Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell, Various
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the universal expe ...Show more
Who Are You Calling Vermin? by Pam Ayres
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A poetic satire on country life, full of Pam Ayres's characteristic charm and wit, and beautifully illustrated by Joel Stewart.'Nature, red in tooth and claw,One goes down the other one's maw,Fox and badger, owl and stoat,We all disappear down the other one's throat.'Pam Ayres has lived in the countrysi ...Show more
1914: Poetry Remembers by Carol Ann Duffy
$36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Grea ...Show more
Acorn by Yoko Ono
$37.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
"It's nearly 50 years ago that my book of conceptual instructions Grapefruit was first published. In these pages I'm picking up where I left off. After each day of sharing the instructions you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you. I'm just planting the seeds. Hav ...Show more
Hoard by Adcock Fleur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, ill-cons ...Show more
Tumble by Joanna Preston
$27.50 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning poet Joanna Preston's beautifully crafted second collection charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space. tum ...Show more
The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades – and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers and performers. From the ‘Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman’ to a hymn to the seductive properties of ...Show more
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embody ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edg ...Show more
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poetry by Edward Lear
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat "for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows", where they get married. Long considered one of the n ...Show more
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" (Miami Herald). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems."Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whispe ...Show more
The Picador Book of Birth Poems by Kate Clanchy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
Essential inspiration for welcoming a new child into the world - chosen by award-winning poet Kate Clanchy. Where do we find the words to greet a new arrival? In this celebratory book, poet Kate Clanchy has made an inspired choice of poems that speak powerfully of the wonder, joy, bewilderment and myste ...Show more