Wedding Readings and Poems by Various
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Offering indispensable inspiration for wedding readings, this gorgeous compilation of writing on love and marriage is also the perfect gift for couples and wedding guests alike. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with foiled edges and ribbo ...Show more
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Sunday Times Bestseller The brand new collection of verse from the nation's favourite poet, Pam Ayres. With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam's new collection is by turns hilarious, reflective and profound. From the dubious joy of being an exhausted, panic-stri ...Show more
Skinny Dip: Poetry by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals. A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranh ...Show more
The Little Book of War Poets - The Human Experience of War by Orange Orange Hippo!
$16.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
A fascinating introduction to war poets and their work, from Homer to Alfred Tennyson and Walt Whitman to Siegfried Sassoon, this little book is packed full of intriguing background information and includes moving quotes from letters, poems and other sources.
Goblin Market & Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1862, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market is a spellbinding fairytale of female desire brought to life in a lavishly descriptive narrative poem.Two young girls, Laura and Lizzie, are enticed by the smells, sounds and sights of the goblin market. Lizzie resists temptation, but Laur ...Show more
Fleur Adcock - Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealand's most significant writers, combining Poems 1960 - 2000 and four subsequent collections in one beautifully produced hardcover volume.
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C.K. Stead
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
" All his life he¿d measured the worth of a work by its cost in effort. Only at the last came this `certainty of execution¿ costing him next-to-nothing, receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead¿s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, ...Show more
Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! 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 hers ...Show more
Boundaries - People and Places of Central Otago by Brian Turner
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
"Brian Turner's name is synonymous with Central Otago albeit a different Central one well removed from the tourist centres and vineyards. His Central is at the boundaries; watching the local rugby teams, fishing the waters of the Manuherikia, cycling towards the snow-covered Hawkdun Range. It s where he ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 2017 by Jack Ross (ed.)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
TERRIFIC NEW NEW ZEALAND POETRYPoetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices.Issue #51 features 128 new poems, including work by featured poet Eliza ...Show more
The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny
$27.50 NZD
Category: Poetry
Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In 'The Magnetic Process' sequence a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ...Show more