Lifeblood by Joel Hayward
19.95 NZD
43.00 (53% off)
Category: Poetry
Relaxed and fluid poetry, expressed in various styles and always with verve and insight, reflects the author's breadth of experience as well as his reflections on those most mysterious of beliefs: animism and humanism. Dr Joel Haywood is a former Senior Lecturer who abandoned academia to pursue his goal ...Show more
My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems by Jenny Bornholdt (ed.); Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The poems in My Heart Goes Swimming attest to the enduring nature of love and reflect the many ways in which it is written about. This collection is a celebration of love, but also of life, language and place. From delicate narratives to ecstatic lyrics, from Katherine Mansfield to Dinah Hawken, from R. ...Show more
Big Weather - Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien & Louise White (eds)
32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Every Wellingtonian - dammit, every New Zealander - should be severely tempted to buy Big Weather for the home bookshelf. It's a lovely book to handle, with a cool cover and excellent layout. If you think these are trivial aspects in a poetry book, think again. Design messages hit most readers sublimina ...Show more
Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
At the time of his death in 1962 E.E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentie ...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
The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire & Damien Wilkins (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensa ...Show more
The Hill of Wool by Jenny Bornholdt
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The Hill of Wool is a book about memories. Some memories live in families. Some are inspired by rediscovered children's songs and stories. Others are triggered by chance encounters with old boyfriends. Sometimes personal and lyrical, sometimes jagged and strange like untamed children's rhymes, these poe ...Show more
Western Line by Airini Beautrais
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The follow-up to Airini Beautrais's acclaimed debut collection Secret Heart demonstrates the growing reach and authority of her writing. The three sequences of 'Love Poems', 'Charms' and 'Curses' are an arrestingly original mix of observation, performance and jokes. A section of lyric poems slows the ...Show more
Koiwi Koiwi / Bone Bone by Hinemoana Baker
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
First published August 2010.
Since June by Louise Wallace
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Since June is a poised and confident first book of poems. Language slips and miscommunications lead to suddenly unnerving perceptions and leave the reader both moved and a little unbalanced. Louise Wallace can start a poem in the “real” world, then take it off to somewhere else entirely. She’s not afrai ...Show more
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The first Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls caused its author to be burnt at the stake for heresy in 1310. Kate Camp's fourth collection of poems demonstrates a darker turn in the work of this popular poet. Shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, it establishes her in the front rank of New Z ...Show more