Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri (Editor); Robert M. Durling; Ronald L. Martinez (Other); Robert Turner (Illustrator)
48.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Volume 1: Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Editor); Robert M. Durling (Other, Editor); Ronald L. Martinez (Other); Robert Turner (Illustrator)
42.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and sardonic humour, and its penetrating analyses of the p ...Show more
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Paradiso by Dante Alighieri; Robert M. Durling (Edited and Translated by); Ronald L. Martinez (Notes by)
47.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
". . . All things whate'er they be Have order among themselves: and this is Form, That makes the universe resemble God."Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82) was America's most widely read poet of the 19th century. Yet little remembered today is the ambitious and laborious project of his middle years: h ...Show more
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
39.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make ...Show more
Poems for Happiness (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
14.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms - whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a ser ...Show more
Poems on Nature by Various
14.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beaut ...Show more
Poems for Travellers (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
14.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon marke ...Show more
Tightrope by Marsh Selina Tusitala
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 by Johanna Emeny (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook | Reading Level: near fine
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. Issue #54 features 133 new poems (including by this year's featured poe ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
32.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intim ...Show more
A Songbird Dreams of Singing by Kate Hosford
37.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Do you know how animals sleep? Otters fall asleep while holding hands; zebra finches practise their songs while dreaming; dolphins keep one half of their brain awake . . . Beautiful poems about sleeping animals are interspersed with fascinating facts and beautiful illustrations - making this the perfe ...Show more
Cat Poems by Various
18.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affec ...Show more