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[The Yellow Buoy]

C. K. Stead

The Yellow Buoy

The Yellow Buoy is CK Stead's fifteenth collection of poetry, in which the writer journeys in time and space from Croatia and Colombia to Karekare and the Côte d'Azur.

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[Fast Talking PI]

Selina Tusitala Marsh

Fast Talking PI

Fast Talking PI (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet's focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections, Tusitala (personal), Talkback (political and historical) and Fast Talking PIs (dialogue). She writes as a calabash breaker, smashing stereotypes and challenging historic injustices; also exploring the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. Her aesthetics and indigenous politics meld marvellously together.

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[Sol]

Andrew Johnston

Sol

Andrew Johnston is one of New Zealand's leading poets. At the heart of this, his fifth collection, are two major poems: 'The Sunflower', an elegy for the poet's father, which is an extended meditation on death, family and religious faith; and 'Les Baillessats', a relaxed, sun-filled poem for the poet's new-born son.

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[Dog]

C. K. Stead

Dog

In this new collection, C. K. Stead shows himself still in full charge of a talent which has surprised, delighted and challenged readers of poetry since it first declared itself in the 1950s.

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[A Question of Gravity: Selected Poems]

Elizabeth Smither

A Question of Gravity: Selected Poems

Regarded as New Zealand's leading female poet, Elizabeth Smither has had to wait until now for this, her first full-length UK publication, which is an extensive selection from five of her most recent collections, including Red Shoes (Godwit, 2003), the result of her now concluded two-year term as Te Mata New Zealand poet laureate.

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[The Right Thing]

C. K. Stead

The Right Thing

The collection has a distinctly international feel with poems about time spent in Oxford, France, Crete, and his travels through the United States. Throughout, Stead's erudition and knowledge of the classical canon combine with his laconic wit and keen powers of observation, to produce poems of great energy, humour and irreverence.

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[The Open Window]

Andrew Johnston

The Open Window

Andrew Johnston's first collection to be published in the UK contains poems from two critically acclaimed books previously published in his native New Zealand, together with a substantial body of new work.

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[Straw Into Gold]

C. K. Stead

Straw Into Gold

Straw into Gold is C K Stead's first UK poetry publication and is a substantial selection of his poetry from the five decades up to the millennium, plus a significant body of new work. The great range of Stead's voices and tones, his unflagging energy, his elegance and wit make this a compelling book of poems.

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[Small Stories of Devotion]

Dinah Hawken

Small Stories of Devotion

Dinah Hawken won the 1987 Commonwealth Poetry Prize with her first book.

In this stunning and unforgettably elegiac book, female sensuality and spirituality are celebrated, standing together rather than split the way Christian culture has encouraged. It is a journey of discovery using very precise language, myths and contemporary writing to question our spiritual condition.

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