Magic Alex's Revenge by Michael O'Leary. Magic Alex's Revenge' is the final instalment of Michael O'Leary's trilogy, 'The Dreamlander Express'. Following on from the first two parts, 'Unlevel Crossings' and 'Straight', Magic Alex is a complex and often beguiling look at the "Sixties" generation of peace and love and anti-materialism degenerated into the 'I, me, mine' selfishness sparked by the mid-eighties Rogernomics which continues into the 21st Century Schizoid Person, fuelled by technology and greed. $30
   The Gospel According to Brian by Brian E Turner. (Out of Print) This is not a specialist book. It is an attempt by a non-Christian to make sense of a story that doesn't appear to make sense. When the famous Episcopalian Bishop Spong, who has written many popular books, says that the Passion narrative is a concoction invented by the gospel writers based on Old Testament stories and probably didn't happen then one is forced to wonder. 170 pages. $25     
    Notes from Underground is a photography collection. "Nigel Yates is the man behind the camera. The photographs in this book are the result of wonder. Wonder is the source of all photography, as of all art. That is why art lovers exist – they find joy in sharing that wonder. Yates does not want to be analysed but looked at, gone into, lived in for long enough to feel something of what he felt as he brought his camera to bear on what he saw." 2007 $35 
    Straight a novel in the Irish-Maori tradition by Michael O'Leary. Straight is the second novel in Michael O’Leary’s trilogy. It concerns the early years of two of the first novel Unlevel Crossings’ protagonists, Hinengaro Te Riro i He and Paul Te Ariki Calvert. 2007  $25
    Here & There, Now & Then by Isa Moynihan. In this richly textured collection of stories Isa Moynihan weaves a tapestry of places and times, past and present. 2007 $25
     Gate Crasher by Frances Cherry   "This new collection of short stories by Frances Cherry takes the reader by surprise as it turns unexpected corners. It is witty yet deeply moving. It takes the random and turns it on its head. Frances Cherry’s undeviating honesty, candid insight and sense of wonder shape these stories into an unforgettable collection. There is a sense of intimacy, and a feeling of being inside the stories. This is a work that is easily accessible, intelligent and full of vitality. I highly recommend it." Ronda Bungay 2006   $25.00  
    A Day for Waving by Brian E Turner
A novel. On the final day Lucy remains awake all night waiting for daylight to come and during this time reflects on her life from childhood. 2004 $25.
    Take a Seat and Rest Awhile  (Out of print) by Rosalind Derby.                                               
This art/text piece has been developed as a personal response to the very rapid and dislocating change happening in and around the Kapiti District during the last decade. 2004  $25 
    Ten Minutes to Midnight by Colin Lloyd Amery.
 The story of the aftermath of the Rainbow Warrior affair. 1989   $15    
     The Road Goes On by Brian E Turner. 
An historical novel covering swagman Rowdy Jack's six adventurous days in 1947 and his life before he hit the road.  2003  $35
     Unlevel Crossings by Michael O'Leary. 
Published by Huia Press but available from ESAW. It is a novel about Patrick Mika Fitzgerald who embarks on a physical and psychological train journey. 2002  $25
    Passion   by Glynn Parker. "The first New Zealand novel to examine a homosexual affair openly and directly... an ejoyable novel with a poignant, wise and erotic story..." Iain Sharp     $10 
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Poetry

    These Hands Are Not Ours  by Jill Chan. Her third book of poetry, explores the deep and sometimes uncanny relationships between our human experiences and our wider, more tenuous though, at times, no less ambiguous experiences of the divine. These poems are written in an almost subliminal language filled with beautiful tension and silent immensity.
