My American Chair by Elizabeth Smither
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
White lies, hip replacements and ballet with a sawhorse. Parisian drycleaners and the brush of the grass in Central Park. In My American Chair, Elizabeth Smither leads us through serendipitous encounters, the uncanny in the ordinary, the intricacies of friendship and ruminations on mortality. Assured, i ...Show more
News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore by Gregory O'Brien
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories and a d ...Show more
Night School by Michael Steven
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.
Nobody by Alice Oswald
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This is a book-length poem - a collage of water-stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey - about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its pre ...Show more
North South by Glenn Colquhoun
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
An extraordinary collaboration between two of New Zealand's most stirring and popular artists - poet Glenn Colquhoun & painter Nigel Brown. Nigel Brown creates a unique vision of Aotearoa New Zealand while revisiting and reinterpreting our past. In North South he goes deep into the tribal roots of o ...Show more
Nowhere is Too Far Off by Peter Bland
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A new collection of poetry from Peter Bland.
Ocean and Stone by Dinah Hawken
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
I went straight into the sea.I wanted its lift and cold,its salt, its curve and its breaking. I remembered its clarity. I lovedits heartiness and with thatI remembered the recent dead. Ocean and Stone, Dinah Hawken’s seventh collection of poetry, is a book of many elements. The central sequence page ...Show more
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Presents the poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people.
Off the Shelf - A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops--the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke. From a basem ...Show more
Oh There You Are Tui! New and Selected Poems by Dinah Hawken
$29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good-very good
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot
$18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad. You can meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you'll be lucky to meet Macavity because Macavity's not there! n 1925 T.S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publ ...Show more