Just Like That - New Poems by Kevin Ireland
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Poems greet Kevin Ireland in the morning with a crafty smile, or fly into his kitchen out of nowhere. Some dream themselves into his mind, or twist a bottle-cap and offer to share a cup of friendship. Lively words vie for places in his poems, or catch alight from cheerful thoughts. They are never predic ...Show more
Another America Otra America by Barbara Kingsolver
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she found was quite different, "another America" that she chronicled through her poetry, in which she came to share her ...Show more
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebration ...Show more
No Other Place to Stand - An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Jordan Hamel; Rebecca Hawkes; Erik Kennedy; Essa Ranapiri
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Ninety-one writers with connections to these islands grapple with the biggest issue facing people and the planet. What, then, for the work of poetry? It's at the very periphery of popular speech, niche even among the arts, yet it's also rooted in the most ancient traditions of oral storytelling, no matt ...Show more
Things OK With You? by Vincent O'Sullivan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Know what a thing’s called, and we own it; if not, there’s really only pointing, our still wishing we knew. The afternoon wilts round its edges, unless we’ve said it. Things OK with you? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems ...Show more
Injury Time by Clive James
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand by Anne Kennedy (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 2 ...Show more
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late e ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeous collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These ...Show more