The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny
$27.50 NZD
Category: Poetry
Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In 'The Magnetic Process' sequence a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ...Show more
Boundaries - People and Places of Central Otago by Brian Turner
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. "Brian Turner's name is synonymous with Central Otago albeit a different Central one well removed from the tourist centres and vineyards. His Central is at the boundaries; watching the local rugby teams, fishing the waters of the Manuherikia, cycling towards the snow-covered Hawkdun Range. ...Show more
Poems to Save the World With by Chris Riddell (editor)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This uplifting anthology contains classic and modern poems to galvanize and inspire you which are brought to life with exquisite, intricate artwork. Chosen and illustrated by Chris Riddell, Poems to Save the World With -the follow-up to Poems to Live Your Life By and Poems to Fall in Love With - will ig ...Show more
365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri.This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language. Whether you're searching for wisdom or looking t ...Show more
Together by Luke Adam Hawker
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful book to connect us after such a challenging time. 'Dark clouds were looming in the distance. We watched them gather, and we wondered... When will it come? How long will it last?' A monumental storm brings huge and sudden change. We follow a man and his dog through the uncertainty that it b ...Show more
The Book of Tree Poems by Ana Sampson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and - as the climate emergency escalates - it has never been more important ...Show more
The River in the Sky by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday Times Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Inj ...Show more
Poems to Live Your Life By by Chris Riddell (editor)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Poems to Live Your Life By, Chris Riddell, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about life, death and everything in between. This gorgeously illustrated collection includes forty-six poems and is divided into sections covering: musings, youth ...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
Peter Bland - Collected Poems 1956 - 2011 by Peter Bland
$44.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This volume makes possible a proper assessment of the scope and stature of Peter Bland's work. These poems - often witty and beautiful - are a lifetime's achievement, a testament to an ongoing power to engage us in his vision. Peter Bland arrived in New Zealand in 1954 and since the 1970's has divid ...Show more
Aspiring Daybook: The Diary of Elsie Winslow by Annabel Wilson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Aspiring Daybook, poet Annabel Wilson tells of a year in the life Elsie Winslow, who has just returned from Europe to Wanaka to take care of her terminally ill brother and finds herself thinking about love in ways she didn't expect. Like the mountains that surround her and the lake that greets her ev ...Show more
Cat Poems by Various
$18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affec ...Show more