"From Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles (2012) to Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships (2019), there has been a huge rise in women's literary receptions of classics in recent years. This first volume in a two-volume set explores the different ways that woman have...
"Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a discussion as to why classical creative retellings are so popular...
"An epic play with music that examines the human costs of the quest for artistic greatness. The place: Sausalito. The time: the mid-1970s. The carpet: brown shag. Stereophonic brings us inside the cloistered world of a recording studio as a rock band on the...
"The first-ever autobiographical collection, from the global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher. From urgently scribbling out his debut Killing Floor in pencil (the stub of which he still owns), to taking a step back with Blue Moon, and everything in...
"Our entire lives are dictated by love. Love creates our brightest joys and our deepest aches. Love cures and love scars. It brings out both the best and the worst in us. Through the highs and lows, we learn and grow, preparing ourselves to find enduring love....
"When you're Paula Green and the world contracts to tubes and veins, sound bites and zigzags of pain, when the effort to take the smallest sip of water is equivalent to walking up a mountain, when Venetian blinds dissect the horizon and all you love, then you...
"Wankernomics is the hilarious must-have handbook for anyone who has ever had to endure the buzzwords, bureaucracy and bullsh*t of the modern working world.Written by comedians James Schloeffel and Charles Firth, this business self-help guide teaches readers...
"Who am I to tell my story? And how can we grant ourselves permission to write the stories we're compelled to tell when we've been told we shouldn't? Without fail, almost every writer--new or experienced--has faced dire questions of permission and story...
"With a new foreword by poet, translator, and author Jane Reichhold, this anniversary edition presents a concise history of the Japanese haiku, including the dynamic changes throughout the twentieth century as this beloved poetry form has been adapted to...
"A complete edition, including much previously uncollected and unpublished material. The Collected Prose stands alongside the Journals (2000) and the two volume Letters (2017 and 2018) to support a more complete understanding of Sylvia Plath's ambition and...
"This collection of one hundred and fifty new poems responds to each of the Psalms, and allows these ancient words to speak into our own condition. The poems are woven into a corona, a crown or coronet of poems, where the last line of one becomes the first...
"A mother falls into complete silence. Upon her death, her twin children are asked to uproot the source of that silence. They must find the father they never knew, and the brother they never knew they had. Their journey begins in Montreal but the answers lie...
"This volume contains all the poetry published during his lifetime, including Endymion in its entirety, the Odes, "Lamia", and both versions of "Hyperion." The poetry is presented in chronological order , illustrating the staggering speed with which Keats's...
"Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around...
"Strong Words 4 continues the tradition of showcasing Aotearoa New Zealand's best contemporary essays, presenting a diverse collection of thought-provoking, beautifully crafted works. Selected from the 2023 and 2024 Landfall Essay Competition entries, this...
"In this collection of new essays from the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist, First Nations writers and writers of colour bend and shift boundaries, query the past and envision new futures. They ask: How do we write or hold our former selves,...
"Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire...
"'Do you remember how long ago it was? The last time we saw each other...' On the eve of July 4th, in the Hamptons, Elena is preparing to throw a party to celebrate her husband, Henry, as he unveils his latest architectural masterpiece. But their already...
"First Witches: Women of Power in Ancient Greece and Rome takes you on a journey into the world of Classical literature, from the adventurous Homeric epic of the Odyssey to the grim warfare of Lucan's De Bello Civili. In doing so, you will be introduced to a...
"The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left-hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his...
"Pam Ayres has spent a lifetime bringing joy to the nation with her poetry, providing profound and hilarious insights into the delights and tribulations of daily life. In pursuing a career as a performer and a writer as a young girl, she stepped outside of...
"A widely admired writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg now gives us a distillation of that experience in an distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be...
"Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century, part of the first generation of New York Poets. He was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in New York, both for Art News and for the Museum of...
"Breaking the silence Lemn Sissay is back with a sensational new book. Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay's unique voice - visionary,...
"Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural...
"Spain's national epic relates the exploits of the warrior Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1040-1099) after Alfonso VI, king of León and Castile, banishes him for reasons unknown. In exile, he gathers an irresistible raiding party that conquers or exacts tribute...
"Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection includes some of his best poetry, celebrating both inner and outer...
"You'll remember how much of living is really just forgetting. The family home is more than a building. It's a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or magic. But for brother and sister Stephen and Billie, home is all...
"A literary jaunt in praise of the lost art of letter writing that explores a cultural history and the undeniable thrill of old-school correspondence-from New Yorker culture writer Rachel Syme. Inspired by a bestselling turn-of-the-century correspondence...
"Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. The twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami blends erotic longing and spiritual self-denial in an...
"Inspired by writer and philosopher Audre Lorde's famous claim: "Poetry is not a luxury," this anthology proves the vitality of poetry as a crucial source of inspiration, comfort, and delight.In a first section, "Summer," you'll find lush landscapes and love...
"The only constant in life is change. Climate is a journey in embracing change both internally and externally. It guides you through all the weather you face. From heartbreak to the storms you create inside your brain, Climate reminds you to embrace the sun,...
