The Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eightee ...Show more
Undying - A Love Story by Michel Faber
27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic, candid and true, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is like to have to ...Show more
The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear by Edward Lear
34.99 NZD
37.99 (7% off)
Category: Poetry
Welcome to the world of Edward Lear! Wonderfully reissued in 2012 to celebrate the bicentenary of Edward Lear, this exquisitely-illustrated hardback is a classic in the making. John Vernon's Lord's stunning illustrations completely capture the spirit and satirical wit of Lear's work, conveying a lifelon ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell is the definitive edition of one of the most important bodies of work in New Zealand poetry. Based on a spiral-bound manuscript entitled ‘Complete Poems 1947–2007’ found among Campbell’s papers after his death, this is his most substantial collection to ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This is the first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield's poetry, including 26 poems, dating from 1909-10, discovered by Gerri Kimber in the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2015. This edition is made up of 217 poems, ordered chronologically, so that the reader can follow Mansfield's development as a p ...Show more
The Map and the Clock by Carol Ann Duffy; Gillian Clarke
45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands. Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse - beginning with the first writings from the old l ...Show more
Poetry Notebook (2006-2014) by Clive James
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book h ...Show more
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Pocket Edition) by Emily Dickinson
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions
Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century. This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works. Featuring insights about nature, love, life, death a ...Show more
Selected Poems by Jenny Bornholdt
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Jenny Bornholdt is the major New Zealand poet of her generation. Her new Selected Poems provides a full representation of her work through nine collections and nearly thirty years. Favourite short poems like 'How to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines' and 'Being a poet' are here alongsid ...Show more
Thought Horses by Bush Rachel
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
You think of the Brighton Rock film where Helen Mirren still manages to look like Queen Elizabeth, especially when she wears a headscarf. You think of the poem you wrote about leaving a house, and how houses we have owned will come back to us in dreams. You think about taking your computer into the next ...Show more
Only Remembered by Michael Morpurgo, M. B. E.
22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
2014 will mark one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. To mark the date, this beautiful anthology will collect favourite extracts, images and poems from some of the UK's leading cultural, political and literary figures. Poems, short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scr ...Show more
Sonnets No Fear (Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
6.99 NZD
14.99 (53% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent a ...Show more