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In this book of beautiful, visceral verse and prose poetry, Hamang explores questions of pain, desire, and the space between us. Inspired by their time as an expat in Istanbul, the work is set to the backdrop of that seething metropolis. Hamang's work, written to be read in a packed bar, is evocative, sensual, and leaves you wanting more.

Extinction Rebellion: A Tribute powerfully realizes the harsh reality of contemporary climate change. Spotlighting the vital issue of our times, the poems here lyrically explore the complexities of what it means to live on the brink of environmental ruin. Extinction Rebellion: A Tribute is rooted in the twilight years when the living faces death and the dead look back. The personal and the global come together in an upsurge of hope, despair an...

Why does a world-famous woman ask down-and-out private investigator Harry Mann to find her missing daughter, Angela? What do they see in each other's eyes? And why is anyone who has anything to do with Angela ending up dead?What possessed concert pianist Hari Manze to accept an invitation to perform at Babele, a half-built luxury hotel in the Kgalagadi desert that is actually an ex-president's vision of building a Tower of Babel up to his brot...

Rosenthal's poetry and images, born out of trauma, are remarkably soft and uplifting. Like all good poetry the words tug at our own memories and emotions and complement the colour, vibrancy and movement of the images. A Chill Wind Dawning is at once delightful yet melancholic, filled with energy, yet gentle.

The Toy Box: navigating the realms of myth-making, fairytales and storytelling, Johnson's The Toy Box is a magical poetry collection. Johnson is a master stoyteller. Shifting between the worlds of the adult and child, The Toy Box sees the author at his creative best.Hide your Eyes - The Rumi Poems: Ever popular thirteenth century persian poet, Rumi acts as poetic inspiration and intermediary in this powerful new collection of love poems. At tu...

At the end of the world, Keatown is already struggling for existence. Then come the driftdead! Dead like zombies, but with no interest in eating human flesh, and driven by a force beyond hunger."Driftdead is as canny a book about the uncanny as you would want to read. Past and future stream, our catastrophic present is registered with hallucinatory clarity: haunting characters from a small Aotearoan town speak the rhapsodies of their passing f...

Part prose-poetry, part visual essay, Timelights informs, entertains, questions, philosophises and reminisces as it carries the reader through its exploration of memory, place, and meaning. Follow the narrative from the turning winds blowing through a Maori cemetery, to melting snow in the mountains of Japan, to the gritty sights and smells of Sydney's streets. Timelights leaves the reader feeling oddly melancholic, reflecting on the passage o...

A remarkable book, filled with anecdotes of candid spiritual experiences that may challenge the reader's beliefs and assumptions. This is interspersed with rich, concise theory that draws on a breadth of sources, from indigenous teachers, to medieval alchemists, to folklorists and modern philosophers. Yet, Into the World is a practical book, to be consulted as much as it is to be read. Meet your ancestral ally. Learn about plant spirit medicin...

Little fox lived a content and happy life until one summer, when there was no rain. What if it never returned?Something had to be done. Will Little Fox retrievethe magic rainsticks and end the drought?

Kleiner Fuchs war glücklich und zufrieden. Doch eines Tages hatte es aufgehört zu regnen. Was wäre, wenn der Regen nicht zurückkommen würde? Etwas musste geschehen. Schafft Kleiner Fuchs es, die magischen Regenstäbe zurückzuholen, damit die Trockenheit ein Ende hat.

Lethal Dose is the best novel Mike Johnson has written... a scathingly well-written novel. All the goodies are here: booze, sex, violence, brothels, anarchists, drugs, lesbians, vampires, angst, fast cars, Bergman pics, poison, humour and death. Everything you¿d expect to find in contemporary Auckland, New Zealand, in the last chance decade.

a graphic novelThe year is 1869Te Kooti Arikirangi te Turuki, founder of the Ringatu religion, commands a deadly Maori guerilla force.Te Urewera is the battleground: a wilderness of forest, bird, mountain and waterway. Crow of Whareatua brings to life a one-month period of a brutal war, one which was to shape New Zealand¿s destiny.

In ancient India the Buddha's chief disciple, Ananda, falls in love with a tender-hearted woman who makes him question the nature of desire. In our contemporary world, an anonymous hero set out across town for a mysterious interview, and meets, in the most unlikely form, his eternal lover. At the end of time, in deep space, the intrepid Captain Nortikiss must not only deal with aliens from another dimension, but do battle with a zombie in a sp...

Dearest friend, Tomorrow I fly to New Zealand, a country where my future master will no doubt teach me the deepest secrets of brewing the most marvelous, miraculous and magcal potions. Perhaps he will teach me how to make an invisibility potion? No, no. Too mundane. I'm sure he'll teach me the sort of magic that paints the Milky-Way with the stars, the kind that swaps the sky with the still ocean, or the ones that make fireflies dance in winte...

A group of young activists is all that stands between a wood chipping company and an ancient Australian rainforest. But when they discover a decomposing corpse in a logging coupe, they find they are up against more than angry loggers. 'Sometimes at night I think they don't like me, and they try and trip me up or turn me around, or I imagine there are other things in the forest. Evil things. I'm not like you. I like the city. I like people....

What does the Taniwha look like? He pehea te ahua nei o te Taniwha ra? The Taniwha is New Zealand's best known and most loved mythological creature... But what do they look like? Poet Mike Johnson and artist Jenn Rackham come together to explore this great mystery. To be read aloud for pleasure, or used as an early reader, Taniwha will delight both young and old.

52 stories, one for every week of the year. Some light and frothy, some dark and devious, some sweet and magical, and some just downright cheeky, here's a book of stories for those who might have given up on stories. Consider them the truffles at the feast, to savour and enjoy! These stories will lighten up any holiday or dull moment en route to your own paradise island. Meet Harry the hobbit, who receives a most unusual gift, a magical typewr...