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
Set Me on Fire - A Poem for Every Feeling by Ella Risbridger
40.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Set Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry- a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems for the moments when you really need to know that someone else has been there too. T ...Show more
Life On Volcanoes by Janet McAllister (ed.)
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This showcase of five lively, smart, thoughtful writers promises to be a valuable and very readable contribution to New Zealand's cultural, social and political discourse - housed within a small, covetable, high quality hard-cover book complete with colour illustrations. The contributors are Tze Ming Mo ...Show more
Groovy Fish and Other Poems by Paula Green
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Author of the award-winning Letterbox Cat, Paula Green's bright new poems have grown out of titles collected from her fans: the children who follow her online at Poetry Box and curl up inside the covers of her books. These poems dash and dart, whisper and purr tell of tap-dancing fish, cheese-spaghetti ...Show more
Lost and Somewhere Else by Jenny Bornholdt
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Where do I stand? Usually in the little square of sunlight by the back door. In Lost and Somewhere Else, Jenny Bornholdt finds many places to stand: at home, in memories of places and people, and in the Ernst Plischke-designed Henderson House in Alexandra, Central Otago, in which she lived while writi ...Show more
Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word by David Stavanger; Anne-Marie Te Whiu
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audi ...Show more
Nga Kupu Waikato: An Anthology of Waikato Poetry by Vaughan Rapatahana
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Vaughan’s latest project is a much-needed anthology of poetry from the Waikato region. As editor his criterion for submission was that the poet had lived in the area for a minimum of one year. Themes are multiple but the river is a strong presence in the collection as a whole, while the 41 poets are sty ...Show more
Just Looking by Peter Bland
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that hes written over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child alongside art by Br ...Show more
Moon in a Bowl of Water by Harlow Michael
27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Bound together by myth and music, Michael Harlow's 'The Moon in a Bowl of Water' is a stunning new collection from a poet in complete control of his craft. Harlow is the maestro of the prose poem. Here he presents a collection of small human journeys, with a strong emphasis on narrative. The work is con ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
19.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
**Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize** From the award-winning British author--a poet's noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it, yet resolved to find kindness again, in the w ...Show more