Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
22.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.An unprecedented debut published to immediate accla ...Show more
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins
29.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The "Trouble with Poetry" is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is inimitable. Drawled and knowing, yet without a hint ...Show more
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds by Billy Collins
49.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and Ja ...Show more
Fleur Adcock - Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealand's most significant writers, combining Poems 1960 - 2000 and four subsequent collections in one beautifully produced hardcover volume.
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
55.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the dance of rhythm, and these 'nonsenses' are full of joy - yet set against darkness. Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures - some gentle, some violent, some musica ...Show more
Frost Fair by Carol Ann Duffy; David de las Heras (Illustrator)
19.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The tenth and final Christmas book, set in the frost fairs on London's Thames in the 16th-century, from UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Beautifully illustrated and produced in a gorgeous small format, this is an irresistible festive gift and Christmas stocking must-have for poetry lovers.
I Could Pee on This And Other Poems by Cats by MARCIULIANO, FRANCESCO
24.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Cat lovers will adore this playful calendar of feline poetry, based on the bestselling book I Could Pee on This .
I Could Chew on This - And Other Poems by Dogs by FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO
24.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A New York Times bestseller? Oh, you know the dogs weren't going to let the cats get away with that This canine companion to I Could Pee on This, the beloved volume of poems by cats, I Could Chew on This will have dog lovers laughing out loud. Doggie laureates not only chew on quite a lot of things, the ...Show more
Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald; Robert D. Richardson (introduction)
29.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A work of staggering poetic beauty that has inspired the likes of John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Bly, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was written in eleventh-century Persia and was largely unknown in the West until it was translated into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859. In FitzGerald's hands, th ...Show more
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
22.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an a ...Show more
Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year (HB) by Jane McMorland Hunter (Editor)
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
365 classic poems celebrating friendship, love, and constancy.Some of the most beautiful poems ever written give us insight into the important things in life: the joys of companionship, encouragement, consolation, humor, and love. Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year features works by John Boswell, ...Show more
To the Occupant by Neale Emma
27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
To the Occupant takes the everyday and transforms it into something fine and precious and enduring. With an unsparing attention, Emma Neale creates shape-shifting poems that confound prejudices and subvert expectations. Displaying verve and confidence, her poetry is filled with musicality and dynamic la ...Show more