     A Day in History   Edited/compiled by L. E. Scott. On January 21st 2009, coinciding with January 20th in the United States of America, over 40 musicians, poets, storytellers and dancers gathered in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand to celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American to be elected president of the United States of America. Included are a selection of the words that were spoken that night. The poets include L. E. Scott, Wanjiku Kiarie, Martyn Sanderson and Mark Pirie among others. $10
        Museum of Lost Days  poetry by Raewyn Alexander. (Out of print but copies available from the author) The Museum of Lost Days on display depends on the time, your drift and how often you enter. Affectionate snazz and ripped lingo mix fresh the way fit confidantes itech and polish a guild soundtrack. Some doors offer exotica, others more recognisable legerdemain. Perhaps taonga in pacific halls where lights glow on rarities or a historical snake of narrative. $15
       The WHITE Album Readings  Winter Readings is an annual event in Wellington organised by HeadworX Publishers, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop and Kwanzaa - the Afrikan Shop in conjunction with Wellington City Council and the City Gallery. The aim is to promote New Zealand poetry to the wider public through a series of lively readings taking place in the winter months in Wellington. Each year an anthology of the readers is produced and is edited/compiled by Mark Pirie. $15
        The Search by Mark Pirie. The Search brings together a collection of ‘lost’ poems and two stories unearthed from Mark Pirie’s early folders, notebooks and journals (mostly handwritten and written between 1993-1996). Together they form an interesting collection showing his early experimentation with form and style towards his own unique and prolific voice in contemporary New Zealand poetry.  $30
        London Notebook by Mark Pirie. This new book presents a witty artist's sketchbook of his time in the UK from March-April 2005 when he attended the London Book Fair and various poetry readings around London.  Includes photos.  $25
         Giving Poetry a Bad Name by Mark Pirie.  This new book collects for the first time the complete "replugged and uncut" picture of his early experimental output.  "The Mark Pirie juggernaut rolls on..." - Jack Ross, brief  $29.95
         Make Love and War  by  Michael O'leary.    Make Love and War is Michael O’Leary’s first all new poetry collection for several years. This new collection is sure to please fans old and new alike. $19.95                                                      
       Travel and other compulsions   by Heather McPherson. Poems "...  who you travel with is crucial to where you go. And wherever you go the landscape echoes"      $18
        Music Therapy  by Peter Olds. 
"Despite the serious, dark themes, it is refreshing to find poetry that does not simply float around the room without ever touching the ground." Hamesh Wyatt.               $15
        Incantations for Warriers Poems by Alistair Paterson, illustrations by Roy Dalgarno. 
A few copies still remain of this classic edition. Numbered and signed by the authors.  $25
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Mini Series
In 2005 we sent a Christmas gift to our special customers and friends, the Earl of Seacliff Christmas Surprise. This gave us the idea of producing a mini series of similar books. These books are all half normal size (capable of being put in the pocket or purse) and retail for $5.00.  PDF versions of the Surprise  and Surprise 2006 are available from Free Books.
1. The Moon That Excels in Nothing But Waiting by Iraqui poet Basim Furat. His second collection of poetry translated into English. Furat was born in 1967 in Karbalaa, Iraq. In early 1993 he left Iraq and became a refugee in Jordan. Four years later he arrived in New Zealand. His poetry has been translated into several languages, and his first collection of poetry translated into English, Here and There, appeared in 2004. He is a member of the Union of Arab Writers and is the New Zealand co-ordinator for Joussour, an Australasian Arabic/English magazine.
2.  Wellington Fool by Mark Pirie. The poems, mainly situated in Wellington, comment on events social, personal and political. Highlights include a trip to Frank Sargeson's cottage on Esmonde Rd, Auckland, an elegy for Aotearoa and Maori music icon Dalvanius Prime and a poem written at Te Herenga Waka Marae, Wellington, for writer/poet Apirana Taylor. Popular music artists and groups like Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Sonic Youth, and U2 also feature in the poems.
3.  Inside It  (Out of print) by Robin Fry. This selection includes both recent and earlier work, atmospheric pieces and narratives. It ranges from Wellington and the shores of Petone (where the poet lives) to far shores and into history. Her aim is to be inside the experience and take the reader in with her.
4.  Guild of Scavengers  (Out of Print) by Ralph Proops. Reading Camille Paglia’s Sex and Violence or Nature and Art in a dingy flat just off the Great North Road broke a fifteen year artistic drought, and in the summer of 1999 Ralph Proops first conceived the idea of a slim volume of Poetry titled Guild of Scavengers. The collection was written in various garrets around Wellington which, after an itinerant childhood in the United Kingdom, he has chosen as his adopted home city.
