Salt River Songs by Sam Hunt
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Salt River Songs is Sam Hunt's latest collection of poems, written over the last few years in his house that sits amongst a grove of totara trees on the Arapaoa, one of the five main salt rivers of the Kaipara Harbour. As always, his unflinchingly honest, elegiac and moving poems roam around familiar th ...Show more
The Picador Book of Wedding Poems by Peter Forbes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
A romantic collection of poems - perfect for popping the question, making a public speech or privately declaring your intentions The Picador Book of Wedding Poems is not just a pocket-sized Cyrano de Bergerac for the romantically tongue-tied: it is a veritable dictionary of all the ways in which love ca ...Show more
We’re All Made of Lightning by Khadro Mohamed
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim woman in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her wor ...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
The Book of Complete Nonsense (Vintage Classics)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Come bathe in stew, and dine on meals of eels or worms or jellied gnats, See shoes and ships and sealing wax and fuzzy bears and owls and cats, Depart for the Land where the Bong Tree grows or the Land of Bumbley Boo Find sky in your pie and teatrays in the sky and a place where mice say moo. But be war ...Show more
James K Baxter: Complete Prose by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir
$200.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the on ...Show more
Clive James Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
$60.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as 'Japanese Maple' (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news events upon their publication. His most ...Show more
William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth, Heaney
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge, settling shortly after in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. He died at Rydal Mount in 1850, shortly before the posthumous publication of that landmark of English Ro ...Show more
From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden by Albert Wendt
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This new collection by Albert Wendt moves from the warm valley winds of Hawai'i to the seasons of a garden in Auckland. From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden is a collection of poignant, extraordinary poems - alert and self-confident, challenging of literary conventions, rough-hewn yet imbued with compelling ...Show more
Places of Poetry - Mapping the Nation in Verse by Paul Farley (Editor); Andrew McRae (Editor)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches. This anthology brings together time-honoured classics with some of the best new writin ...Show more
Poems to Save the World With by Chris Riddell
$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, Ch ...Show more
Somewhere a Cleaner - Their voices in poems and prose by Adrienne Jansen et al (eds)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Somewhere a cleaner Poems by cleaners from around New Zealand During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve all been thinking about essential services. Including cleaning. Cleaning is universal. It’s steeped in tradition and culture. It’s essential, it’s ordinary and it’s surprisingly poetic. Somewhere a cleaner ...Show more