Doubtless - New and Selected Poems by Sam Hunt
34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known poet. For almost 40 years he has been writing, reading and performing poetry, touring New Zealand constantly and reading his poems in pubs, theatres, schools and many other venues. No other poet in New Zealand has managed to make a living by performing their poems, a ...Show more
Our Favourite Poems : New Zealanders choose their best-loved poems by Iain Sharp
9.99 NZD
24.99 (60% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
What is your favourite poem? Who is it by? Why do you love it? When do you recite it? How does it make you feel? A poem's ability to create an emotional response is quite remarkable. A favourite poem may capture something everyday and domestic, or try and answer one of life's big questions. Our Favourit ...Show more
Migrant Birds: 24 Contemplations by Ahmed Zaoui
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Ahmed Zaoui is an Algerian refugee, who spent two years in prison after seeking asylum in New Zealand in late 2002. His imprisonment is widely seen as an abuse of justice, the result of a secret 'Security Risk Certificate' issued by the SIS, which the Government continues to uphold, despite the findings ...Show more
Limericks : The Oakley Collection by J. H. Bentley
18.99 NZD
25.00 (24% off)
Category: Poetry
Humerous verse.
Millionaire's Shortbread by Mary-Jane Duffy, Mary Cresswell, Mary MacPherson, Kerry Hines
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Millionaire's Shortbread is both book and cake. Meeting at a cafe table in downtown Wellington, sustained by their favourite treat and gathering in an illustrator along the way, the poets put together this selection of their work over three years. It seemed inevitable that the book should be named after ...Show more
Soundings - Poems and drawings by Cilla Mcqueen
24.95 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In her ninth collection, Cilla McQueen extends the themes of homeland and loss, colonisation and displacement found in her popular book Markings and earlier work. The multi-award-winning Bluff poet writes as a descendant of the colonised in remote Scotland, offers perspectives on the present-day life ...Show more
Feeding the Dogs by K McKenzie Cooke
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of Montana Best New Book for 2003 80 pages. With a childhood in rural Southland behind her,Kay McKenzie Cooke blends town and country themes effortlessly>Her poetry expresses a strong relationship with the landscape and a southern sensibility, but she is equally at home writing about la ...Show more
Walking the Land by Kevin Ireland
24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Walking the Land is Kevin Ireland?s fifteenth book of poetry, a collection of forty poems, some of which have appeared in the Listener, Spinning a Line and Christine Cole Catley ? Her First Eighty Years. Through his poetry Kevin Ireland reflects on nature, the passing of time, politics, love, life, frie ...Show more
Apes Road by Rob Jackaman
21.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Apes Road is a small dirt track off the coastal route to Dunedin above Karitane. It is also the name of Rob Jackaman?s thirteenth collection of poems, in many ways a companion and sequel to his Late Love Songs, offering us more songs, more love, more startling images of human nature. In this volume, th ...Show more
Sleepwalking In Antarctica and Other Poems by Owen Marshall
5.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This fine new collection of poetry, Owen Marshall's second, is rich in the themes and preoccupations that have made his short stories and novels so admired. Here are wise, elegiac poems on love and loss, longing and regret, and ageing; beautifully observed, affectionate poems about New Zealand countrysi ...Show more
Te Ata Kura : The Red-Tipped Dawn by Apirana Taylor
24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems by New Zealand poet Apirana Taylor.
Selected Poems, 1975-2000 by Lauris Edmond
39.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
"My life as a writer is strange, it's so short - I wonder if it has a future, if I have the power to take hold of my experience, and give it one?...The thing that concerns me most constantly and most painfully is growing old. And being alone, of course. But I don't write about that, yet...whenever I try ...Show more