The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poets of the Great War
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by l ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tong ...Show more
Tumble by Joanna Preston
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning poet Joanna Preston's beautifully crafted second collection charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space. tum ...Show more
WHITE PINE POEMS AND PROSE POEMS by Mary Oliver
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In her first collection since winning the National Book Award in 1993, Mary Oliver writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural world, of the delight of writing, of the value of silence. " Her] poems are...as genuine, moving and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring" (New ...Show more
Warriors of Love-Odes to Shams of Tabriz by Mevlana Rumi; James Cowan (Introduction by)
$27.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This is a collection of 49 of the most divine love poems by Rumi, one of the most widely read and bestselling poets of the world. In 1244 a man wrapped in a coarse black coat entered Konya and so into the life of Islam's most celebrated poet and mystic: Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. A wanderer and spiritua ...Show more
William Shakespeare on the Art of Love: The Most Eloquent Love Passages in Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry - Includes All 154 Sonnets by Michael Best
$55.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The beauty and meaning behind his poetry and prose has meant that Shakespeare's work has lived on throughout history long after his death. We still fall in love and become passionate, or jealous, or dim-witted, or melancholy, or dreamy, or vengeful, or courageous on behalf of a loved one. We still use l ...Show more
William Wordsworth (Faber Nature Poets) by William Wordsworth
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
Yeats Collected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. B. Yeats; Robert Mighall (Introduction by)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more