Small Holes in the Silence - Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
'A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed'. Hone Tuwhare, one of this country's best-loved poets, died in 2008. He was New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate and in 2003 was among ten of New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of NZ Icon Artists. His rhythmic voice ran ...Show more
The Art of Walking Upright by Glenn Colquhoun
$24.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2000 winner Best first book - poetry. Glenn is a doctor. During his training he took a year off to live in a remote Bay of Islands community. This is a profound, beautiful and funny distillation of that experience. Rich insights into Maori and Pakeha - a vision of Aotearo ...Show more
Playing God by Glenn Colquhoun
$24.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Poetry Section & Reader's Choice). Glenn Colquhoun'?s The Art of Walking Upright won the 2000 Montana NZ best first book award for poetry. He has also published a children'?s book and An Explanation of Poetry to my Father, which sold over 1000 copies. T ...Show more
Along Blueskin Road by James Norcliffe
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A collection of poems by James Norcliffe. Along Blueskin Road is a rich and diverse collection of poems from one of New ZealandâÂÂs leading poets. Whether tender, lyrical, quirky or comic, the poems are invariably richly imaginative and beautifully crafted. Many of the poems were written in Dune ...Show more
Land Very Fertile: Banks Peninsula in Poetry and Prose by Coral Atkinson
$29.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
Land Very Fertile is a collection of poetry and prose about Banks Peninsula on the eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island. Drawing from a wide variety of sources, including such New Zealand greats as Ursula Bethell, Denis Glover, James K. Baxter, Ngaio Marsh, Allen Curnow and Maurice Shadbolt, alon ...Show more
A Canoe in Midstream : Poems New and Old by Apirana Taylor
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Poems new & old Apirana Taylor is a popular and acclaimed poet, short-story writer, novlist, playwright, actor, musician and painter. This, his fifth volume of poetry, includes much new work, together with many old favourites (the ones most requested at readings). First published May 2009, Christchu ...Show more
My Garden My Paradise - The Garden in New Zealand Literature by Christina Stachurski (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
My Garden, My Paradise will delight and inspire as it celebrates the relationship between New Zealand literature and the garden. Over fifty of New Zealand's finest writers express the beauty, joy and satisfaction of gardening, of growing food and flowers, of creating and enjoying a private haven. Prose ...Show more
Our Favourite Poems : New Zealanders choose their best-loved poems by Iain Sharp
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
What is your favourite poem? Who is it by? Why do you love it? When do you recite it? How does it make you feel? A poem's ability to create an emotional response is quite remarkable. A favourite poem may capture something everyday and domestic, or try and answer one of life's big questions. Our Favourit ...Show more
Doubtless - New and Selected Poems by Sam Hunt
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known poet. For almost 40 years he has been writing, reading and performing poetry, touring New Zealand constantly and reading his poems in pubs, theatres, schools and many other venues. No other poet in New Zealand has managed to make a living by performing their poems, a ...Show more
As It Was In The Beginning by Stu Bagby
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Mr Short, Mr Thin, Mr Bald and Mr Dog by Glenn Colquhoun
$10.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Mr Short was very tall. Mr Thin was fat. Mr Bald had lots of hair And Mr Dog kept cats Glenn Colquhoun is best known for his three highly-acclaimed collections of poetry: An Explanation of Poetry to my Father,The Art of Walking Upright and Playing God. This wacky picture book is Glenn ColquhounÂs thi ...Show more
Shards of Silver: Paul Thompson's Images on Language - New Zealand Poets on Photography by Paul Thompson; Anna Jackson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A kind of photographs made with words is how New Zealand poet Riemke Ensing describes what a poem is. Like many of our finest poets, she draws inspiration from photographs andphotography. Paul Thompson has investigated the interplay between photography and poetry to see if there were deeper corresponden ...Show more