atmosphere -- and characters out of their depthA naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission by a ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem Pearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought ...Show more
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling; Jan Montefiore (Editor); Judith Plotz (Introduction by, Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
For Mowgli movie fans, the must-have companion to The Jungle Book Children all around the world are fascinated by the animal kingdom, and that's what makes the Just So Stories a perennial classic... Elephants, kangaroos, cats, leopards, and more. This complete volume of Rudyard Kipling's masterpiec ...Show more
Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is also the ...Show more
The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCraken
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date.In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fo ...Show more
People Person by Joanna Cho
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on the NBA highlights. You relaxed immediately. This is intimacy. People Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in wh ...Show more
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis by Philip Larkin
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. "Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of d ...Show more
Apparently by Joanne Burns
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
The poems collected in apparently appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real. Where does a poem come from? Over four sections this question is considered. The first section gathers poems spring-boarding from the clues and solutions to crossword puzzles; the second recounts unsettling dre ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity, and violenceathis magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Previously published in two volumesa"Collected Short Stories" and "The Last Word and Other Stories"athese forty-nine stories rev ...Show more
The Slain Birds by Michael Longley
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
The new collection from the greatest living Irish poet - who Seamus Heaney called 'a keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders'. 'One of the most perfect poets alive. There is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the sky for stars.' Sebastian ...Show more