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A journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of NZ - from the country's earliest poems to work by the new poets of the 21st century.Bill Manhire - prize-winning poet, editor of several anthologies, lecturer in creative writing at Victoria University, 2004 Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Menton - chooses the top 121 NZ Poems (but includes only one poem by any poet).The historical ordering by subject matter gives a sense of New Zealand as a place which grows and changes over the years.The first edition was published in 199... read more

These two new paperback collections from Liveright include afterwords by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage. In One Times One, first published in 1944, Cummings writes in a lyric and optimistic mode, drawing portraits of people dear to him. Remarkable for its vigour and freshness, 95 Poems was the last book of new poems published in Cummings' lifetime.

A first book from the writer who secured the 2005-6 Schaeffer Fellowship to Iowa University's Creative Writing Program."Childhood memories and the routines of beekeeping are interspersed among the incidents of immediate and extended family and the writer's own broadening independence... the poems are very assured and a joy to read." -James Brown. The gentle pleasures and real dangers of the life of an apiarist are mixed in equal part in this debut collection of verse. The poems touch on the arts of raising bees, falling in love, a... read more

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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 Ir... read more

In this new collection Glenn uses hands-on language and humour to explain poetry to his builder father ('a man of few words') - and anyone else not yet captivated with the magic of words.

Twelve soldier poets of the First World War Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades and poets inspired by abstract ideals, in part this reflected the national mood, but it revealed an almost universal failure to understand what modern mass warfare would really mean. The story of the 'war poets' is also the story of an a... read more

Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2000 winner Best first book - poetry. Glenn is a doctor. During his training he took a year off to live in a remote Bay of Islands community. This is a profound, beautiful and funny distillation of that experience. Rich insights into Maori and Pakeha - a vision of Aotearoa New Zealand now and for the future. We've published some very good poetry but this is ... extraordinary. With photos by the author.

Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand's major poets. This is a collection of her poems from the past twenty years, drawn from five volumes of her published work. Also included here are a selection of her drawings and musical scores - of 'singing landscapes' and 'conversations in crowded rooms'.

The 74 poems in this exquisite collection trace our journey through life from birth to old age. Along the way, the works of some of the finest poets in the English language celebrate all kinds of human experience: the wide-eyed wonder and adventure of childhood, the magnificence of the natural world and the animal kingdom, the mystery of love and the tragedy of war. Each page is superbly illustrated by Jackie Morris, making it a feast for the eyes as well as the ears.

Contains poems which focus on nature, love, family, faith, work and death.

Vincent O'Sullivan delights his many enthusiastic readers with another fine collection of poems, playfully entitled Blame Vermeer. He is the author of two novels - Let the River Stand, which won the 1994 The Montana NZ Book Awards, and Believers to the Bright Coast, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Tasmania Pacific Region Prize and many plays and collections of short stories and poems. His poetry collection Seeing You Asked (Victoria University Press 1998) won Best Book of Poetry at the 1999 The Montana NZ Book Awards, the same y... read more

poetry for senior students

Described by award-winning writer Stephanie de Montalk as “a tour de force . . . writing at its beguiling and literary bestÃÂÂÂÂ... read more

Enjoyment of the poems is aided by comprehensive support material. Pupils will develop their creative writing skills through completion of the range of related activities. Pupils of all abilities will progress using the differentiated activities and notes from the highly experienced authors.

Bella's pick... (Fiction) This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with unknown terrors or preoccupied with seemingly insoluble mysteries. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher are key works in the horror canon, while in The Murders in the Rue Morgue and T... read more

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock/clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anythi... read more

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 ... read more

where the free market meets the fleamarket it's all keynesian mystical Karlo Mila’s voice travels from urban Aotearoa to Tonga and Samoa via friendships and family relationships. In this first collection of poetry she explores the intergenerational tensions between migration and returning, the new and the traditional, the emergent professional classes and their working-class migrant communities of origin. The poems take delight in language itself and the possibilities afforded by a Tongan–Samoan–Maori–... read more

Best known now as a fiction writer, Edgar Allan Poe's poetic works were popular at the time of writing. Born in 1809, Poe was orphaned in early childhood. He became a journalist after joining the army. He died in 1849, aged 40. This is a collection of his poetry.