Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres
$48.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The brand new collection of verse from the nation's favourite poet, Pam Ayres.With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam's new collection is by turns side-splittingly funny, at others so reflective and profound that it moves whole audiences to tears.From the horror o ...Show more
James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his various quarrels with ...Show more
Complete Poems - John Keats by John Keats
$18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Alma Classics Great Poets
Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-co ...Show more
Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
It is November 18, 1982, and Neil Ian Roberts is 22 years old. He walks up to the Police Computer Centre in Whanganui, at 12:35am. Shortly after, there was an explosion. Neil committed suicide attempting to destroy that computer center, but who was Neil Roberts? This book is the search for the story of ...Show more
The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine by Mark Yakich
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Poets Ser.
An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author of Spiritual Exercises Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, examined the blessing and curse of romantic love in its multiplicities. The poems in his new c ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Ver ...Show more
Love Poems for People with Children by John Kenney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber Prize-winning author Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for people with children.
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie (Editor); Don Paterson (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A timeless gift edition of the greatest poetic works from Scotland's literary past, present and future. Edited by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay.
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to delive ...Show more
William Blake: Poems Selected by James Fenton by William Blake
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet S.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the ...Show more
The Little Book of War Poets - The Human Experience of War by Orange Orange Hippo!
$16.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
A fascinating introduction to war poets and their work, from Homer to Alfred Tennyson and Walt Whitman to Siegfried Sassoon, this little book is packed full of intriguing background information and includes moving quotes from letters, poems and other sources.
Selected Poems by Robert Graves
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poets of the Great War
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by l ...Show more