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
Dark Days at the Oxygen Cafe by James Norcliffe
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
James Norcliffe is one of New Zealand's most widely published and anthologised poets. In Dark Days at the Oxygen Cafe, he looks over the shoulders of many characters and creatures, both real and imagined, and takes us deep into uncanny valleys. Poems about Seneca and James Dean sit alongside poems about ...Show more
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog... or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert... this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness... heartbreaking and charged with trees.. ...Show more
Udon by the Remarkables by Harvey Molloy
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Hoopla | Reading Level: very good
Salt River Songs by Sam Hunt
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Salt River Songs is Sam Hunt's latest collection of poems, written over the last few years in his house that sits amongst a grove of totara trees on the Arapaoa, one of the five main salt rivers of the Kaipara Harbour. As always, his unflinchingly honest, elegiac and moving poems roam around familiar th ...Show more
The Conch Trumpet by David Eggleton
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
The Conch Shell calls to the scattered tribes of contemporary New Zealand. It sounds the signal to listen close, critically and 'in alert reverie'. David Eggleton's reach of references, the marriage of high and low, the grasp of popular and classical allusion, his eye both for cultural trash and epiphan ...Show more
In a Slant Light - A Poet's Memoir by Cilla Mcqueen
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In this absorbing poetic memoir of her early life, Cilla McQueen, one of New Zealand's major women poets, leads us over the stepping stones of childhood memory, some half submerged, some strong and glinting in the light of her wit: In the large lead shoe X-ray machine at the back of the shoe shop, our s ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
9.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'In black ink my love may still shine bright...' Universally admired and quoted, Shakespeare's Sonnets have love, beauty and the passing of time at their heart. Featuring some of the best-known and best-loved lines ...Show more
This Change in the Light by Fiona Kidman
37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A superb collection of poetry from one of New Zealand's top writers. Fiona Kidman's exquisite and adroit poetry invites the reader into her life, introducing us to her family, friends and places she has loved. In turn it touches our own experiences, offering universal relevance and insight.
Leaving the Red Zone: Poems From the Canterbury Earthquakes by edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston
48.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
More than 400,000 peopleMore than 14,000 earthquakes5 yearsPeople talked about quake brain, but theCanterbury earthquakes, despite or becauseof this, generated amazing bursts of creativity:music, dance, astonishing street art; and poetry.Leaving the Red Zone is a rich and wide-rangingcollection showcasi ...Show more