"When Brianna Pastor released her self-published poetry collection, Good Grief, she was blown away by the outpouring of support from people who reached out and said, "Yes. Me too." For anyone who has struggled with questions of identity or coped with serious...

"How much of your life do you review? Books, TV, film, music the reviewable things? Ever tried going a little further, reviewing the intangibles, the abstract, the 'weird': a houseplant; the sunlight on the pavement on a crisp spring day; being embarrassed;...

"A Year in Story and Song is a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons. We humans love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them, around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to make sense of the world around us....

"A bestselling author's definitive guide to writing and publishing research-based nonfiction for a wide audience. Writing fact-based nonfiction for large general audiences requires two different skills: the ability to conduct rigorous research and to craft...

"I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own. In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Palestine to Kosovo to Rwanda, Channel 4 News...

"Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity. In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate...

"This poetry anthology provides a bright and cheery way to start your day, with one joyful poem for every morning of the year. Whether you wake up to the chirping of birds or stumble out the door in a last minute rush, it's important to take some time for...

Pax is a book of peace, a book of love poems to the world. The poems within these pages ask us to wake to our own remarkable lives and our undeniable connections, to look with a steady eye at the demands of love. Whether considering insects, the soul, or the...

A poem by a New Zealand musician Paul McLaney in a board book format that looks like a small stereo speaker (thanks to black die-cut concentric circles on white background) and requires the reader to turn the book over once on the back page to continue...

"This volume provides a generous selection of his poetry, from the sonnet 'Ozymandias' to famous lyrics such as 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'Lines Written among the Euganean Hills', to the longer poems of his maturity, Adonais and Epipsychidion, all thoroughly...

"Tusitala is the debut poetry collection of Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson, known for their work with Tagata Atamai which aims to amplify the voices of the Moana through community, culture and creativity. Dani says this book was written for "the mothers who...

"A treasure trove of wintery nature tales from storytellers across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every dark night"--Publisher's description.

"Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Kirli Saunders, Dreaming in the Urban Areas is an unforgettable work of Indigenous poetry. Lisa Bellear (1961-2006) was a Goenpul woman of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah,...

"The Seymour Biography Lecture was presented annually at the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia from 2005 to 2023, by eminent biographers, autobiographers and memoirists. From political profiles to 'tragic poems', this...

"New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem. What is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeling and thought? In a series of 64 gorgeous, ramifying,...

In 1939, into the mountainous beauty of the province of Ra, a baby boy is born. As he grows, Tubuna is a boy of largess: in heart, in wonder and in determination. These are the traits of his people and traits that guide him into an adulthood where he is...

"The wild secrets of boyhood is where Lloyd Jones sets off in his first book of poetry; intoxicated with images, and invoking dream spaces where language is forever in play. Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to...

"History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to...

"The literary creativity that flowed through Oceania between 1960 and 1980, an era referred to as the "Golden Age" of Pacific writing, is inextricable from the optimism of a decolonizing age. It is also inseparable from the establishment of the University of...

"A moving, nourishing and uplifting collection of poems that have acted as friends to their readers"--Publisher's description.

"A poignant and rousing debut book of poetry from the acclaimed, best-selling author of the novel Nightcrawling, also the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, CA. Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first collection of...

"A beautifully illustrated collection of haiku poetry from the 100 most famous Japanese poets. Ongoing spring; a nameless mountain under a light mist — Basho. This beautifully illustrated collection of haiku poems by Japan's best-known poets is perfect for...

"This essential guide helps business writers and other professionals learn the strengths and weaknesses of AI as a writing assistant. You'll discover how AI can help you by chopping through writer's block, drafting an outline, generating headlines and titles,...

"Everyone has a story to tell, and Van Cleave provides you with the tools you need to share your life story with the world. You'll get advice on how to explore your memories, map out your story, perfect your plot, and so much more"--Publisher's description.

"Life isn't for the faint-hearted - nor is living with chronic illness. Grief, acceptance, loneliness, friendship, small joys, healing moments, new perspectives: here are forty-one short poems that offer bite-sized comfort and connection, for anyone in need of...

"For many years, "nature poetry" has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón,...

"Explores how the creative literary imagination can influence progressive social change in the real world ... McNeill applies insights from Marxist critical theory to the works of selected Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian writers. From Harry Holland, Henry...

"Imagine looking over the shoulder of your favourite author and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is that the author has to write, cut and rewrite their words, often many times, in order...

"Time and whakapapa slowly unravel as Talia Marshall weaves her way across Aotearoa in a roster of decaying European cars. Along the way she will meet her father, pick up a ghost, transform into a wharenui, and make cocktail hour with Ans Westra. Men will come...

"Fiction and non-fiction are two sides of the same coin. Or are they? Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. But who is the woman dead in the bathtub? And why does the voice of Yves Montand singing 'Les Feuilles Mortes' surge from...

Koe invites readers to explore human connections with nature through a selection of over 100 poems composed in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-European times to the present day. Including a substantial introduction and editors' notes, Koe is the first anthology...

"Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them. Until...

"Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved British poets of all time. Richly melodious and vividly expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying, of innocence lost and the persistence of nature's cycles. In this new selection,...

"Alicia Cook is back with the highly anticipated final tracklist in her poetry collection of mixtapes, The Music Was Just Getting Good. Following in the footsteps of her first two installments, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately (2016) and Sorry I Haven't Texted...

"In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her...

"A midnight moon is a moving collection of poetry from celebrated bestselling author R.H. Sin. With the honesty and transparency that he has become known for, Sin takes readers on a solitary journey of sleepless nights through goodbyes, the unforgivable, and...

"Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In this new poetry collection, Jay details his journey through faith and baptism during an unprecedented world-wide pandemic. Jay's poetry explores belief in the modern world and...

"In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, "illegal river to river, wap wap wap WOW!" The poet hurtles toward the tenth decade of his life and into the sixth decade of his lightning-rod career,...

"This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen gives her readers the happy ending they crave, but leaves its price tag attached"--Publisher's description.

"National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi...

"The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations in popular culture. But how well do we really know his plays? In this witty,...

"From a beloved comedy critic, a wisecracking, heartfelt, and overdue chronicle of comedy's boom―and its magic. Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular,...

"Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and...

"Deep-sea Creeps is a taxonomy of those terrible exes that should have been left lurking in the murky depths of your Tinder messages – from The Self-Proclaimed “Nice Guy” to The Egomaniac, and even The Ex Who Wanted To Break Up (But Wanted You To Do It). This...

"Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns, with lines inflected by the spoken music of their Arabic,...

"What if there was a shortcut for helping readers get to know your characters? Would you take it? Characters are as complex as people and revealing their inner layers without chunky blocks of pace-stopping description is a challenge. The Occupation Thesaurus...

"Every story starts with a character who is motivated by a need and has a goal that can resolve it. Whether their objective is to find a life partner, bring a killer to justice, overthrow a cruel regime, or something else, conflict transforms a story premise...

"Jane Austen Daddy's Girl: The Life and Influence of the Revd George Austen is a poignant and pertinent examination of a relationship which became the cornerstone of Jane's life, the bedrock of family and faith as she knew them. Our epic journey through the...

"Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. The English translation is presented on pages facing the Vietnamese text and provides literal...

"In this powerful, moving new book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognised that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes everywhere and always, in matters great and small, new life blossoms amongst the ruins. Here, in poems that explore...

"In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and...

"Queer resistance poetry, feminist poems, LGBTQIA+, religious trauma, Catholic prayers; reclaimed Bible verses, recovery, solidarity, gender liberatory, lesbian poetry, Canadian poetry"--Publisher's description.

"Adventurous college friends uncover ancient revelations while exploring unmapped territory on an obscure trade route in Central Asia. For the sake of a science experiment, a man fearlessly embarks on an aerial expedition across Montana in the comfort of his...

"What's the connection between Shakespeare and maths? A lot, as it turns out! Shakespeare grew up in a time of remarkable mathematical innovation. From astronomy to probability, music to multiplication, new mathematical ideas were taking off - and much of this...

"Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its reputation for obscurity and needless legalese is widespread. Since 2001, Bryan A. Garner's Legal Writing in Plain English has helped...

"In this deftly woven work Flora Feltham explores the corners where her memories are stashed: the archive vault, her mother's house, a marriage counsellor's office, the tip and New World. She takes us on a frenzied bender in Croatia, learns tapestry and meets...

"A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world. James Brown’s eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential unremarkable activities that...

"Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting is an ode to existing in physical form, fully aware of the changing energy that flows through every aspect of it. As Abrão writes, 'tapping into the ether body to take a break from the demands of the earth body, / making...

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grace's Guide and the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! comes a beautifully illustrated, tongue-in-cheek book about style that lampoons fashion and beauty guides while offering practical advice in Grace...

"A DIY poetry book from the author behind the viral online sensation. For fans of Wreck this Journal, A Poem for Every Day of the Year and Burn After Writing. Discover the joy of expressing what's inside you, with fill-in-the-blank poems that are sparking a...

"This inspiring collection, curated by the host of the Poetry Unbound, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig's illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into...

"Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain for all to see. In WHAT, the original 'People's Poet' comes storming out of the gate with...

"Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. An early and influential book on questions of form in...

"Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences of life, love, and death"--Publisher's description.

"When Brianna Pastor released her self-published poetry collection, Good Grief, she was blown away by the outpouring of support from people who reached out and said, "Yes. Me too." For anyone who has struggled with questions of identity or coped with serious...

"Including over fifty writers from diverse ethnic and demographic communities (representing parents/grandparents/matua, offspring/rangatahi, educators, doctors, social workers, researchers, creatives and other disciplines) Rere Takitahi/Flying Solo eviscerates...

"An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and...

"The title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behavior of certain birds. Rather than waiting passively...

"The poems in Gillian Clarke's The Silence begin during lockdown, to whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence deepens, in the poems about her mother and childhood, about the Great War and its...

"An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900. Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes...

"Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five years poet and author Kathleen Jamie has been turning her attention to a new form of writing: micro-essays, prose poems, notes and fragments. Placed together, like...

"The White Review Anthology of Writing in Translation will bring the most innovative and exciting international writers working today to an Anglophone audience. The anthology will place the work of celebrated authors and translators alongside emerging voices....

"Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory"--Publisher's description.

"This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and characters reappear, speaking to one another across...

"Expat New Zealand poet Dunstan Ward's new collection of poems, DISTANCES, takes the reader "deep into the heart of loss and love, into the reality of mortality, into life's mystery and its sorrow. The collection as a whole is an unflinching examination of...

"Michael Giacon's first volume of poetry, Undressing In Slow Motion, has Giacon undressing at the turn of each page in a dishevelment of past, present and beyond. We travel with Giacon as he negotiates death, life and love while reconciling his deep...

"The thrushes are back. The blackbirds too are back, already worrying the thrushes, filching their choice worms. The gorse is running the hills along the Aramoana Road, spills the slopes yellow; the broom, so much more politely, you call it gold. Look again,...