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Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres
$24.00 NZD
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 ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James (Editor)
$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
View from the South by Owen Marshall
$40.00 NZD
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 ...Show more
Poems to Save the World With by RIDDELL CHRIS
$29.99 NZD
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 ...Show more
Collected Poems : Fleur Adcock by Fleur Adcock
$50.00 NZD
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 ...Show more
Cat Poems by Various
$18.99 NZD
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 ...Show more
A Flower Wedding by Walter Crane
$24.99 NZD
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 ...Show more
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney
$24.00 NZD
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 ...Show more
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C. K. Stead
$29.99 NZD
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, ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 2017 by Jack Ross
$34.99 NZD
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 ...Show more
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
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
$28.99 NZD
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 ...Show more