Good Dog!: New Zealand Writers on Dogs by Stephanie Johnson (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Funny, insightful, lyrical and touching, this is the perfect book for every dog lover. that night a wet nose in the dark sniffed me awake From good dogs to bad, adored pets to hard-working sheep dogs, canine companions have not only settled into New Zealand hearts but also into their books. Author Steph ...Show more
The Unknown Sea: An Anthology of Poems on Living and Dying by Rod MacLeod
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page by Selected by Siobhan Harvey, James Norcliffe & Harry Ricketts
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
A must-have poetry companion for all lovers of New Zealand poetry New Zealanders adore poetry, and this expertly selected and handsomely packaged collection of over 150 poems published since the 1950s shows exactly why: New Zealand poetry is, by turns, distinctive, affecting, joyous, revealing, moving, ...Show more
Funeral Readings and Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To find solace from grief, we have always turned to the written word. With poetry and prose spanning continents, religions and cultures, this moving anthology examines loss, celebrates lives well lived and offers words of consolation.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning clothb ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot; Edward Gorey (Illustrator)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats - the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.
A Songbird Dreams of Singing by Kate Hosford
$21.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Do you know how animals sleep?Beautiful poems about sleeping animals are interspersed with fascinating facts and beautiful illustrations - in this perfect book for bedtime!Otters fall asleep while holding hands; zebra finches practise their songs while dreaming; dolphins keep one half of their brain awa ...Show more
Wow by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
$32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, Amanda Gorman's remarkable new collection reveals an energizing ...Show more
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
$45.00 NZD
Category: 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
Cat vs Human: Poems About Cats by Yasmine Surovec
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
From Shakespeare to Blake to Rosetti to Wordsworth to classic nursery rhymes, cats have been celebrated in poetry for as long as they have been warming laps. Cats are mysterious, adorable, finicky, and cherished; and they have been beloved muses for some of our most renowned poets, writers, and artists. ...Show more
How to Fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.