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Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. Swimming Lessons is the first collection of poetry from one of the most beloved young actresses working today. It follows the euphoric beginnings of young love, battlin ...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 suc ...Show more
How To Live by Helen Rickerby
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell ...Show more
The Sonnets of Shakespeare (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The new Pelican Shakespeare series incorporates the more than thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the acclaimed original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967.The general editors of the new series of forty volumes-the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel ...Show more
Escape Path Lighting by John Newton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong? Rock Oyster Island. It's a slack kind of place, but that's the way the locals like it: lifestyle farmers, pensioned-off bikers, seekers and healers, meth cooks and fishing guides. It's only a ferry ride to the city but ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each. The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebrati ...Show more
Walking Home by Michele Amas
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Walking Home gathers together some of the last poems written by Michele Amas. These are poems of tenacity and courage, and of locating oneself in time and in love. "'Teach me how to live I cried' goes a line in the poem 'Walden Pond'. In these sharp-witted, tender, at times heart-wrenching poems, Mic ...Show more
How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human is Kate Camp’s superb seventh book of poetry. It is published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by House of Anansi Press. Kate Camp’s poetry has been described b ...Show more
The Friendship Poems of Rumi - Translated by Nader Khalili by Rumi; Nader Khalili (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser.
The Friendship Poems of Rumi is an elegantly illustrated gift book of the famous Rumis poems, translated by Nader Khalili, that center on the meaning of friendship and its many beautiful meanings.
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili by Rumi; Nader Khalili (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser.
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumi's spiritual poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for a stronger spiritual core.
Second Person by Rata Gordon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The only thing to bring this frozen world to life is an imagination. Who has one? Do I? Let me check. Rata Gordon's first poetry collection is both graceful and restless, sorrowful and witty. In poems about childhood, travelling, the body and the earth, Gordon describes the freedom and disorientation we ...Show more
New Transgender Blockbusters by Oscar Upperton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The dead should come back changed, or what’s the point? Why do you hide your head beneath the bedclothes? Doesn’t everyone name themselves? Is your house a bottle? Are you trapped in there? Isn’t it nice to be this close to someone? Can we go back to our notes? Please? Urgent, witty and unnervingly beau ...Show more