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For the 2025 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 141 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.Another packed issue, #59 showcases the raw and the vital ― including from this year’s featured poet, Mark Prisco...

If you and I are in the same =‘entertainment venue’ for this =‘stand-up comedy special’ and I am =‘my body’ and you are =‘my audience’ I run to you and shout your name into the dark, in the hope you are there.Yes, you=‘dear reader’=‘attentive listener’.This is a story about t...

A new poetry collection from award-winning writer Airini Beautrais. a portrait of an uneasy stretch of time. The poet looks back at various episodes of her life and then far ahead, to other lives and ways of seeing. She sheds cynicism, celebrates some constraints and rejects others, and keeps rewrit...

In this unforgettable first book of poetry by Haro Lee, television – like love – binds us, liberates us; inspires, infuriates and illuminates us. a poetic chronicle of Haro’ s time in Aotearoa, South Korea and the United States of America. In four parts – ‘ Daytime Television’ , ‘ Prim...

The debut novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries and Birnam Wood.As a rumour spreads about a teacher sleeping with a student, a group of teenage girls are jolted into new awareness of their own vertiginous sexuality. Ripples move outward in unexpected directions: the saxophon...

From acclaimed author Lawrence Patchett, a compulsively readable story collection about men who are trying to do better. Whether training a rescue dog, starting a bucket chain to put out a raging fire, raising a marquee beside a line of Ferraris, or reporting on a sensitive workplace accident, the m...

Funerals happen.You walk past oneand call it a Tuesdayafternoon; the suncomes down. Thisis how it happens.A crowd gathers like black water, the mind forgets the mind, memories come knocking in the hallway, a pair of hands perfect the moon: is the debut poetry collection by Jackson McCarthy. Desire...

A new novel from the best-selling author of The Space Between.Two worlds, two women, one story.In 1793, eighteen-year-old Catherine is sentenced to transportation on the Tempest, a convict ship bound for New South Wales. Trapped below deck with scores of women, she endures storms, brutality and loss...

A joyride to the digital frontier of sex from one of Aotearoa’s most exciting young artists. No holes barred.Rough sketches of suburban banality provide the perfect set up: A WINZ officer in a deadbeat Northland town; a grieving middle-aged church-goer; a devoted dad with tenure and a barbecue. Bl...

A powerful and compelling new novel about friendship, false prophets and the lure of belonging- from the bestselling author of One of Those Mothers.'Other People's Bodies is a tender exploration of the complex boundaries between love, desire, trust and control, and the healing power of female friend...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for FictionNamed one of the best books of 2024 by The Spinoff and NewsroomIn the Bookety Book Books Reader's Choice Top 10'I couldn't put it down - a moving, heartbreaki...

A powerful literary debut from an astonishing new Kiwi voice, focusing on the Indo-Fijian indenture system and how it affected generations across the Pacific.Rajasthan 1888: Avani Rathod, a nomad of the community, is summoned to teach a blue-eyed colonial officer the trees of her region, but instead...

From the South Auckland Poets Collective to regional writers festivals, at poetry slams and open mic nights, in theatre works like Show Ponies and Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, performance poetry has taken off in Aotearoa. In this anthology, ninety performance poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, slam p...

What use is poetry in times of ecological and political turbulence? grapples with this question, invoking both human voices and the voices — ‘the silt and the slash’ — of the natural world.Powerful and illuminating, these poems show that peace, gentleness and reflection are a form of resista...

The latest novel from Charlotte Grimshaw, best-selling author of The Mirror Book.A woman haunted by family denial, secrets and a shadowy figure.While her brother Cedric spirals into addiction, Alice Lidell finds herself confronted not only by his decline, but by memories of the past. From their chao...

An always hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking new novel from the publishers of Marian Keyes and Dolly Alderton.raw, hilarious and so lifelike I kept forgetting I wasn't reading about real people. I felt every frustration, every high and every low as if these women were my friends. A heartfelt, funny...

is a delightful experiment in form by New Zealand poet James Brown. Each scene in this book is like a 1-minute pop song: its depths are at first easy to miss. But as the story proceeds, the grand scheme of things hoves into view: we are born, we crawl and then are carried away, and everything is a-s...

is a work of world-building that draws on myth, pop culture, pūrakau and science fiction – and the arrival of a dazzling new voice in New Zealand poetry. In the belly of is the Mantis: an amorphous, many-faced being, as fluid and full of history as the moana. It is a thing holding a machete in on...

A surprising and genre-bending poetic memoir about the years when everything got weirder.I write not to communicate or reveal but to mull and conceal, but I guess that’s a form of communication too, of connection, of little anchors, little hooks, little holes you can put your eye up to, your heart...

This beautifully written book which the author calls 'a fiction', is set within the real world of Canterbury art in the year of the earthquake, with real Canterbury people. It centres around a Belarus refugee who fled his country to find freedom. Sam and Gregor meet weekly to discuss art's purpose...

The poems in observe that life means doing ordinary and marvellous things, like going to Bunnings, falling asleep on the train, losing and finding poems, losing and dreaming of our mothers, loving, dying, and deciding what to wear.‘Mischievously joyful, like being in on the very best in-joke. Jenn...

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some ter...

Tusiata Avia is an essential voice in New Zealand and Pasifika literature. In this fearless collection, she weaves together the voices of the living and dead, the past and the present in poems that are confessional and confrontational, gentle and funny. Speaking from Samoa, Christchurch, Gaza and Ne...

An unforgettable WWII love story inspired by the arrival of the US troops in Wellington.Wellington, 1942. Lorna's brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, and as war rages in the Pacific, 20,000 Marines are sent to keep New Zealand safe. The Americans find their new post strange and unwelcomi...