James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his various quarrels with ...Show more
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
$34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects ...Show more
Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres
$48.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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 side-splittingly funny, at others so reflective and profound that it moves whole audiences to tears.From the horror o ...Show more
Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
It is November 18, 1982, and Neil Ian Roberts is 22 years old. He walks up to the Police Computer Centre in Whanganui, at 12:35am. Shortly after, there was an explosion. Neil committed suicide attempting to destroy that computer center, but who was Neil Roberts? This book is the search for the story of ...Show more
The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine by Mark Yakich
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Poets Ser.
An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author of Spiritual Exercises Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, examined the blessing and curse of romantic love in its multiplicities. The poems in his new c ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Ver ...Show more
Love Poems for People with Children by John Kenney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber Prize-winning author Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for people with children.
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie (Editor); Don Paterson (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A timeless gift edition of the greatest poetic works from Scotland's literary past, present and future. Edited by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay.
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. <b><i>Somewhere Becoming Rain</b></i> gathers all of James’s writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time. The greatness of Larkin’ ...Show more
Rupi Kaur Trilogy Boxed Set by Rupi Kaur
$85.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A celebration of the journey that started it all.From international best-selling poet Rupi Kaur comes this beautifully designed, three-book boxed set of the poetry collections that solidified her as the poetic voice of a generation. This set includes her striking debut, milk and honey, her transcendent ...Show more
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to delive ...Show more
How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living. Barbara Kingsolver's generous collection is divided into thematic sections that loop and interweave to form a carefully patterned whole: a series of 'How to' poems that smartly balance tong ...Show more