5. : City Limit by Tony Beyer. (Out of print) Currently in New Plymouth, Tony Beyer is a recidivist North Islander and has been all over the place. His books include Dancing Bear, The Century and Electric Yachts. Starting in 2003 he founded and edited five issues of Poetry Aotearoa, an innovative anthology of recent New Zealand poetry, published in Australia. A book of his new and selected poems is in preparation this year with HeadworX.  
6.   fluid by Karen Peterson Butterworth. (Out of print) Karen was born in Catlins, South Otago in 1934 and now lives in Otaki. Winner of the BNZ/Katherine Mansfield Essay Prize, she has been placed many times in poetry competitions. She has had short fiction, poetry, articles and columns published in journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas, and published one poetry and two non-fiction books. 70 numbered copies available.
7.   The Deaf Man's Chorus by Jeanne Bernhardt. An all new collection from Dunedin writer Jeanne Bernhardt. The Deaf Man's Chorus is a  very beautiful collection of poems, using minimalist and analytical structures to create powerful and resonant work at the cutting edge of contemporary New Zealand poetry. 
8.   The Mad Elephant by Peter Olds. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand , in 1944. He was Robert Bums Fellow at Otago University in 1978. His poems have appeared in most New Zealand journals and have twice been chosen for Best New Zealand Poems. In 2001 the Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop published his collection Music Therapy; it was followed in 2004 by It Was a Tuesday Morning: Selected Poems 1972, - 2001 (Hazard Press). In 2005 he was the recipient of a grant from the Janet Frame Literary Trust. A new collection, Poetry Reading at Kaka Point, is soon to be published by Steele Roberts.
9.  Döppelganger  by Vivienne Plumb and Adam Wiedemann.  The two poets met while on the Iowa International Writing Programme in 2004. Adam Wiedemann is an established and widely admired poet in Poland. His work is soon to be translated into English and released in the UK . This books offers a sampler of Widemann's work in both Polish and English. As well well-known writer Vivienne Plumb's work is translated by Wiedemann into Polish. This book is sure to be a fresh and original work in New Zealand poetry.
10.  Manual - the first 20 by major European Poet Richard Burns.  Manual - the first 20 is the start of a new series of poems by Burns. The book offers an exciting new development in Burns' oeuvre, a coup for a local publisher to have Burns in the mini series.Richard Burns was born in London in 1943, into a family of musicians.  He has lived in Italy , Greece , the USA and former Yugoslavia. His perspectives as a poet combine English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Oriental influences. In the 1970s, he founded and ran the international Cambridge Poetry Festival. In 2005, he was awarded the international Morava Poetry Prize. He has also received the Eric Gregory Award, the Keats Memorial Poetry Prize and the Yeats Club Prize. His poems have been translated into more than 20 languages. He lives in Cambridge, England.  
11. Early Egypt and the Late Egyptians   by Nelson Wattie.Nelson Wattie lives as a freelance translator in Wellington. Over thirty-five years he has translated more than seven million words from English into German and from German, Dutch, Norwegian, French, Italian and Spanish into English. Once he spent three weeks walking along the Austrian Danube from romantic village to romantic village. Once he sang Benjamin Britten in an open-air theatre near Salzburg. Once he travelled across Siberia by train. Once he co-edited The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Once he worked as a wine waiter in a Viennese restaurant. Once he sang Ross Harris (and Alistair Te Ariki Campbell) for Radio New Zealand. Once he completed a doctorate in literature at the University of Wuppertal. Once, in the dark shadow of the full moon, he surreptitiously relieved his bladder against the right leg of the Sphinx. Early Egypt and the Late Egyptians is his second book of poems in sixty-seven years.
12. postcards from Friedrichshain notes from Pomerania  by Sandra Bell. (Out of print) Sandra (a writer/musician) became well known in the Dunedin and Flying Nun scene in the 1990's. She has lived more recently in Germany and is now back in New Zealand. In 2000 she released her Berlin solo album City of Sorrows (with help from Bill Direen). She has had poetry published in anthologies and in the three poet volume Surrogate Children (with Brian Hare and Michael O'Leary) in 1981.
13. Autumn Leaves by Rosalie Carey. (Out of print) Rosalie has published two non-fiction books on theatre, (A Theatre in the House – the Carey’s Globe  reached the Listener top ten);  a text book on speech,  four books of poetry, as well as about twelve plays. Now in her mid-eighties she continues to teach oral communication and drama, travels around the country giving talks and readings, arranges fund-raising events, and acts professionally on stage and screen. $5.
