Inspired by the moment in which the sleeping brain is so convinced the body is falling that it sends out the limbs to catch itself, the innovative poems in this collection shake the expected order with surreal, unnanounced intrusions of verse.

A well-loved New Zealand poet returns to territory that will be familiar to all readers in this collection of verse that takes on the uncelebrated, even mundane aspects of everyday life: family, work, suburbia. The book is divided into three sections. The... [More...]

Three sequences of verse come together in this poetry collection that ranges in tone from meditative to satirical. The title sequence imagines the 14th-century French poet Francois Villon stranded in the isolated and semideserted coal-mining town of... [More...]

M.T.C. Cronin's last Shearsman collection 1-100, was awarded two major literary prizes in her native Australia and also brought her significant attention both in the UK and the USA. Her new collection is in fact four small books in one, four separate... [More...]

Arriving eight years after  the poet's  last prize-winning offering, this collection explores the stuff of daily life, fizzing with personalities and  alive with incidents.  Traveling  from New  Zealand to Paris and back again,... [More...]

Spanning three decades, this collection brings together some of the  best work of one of Australia's finest contemporary poets. Richly textured and thought provoking, this compilation of older and newly revised work features natural and personal... [More...]

Winner, Queensland Premier's Award for Poetry The challenge for readers of David P Reiter's work over the past 15 years has been trying to pin down his art and influences. Not an easy task. His imagination resists cultural razor wire by composing without a... [More...]

Culled from the author's term as poet laureate, this collection delves into both the present and the past, combining poems of today with those of history. From the inspiring setting of Matahiwi Marae in Hawke's Bay to the beautiful backdrop of Florence,... [More...]

Leave all your assumptions behind about the way poetry should work or look when you pick up this book. Basil Eliades writes like a painter and paints like a poet. This is form on a mission, words strained to the limit of elasticity. Take a deep breath, and... [More...]