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A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall- what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Pe ...Show more
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, ...Show more
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in medi ...Show more
Pocket Rumi by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
The cry of the soul in love with God has never been more eloquently expressed than by the great Persian Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Readers have thrilled to his ecstatic songs of divine union for more than eight hundred years. Now, here is the collection of the best of Rumi's poetry reissue ...Show more
Bone by Daley-Ward, Yrsa
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
You will come away bruised. You will come away bruised but this will give you poetry.'Global star Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection bone is something unique and beautiful. Visceral, revealing, and unrelenting, Yrsa's poetry ranges from brief glimpses of stark emotional reality that have won her tens of thous ...Show more
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick by Courtney Sina Meredith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an e ...Show more
Burst Kisses on the Actual Wind by Courtney Sina Meredith
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Courtney Sina Meredith is one of New Zealand's most talented and influential authors. Burst Kisses On The Actual Wind will find an eager audience." Paula Morris. Award winning author MNZM. Rangatira, Queen of Beauty. 'Everyone thinks you dream in foreign prose.' 'Everyone stands in front of you like a ...Show more
Cat Poems by Various
$19.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship ...Show more
Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$70.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more
Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse by John Lithgow
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Dumpty
Award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow wields a whip-smart, satirical pen in this poetic diatribe chronicling the last few abysmal years in politics. With lacerating wit, he takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency, lampooning the likes of Betsy DeVo ...Show more
Every Now and Then I Have Another Child by Diane Brown
$29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
A mysterious doppelgänger sister, a newborn baby, a boy in a mural, a detective, a former lover, a student stalker ... are they real or imagined? Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child is an inventive and heartfelt meditation on motherh ...Show more