A Habit of Writing by Helen Jacobs
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Helen Jacobs wrote her first poem nearly fifty years ago in response to a TV programme on nuclear war. Elaine Jakobsson in her life as a local body politician and environmental activist - mayor of Eastbourne, she worked for the Women's Electoral Lobby and was later appointed to the Planning Tribunal - H ...Show more
A Nature Poem For Every Night Of The Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
37.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Relax and unwind at the end of the day with this calming collection of nature poems--one for each night of the year. Now more than ever we need something to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by your bedside and enjoy a dreamy stroll through the natura ...Show more
Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart
27.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. Swimming Lessons is the first collection of poetry from one of the most beloved young actresses working today. It follows the euphoric beginnings of young love, battlin ...Show more
How to Fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
32.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.
Fiona Farrell - Nouns, verbs, etc (selected poems) by Fiona Farrell
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are ...Show more
Letters of Denis Glover by Sarah Shieff
79.95 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Oh Christ, a bloody half-witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we say, or is there something deeper; could we write better verse in England, or here; or do the critics and professors just read a lot into what’s said th ...Show more
How to Be Happy Though Human - New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human is Kate Camp’s superb seventh book of poetry.It is published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by House of Anansi Press. Kate Camp’s poetry has been described by ...Show more
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
32.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted Hughes Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. This edition is based on the design made by Giovanni Mardersteig for his letterpress edition of 1960 and marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of its first public ...Show more
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi by Nader Khalili
27.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser.
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumi's spiritual poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for a stronger spiritual core.
Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They ...Show more
Mezzaluna: Selected Poems by Michele Leggott
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Thirty years of selected poems by the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. Mezzaluna gathers work from critically acclaimed poet Michele Leggott's nine collections, from Like This? (1988) to Vanishing Points (2017). In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush tex ...Show more
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
24.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Rapture, Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations--infatuation, longing, passio ...Show more