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
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
The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse by Francis Turner Palgrave
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Golden Treasury is one of the best loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar, Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate. It's arranged chronologically into four books which each celebrat ...Show more
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Jon Stallworth
$36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Twelve soldier poets of the First World War Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades and poet ...Show more
Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Beginning with the King's Cook, who is preparing a sumptuous Christmas Pie, Wenceslas takes us to a medieval feast. The lords and ladies are at their places, the wine is in full flow, the musicians are playing in the gallery and the entertainment has begun. All should be perfect. But when the good King ...Show more
From Patterson's Heart by Colin Patterson
$40.00 NZD
$78.00 (48% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A collection of poetic country ballads from the deeply moving to the highly hilarious. First published 2007.
The Sonnets (Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The "Sonnets of William Shakespeare", a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published in 1609. This edition, beautifully illustrated with contemporary portraits and modern artwork by the illustrator Ian Penney, contains all of the poems and they deal with many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jeal ...Show more
A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War by Fiona Waters
$26.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Some of the most poignant poetry ever written, illustrated with unique and rare photographs.
Poetry of the World Wars by Michael Foss
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Great War of 1914-18 and the Second World War of 1939-45, told in the words of some of the most immediate and moving poetry in the language - a tribute to the triumph of the human spirit over the desolation and waste of war. This collection includes many of the most famous works by the leading war p ...Show more
A Book of Romantic Verse: Beautiful lines of love by the world's greatest poets by E.A. Chapman
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A delightful collection of verse from the greatest poets of love: from Byron to Donne, Shelley to Shakespeare and the exquisite W.B. Yeats. Accompanied by the gorgeous art of the high Victorians: Waterhouse, Alma Tadema, Millais and William Godward this sumptuous package is the perfect companion to the ...Show more