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
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
In Flanders Fields and other poems of the First World War by Brian Busby
$17.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A book that shows the reality of war through the poems of many soldiers who didn't return.
Blackberry Pie: 48 New Zealand Ballads by Joe Charles
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This entertaining new collection of ballads in the old-time style will appeal to anyone with an interest in New Zealand folklore. Goldiggers, swaggies, shearers, drovers, rouseabouts and sailors crowd the pages, bringing the past to life. Joe Driscoll, Freddie Ambrose, Davey Gunn, Hat Rack Jack and Tex ...Show more
365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri.This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language. Whether you're searching for wisdom or looking t ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$14.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
.The Prophet, an international besteller and translated into over fifty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahil Gibran's many spiritual and religious writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet, arrayed as twentysix prose poetry essays, speaks of love an ...Show more
The Orange and other poems by Wendy Cope
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets. In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Wendy Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy ...Show more
Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins by John Keats
$13.99 NZD
$15.99 (12% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that sets his name among the greatest in English poetry, and the most admired by other poets. This pocket-sized selection for general readers ...Show more
Poems About Birds by H. J. Massingham
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds - their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially our poetry, is full of them. This annotated edition of Poems About Birds selects the very best from H. J. ...Show more
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and th ...Show more
Cloudboy by Siobhan Harvey
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Cloudboy" is a deep-mulling, richly senstive account of a mother's ajustments to the needs of an autistic child. This prize-winning suite of poems grows out of extremes of love and frustration, as the poet introduces a bright, unpredictable, markedly individual boy to the rigid, often airless routines ...Show more