Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner

$75.00 NZD

Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine

A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian Turner was first brought together in the hugely successful Timeless Land in 1995. Its pages showed their shared, deep connection to Central Otago, to its vast skies, its wide plains punctuated by jagged ranges, its unique colours and its dwarfing effect on the people who pass through it. Twenty-five years later, this lavish new volume from these three long-time friends showcases a rich selection of their subsequent work, including recently written, previously unpublished pieces. Through their own marks about the land and its people, be it in ink or paint, they offer a love song to the South Island, in particular Central Otago. ...Show more

I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey

$39.99 NZD

Category: Poetry

Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, she reveals never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bring ing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey's poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and mental illness. More hand grenades than confessions, these autobiographical poems explore and dismantle conventional notions of what it means to be a feminist in search of power.   Masterful as it is raw, passionate, and profound, I Would Leave Me If I Could signals the arrival of an essential voice.   Book cover painting, American Woman, by the author.   Halsey, born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and recipient of the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame's Hal David Starlight Award. She lives in Los Angeles, California. ...Show more

Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav

$26.99 NZD

Category: Poetry

The much anticipated new book by international bestselling author Lang Leav. A breathtakingly beautiful collection of contemporary poetry and prose, offering powerful insights into love, heartbreak, relationships, and self-empowerment.  Filled with wisdom and encouragement, every single page is a testa ment to the power of words, and the impact they can have on the relationships you build with others. And most importantly, the one you have with yourself. Lang Leav captures the intricacies of emotions like few others can. It's no wonder she has been recognized as a major influencer of the modern poetry movement and her writing has inspired a whole new generation of poets to pick up a pen. Love Looks Pretty on You is truly the must-have book for poetry lovers all over the world. ...Show more

Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart

$27.99 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 g anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and coming to terms with the end of a romance. Through it all, Lili's trademark honesty, optimism, and unique perspective are evident in her first poetry collection.  Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, these beautiful poems are about growing up, falling down, and getting back up again. They capture what it feels like to be a young woman in today's image-obsessed world, and how to follow your heart even when the odds are stacked against you. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, the poems in Swimming Lessons reveal the depths of female experience, and are the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own.   ...Show more

Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila

$35.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. The y also focus on the internal and micro issues – the ending of a marriage, the hope of new relationships, and the daily politics of being a partner, woman and mother. The collection meditates on love and relationships and explores identity, culture, community and belonging with a voice that does not shy away from the difficult. ...Show more

Poems to Save the World With by RIDDELL CHRIS

$29.99 NZD

Category: Poetry

A brilliant, thoughtful anthology of poems full of hope, selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.In Poems to Save the World With, Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems full of hope and wit to untangle the madness of life.In this gorgeous anthology, Chri s's follow-up to one of the Bookseller's best poetry books of the last twenty-five years, Poems to Live Your Life By, will ignite your inner activist. Covering a wealth of subjects such as the climate crisis and human rights issues, these insightful poems are brought to life with Chris's exquisite, intricate artwork.This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems by Wendell Berry, William Blake, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, John Dryden, John Dunne, Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Jane Kenyon, Rudyard Kipling, Emma Lazarus, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Rachel Rooney, William Shakespeare, Percy Shelley, Maggie Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Stewart, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, and many more. ...Show more

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey

$45.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY. "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each w ord to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I'm proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic." -- Lana Del Rey   Lana's breathtaking first book solidifies her further as "the essential writer of her times" (The Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum, and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana's typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator.   ...Show more

Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean by Sugar Magnolia Wilson

$24.99 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson's riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with extravagant and surprising imagery, only to reveal th e uneasy, Frankenstein world within. ...Show more

A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter (Compiled by)

$37.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

Celebrate nature every day of the year with 365 of the most beautiful poems ever written. From William Wordsworth's springtime daffodils and Christina Rossetti's birdsong to John Keats's autumnal odes and Longfellow's "Woods in Winter," these poems pay tribute to the beauty of nature and the changing s easons. Works from such beloved writers as William Blake, Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Keats, Amy Lowell, and Shakespeare take you through the year, along with 12 evocative black-and-white line drawings. Enjoy Thomas Hardy's "Birds at Winter Nightfall," Robert Frost's "Spring Pools," Rudyard Kipling's "The Glory of the Garden," Elizabeth Jennings's "Song at the Beginning of Autumn," and many more. ...Show more

How to Fly by Barbara Kingsolver

$32.99 NZD

Category: Poetry

A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.

Te Reo Pohewa - Poems by young Rotorua writers

$15.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

$26.99 NZD

$28.99 (6% off)

Category: Poetry

rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and inhome body , she walks readers through a reflective andintimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of ofis a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself -reminding readers to fill up on love , acceptance, community,family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark,rest here. i dive into the well of my bodyand end up in another worldeverything i needalready exists in methere’s no needto look anywhere else else -home ...Show more