Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love by Jessica Urlichs
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to scho ...Show more
Beside Herself by Price Chris
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
'All of my best lines are accidents', Chris Price writes in this book, and proceeds to prove that she has the knack of putting herself in harm's way and the skill to build from there. Beside Herself plays with character, and with language, and with the way the one works on the other. Pronouns and person ...Show more
Bill Manhire - Selected Poems by Bill Manhire
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This generous selection of Bill Manhire's poems moves from playful early pieces like ‘On Originality’ and ‘How to Take off Your Clothes at the Picnic’ to major works of recent years such as ‘Hotel Emergencies’, a powerful response to contemporary atrocities, and ‘Erebus Voices’, written to be read by Si ...Show more
Charles Brasch: Selected Poems by Charles Brasch
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Charles Brasch (1909-1973) was the founder and first editor of Landfall, New Zealand's premier journal of literature and ideas. Born in Dunedin, he grew up to be at home in the literature, art and architecture of Europe, but returned to devote his life to the arts in his own country - as editor, critic, ...Show more
Chords by Sam Hunt
$19.99 NZD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Poetry
Secondhand. Sam Hunt has always believed in the essential musicality of a good poem, a belief that has become more intense over the years.Part 1 of this book, ‘the Chords’ that give this collection its title, are a loosely connected group of poems that he feels are best described as a musical score. Str ...Show more
Classic Love Poems by Max Morris (Editor)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Love Ser.
I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright. I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Hath led me - who knows how? - To thy chamber window, Sweet Percy Bysshe Shelley The best love poetry is passionate ...Show more
Coming To It - Selected Poems by Sam Hunt
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known and, arguably, best-loved poet. Coming To It: Selected poems is the latest collection of Hunt's poems to be published. It is intended to replace both Doubtless: New and selected and Knucklebones: Poems 1962—2012 (both out of print) to ensure that a substantial select ...Show more
Curnow: Slipcase Dual Edition by Terry Sturm
$125.00 NZD
$150.00 (16% off)
Category: Poetry
This handsome slipcase brings together the definitive biography and collected poems of Allen Curnow (1911-2001), widely recognised as one of the most distinguished poets writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century. From Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001) he ...Show more
Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite by Gyles Brandreth
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Pre-order Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion Includes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year 'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' ...Show more
Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems by Paula Green (ed.)
$36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Love - that complicated, delicious, pleasurable, necessary feeling ties us to another human, to a mother, father, son, daughter, sibling, lover or friend. Love can also tie us to a place, an experience, an object. We love and we are loved; unexpectedly, gloriously, painfully, deeply. The majority of th ...Show more
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
$34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects ...Show more