Poems on Nature by Various
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beaut ...Show more
Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean by Wilson Sugar Magnolia
29.99 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 ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. "A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ..." This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his f ...Show more
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda; Nathaniel Tarn (Editor)
25.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
"The perfect gift for Valentine s Day /i>elected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statement ...Show more
Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry by A P Wavell
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers. It has remained in print every since, proving beyond doubt that, whatever the fashion of t ...Show more
Best-Loved Poems by Neil Philip (ed.), Isabelle Brent (ill.)
37.99 NZD
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
Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry by Matthew George Walter
20.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here ar ...Show more
Ruin, Blossom
37.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A remarkable new collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction - from our finest Scottish lyric poet WINNER OF THE DAVID COHEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023 'By far the best British poet alive' SPECTATOR 'A master of language' HILARY MANTEL In this powerful, moving new book, John ...Show more
Ten Poems about Libraries by LORRAINE MARINER
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Libraries are treasured places. We may remember visiting a local library in childhood to explore an early delight in reading. Or perhaps we have come to value them in later life, as a calm sanctuary where we can daydream among beloved books. A library is also a portal into countless worlds of knowledge, ...Show more
Ten Poems about Aunts by ANNE HARVEY
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Nearly all of us have an 'auntie' or 'aunty' even if the person in question isn't actually a relative. In these entertaining and touching poems we meet story-telling aunts and aunts who spin their own yarn, aunts who send gifts from afar and an aunt with a crew cut who knows far more about love than ...Show more
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times