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New York Pocket Book
by Paula Green

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You need the right person beside the right tree in the right light in the right city and this is love. 
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    — ‘Listening to Frank O’Hara’

Paula Green turns her thoughtfulness and linguistic playfulness in a new direction in her latest collection. This reflective meander around a new city – the Big Apple – is part travelogue, part essay on the nature of poetry.

Read a sample of poems from New York Pocket Book (PDF 75KB)
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About the author

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Paula Green is a poet, reviewer, children’s author, NZ Book Award judge and anthologist. She has published six previous collections of poetry, plus three collections for children, most recently The Letterbox Cat & Other Poems (Scholastic, 2014). She edited the anthologies A Treasury of NZ Poems for Children (Random House, 2014) and Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems (Random House, 2012), and co-authored 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry (Random House, 2010) with Harry Ricketts. She is currently working on a book about New Zealand women’s poetry.

Paula is a tireless ambassador for poetry and runs two popular poetry blogs: NZ Poetry Box for children and NZ Poetry Shelf for adults.

​Buy New York Pocket Book

Pay by credit card or PayPal. Postage free within New Zealand. If you want to pay by direct credit, email contact@seraphpress.co.nz and we'll sort you out.
$25 – including postage within NZ
$30 – including international postage
Title: New York Pocket Book
Author: Paula Green
Category: Poetry
ISBN: 978-0-9941345-2-3
Format: Paperback, 148 mm (tall) x 148 mm (wide), 80 pages
RRP:  $25
Publication Date:  June 2016
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Trade price $13.04
Orders are ordinarily firm sale, but sale or return terms are available on request.
Contact Helen Rickerby, managing editor, Seraph Press, PO Box 25239, Wellington 6146, New Zealand
email: contact@seraphpress.co.nz
phone: (04) 385 7119
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Read more about Paula Green on the Book Council website
NZ Poetry Shelf, Paula Green's NZ poetry blog
Poetry Box, Paula Green's poetry blog for children
Paula Green's page on the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre website
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Also by Paula Green

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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...
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