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
Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
THE SICK BAG SONG chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and road journal. Drawing inspiration from Leonard Cohen, John Berryman, Patti Smith, Sharon O ...Show more
And So It Is by Vincent O'Sullivan
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Hot on the heels of Being Here, O'Sullivan's capacious selected poems, which many chose as one of the poetry highlights of the year, comes a collection of 75 new poems. They show a mature poet, full of experience, still with the capacity to dazzle.
Transit of Venus by Sandig Urike Almut
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Transit of Venus has fascinated astronomers for centuries. In 1769 Captain James Cook sailed to the Pacific with a group of scientists to observe the Transit in Tahiti but Cook had also received secret orders to voyage onwards in search of the fabled 'Unknown Southern Continent'. It was on this voya ...Show more
Possibility of Flight by Heidi North-Bailey
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Looking Out To Sea by Kevin Ireland
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Here in his 22nd collection of poems, Kevin Ireland is as deft and wise as ever: The perfect loving phrase the one that tongues a dazzling parting thought and leaves a vapour trail across the heart does not force its truths from gravities (or likelihoods from similarities) but weaves an arc of steamy sp ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...Show more
Poetry Please: Love Poems by Various Poets
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'What will survive of us is love.' In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy ...Show more
Just Then by Harry Ricketts
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In his new collection, Harry Ricketts finds room for three songs written in Hong Kong in 1975, and a 1979 poem about a War poet. Other poems remember departed friends and early experiences, and celebrate the abiding pleasure of reading, writing and cricket. Formally adroit, Just Then is by turns tender, ...Show more
Crashing the Calliope by Keith Nunes
10.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Keith Nunes is a former newspaper journalist and world traveller. His evocative and thought-provoking poetry and flash fiction has been published around New Zealand including Landfall, Poetry NZ and Takahe, and around the world. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and lives beside Lake Rotoma (Rotorua) with ...Show more