Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose by Adrienne Rich
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions
In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sense of Rich's evolution and accomplishment. Many of the poems in this expanded collection are from Rich's five recent volumes The Dream of a Common Language (1978), A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981 ...Show more
After-Burn - Poetry Aotearoa New Zealand Yearbook 2023 by Tracey Slaughter (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #57 features over 150 new poems - including ...Show more
Afternoon of an Evening Train by Gregory O'Brien
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Gregory OÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂBrien is a poet, anthologist, art writer and painter. Born in Matamata in 1961, he trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland before returning to study art history and English at Auckland University. In ...Show more
All of Us by Adrienne Jansen & Carina Gallegos
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In All of Us, established New Zealand author Adrienne Jansen and exciting new writer Carina Gallegos use poems and short prose to weave together the vibrant, expansive, and sometimes heart-wrenching stories of immigrants and people from refugee background in New Zealand today. Drawing on their time spe ...Show more
All the Words are Yours by Gregson, Tyler Knott
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"I'll be your deep breath, I'll be your simple relief. I'll be home to you. Every day for the past six years, Tyler Knott Gregson has written a simple haiku about love and posted it online. These heartfelt poems have spoken to readers around the world, and won Tyler a large and loyal following. Now, in ...Show more
Allen Curnow Collected Poems by Caffin Elizabeth
$59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Allen Curnow (1911-2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move - from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and my ...Show more
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the ...Show more
Andrew Johnston - Selected Poems by Andrew Johnston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fiine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Andrew Johnston's five published collections, from How to Talk (1993) to Fits & Starts (2016).'Andrew Johnson does the best titles. And then he puts the best poems underneath them.' -Bill Manhire'Andrew Johnston's first collection, How to Talk, is a book of s ...Show more
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Jon Stallworth
$42.99 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
Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search ...Show more
As the Trees Have Grown by Stephanie de Montalk
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Stephanie de Montalk's new collection engage with the world as if through a window - cloaked, distanced, guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees. As de Montalk seeks a cure to the life-changing limitations of her physical self, she finds something close to sol ...Show more
Beauties of the Octagonal Pool by O'Brien Gregory
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Gregory O'Brien's first collection of poems since Afternoon of an Evening Train (2005), Beauties of the Octagonal Pool is centred on the 'octagonal pool' of the Waitemata Harbour. In an eight-armed embrace, Beauties of the Octagonal Pool collects poems written from and out of a variety of times, locatio ...Show more