Ten Poems about Wine by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
John Keats' beaker of the warm South must be the most famous glass of wine in poetry. Who could fail to remember the beaded bubbles and the purple-stained mouth ? We can almost taste the rich berry notes as we read. This selection features part of that much-loved paean to a luscious red, alongside poems ...Show more
I Am in Bed with You by Emma Barnes
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A bold, playful, poetic exploration of sex, gender and identity. I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I’m always on theleft. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winterI left myself behind in the 90s. I’m coming back now. Youcan see the light touching me. I can see layers of tissu ...Show more
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Category: Poetry
A moving tale of recovery and reconnection and an immersive journey through British wetlandsGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . .Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible light. In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett ce ...Show more
Saga by Hannah Mettner
Category: Poetry
In Saga, the permafrost is melting and the secrets frozen within are emerging. Nothing is spared, from the old family recipe for pineapple cheesecake to the portrait of an ancestor, from the wife who sleeps with an axe under her bed to the tough heart of a man that beats beneath the skin. With an uneas ...Show more
Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay by Max and Olive
Category: Poetry
Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay is a collection of experimental poetic attempts and gestures: towards something big, deep, fundamental, sick. It paddles through art, pop culture, humour, lyric, psychology and the absurd on its long swim towards ...Show more
James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
Category: Poetry
James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his various quarrels with ...Show more
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Past Lives by Leah Dodd
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Grounded in the urgency of the moment - motherhood, housing precarity, politics - Past Lives also surges along on the nervous and joyful electricity of Leah Dodd's voice, taking us from buses to poetry readings, rental bathrooms to Runescape, sometimes through the power of astral projection. These poems ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more