101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice by Carol Ann Duffy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
101 Poems for Children: A Laureate's Choice is a stunning collection of classic and modern verse chosen by the 2009-2019 Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Full of gorgeous black and white artwork from the multi-award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett, this book is a delight for children of all ages and is ...Show more
99 Ways Into New Zealand Poetry by Paula Green; Harry Ricketts
$44.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This book celebrates the richness and variety of New Zealand poetry by outlining many of the numerous ways to read - and write - poems. It offers 80 key poems that showcase different aspects of the genre, as well as commentary from 25 poets about what inspired them to write specific works. With insightf ...Show more
A Child's Garden of Verses (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$7.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 2-12
The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched w ...Show more
A Corner of a Foreign Field - The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War by Fiona Waters
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A Lack of Good Sons by Jake Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
I am seconds away from everything. I am the bullseye of the world. A Lack of Good Sons is a book of poetry that carries us through many realms - Greek myth, the Bible, dream, and the earthly world, with all its beauty and violence. An eclectic range of speakers, from deities to inanimate objects, descri ...Show more
A Man Runs into a Woman by Sarah Jane Barnett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In A Man Runs into a Woman, Barnett looks at the different ways to tell a person's story: two middle-aged men strike up an unlikely friendship, one couple reconnects after the war, while another couple leave the worst unsaid, and a cross-dressing man talks with his daughter. A series of nine distinctive ...Show more
A Passage of Yellow Red Birds by Robin Peace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Robin Peace writes of the world through the eye of a swallow and from the window of a plane sweeping over the earth. She writes as water making its way from mountain to sea, and of time as a passage of yellow red birds that declares a harvest singing from the cut earth. When her mother faces death by st ...Show more
A Tingling Catch by Pirie, Mark
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This substantial volume traces the history of cricket poetry in New Zealand from 1864 to 2009 spanning 145 years of New Zealand cricket. It brings together verse and song by some of our best poets - past and present. From Samuel Butler's classic description of the visiting All-England XI in 1864 to Arno ...Show more
A Vase And a Vast Sea by Jenny Nimon (Ed)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In A Vase and a Vast Sea, poetry and prose rustle against the window, scatter palm fronds across the road and sneak off to the movies on a Tuesday. There are moments of nostalgia blended with dangerous undercurrents and domestic life. Edited by Jenny Nimon, this collection is a reunion of writers such a ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 by W. G. Sebald
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Across the Land and the Water" brings together poems published during W.G. Sebald's life, with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. Arranged chronologically, from work published during his student days in the 1960s ...Show more
Actions and Travels - How Poetry Works by Anna Jackson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonan ...Show more