"S is For is an investigation by poet William Archila of the Central American migrant crisis haunted by the past of the civil war in El Salvador, the meanings of family spirits, and trees disappearing to urban sprawl—always wielding the voice of the immigrant,...
"The second poetry collection from award-winning Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker. In Act Cute, the poet addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks how to perform a coherent self amidst the forces of nostalgia, institutional...
"From Australian poet John Kinsella comes this exceptional new collection that traces the ghosts of this country's violent and destructive history through the marks left on the land, in language and in ourselves. Ghost of Myself explores who we are when we...
"Parallel Movement of the Hands collects five long, serial poems (and prose poems) which John Ashbery left unfinished and will become part of his archive at Harvard University's Houghton Library. 'In-progress and realised' as their editor Emily Skillings puts...
"At times surreal, at times philosophical, the poems of Strange Beach demarcate a fiercely interior voice inside of queer Black masculinity. Oluwaseun's speakers--usually, but not specified, as two men--move between watery landscapes, snowy terrains, and...
"'The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,' Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's...
"Award winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell. Of death the muse is death the muse of Hell Is death the muse of Heaven I...
A wide range of people from consultants, coaches, executives to academics, authors, journalists and scientists are also speakers today. Indeed, anyone with expertise, knowledge or the motivation can and should become a public speaker. But to become a...
"A gloriously dark book filled with witty illustrations about life and death, Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Grave celebrates life in its humorous and often satirical confrontation of death. Conceived, written and drawn by Anthony Martignetti over the past few...
"First Edition poetry book by Christchurch poet, Catherine Fitchett"--Provided by publisher.
I was born this way. I was made to be soft and pleasant to touch. It's the silicone. Father is considering polyvinyl chloride for my future siblings because it's cheaper. I hope you understand how special that makes me. Were you born this way too? Your body...
In her second book of poetry, Nina Mingya Powles skilfully threads together themes of belonging and material inheritance against a backdrop of verse, collage and textile. From shorelines in Aotearoa, the UK and across Asia, this collection moves through words...
I stored my plan for world peacesafely in my coat pocket, and then I washed the coat. Sick Power Trip is Erik Kennedy's most personal and vulnerable book yet. These are poems that tell us: the world is unwell, and sometimes writers are, too. Kennedy...
"Featuring work from participants Jess Young, Elise Koncsek, Hana Pera Aoake (Ōtepoti Writers Lab Writer in Residence 2022), Ime Corkery, Martin Swann, Marina Lathouraki, Robyn Restieaux, Keri McMullan, Jade Young, Hera Cook, Tūī Krall, Nicola Brown, Martin...
Two Left Feet takes the reader on a literary journey from the sunny hills of Tasman to summer rain in Central Otago, down to Invercargill and back up again to the sandfly-ridden West Coast, as two travellers explore the struggles and joys of a close-knit...
Written across the years of 2017 and 2018 while living in the Motueka region of the Tasman District Council, The Tasman Journey by W.F. Stubbs features deeply wrought poetry exploring the loss of friendships, local cafe life, finding a way through depression...
A cure for the blues: Satiric literary criticism of the pompous rhetoric and purple prose displayed in an all but forgotten piece of Southern fiction -- The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant is a Short Story written by Mark Twain. I begin this little work...
A composite chronicle of various loves-desired, lost, or never realised-and their corresponding joys and griefs against the backdrops of contemporary art and late capitalism. These poems radiate with Aoake's characteristic force, tenderness, intelligence, and...
"Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ideas? How can we overcome the curse of knowledge, the difficulty in imagining what it's...
"Between the Joints & the Marrow is an imaginative guided tour of the Bible. Book by book, moments are projected onto the wall like scenes from Bunyan's House of the Interpreter. Figures are lifted from the pages of Scripture and set down again between the...
"Grace Yee’s follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish. In the White Hills Cemetery in Bendigo the remains of more than a thousand ‘chinamen’ lie interred, many in unmarked graves. Most were sojourners, who hailed from the Canton...
Sarah Lindsay's debut collection is inspired by the liminal space between girlhood and motherhood.It explores the way we reinvent ourselves, as we move through the world - across continents and through time, inhabiting archetypes of womanhood that seem laid...
Hollins' poems are exquisite snapshots of love, loss, childhood, uncurled ferns and pohutukawa trees. They are at once chilling yet humorous, familiar yet absurd. They evoke an afternoon at a beachside cafe: the patrons, like his poems, seem to have been...
"Through lyrical prose and evocative watercolor illustrations by award-winning Muscogee artist Dana Tiger, Washing My Mother's Body explores the complexity of a daughter's grief as she reflects on the joys and sorrows of her mother's life. She lays her mother...
"Edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and illustrated by Lisa Congdon, these compassionate poems of connection and affirmation are a celebration of all kinds of love-romantic, family, friendship, self-love, and love for nature. The poems are...
"The word 'touchscreen' entered the English language in the early 1970s to describe a computer display screen that also functions as an input device operated by touching its surface. In this absorbing collection, Touch Screen, poet Philip Armstrong dismantles...
