1914: Poetry Remembers by Carol Ann Duffy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Grea ...Show more
1914: Poetry Remembers by Carol Ann Duffy
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Grea ...Show more
A Dylan Thomas Treasury by Dylan Thomas
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This selection provides the perfect introduction to Dylan Thomas' work, from poems and broadcasts to his short stories. It highlights his myriad talents, as well as the fluctuating moods and passions that inform his work. Discovered at the age of 19 through a poetry competition in a London newspaper, Dy ...Show more
A Little, Aloud: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry for Reading Aloud to Someone You Care for by Angela Macmillan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health and happiness benefits. It stimulates thought and memory, encourages the sharing of ideas and feelings ...Show more
A Little, Aloud with Love by Angela Macmillan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love."( W.H. Auden). Many of the most popular works in the English language celebrate love in all its forms: that heady first flush, the agony of heartbreak, j ...Show more
A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems by Robert Burns
$27.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of Auld Lang Syne, and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns' Night ...Show more
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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 Per ...Show more
Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A collection of more than 150 witty and edgy poems about love and relationships from the YouTube comedian and vlogger behind 'The Gabbie Show'.Gabbie Hanna disarms the sacred and elevates the mundane in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poems. Ranging from the sing-song rhythms of childr ...Show more
After-Burn - Poetry Aotearoa New Zealand Yearbook 2023 by Tracey Slaughter (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #57 features over 150 new poems - including ...Show more
All We Saw by Anne Michaels
$34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A mesmerising, luminously beautiful new poetry collection from Anne Michaels, internationally acclaimed poet and bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces In this passionate, profound collection, Anne Michaels explores one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of, and incapable of'. Here i ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
Another Beautiful Day Indoors by Erik Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Out on the pleasure pier on that benign afternoon,the air heavy with the blossom of vinegar and old tyres,you asked what was the closest I had come to death. Another Beautiful Day Indoors is more likely to end with a dark flood than a beautiful sundown. As these poems grapple with climate catastrophe, ...Show more