Philosophers, scientists and artists such as Socrates, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Einstein and Jane Austen pop in for lunch, stay for the afternoon, dance at outdoor concerts and generally inhabit the every-day in these playful and thought-provoking poems by much-admired poet Paula Green. More...

In this much-anticipated debut poetry collection Helen Lehndorf explores the joys, pains, beauty and ugliness of life. These are poems that don’t shy away from grit, know that real love isn’t sentimental but fierce, and like to get elbow-deep in rich garden soil. More...

In this new collection of prose poems, award-winning writer Vivienne Plumb celebrates and satirises such New Zealand icons as ferry crossings, sly grogging, crockpots, whitebait, weather, gambling, tramping, motels and cheese and onion sandwiches. More...

In Crumple Vivienne Plumb takes us on a series of journeys, both geographic and metaphoric. These poems have itchy feet, wandering from Poland, to China, through Italy, Australia and home to New Zealand. But is New Zealand home, or where in New Zealand is home? More...

Part family exploration, part personal narrative, this haunting and delicate debut collection weaves the mythic into the everyday. More...

This very special debut hand-bound chapbook by an up-and-coming poet explores the many roles we have, especially in our families, such as mother, partner, lover, daughter, sister, and the tensions within and between them. More...

You get two-for-one in this hilarious and hard-hitting new collection by much-admired performance poet Scott Kendrick. As well as new poetry, this volume reprints satires originally published in the underground satirical newspaper The Babylon Express. More...

During her son’s 10-year struggle with cancer, award-winning writer Vivienne Plumb recorded the journey in some of her best poems. Now collected together, with several new and previously unpublished poems, they tell a powerful story of love, sorrow and celebration. More...

Locating the Madonna is the outcome of an experiment in collaboration and poetic influence by poets at opposite ends of the country: Powell-Chalmers in Dunedin and Jackson in Auckland. More...