"Paris Rosemont's follow up collection to her highly acclaimed debut Banana Girl, is about journeys: through love, disenchantment, and change. Paris Rosemont's debut Banana Girl exploded onto the poetry scene a hybrid of experimental styles and a fresh, edgy...
"Quintessentially Scottish, the poetry of Robert Burns has become famous across the world. His use of the vernacular gives a character to his verse that cannot be found anywhere else. Whether the subject is haggis or Halloween, Burns' enthralling words bring...
"The poems in this anthology are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect, in verse, the changes of the seasons and the passing of time. Since poetry began there have been poems about nature; it's a complex subject which has inspired some of...
"This selection from the earliest verse in English contains poems from an age in which verse was composed and recited aloud, and remembered rather than written down." "Michael Alexander's beautiful translations preserve the verse forms of the original Old...
"A beautiful collection of poetry chosen by Aoibhin Garrihy to bring solace and joy to our stressful modern lives. Themes include love and loss, hope and peace, self-discovery and identity, and each poem has been specially selected for its power to delight and...
"Haiku -- seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds in just a few words-- have captivated Japanese readers since the 17th century, and are today enjoyed worldwide. This handy pocket-sized volume presents modern English translations of classic poems by the...
"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, accompanied critical...
"Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from...
In Ten Thousand Nights, Auckland writer Yvette Thomas talks us through her world. She records the fluty praise of kokako, the hiss of cats fighting on a roof, a mother's song in Tagalog. She listens intently to the damaged, turning, murmuring earth-and doesn't...
"In The Women Writers' Revolution, embark on a captivating journey through the dynamic social fabric of Britain from the aftermath of the First World War through to the burgeoning regional writing movement of the 1950s. This illuminating account not only...
"This collection of four plays by Christopher Marlowe features freshly edited texts and modern spelling"--Publisher's description.
"The fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world. Here is the complete text of Pride and prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations including explanations of historical context ; citations from Austen's life, letters, and other...
"In 2024 it all started to come together for me and I wrote and wrote. There were still bad times but there started to be more good than bad. I bought four guitars this year and started giving lessons also. Being able to play the guitar helped me immensely...
"Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and...
“If sometimes I think of thoughts as being behind the eyes, sometimes I think of them more as floating, in a kind of cloud around the outside of my head. Part autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family...
"The work pistache (pis-tash) means a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most...
In her full-length poetry debut, Overseas Experience, Nicola Andrews (Ngati Paoa, Pakeha) finds herself on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, writing to and from Tamaki Makaurau and San Francisco. From Overseas, billionaires, the digital world, Dr. Ropata and a...
"The Heart Corner is a pulse that connects you to those whanau members that have passed on"--Back cover.
"Hens can be fun visitors, when they gossip and sunbathe and pop inside for a chat, but they can outstay their welcome and tackling them to send them home isn't easy. They aren't the only creatures in the pages of this book - there's Ursula the golden-eyed...
Whaikorero: The World of Māori Oratory is the first introduction to this fundamental Māori art to be widely published. It is based on broad research as well as oral histories from 30 of the leading exponents of whaikorero, many of whom have subsequently died....
The debut collection of poetry from Matariki Bennett (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hinerangi) is a series of goodbyes and attempts to slow the shedding. It's a group of teenagers sparking up as they watch the great pacific garbage patch catapult into...
"Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the very best new fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry, photography and art from around the world. It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the...
"Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy...
"Too many playwrights have forgotten how to write with a genuinely theatrical voice, or perhaps they never learned? Since the advent of naturalism in the late 19th century, the focus of playwriting has been on representing a realistic view of human life to the...
"Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction...
"The poems in Natalie Ann Holborow's Little Universe are an exploration of tumultuous human emotions and nature's ever-present rhythms. Lives bustle within a busy hospital's walls, humming against the Gower landscape that stretches beyond its windows. The tiny...
John Davidson retells myths and historical events (sometimes to highlight a modern concern or controversy), reinvents mythical or historical individuals, and now and then enjoys shameless forays into fantasy.
"This collection is a lyrical journey through identity, culture, and resilience, exploring the depths of the human spirit with raw honesty and poetic grace. With raw vulnerability and poetic precision, Atiq weaves together personal narratives and broader...
"Fabio Morábito is one of Mexico's best loved and most entertaining contemporary writers, his narratives marked by a humane irony and a philosophical resignation to the vagaries of his society and the irresistible tyrannies of time. Some of his poems make the...
"Since his 1973 debut, New Weather, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have consistently won him the highest...
"A revelatory and joyous exploration of how one visionary inspired two hundred years of art, poetry and protest by the acclaimed author of Albert and the Whale. Weaving between the historical, cultural, and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a...
"The author of Mixed Feelings offers a raw, introspective collection of poems exploring fame, ego and love, blending personal reflection with vivid imagery to dissect the complexities of identity and the cost of celebrity"--Publisher's description.
"Set against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai'i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind. In seven...
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