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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 God, self, society and death emerged a body of work which reveals him to be not merely the most accessible and complete poet to have lived in New Zealand, but also one of the great English-language poets of the twentieth century.' John Weir's definitive selection of James K. Baxter's best poems?has been made from the more than three thousand poems?that comprise his literary legacy.

James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was a seven-year-old pupil at Brighton Primary School. By the time his first book, Beyond the Palisade, was published when he was eighteen, he had written more than 600 poems. His life's work, contained in this four-volume set, runs to just over 3000 poems, more than half of which have never before been published. John Weir, a fellow poet, friend and confidant of Baxter, has achieved the Herculean task of sorting these into a coherent order, noting where poems have been reworked or repurposed, their possible inspirations and influences, and Baxter's own thoughts about his work. Baxter's poetry is rich with imagery and mythology, with themes of nature, religion, social commentary and human frailty. It ranges from the spiritual to the obscene, from simple children's rhymes and witty epigrams to epic ballads and sophisticated modernist works. He claimed the purpose of art was ' to provide a healthy and permanent element of rebellion', and that ' poetry should contain moral truth' .

China's new role as an important diplomatic and economic partner of the island countries of the Pacific has attracted increasing attention, and some controversy, in recent years. Based on a conference held at the National University of Samoa in Apia in February 2015, this volume discusses this topic.

These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at the supermarket - and they are fearless in form and address.

Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. In Selected Poems, its full range is represented for the first time.

Thirty-one exhilarating new stories from the acclaimed author of deleted scenes for lovers:

All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing.

Things OK with you? is Vincent O'Sullivan's first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems (2016). His Selected Stories was published in 2019 and The Dark Is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere in 2020.

Serves as a map of survival for Maori growing up outside of their papakaika. These poems look at how we take the knowledge we are given by our ancestors and hide it beneath our tongues for safekeeping. They show us how we live with our tupuna, without ever fully understanding them.

The short history of the Disinvent Movement is told by its creator as she looks back on her life in New Zealand, France, Switzerland and other countries. Intertwined with the movement are her efforts to find a way 'inside' - an entry point to the system in which so many others seem to be living happily.

Zum Bullshitter geht der Preis' - so said the great German author-philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774). Or did he?

Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women - and the first of its kind.

At fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural-hippy friends.

Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes.

The first book to represent the full extent of the work of James Brown. With personal lyrics, narrative desire, short takes, anti-poetry, stolen lines, and hill-climbing, Selected Poems is a showcase of one of New Zealand's essential poetic voices.

Rata Gordon's first poetry collection is both graceful and restless, sorrowful and witty. In poems about childhood, travelling, the body and the Earth, Gordon describes the freedom and disorientation we find in unfamilar places, and the way that our longings and imaginings animate our lives.

Offers a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.

At the centre of this book-length poem is a sister's disappearance, and a peculiar inheritance: an obsession with pins. Pins held between the teeth to tell a fortune, a downpour of a thousand pins, precious pins borrowed for an art installation.

A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . .

Urgent, witty and unnervingly beautiful, Oscar Upperton's first collection takes familiar language and makes it uncanny.

2000ft Above Worry Level begins on the sad part of the internet and ends at the top of a cliff face.

Friday 13 March, 2015: Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Pam makes landfall with devastating consequences. Vanuatu is bruised but not broken.

We don't need your whataboutery and moral prevarication. It's time to stand up and own your own culpability, complicity and . . . but I joke

God, she's just so good. She's the best. She kills me always, every time, and forever.' -Hera Lindsay Bird

A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong? John Newton's verse novel Escape Path Lighting is a throwaway epic, a romp, a curmudgeonly manifesto.

"Each and every day, at some point on our walk, he stops and lets me know that this is today's person, the party he wants to be introduced to." Chosen is the nineteenth collection of poems by cult Wellington poet and pedestrian Geoff Cochrane.

Tara Black's comic is surreal, dark, sad, perversely joyful, and if you bet someone they couldn't find another book remotely like it, you would win. It's a little bit about being married to Kenneth. It's a little bit about losing your cat. It's definitely not about the pole.

In Lay Studies, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage.

Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time.