William Blake: Poems Selected by James Fenton by William Blake
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet S.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the ...Show more
The Little Book of War Poets - The Human Experience of War by Orange Orange Hippo!
$16.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
A fascinating introduction to war poets and their work, from Homer to Alfred Tennyson and Walt Whitman to Siegfried Sassoon, this little book is packed full of intriguing background information and includes moving quotes from letters, poems and other sources.
Selected Poems by Robert Graves
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poets of the Great War
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by l ...Show more
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
$17.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countrysid ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poets of the Great War
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by l ...Show more
Selected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by John Keats
$14.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to book lovers everywhere, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Edited and introduced by Dr Andrew Hodgson. John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poe ...Show more
Milk and Honey (Clothback Gift edition) by Rupi Kaur
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey ...Show more
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is trea ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Weddings by Laura Barber (ed.)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremo ...Show more
The Iliad (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more