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
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
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to 'The Electric, 1960', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled lik ...Show more
Poetry by Heart - A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Andrew Motion (Introduction)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, from Christ ...Show more
A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year by Liz Ison
$52.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
A beautifully packaged anthology of poems from around the world and throughout history, all especially selected for reading aloud, with one glorious poem for every day of the year. Everyone benefits from reading aloud, whether it's a bedtime story with Dad or Granny, an intimate moment with a loved one ...Show more
Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Jenny Joseph
$14.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older - now beautifully redesigned with new illustrations.
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.
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
Poems for Happiness (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$14.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms - whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a ser ...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
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.
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