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Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres

$24.00 NZD

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Category: Poetry

Sunday Times Bestseller 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 hilarious, reflective and profound. From the dubious joy of being an exhausted, panic-stri cken hostess in 'The Dinner Party' or feelings of unease about pub tableware in 'Don't Put My Dinner on the Slate!', to a poignant reflection of war in 'Down the Line'and the bittersweet nostalgia of 'Up in the Attic', this new collection will tickle and move readers in equal measure. ...Show more

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Large 9781529059366

The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James (Editor)

$39.99 NZD

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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 when all the riflemen of a regiment fire one shot after another in a wave of continuous sound: it is a reminder that the regiment’s collective power relies on the individual, and vice versa.In this book, James has chosen a succession of English poems, exploding in sequence from Chaucer to the present day; they tell the story of someone writing something wonderful, and someone else coming along, reading it, and feeling impelled to write something even more wonderful. After a lifetime, these are the poems James found so good that he remembered them despite himself. In offering them to you, the main purpose of this book is to provide ammunition that will satisfy your urge to discover, learn and declaim verse.As well as his selection of poems, James offers a commentary on each: whether this is a biographical, historical or critical introduction to the poem, or a more personal anecdote about the role a particular poem has played in James’s life, these mini essays provide the joy of James’s enthusiasm and the benefit of his knowledge. Full of the flashing fires of poems you will not be able to forget, this book will ignite your passion and leave you with a contagious crackle rattling in your ears. ...Show more

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Large 9780143771845

View from the South by Owen Marshall

$40.00 NZD

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Category: Poetry

A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers. David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, sno w like whitewash on the Alps.' In addition his poetry captures the voice and perspective of the South Island, whether it is contemplating family or friends, love or mortality, the local landscape or further afield, through place or time. This collection brings together Marshall's most powerful poetry from his previous three collections with many more recent works. They are complemented by photographs taken by his friend and fellow Mainlander Grahame Sydney. 'They are an exquisite marriage of musicality, observation, elegance and economy. Certain words stand out in his lines like the glint of light on wet ground.' - Paula Green, New Zealand Herald. ...Show more

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Poems to Save the World With by RIDDELL CHRIS

$29.99 NZD

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Category: Poetry

A brilliant, thoughtful anthology of poems full of hope, selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.In Poems to Save the World With, Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems full of hope and wit to untangle the madness of life.In this gorgeous anthology, Chri s's follow-up to one of the Bookseller's best poetry books of the last twenty-five years, Poems to Live Your Life By, will ignite your inner activist. Covering a wealth of subjects such as the climate crisis and human rights issues, these insightful poems are brought to life with Chris's exquisite, intricate artwork.This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems by Wendell Berry, William Blake, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, John Dryden, John Dunne, Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Jane Kenyon, Rudyard Kipling, Emma Lazarus, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Rachel Rooney, William Shakespeare, Percy Shelley, Maggie Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Stewart, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, and many more. ...Show more

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Large 9781776562091

Collected Poems : Fleur Adcock by Fleur Adcock

$50.00 NZD

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Category: Poetry

Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealand's most significant writers, combining Poems 1960 - 2000 and four subsequent collections in one beautifully produced hardcover volume. Collected Poems will be published in February 2019, for the author's 85th bir thday, which she will celebrate in New Zealand. ...Show more

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Cat Poems by Various

$18.99 NZD

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Category: Poetry

You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship , affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time. ...Show more

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A Flower Wedding by Walter Crane

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Category: Poetry

Yes, flower bells rang right merry that day,When there was a marriage of flowers, they say. First published in 1905, Walter Crane's beautifully illustrated poem tells the delightful story of a wedding day. This beautiful facsimile edition, makes a perfect wedding, engagement or Valentine's gift. Accom panies the V&A exhibition, The Wedding Dress: 1775-2014 from 3 May 2014 to 25 January 2015 ...Show more

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Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney

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Category: Poetry

Are you in the mood? I am. Let's put the kids down. Have a light dinner. Shower. Maybe not drink so much. And do that thing I would rather do with you than with anyone else. Lie in bed and look at our iPhones. Written with brilliant wit, sharp observation and a big dose of reality, Love Poems for Marrie d People takes the poetic form, turns it upside down and leaves it in the dishwasher to dry. Including such gems as Why Are You in The Shower With Me? Our Love is Tested in Traffic and What Time Should We Leave for the Airport? John Kenney's poems are packed with funny, wry observations about the reality of life once the initial shine of a relationship has dulled. From parental gripes to dwindling sex lives; from less-than-romantic gifts to irritating personal habits, it's all covered. ...Show more

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That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C. K. Stead

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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good

" All his life he¿d measured the worth of a work by its cost in effort. Only at the last came this `certainty of execution¿ costing him next-to-nothing, receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead¿s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, remembering old loves and cringing at his `lugubrious rhyming¿. He writes most often of those who have gone (Jacques Derrida and Allen Curnow, Peter Porter and Sarah Broom, Colin McCahon and Maurice Shadbolt, Lauris Edmond and Ted Hughes) but also of those still with us (Kevin Ireland and Fleur Adcock, Alan Roddick and Bill Manhire, Michael Frayn and Paula Rego, his family, himself caught naked in the mirror ¿ and dancing). He takes us with him on the poetical life: from Dogshit Park in Budapest to a Zagreb bookshop to the Christchurch Word Festival. The collection includes a series of poems written while the author was poet laureate, including a sequence on World War I in which `the Ministry¿ requests poems from our reluctant and sometimes defiant laureate, who responds in the salty voice of Catullus that he has made his own so often before. As always there is, at the centre, poetry itself, what Stead¿s old mentor Sargeson called `the life of the mind¿: I was the one who believed in poetry ¿ that it could capture the gull in flight and the opening flower and in the blink of an eye a knock on the door of death." ...Show more

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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 2017 by Jack Ross

$34.99 NZD

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Category: Poetry

TERRIFIC NEW NEW ZEALAND POETRYPoetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices.Issue #51 features 128 new poems, including work by featured poet Eliza beth Morton, Riemke Ensing, Mohamed Hassan, Anna Jackson, Michele Leggott, Kiri Piahana-Wong and Elizabeth Smither, as well as essays by Janet Charman, Lisa Samuels and Bryan Walpert, and reviews of 33 new poetry collections. ...Show more

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The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny

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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 ships. Their scientific instruments and observations measure a fragmented and uncertain space where conventional perspectives are violated. In a series of histories of the Atmosphere, of the Honeymoon footnotes reference vanished texts. By turns mysterious, ominous and evocative, they represent connections to an obscured narrative of disintegration and icy melancholy. ...Show more

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Home Body by Rupi Kaur

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Category: Poetry

rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and inhome body , she walks readers through a reflective andintimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of ofis a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself -reminding readers to fill up on love , acceptance, community,family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark,rest here. i dive into the well of my bodyand end up in another worldeverything i needalready exists in methere’s no needto look anywhere else else -home ...Show more

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