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
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
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
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
Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry by A P Wavell
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers. It has remained in print every since, proving beyond doubt that, whatever the fashion of t ...Show more
Best-Loved Poems by Neil Philip (ed.), Isabelle Brent (ill.)
37.99 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
Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry by Matthew George Walter
20.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here ar ...Show more