Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles
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In these brilliant and wide-ranging essays John-Paul Powley harnesses the power of stories to tell us about ourselves and where we come from. Acting as ‘kaitiaki o te pō,’ a caretaker of history and memory, Powley combines memoir with history and cultural criticism to create essays that expand far beyond the simply personal. More...
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Tātai Whetū: Seven Māori Women Poets in Translation edited by Maraea Rakuraku and Vana Manasiadis
March 2018
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The fourth book in the Seraph Press Translation celebrates Māori writing and the Māori language. This pioneering bilingual collection features a poem each by seven Māori women writers, originally written in English, and a translation in the Māori language. More...
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Dear Tombs, Dear Horizon by Anna Jackson
October 2017
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In 2016, while the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton, France, Anna Jackson began recording some of her thoughts and impressions in a notebook. Over the three months of her tenure this grew into a lively and charming poetic essay, which weaves her own experiences with her engagement with other writers and texts, including her predecessor Katherine Mansfield. More...
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Last Stop Before Insomnia / Dernier Arrêt Avant l’Insomnie,
by Marlene Tissot, translated by Anna Jackson and Geneviève Chevallier
Seraph Press Translation Series No. 3
October 2017
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This taster of deliciously playful poetry by French poet Marlene Tissot takes you on a wild ride through the existential, the sensual and the sleep-deprived. More...
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Luminescent by Nina Mingya Powles
August 2017
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A brilliant and unique debut collection from one of the most exciting young voices in New Zealand poetry. The five colourful chapbooks that make up Luminescent are intended to be read in any order and are gathered together in a cover folder evocative of the night-sky. More...
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Two Lagoons by Trevor Hayes
June 2016
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In this debut chapbook playful poems travel from New Zealand to South America and further, and then back again to the foggy West Coast. They traverse the terrain of cities, nature, dreams and the slipperiness of languages, with expeditions into the elegant and the absurd. More...
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Observations: Poems by Claudio Pasi, translated by Tim Smith with Marco Sonzogni
Seraph Press Translation Series No. 2
November 2016
These thirteen poems provide an introduction to the recent work of Bolognese poet Claudio Pasi. As eminent poet Alessandro Fo says in his introduction to this collection, ‘Pasi’s poetics are characterised by an empathetic and moving attention to the little things – the mini-dramas – of life: those ‘normal’ but dramatic events in the day-to-day happenings of a person, family, or community.’ More...
Shipwrecks/Shelters: Six Contemporary Greek Poets, edited and translated by Vana Manasiadis
Seraph Press Translation Series No. 1
November 2016
Greece is in crisis, but its poetry is in good heart. Greek/Kiwi poet Vana Manasiadis gathers and translates six poems by six of Greece's most exciting contemporary poets: Lena Kallergi, Theodore Chiotis, Phoebe Giannisi, Patricia Kolaiti, Vassilis Amanatidis, Katerina Iliopoulou. More...
New York Pocket Book, by Paula Green
June 2016
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. More...
Maukatere: Floating Mountain, by Bernadette Hall, with drawings by Rachel O'Neill
May 2016
Maukatere: Floating Mountain is a single long poem sequence that explores and celebrates life below Maukatere (Mt Grey) in the Hurunui. The more experimental style is an exciting development for one of New Zealand’s most eminent poets and winner of the 2015 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement for poetry. More...
Poroporoaki to the Lord My God: Weaving the Via Dolorosa: Ekphrasis in Response to Walk (Series C) by Colin McCahon, by Anahera Gildea
April 2016
Poroporoaki is, as the subtitle suggests, a response to Colin McCahon’s paintings that are, in turn a response to the death of poet James K. Baxter. In this rich poem up-and-coming writer Anahera Gildea takes these threads and weaves them into a vivid Māori cultural context. The result is powerful, emotional and beautiful. More...
Miss Dust, by Johanna Aitchison
July 2015
Meet Miss Dust: mother, child, teacher, cheater, lover, liver, dreamer, enthusiastic coffee drinker and star of this new collection by much-admired poet Johanna Aitchison. This playful and twisty two-part harmony begins with the Miss Dust sequence, and concludes with more wide-ranging poems with the same mixture of the bleak and funny. More...
Girls of the Drift, by Nina Powles
December 2014
This debut chapbook features poems about real and fictional women from New Zealand history and literature, including Katherine Mansfield and some of her creations, the first permanent lighthouse keeper, the daughter of a whaler, poets Jessie Mackay and Blanche Baughan, and a school ghost. More...
Words that Matter: 10 Years of Seraph Press
November 2014
This exquisite hand-bound and individually numbered volume was created to celebrate the Seraph Press's 10th anniversary. Seraph Press managing editor took one of her favourite poems from each of the collections she has published to date ... More...
The Rope Walk, by Maria McMillan
July 2013
A family emigrates from Scotland to New Zealand. What do they bring with them? What do they leave behind? Through 24 poems members of the family tell their stories: from a Scottish worker in an early rope-making factory, to a tightrope walker of the 1990s; from a grieving mother on an immigrant ship, to the mystified cousin of a young sex-worker. More...
The Baker's Thumbprint, by Paula Green
May 2013
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...
The Comforter, by Helen Lehndorf
November 2010
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...
The Cheese and Onion Sandwich and other New Zealand Icons: Prose Poems, by Vivienne Plumb
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...
Crumple, by Vivienne Plumb
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...
Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A Mythistorima, by Vana Manasiadis
Part family exploration, part personal narrative, this haunting and delicate debut collection weaves the mythic into the everyday. More...
Watching for Smoke, by Helen Heath
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...
Cold Comfort, Cold Concrete: Poems & Satires, by Scott Kendrick
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...
Scarab: A Poetic Documentary, by Vivienne Plumb
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, by Jenny Powell-Chalmers and Anna Jackson
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...
