Ballistics by Billy Collins
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems that addresses death and love, solitude and aging.
Be the Change by Liz Brownlee; Roger Stevens; Matt Goodfellow
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful anthology of poems about sustainability and the positive efforts being made to protect the planet.From National Poetry Day Ambassadors Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens comes an incredible anthology of poetry identifying ways we can Be the Change.These positive and upbeat poems ...Show more
Because You Died by Vera Brittain
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiance, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growin ...Show more
Best Loved Poems by John Boyes
$8.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This glorious celebration of classic poetry features verse from around the englishspeaking world. Carefully selected and divided into themed sections, the poems encompass the wealth of human experience - love, death, youth, old age, nature, travel and humour are all included in works that range from the ...Show more
Best-Loved Poems by Neil Philip (ed.), Isabelle Brent (ill.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth; Poems of Lov ...Show more
Best Poems on the Underground by Gerard Benson and others
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The now familiar poem posters first appeared in London's tube and underground trains in 1986. The idea was simple enough: why not convert the empty advertising space above the passenger's heads into a simple celebration of the poetry that has underscored English literature for a thousand years or more? ...Show more
Biter by Claudia Jardine
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Ancient Greek epigrams drive a bitingly contemporary first poetry collection.Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine's debut collection of verse. Fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets, ecstatic odes and startlingly v ...Show more
Blake: Selected Poems by William Blake
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
From the pastoral simplicity of the Songs of Innocence, through the dark undercurrents of the Songs of Experience, and onwards into the restless and vivid imagination of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake's work is as moving, as troubling, and as fresh today as it was two hundred years ago.
Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver
$31.00 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 medita ...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 Meredith Courtney Sina
$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