The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
$17.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countrysid ...Show more
The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poets of the Great War
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by l ...Show more
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is trea ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Weddings by Laura Barber (ed.)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremo ...Show more
Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection by Pam Ayres
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and, of course, 'Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'. This edition includes a general introduction by Pam, a ...Show more
The Iliad (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
Selected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by John Keats
$14.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to book lovers everywhere, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Edited and introduced by Dr Andrew Hodgson. John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poe ...Show more
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
No book has done more to define modern poetry than T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems. The pinnacle of a lifetime's curation by Eliot himself, it was initially published in 1936, and then revised by Eliot to form the present edition of the text that was issued in 1963. But over the course of a lifetime, and ...Show more
Milk and Honey (Clothback Gift edition) by Rupi Kaur
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey ...Show more
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