Books published by Makaro Press

From the moment in mid-1965 when the urgent, cheeky, street smart rap of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' burst out of the family radio, Bob Dylan's voice has been embedded in the soundtrack of Jeffrey Paparoa Holman's life.

Every day we find ourselves in many spaces - green fields, force fields, playing fields, battlefields, left field or right field - where the ground rules differ and it's important to stay aware of the differences.

When the earth thrashes under us like a fish, the ordinary words we use to describe the devastation afterwards never seem enough. Lower Hutt poet Keith Westwater harnasses instead the language of science, journalism and myth to adequately express the horror of the Canterbury quak...es [...]
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Leaving the country you grew up in is both heart-wrenching and liberating. Ish writes of her move from New Zealand to Scotland, to find that tea leaves in a pot still make a cup of tea, but one that's somehow different. Then she winds back to other more painful leave-takings that... a pot of tea has no answer for. And Ish finds as she writes that what she misses most in her new life is the salty and reassuring place where fish grow. An accomplished first collection from a young poet that speaks directly and with great beauty of the stuff of the heart.
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There was a time ??when Heidi lived in? a house on Grass St that once belonged to ?poet Lauris Edmond. The hillside garden grew tulips and poems, and in the house with its view of the harbour, Heidi wrote poems of her own. But always there is the possibility of flight, and one da...y she takes off to London. In this wintry? and sometimes brutal place, the poet locates what it is she is missing. And then, like so many before her, decides to return home. Possibility of flight is a thoughtful and intimate first collection that ends unexpectedly with fireworks.
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