On Our Watch by Alison Carter; Catherine Delahunty; Julie Sargisson; Lora Mountjoy
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Two years ago Hauraki writers Alison Carter, Lora Mountjoy, Julie Sargisson and Catherine Delahunty decided to make more space in their lives for poetry. The four women met regularly to share and critique their poems. This book contains work which came out of this time, poetry which touches on family an ...Show more
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
The National Trust Book of Nature Poems: Treasured Classics and New Favourites by Deborah Alma, National Trust
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated book Seven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains. This carefully chosen collection will inspire you to explore nature through a poet’ ...Show more
Middle Youth by Morgan Bach
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems of Middle Youth look directly into the fire. Sometimes they find joy and the possibility of sustaining oneself; sometimes they feel the sense of an ending. Morgan Bach writes with a dark, crackling energy and controlled rage about the world we find ourselves in. Here are the loves that fi ...Show more
Saga by Hannah Mettner
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Saga, the permafrost is melting and the secrets frozen within are emerging. Nothing is spared, from the old family recipe for pineapple cheesecake to the portrait of an ancestor, from the wife who sleeps with an axe under her bed to the tough heart of a man that beats beneath the skin. With an uneas ...Show more
At The Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Ōtepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching’s poems bestow a unique attention upon the world. Her eye is finely attuned to the well-trodden yet overlooked – the places between ‘dirt and thumb’ ...Show more
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
Face to the Sky by Michele Leggott
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A new collection by award-winning poet Michele Leggott.In her latest collection, Michele Leggott speaks to the art and writings of nineteenth-century New Zealand painter Emily Cumming Harris. Face to the Sky tells stories of love and loss from two woman in the shadow the same mountain, more than a centu ...Show more
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Deep Colour by Diana Bridge
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Deep colour, the words for it are out of range –That much I can tell you. What I cannot sayis how a life gathers its themes– From ‘Deep Colour’ Deep Colour, by acclaimed poet Diana Bridge, is a fiercely sensory and meticulously crafted collection. These poems respond with graceful precision to the imm ...Show more
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
Emily Dickinson: A selection of poems from one of America s most iconic poets by Emily Dickinson
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted: 'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all' Emily Dick ...Show more