New and Selected Poems, Volume Two by Mary Oliver
34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Understand, I am always trying to figure outwhat the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape- New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Mary Oliver from six of her last eight books, is a major addition to a ...Show more
Dark Sparring: Poems by Marsh Selina Tusitala
27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Where Selina Marsh’s first collection, Fast Talking PI, boldly, insightfully, and lyrically wrestled with the realities of being an individual of Pacific descent in a primarily European world, her latest offering fiercely combats the loss of a loved one with all of the techniques of poetry and the Thai ...Show more
Tightrope by Marsh Selina Tusitala
27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, ...Show more
Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is perhaps the most controversial major English poetof the last two centuries, not least because of his apparent enthusiasm for the empire. A child of British India, he first became famous for tales of imperial life, notably Kim, the Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads. Kipl ...Show more
Sad Girls by Lang Leav
32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
School is almost out for Audrey, but the panic attacks are just beginning. Because Audrey told a lie and now her classmate, Ana, has wound up dead. Just as her world begins to spin out of control, Audrey meets the enigmatic Rad - the boy who could turn it all around. But will their ill-timed romance dri ...Show more
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blo ...Show more
Flow: Whanganui River Poems by Beautrais Airini
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Wherever bodies of water are, people settle, and stories collect. Six generations of poet Airini Beautrais' family have lived near the Whanganui River, the restless, all-encompassing figure at the heart of her fourth collection Flow. Flow is a brilliant polyphony of stories - large, small, geological, e ...Show more
Ski Flier by Mcmillan Maria
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This is the miracle, to walk as if alive As it traverses various landscapes, The Ski Flier also moves through a world where power exists in the same breath as vulnerability. Maria McMillan's incredibly vivid second full poetry collection takes in mountains and cities, dragons and daughters, hope and wis ...Show more
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
A Barry Brickell Reader - Selected 'Writings', Meditations, Outbursts, Decrees and Diversions by Barry Brickell; Gregory O'Brien (editor) & Haruhiko Sameshima (photographer)
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
"What a fine thing it is to have this full and final show of Barry's 'wrerterly' productivity laid out expansively, matched by a photo-essay that shows Barry doing what he always did most: working, in his own self-made situ. Laid out, too, in the long thin lines he loved to trace, on paper/ canvas, in c ...Show more
Night Horse by Smither Elizabeth
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout ...Show more
Gregory Kan - This Paper Boat by Kan Gregory
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In This Paper Boat, poet Gregory Kan traces the life and written fragments of Robin Hyde, vivid with imagery and impression - the tide pool at Island Bay and its shrimp, the driftwood and crushed lemon leaves. He listens to the stories of his parents and of their parents, the eels and milk, frangipani t ...Show more