Felt by Johanna Emeney
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Couples in last-chance therapy, friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game--this collection of poems is concerned with the things that make us feel. The felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the calm of a sleeping doe to the slow unwinding of the last bee on Earth, ...Show more
Toku Papa by Solly Ruby
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now it’s time for you to believe me. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival ...Show more
Fiona Farrell - Nouns, verbs, etc (selected poems) by Fiona Farrell
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are ...Show more
Felicity by Mary Oliver
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'And just like that, like a simpleneighbourhood event, a miracle istaking place.''If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,' Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver's love poems. Here, great happiness abounds ...Show more
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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
Poems on Nature by Various
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beaut ...Show more
Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean by Wilson Sugar Magnolia
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson's riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with extravagant and surprising imagery, only to reveal th ...Show more
No One Home by Keith Westwater
11.99 NZD
24.99 (52% off)
Category: Poetry
No One Home tells the story of Keith Westwater growing up in 1950s New Zealand. At age seven he loses his mother to a botched operation and with her death loses a place to call home. So Keith and his brother take to the road with a gambling father, staying with relatives when their father can't have the ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more
Poems for Love: A New Anthology (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gaby Morgan
19.99 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
Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. "A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ..." This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his f ...Show more
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda; Nathaniel Tarn (Editor)
25.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
"The perfect gift for Valentine s Day /i>elected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statement ...Show more