All the Poems You Need to Say Goodbye by Don Paterson (ed.)
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
All The Poems You Need to Say Goodbye is a book designed for those both in need of poetic solace after bereavement and a gift book for the recently bereaved; it is also intended as a book to read from at memorial ceremonies, when judging the tone and hitting the right note is everything. In our deepest ...Show more
Best-Loved Poems by Neil Philip (ed.), Isabelle Brent (ill.)
35.00 NZD
38.00 (7% off)
Category: Poetry
This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth; Poems of Lov ...Show more
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, "Endpoint", written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed ...Show more
The Poetry of Birds by Simon Armitage
32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds.
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Life by Laura Barber
30.00 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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
When Love Speaks: Poetry and Prose for Weddings, Relationships and Married Life. by Adam O'Riordan
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with harmony' "Love's Labour's Lost," William Shakespeare. "When Love Speaks" brings together the greatest writing on love and commitment - from Donne to Cole Porter, Sappho to P.G. Wodehouse, love letters of the great composers to Edw ...Show more
Bright Star The Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Vintage Classics) by John Keats
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book includes an introduction by director Jane Campion. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his l ...Show more
Cat Haiku by Deborah Coates (illus Sandra Brice)
13.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'I reach out a claw And catch a thread in your best Shirt. It snags; I yawn.' 'Surprise! I can jump Through the newspaper while you Are still reading it!' The cat has been with us since time began. Enigmatic, independent, surprising, single-minded, loving - cats are all these things and impose ...Show more
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon by Pablo Neruda
32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Mitchell, widely known for his original and definitive translations of spiritual writings and poetry, has taken the work of Neruda (1904-1973), whose poems are passionate, humorous and exceptionally accessible, and brought them to life for a whole new generation of readers. Mitchell has selected nearly ...Show more
Abandoned Novel by David Beach
18.00 NZD
25.00 (28% off)
Category: Poetry
A poem is an opening line plus work. My forte is the opening line but I toil too. I bang my brain upon the page, read through as far as I have got again and again . . (