Anthem For Doomed Youth by Jon Stallworth
$36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Twelve soldier poets of the First World War Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades and poet ...Show more
Bee Journal (The Birds and the Bees) by Sean Borodale
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Beesseries was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural worldBee Journalis a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive. It observes the living architecture of the comb, the range and l ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry : 100 Women on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to toda ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more
Poems for Love: A New Anthology (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gaby Morgan
$14.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life by Ben Crystal, David Crystal
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and express them so well that still today they can make us feel stunned to be seen.'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.''Make not your thoughts your prisons.''Wisely and slow. ...Show more
The Sonnets (Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The "Sonnets of William Shakespeare", a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published in 1609. This edition, beautifully illustrated with contemporary portraits and modern artwork by the illustrator Ian Penney, contains all of the poems and they deal with many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jeal ...Show more
Robert Graves - From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That (1895-1929) by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a 'war poet' seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and best ...Show more
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog... or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert... this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness... heartbreaking and charged with trees.. ...Show more
Poetry Notebook (2006-2014) by Clive James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book h ...Show more
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler (Editor, Notes by); Boris Dralyuk (Editor, Notes by); Irina Mashinski (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporari ...Show more
Poems (1930) by W. H. Auden
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and added new poems in their place. Available again for the first time since 1950, this reissue follows the tex ...Show more