Coming To It - Selected Poems by Sam Hunt
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known and, arguably, best-loved poet. Coming To It: Selected poems is the latest collection of Hunt's poems to be published. It is intended to replace both Doubtless: New and selected and Knucklebones: Poems 1962—2012 (both out of print) to ensure that a substantial select ...Show more
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
37.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
View from the South by Owen Marshall
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers.David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, snow ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more
Night Horse by Smither Elizabeth
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout ...Show more
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash; Paul Muldoon (Editor, Introduction by); John Carter Cash (Foreword by)
22.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A collection of never-before-published poems by Johnny Cash, edited and introduced by Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon with a foreword by John Carter Cash. Illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash's own handwritten pages. Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash was an icon in th ...Show more
Useless Magic - Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch
50.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anyt ...Show more
Walking to Jutland Street by Michael Steven
27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive frst book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Dunedins industrial wharf precinct where some of the poets friends shared a flat in 2010. A poem about friendship in the face of the other, Walking to Jutland ...Show more
Big Weather : Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien (editor), Louise St John (editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Description: Capturing the vivacity and diversity of the capital, this poetic portrait is a celebration of Wellington and the creative life it inspires. Beginning with the inner city and harbour, the 100 poems move into the suburbs and parks, before heading to outer areas - and into the twenty-first cen ...Show more
The Little Book of Shakespeare by DK
21.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The Little Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes, now in a handy compact size.This bold book covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamle ...Show more