Music can evoke memories and emotions and using that ability, Kay McKenzie Cooke has created a collection of poetry that highlights people and places from her past. Cooke grew up in the rural Southland of the 1950s and 60s and…
Category: Poetry
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Cloudboy / Essential NZ Poems
Siobhan Harvey is an internationally recognised poet who has been critically acclaimed through receiving or being shortlisted for many awards. She won the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2013 for her Cloudboy collection. These poems share what life is like with…
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Edwin’s Egg and Other Poetic Novellas
Whimsical work a little gem Former New Zealand Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen has produced a cute little collection of poetic novellas that will appeal to her existing fans and also provide a great introduction to her work for new fans.…
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The Night The Rat Stepped Out
Southern connection in highly recommended poetry collection Christchurch based poet Gary Elford taught at three different schools on the Regent Street site now occupied by Aurora College, Invercargill, for 16 years, so many of you will know him. I thoroughly enjoyed…
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Poems from the abbatoir
Writing poetry probably is not a common pastime for blokes working on the chain at the meatworks – but Terry Lynch is not most blokes. In an interview in The Press in 1995, the meatworker said he was almost scared…
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99 Ways Into New Zealand Poetry
Size doesn’t matter … even in poetry This massive 624-page beast of a book looks a little daunting at first glance but don’t let the size of the thing put you off. New Zealand has a diverse range of very…
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Our Soldiers / Cassino
Honouring our soldiers in verse: A touching collection of poems, Our Soldiers looks at the awful impact of World War I on the lives of ordinary Kiwis. Author Kate McColl spent a month in Belguim, funded by that country’s government,…
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The Black River
C K Stead’s latest offering a real gem: It may come as a surprise to some who know me when I say I like poetry. Not the flowery stuff of Shakespeare (no, that’s not an invitation for Shakespeare geeks to…