In/let by Jo Thorpe
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems in this collection range from the complexities of human relationships to the simplicities of light, rock, sea and sky; from myths and the metaphysical to ‘the marvellousness of now’. Jo’s first book Len & other poems was inspired by kinetic artist Len Lye. Reviewers said her touch was ...Show more
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
Inside, Outside by Brian Turner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This substantial new collection by award-winning poet Brian Turner develops themes characteristic of his poetry. Love poems and elegies keep company with poems of satire, protest and metaphysical speculation. The book concludes with 'Post-operative', a raw and risky sequence written in the wake of major ...Show more
Inspiration, Poetry (W. B. Yeats) by W. B. Yeats (Created by); Lauren Arrington (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Verse to Inspire Ser.
The Irish, Symbolist poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is considered one of the foremost English-language literary figures of the twentieth century. Whether the lyrical and embroidered poems of his youth or the sparser, simplified work of his later years, his verse was spiritual, mystical, personal and univer ...Show more
Jabberwocky and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll
$5.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Carefully chosen collection contains 34 of Carroll's most appealing verses - nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, more - including such unforgettable pieces as "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "The Mock Turtle's Song," and "Father William," as
James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his various quarrels with ...Show more
John Keats by John Keats
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
John Keats - Poetry by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Verse to Inspire Ser.
From the hauntingly serene 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' to the delicacy of his 'Ode to a Nightingale', Keats's poetry is treasured for its eloquence and meditative power. His beautifully lyrical work is presented here in full glory, in an anthology gathering around 60 of his most popular poems. The collec ...Show more
Just Looking by Peter Bland
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that hes written over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child alongside art by Br ...Show more
Kevin Ireland - Shape of the Heart by Kevin Ireland
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Knucklebones: Poems 1962 - 2012 by Sam Hunt
$29.99 NZD
$39.99 (25% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known and, arguably, best-loved poet. Since the publication of Doubtless: New and Selected Poems in 1998 (which has sold over 5000 copies), his career has been having a significant renaissance. He continues to regularly perform, has published a memoir, Backroads, a new col ...Show more
La Vita Nuova: Love Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Dante Alighieri
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Dante Alighieri's book of poetry and prose about love, and his first major work.Set in thirteenth century Florence, Dante describes his love for Beatrice through poems, sonnets and prose in La Vita Nuova (The New Life). This edition is the English translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first published i ...Show more