Just This by Brian Turner
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems.
Echolocation by Angela Andrews
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Echolocation is a quietly impressive first book of poems. At first what is striking is the orthodoxy of the subject matter
Lifted by Bill Manhire
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classics
Description: The last lines of Bill Manhire's astonishing poem 'Kevin' lie at the heart of this book. These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; ...Show more
Usborne Book of Poetry for Children by -
40.00 NZD
41.00 (2% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Usborne Poetry Books
This is a beautiful treasury of poetry for older children, featuring a selection of work from classic and modern poets including Shakespeare, Byron, Ted Hughes and Wendy Cope, alongside all new original poetry by Sam Taplin. The poems cover many different themes and moods, and are chosen to show childre ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Life by Edited by Laura Barber
55.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a livin ...Show more
Gift from the Sea (50th Anniversary Edition) by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Quietly powerful and a great help. Glorious' Emma Thompson 'Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.' First published in 1955 and an instant bestseller, Gift from the Seais a classic, wise book for women about how to flourish in life, how to balance life, work, motherh ...Show more
That Awkward Age by Roger McGough
45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Roger McGough's eagerly-awaited new collection is a powerful testament to the miraculous in the everyday. Here he builds us his world: one of chance encounters and embarrassing moments, of big questions and small wonders. 'At that awkward age now between birth and death', he addresses Alzheimers and wre ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
When "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets. There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She a ...Show more