16 must-read poetry books like Super Model Minority by Chris Tse

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Super Model Minority

By: Chris Tse

4.25

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A spirited and confronting new poetry collection from one of New Zealand’s most notable voices.

If you liked the poetry plot in Super Model Minority by Chris Tse , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Hera Lindsay Bird

By: Hera Lindsay Bird

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.........with many beneficial… read more

Similar categories in Hera Lindsay Bird's Hera Lindsay Bird book and Chris Tse's Super Model Minority

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer

2. Haruko/Love Poems

By: Adrienne Rich , June Jordan , Sara Miles

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Haruko Little moves on sight blinded by histories as trivial or expansive as the rain seducing … read more

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3. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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4. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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5. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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6. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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7. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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8. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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9. Hula

By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that u… read more

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"We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction."

-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula

"In Hilo, we are the `āina. Its mist is our breath, its rain our tears, its waters our blood. Our veins run deep, our song louder than their noise. Roots too deep to extract. That’s the thing about hu…"

-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula

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10. Auē

By: Becky Manawatu

4.50

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more

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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."

-Becky Manawatu, Auē

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11. Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised

By: Alice Te Punga Somerville

4.51

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

A first book of poetry from acclaimed Maori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. read more

Similar categories in Alice Te Punga Somerville's Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised book and Chris Tse's Super Model Minority

  • poetry
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12. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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13. Tauhou

By: Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities b… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Each no-dig hāngi we make in the oven with cabbage leaves sutures a different part of me back together. Every time we collect and cook something together with love and joy makes up for every time I a…"

-Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tauhou

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14. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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15. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

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  • poetry
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16. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

Similar categories in Tayi Tibble's Poukahangatus: Poems book and Chris Tse's Super Model Minority

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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17. Rangikura

By: Tayi Tibble

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more

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  • poetry
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18. When I Open the Shop

By: romesh dissanayake

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothin… read more

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19. Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

By: Aaiún Nin

3.90

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. People Person

By: Joanna Cho

4.38

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Super Model Minority

By: Chris Tse

4.25

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A spirited and confronting new poetry collection from one of New Zealand’s most notable voices. read more

Similar categories in Chris Tse's Super Model Minority book and Chris Tse's Super Model Minority

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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22. Echidna

By: Essa May Ranapiri

4.48

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Echidna is a dangerous animal; she pokes holes in men just to remind them what kind of monster she… read more

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  • poetry
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23. All Who Live On Islands

By: Rose Lu

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate an… read more

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  • lgbt
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24. Meat Lovers

By: Rebecca Hawkes

4.20

Format: 92 pages, ebook

In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawke… read more

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  • poetry
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25. We're All Made of Lightning

By: Khadro Mohamed

4.45

Format: 91 pages, None

We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Moha… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Kitten

By: Olive Nuttall

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous b… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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27. Aria

By: Jessica Hinerangi

4.52

Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition

Where is my tongue?On display, a trophy of war.Where is my tikanga?Kept in the basement.Where is my… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Max

By: Avi Duckor-Jones

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

I want to let her know that choosing something is the entire problem. How do you choose somethin… read more

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29. A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world

By: Witi Ihimaera

4.47

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meetin… read more

Similar categories in Witi Ihimaera's A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world book and Chris Tse's Super Model Minority

  • poetry
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30. Peninsula

By: Sharron Came

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

There’s Di, waking up in hospital, feeling scrubbed raw. Ritchie and Willy, toasting their dead fri… read more

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31. Whai

By: Nicole Titihuia Hawkins

4.57

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Nicole Titihuia Hawkins’ first collection, Whai, introduces the voice of a strong and assertive poe… read more

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  • poetry

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