14. The Sensual Anchor by Victor O'Leary.  While at Training College he was instrumental in the formation of the Glenco group and first published his poetry as a member of the group. Since then he has published poems in the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook and various literary periodicals. The Sensual Anchor was first published in 1958 by Louis Johnson’s Capricorn Press to show the important development of young urban writing in the post war years. $5
15. Stories I've Told by Frances Cherry.  Now publishing a book of poetry for the first time, Frances Cherry has already published seven novels and two books of stories as well as numerous stories in anthologies, on radio and in school journals. She is a creative writing tutor who now lives in Kilbirnie, Wellington, after many years in Paekakariki (and other places). $5
16. Uncivil Servant by Gemma Rowsell.  Her first published collection of poems. This mini-book is comprised of rhyming poems, primarily sonnets. Gemma uses rhyme, which is often considered a frivolous, shallow style, to discuss subjects ranging from P labs to disability issues; from schizophrenia to the daily grind of working life. $5
17. Three Poems by Ken Bolton.  A gay, light-hearted bastard, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary scene, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, lipstick-smeared, grinning cheerfully at the wheel of the 1958 Jaguar D-type, El Cid.  $5.
18. Reaching for the Baxters by Peter Olds.  (Out of print) Peter Olds was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1944. He was Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University in 1978 .In 2005 he received the Janet Frame Award for a poet.  $5 
19. Manual 2 - Holding the Darkness by Richard Burns.  (Out of print) RICHARD BURNS was born in London in 1943, into a family of musicians. This edition is the second set of 20 poems from his work-in-progress Manual, a sequence in celebration of human hands. The first set of 20 appeared as an ESAW mini-book in 2006 (No. 10)  $5
20.  Jubal's Lyre  by Will Leadbeater, no 20 in the ESAW mini series. Will Leadbeater was the poetry reviewer for the New Zealand Herald from 1980-88 and has published four collections of poetry. He writes: ‘I have had poetry published in the past but nothing recently, also over the past few years I have judged competitions for I.W.W. and in 1975 I won an American Poetry Competition judged by Donald Hall. For several years in a row, I was invited to three schools by the "Writer’s in Schools" programme.’ $5.00
21.  Slips by Mark Pirie. No 21 in the ESAW mini series. Light-hearted poems about cricket that focus on everything from a cricketer's love life to bizarre ways of being dismissed, unusual match reports, and elegies for dead cricket heroes like Freddie Trueman. $5
22. Out of Her Hair stories by Frances Cherry. The short story Out of Her Hair was originally intended for inclusion in Frances’ collection, Gate Crasher, but had to be replaced because it had been entered in a competition. Two new short pieces have been added to make up the book.  $5
23. Holding the Sea poems by Richard Berengarten. Number 23 in the ESAW mini series. Richard has authored two previous ESAW mini books (10 and 19) under the name of Richard Burns. With this book, he now repossesses the family name of his father, the cellist and saxophonist Alexander Berengarten. Like his previous two books in the series, this sequence of 20 poems is part of his work-in-progress, Manual, a sequence in celebration of humans hands. $5
24. Wellington Sonnets 2008  by prize-winning entrants in the Wellington Sonnet Competition 2008, a project of the Wellington Writers Walk Committee of the New Zealand Society of Authors, Wellington Branch.  As a result of this competition there are now 204 new poems about Wellington and the thirteen prize-winning sonnets are published in this booklet. Number 24 in the ESAW mini series. $4
25. Manual 4 RICHARD BERENGARTEN has authored three previous ESAW mini books (numbers 10, 19 and 23), the first two under the name of Richard Burns. Like his previous three books in this series, this sequence of 20 poems continues the serialised publication of his work-in-progress, Manual, a sequence in celebration of human hands. $5
28. Graffiti by Peter Olds. Number 28 in the ESAW mini series. Peter Olds received the Janet Frame Award for a poet in 2005. His previous mini books with ESAW are The Mad Elephant (8) and Reaching for the Baxters (18). In 2006 Steele Roberts published his collection Poetry Reading at Kaka Point. $5

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