A young boy lives in an orphanage that is completely surrounded by a thick wall. Every day, he wishes he were free. He wishes he had a new life. And then he meets the loblolly boy, who is strange, mysterious and who promises the young boy that he can teach him how to fly - as he himself can, with his green, feathery wings. In teaching the boy how to fly, however, the loblolly boy has made an Exchange--he switches place with the orphan. Now the young boy is free and the loblolly boy is "real." The young boy rejoices in his freedom until he realizes the price he has paid and soon sets out to make his own Exchange - but at what cost?

The Boy Who Could Fly

Children's Books

Norcliffe, James

Action & Adventure

EgmontUSA

James Norcliffe is one of New Zealand’s most widely published and anthologised poets. In Dark Days at the Oxygen Café, he looks over the shoulders of many characters and creatures, both real and imagined, and takes us deep into uncanny valleys. Poems about Seneca and James Dean sit alongside poems about a Turken dictator and an owl man. We share in a portentous UFO sighting, a small celebration for Laika the space dog, and Peter the Great being offered an Air New Zealand lolly. These scenes from myth, history, pop culture and personal experience make for a wryly funny, deeply felt collection that contemplates the quirks of shared and personal histories.

Dark Days at the Oxygen Cafe

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Victoria University Press

Not all true love is destined to last. . . Livia knows three things about love so far: 1. People don't always tell you the truth about how they feel. 2. Nothing that happens between two people is guaranteed to be private. 3. She doesn't know if you ever get over having your heart broken. Livia's experience of love has been disappointing, to say the least. But all that is about to change. After years of illness, she's off to spend the summer with her brother in America. She's making up for lost time, and she's writing it all down in her private blog. America is everything she ever dreamed of—and then she meets Adam. Can Livia put the past behind her and risk falling in love again?

Invisible Boy

In this wry and witty collection--addressed to the first interstellar object ever to be detected in our solar system--James Norcliffe applies a cool, clear eye to human life on Earth. Our foibles and absurdities are laid bare, but so too is the human capacity for love, desire, sorrow, and regret. Norcliffe's succinct observations traverse the personal and the political. Grounded in the local but encompassing the global, they range through subjects such as commuting, insomnia, and faltering health to the contemplation of current events and issues such as gun violence and climate change. The landscapes and settings of these poems are vividly evoked, often in terms of human impact. Birds, 'knowing what we are,' take flight at the approach of a person; a coal range is the acknowledged centre of a West Coast family's survival. Often very funny, and always deeply felt, Norcliffe's Letter to 'Oumuamua describes a world where every day is both everyday--gritty, material, bread-and-butter--and also luminous and precious: a 'day like no other.'

Letter to 'Oumuamua

Otago University Press

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The Boy Who Could Fly

Dark Days at the Oxygen Cafe

Invisible Boy

Letter to 'Oumuamua