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Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog... or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert... this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness... heartbreaking and charged with trees.. ...Show more
The Flame (PB) by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intim ...Show more
The Picador Book of Funeral Poems by Don Paterson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
Designed for those in need of poetic solace, and a gift book for the recently bereaved, it is also intended as a book to read from at memorial ceremonies, when judging the tone and hitting the right note is everything
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
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 Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield by Edited by Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This is the first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield's poetry, including 26 poems, dating from 1909-10, discovered by Gerri Kimber in the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2015. This edition is made up of 217 poems, ordered chronologically, so that the reader can follow Mansfield's development as a p ...Show more
My Honest Poem by JESS FIEBIG
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A moving account in poetry of one woman's pathway through violence and addiction. at six, my mother's boyfriend forced his fat hairy hand inside my heart-shaped face for eating too many Fruit Bursts we bought a tube of them at BP wrapped individually in pastel wax papers which littered the backseat like ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on." --BONO Named a Fall Read by Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME and Vanity FairThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated thro ...Show more
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and b ...Show more
Complete Poems - John Keats by John Keats
$18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-co ...Show more
Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres
$48.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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 side-splittingly funny, at others so reflective and profound that it moves whole audiences to tears. From the horr ...Show more
Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
365 classic poems celebrating friendship, love, and constancy. Some of the most beautiful poems ever written give us insight into the important things in life: the joys of companionship, encouragement, consolation, humor, and love. Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year features works by John Boswel ...Show more