Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$26.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
Tightrope by Marsh Selina Tusitala
$29.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, ...Show more
View from the South by Owen Marshall
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers.David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, snow ...Show more
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY. "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each wo ...Show more
W. B. Yeats: The Great Poets by W.B. Yeats
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.' W B Yeats was one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. Winner of ...Show more
Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Jenny Joseph
$17.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older - now beautifully redesigned with new illustrations.
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
121 New Zealand Poems by 121 New Zealand Poets by Bill Manhire (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of NZ - from the country's earliest poems to work by the new poets of the 21st century.Bill Manhire - prize-winning poet, editor of several anthologies, lecturer in creative writing at Victoria University, 2004 Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Mento ...Show more
99 Ways Into New Zealand Poetry by Paula Green; Harry Ricketts
$46.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
This book celebrates the richness and variety of New Zealand poetry by outlining many of the numerous ways to read - and write - poems. It offers 80 key poems that showcase different aspects of the genre, as well as commentary from 25 poets about what inspired them to write specific works. With insightf ...Show more
A Barry Brickell Reader - Selected 'Writings', Meditations, Outbursts, Decrees and Diversions by Barry Brickell; Gregory O'Brien (editor) & Haruhiko Sameshima (photographer)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
"What a fine thing it is to have this full and final show of Barry's 'wrerterly' productivity laid out expansively, matched by a photo-essay that shows Barry doing what he always did most: working, in his own self-made situ. Laid out, too, in the long thin lines he loved to trace, on paper/ canvas, in c ...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
A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex by Stu Bagby
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In this collection New Zealand poets tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny, or disturbing. It can be ordinary, extraordinary, lusty or tender. Poets range from the classic to the contemporary and write from a variety of perspectives. First published January 2008.