Classic Poetry (Walker Illustrated Classics) by Michael Rosen
29.99 NZD
31.99 (6% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 8+
"Walker Illustrated Classics" is a new series which brings together some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists. These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read. The classics have never ...Show more
Shaking the Tree by Roma Potiki & Dorothy Waetford (ill.)
19.95 NZD
24.00 (16% off)
Category: Poetry
Roma's writing is raw, wry, lusty, amusing, biting, lyrical, challenging. Her poems pack meaning and surprise into elegant space, capturing much of what it is to be a Maori woman today. This, her second book, contains 30 poems and striking images by Dorothy Waetford.
Kaupapa : New Zealand Poets, World Issues by Hinemoana Baker
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Edited, selected and introduced by writer and musician Hinemoana Baker and activist and writer Maria McMillan, this stunning anthology features new, established and award-winning poets including Bill Manhire, Tusiata Avia, Airini Beautrais, Michele Amas, Jenny Bornholdt, CK Stead, James Brown and Roma P ...Show more
These Small Fields by Frank Soper
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An anthology of poems about Golden Bay places and people - environment, flora and fauna, mountains and sea coast, farming.
The Cornfield & Other Poems by Mark Raffills
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Mark Raffills - the Nelson-based publisher, journalist,columnist and publicist - has crafted text as though his life depended on it. Most of the poems in this collection have been performed by their author at concerts and festivals around the country over the past dozen years. Raffills' ear for spoken r ...Show more
Lifeblood by Joel Hayward
19.95 NZD
43.00 (53% off)
Category: Poetry
Relaxed and fluid poetry, expressed in various styles and always with verve and insight, reflects the author's breadth of experience as well as his reflections on those most mysterious of beliefs: animism and humanism. Dr Joel Haywood is a former Senior Lecturer who abandoned academia to pursue his goal ...Show more
My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems by Jenny Bornholdt (ed.); Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The poems in My Heart Goes Swimming attest to the enduring nature of love and reflect the many ways in which it is written about. This collection is a celebration of love, but also of life, language and place. From delicate narratives to ecstatic lyrics, from Katherine Mansfield to Dinah Hawken, from R. ...Show more
Big Weather - Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien & Louise White (eds)
32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Every Wellingtonian - dammit, every New Zealander - should be severely tempted to buy Big Weather for the home bookshelf. It's a lovely book to handle, with a cool cover and excellent layout. If you think these are trivial aspects in a poetry book, think again. Design messages hit most readers sublimina ...Show more