All New Books
Articulations
Author: Henrietta Bollinger. Publisher: Tender Press (formerly We Are Babies).
A well-known writer, activist, and disability rights advocate, Henrietta Bollinger’s debut essay collection speaks to their experiences as a queer, disabled person, and as a twin. Articulations is a timely, personal, and poignant appraisal of life in Aotearoa New Zealand.
28 September 2023
Green Rain
Author: Alastair Clarke. Publisher: Ugly Hill Press.
Alastair Clarke’s poetry considerably addresses his re-seeing his country after living for many years overseas.
01 September 2023
When I Reach for Your Pulse
Author: Rushi Vyas. Publisher: Otago University Press.
In When I Reach for Your Pulse, an electrifying debut, Rushi Vyas untangles slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent's suicide.
22 September 2023
Tung
Author: Robyn Maree Pickens. Publisher: Otago University Press.
Tung is the keenly anticipated debut collection from award-winning Ōtepoti-Dunedin poet, Robyn Maree Pickens. Earth-centred and life-affirming, these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in the grips of a socio-ecological crisis.
16 August 2023
Middle Youth
Author: Morgan Bach. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press.
The poems of Middle Youth look directly into the fire. Sometimes they find joy and the possibility of sustaining oneself; sometimes they feel the sense of an ending.
10 August 2023
Saga
Author: Hannah Mettner. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press.
With an uneasy grace, the poems in Saga explore questions of love, sexuality, family, friendship and politics. They visit a childhood playground in a storm, women painted on the walls of churches, and the fjords and riot grrrls of Hannah Mettner’s history. They are woven through with wild blackberry and everyday magic.
10 August 2023
A garden is a long time
Authors: Annemarie Hope-Cross & Jenny Bornholdt. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press (in association with Rim Books).
With Jenny Bornholdt’s poetry and prose treading deftly around the edges of Annemarie Hope-Cross’s life and photographic work, A garden is a long time is a meditation on time, light and the spaces we all inhabit.
13 July 2023
Liveability
Author: Claire Orchard. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press.
In Liveability, Claire Orchard places us vividly in the lives, pasts, futures and homes of others.
13 July 2023
As The Trees Have Grown
Author: Stephanie de Montalk. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press.
The poems in Stephanie de Montalk’s new collection, As The Trees Have Grown, engage with the world as if through a window – cloaked, distanced, and guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees.
08 June 2023
The Artist
Author: Ruby Solly. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press.
Cave art leaps from walls, pounamu birds sing, legends become reality and history becomes the present in this verse novel, The Artist, by Ruby Solly (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu).
11 May 2023
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world
Editors: Witi Ihimaera & Michelle Elvy. Publisher: Massey University Press.
Edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, this fresh, exciting anthology features poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as kōrero or conversations between writers and work by local and international artists.
11 May 2023
This is a story about your mother
Author: Louise Wallace. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press.
In her latest collection, This is a story about your mother, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood.
11 May 2023
Calamities!
Author: Jane Arthur. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press.
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid.’
11 May 2023
Garments of the Dead: old + new
Author: Koenraad Kuiper. Publisher: Quentin Wilson.
Erudite, witty, economical and elegantly composed, the poetry collection Garments of the Dead is an immersive read.
03 May 2023
Deep Colour
Author: Diana Bridge. Publisher: Otago University Press.
Deep Colour, by acclaimed poet Diana Bridge, is a fiercely sensory and meticulously crafted collection.
13 April 2023
Face to the Sky
Author: Michele Leggott. Publisher: Auckland University Press.
A new collection by award-winning poet Michele Leggott.
13 April 2023
Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection (2019 - 2022)
Author: David Eggleton. Publisher: Otago University Press.
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton’s tenure as the nation’s poet-at-large during his time as Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019–22).
31 March 2023
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