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
One Hundred Poems by Emanuel E Garcia
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A wide ranging collection of original, penetrating, humourous and emotionally charged poems comprising three volumes: "Leaf Thoughts," "Sinking In" and "The Virtues of Calamity."
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse by VARIOUS,
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
How the night deepens. A ribbon of frost is stretched across the bridge of magpie wings the lovers will cross.' The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshucontains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to t ...Show more
One Shapely Thing: Poems and Journals by Dinah Hawken
$29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Dinah Hawken's new book is a bold and innovative extension of her previous work. At its heart is a collection of superb new poems. To them, Dinah Hawken has added two prose journals: the first covering the month immediately after 9/11 when she remained in Wellington while her husband traveled to work at ...Show more
Our Favourite Poems : New Zealanders choose their best-loved poems by Iain Sharp
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
What is your favourite poem? Who is it by? Why do you love it? When do you recite it? How does it make you feel? A poem's ability to create an emotional response is quite remarkable. A favourite poem may capture something everyday and domestic, or try and answer one of life's big questions. Our Favourit ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more
Over There a Mountain by Elizabeth Welsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
It’s hard to know how to be with a mother who is a mountain. It’s hard to feel how to be with a father who is a mountain. It’s hard to explain that luminous bond and the bewilderingly stretched distance. Anxious, the mountain-daughter holds what is bright to hold and takes without asking what is bright ...Show more
Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection by Pam Ayres
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and, of course, 'Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'. This edition includes a general introduction by Pam, a ...Show more
People from the Pit Stand Up by Sam Duckor-Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: 1st
This is the voice of someone who is both at home and not at home in the world. Sam Duckor-Jones’s wonderfully fresh, funny, dishevelled poems are alive with art-making and fuelled by a hunger for intimacy. Giant clay men lurk in salons, the lawns of poets overgrow, petrolheads hoon along the beach, bird ...Show more
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Poems Selected by Fiona Sampson by Fiona Sampson; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Maurice Riordan
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Rom ...Show more
Playing God by Glenn Colquhoun
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Poetry Section & Reader's Choice). Glenn Colquhoun'?s The Art of Walking Upright won the 2000 Montana NZ best first book award for poetry. He has also published a children'?s book and An Explanation of Poetry to my Father, which sold over 1000 copies. T ...Show more