New Zealand Poets

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield comes with a new introduction by Ali Smith. Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling, and perceptive short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving and resonant, full of light and colour, they span from short, sharp studies to longer, richer tales. This volume encompasses her three major works:...

This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: 'We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.' Innovative and...

Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced by Anton Chekhov, a master of the form. This new selection, with an introduction by the novelist Emily Perkins, ranges across Mansfield's oeuvre and shows the New Zealander's...

The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ... This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New...

Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valery's definition of poetry as 'a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense'. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases that - suddenly, on the page - become new and delightfully weird. This is a many-peopled collection:...

The Garden Party and Other Stories comes with an introduction by Lorna Sage. Innovative, startlingly perceptive, and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All stories are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that...

What use is poetry in times of ecological and political turbulence? Peace and Quiet 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 resistance. 'Dinah Hawken is the high priestess of pin-drop poetry.' —James...

Decline and Fall on Savage Street is a fictional companion to The Villa at the Edge of the Empire and the winner of the 2017 NZ Heritage Novel Award. This fascinating prize-winning novel revolves around a house with a fanciful little turret, built by a river. Unfolding within its rooms are lives filled with event and emotional upheaval. A lot...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield's stories were integral...

The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish, and In a German Pension. Virginia Woolf claimed that Mansfield's writing was 'The only writing I have ever been...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bear. Katherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, whose work was described by Virginia Woolf as 'the only writing I have ever been jealous of'. These eight tales show her gift...

A significant new biography of Ralph Hotere provides the compelling life story of this major New Zealand artist. Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist...

An exploration of the complexities of relationships and psychological conflicts, Katherine Mansfield Short Stories are must-read classics. This collection is the best of her work, featuring some of her most famous stories like 'The Garden Party' and 'The Doll's House'. Mansfield's fiction examines universal themes of gender roles, societal expectations, human psychology, and relationships with a distinct voice. Her humorous...

Come inside and meet the Drizzles who make the rain. A couple of monsters who like dressing up. A little house that has an adventure. Some pirate rats and gulls who fight over a delicious pie. Some trees who have a party. And a clever little pig who saves her brothers and sisters from a mean wolf! With its delightful...

A definitive, exquisite collection of stories exploring class, relationships, and the beauty and banality of ordinary life by an underappreciated master of the form, with an introduction by bestselling novelist and essayist Sloane Crosley. "I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of." -Virginia Woolf In New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield's brief yet blazing...

Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield celebrates the exceptional influence Katherine Mansfield had on the modernist short story. Mansfield (1888-1923) was a pivotal figure whose work profoundly impacted writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. This collection presents, for the first time, draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, offering scholars and students alike vivid new insight into...

"Now one could imagine that the little front legs rubbed against each other lightly, joyfully. The horrible danger was over; it had escaped; it was ready for life again." Deft, subtle, and bitingly ironic, Katherine Mansfield's short story is a highly concentrated depiction of grief and cruelty. Taking as its narrative occasion a brief meeting between two bereaved fathers, The...

When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realisation of...

The photographs in Nicholas Pollack's new book Meadow were made between 2015-2020 in and around Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S. Inspired by the landscape of the New Jersey Meadowlands, Meadow is a body of work about a small plot of land and the friendships and interactions between a group of truck drivers who forge a transcendent relationship with the place. Meadow...

The grass with little daisies in it springs as if springs are under my feet. I poke the ferrule of my umbrella in it, as if I need a prop for steadiness and yet it is a pretence: waterlogged or not something like joy is running underneath.   In her twentieth poetry collection, Elizabeth Smither brings together a new ensemble...

The poems in What to Wear 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.

The Deck is a novel about telling stories in a time of change. What is the point of inventing stories when reality eclipses imagination? A little way off in the future, during a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escapes to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music, eating, drinking...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it. A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations, the news of a neighbour's...

Wild Places is a gorgeous hardback collection of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. This beautiful new hardback edition captures Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive tales. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer whom Virginia Woolf envied. She transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories that are miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so...

A queer / takatāpui Māori writer living in Berlin, Germany since 2015, Hinemoana Baker brings a unique perspective both to and from the 'global North'. Drawing on the German meaning of the word 'funken' – to send a radio signal – her latest collection broadcasts unsettling songs of rebirth, love, friendship, and alienation across homes and languages, to the living...

An anthology of 100 poems celebrating Wellington. Capturing the vivacity and diversity of the capital, this poetic portrait is a celebration of Wellington and the creative life it inspires. Beginning with the inner city and harbour, the 100 poems move into the suburbs and parks, before heading to outer areas—and into the twenty-first century. Major New Zealand poets, visitors from...

The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at herself. She is jumping over the lazy dog. She is lying face down in the mud...

A collaboration with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki inspired by the prominent artwork in their forecourt pool, Guide Kaiarahi, by the artist Reuben Paterson (Te Arawa, Ngati Rangithi, Tuhourangi). Ghost Waka is a premium, large-format hardback illustrated children's book, telling a new and contemporary tale in English and Maori featuring the phantom waka of Lake Tarawera.

Angel Train brings together four novellas on different themes and with very different central characters: a literary friendship between an English and New Zealand poet; a well-meaning Tasmanian highwayman and the DNA of righting wrongs; a fleeing French countess and, centuries later, the floundering marriage of an English actor and a lover of hydrangeas; and, in the final story, the...

Most of the time I have no idea what to do with them or what to say in response to them. Award-winning New Zealand poet Glenn Colquhoun is also a doctor who works with struggling young people at the margins, painfully aware of the limits of his role. In this BWB Text, he offers penetrating insight into the little he...

As war is waged in the Middle East, a woman in New Zealand has her nose in a book. Kate is immersed in other battles, engrossed in eyewitness accounts of an earlier war in ancient Persia. She has grown up, left her Otago home, and returned, and in all these years, books have shaped her life and made sense of...

A unique Hawke's Bay landmark that combines wine, food and design in luxury surroundings. Meandering across the foothills of Te Mata Peak and through the Tuki Tuki Valley, Black Barn Vineyards has become one of Hawke's Bay's most popular attractions. Its evolution over the past 20 years is a story of enterprise and creativity—from a single cottage into a wine,...

Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary "And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go." Three sharp and powerful short stories from Katherine Mansfield, one of the genre's all-time masters. Introducing...