Kaupapa : New Zealand Poets, World Issues by Hinemoana Baker
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Edited, selected and introduced by writer and musician Hinemoana Baker and activist and writer Maria McMillan, this stunning anthology features new, established and award-winning poets including Bill Manhire, Tusiata Avia, Airini Beautrais, Michele Amas, Jenny Bornholdt, CK Stead, James Brown and Roma P ...Show more
These Small Fields by Frank Soper
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An anthology of poems about Golden Bay places and people - environment, flora and fauna, mountains and sea coast, farming.
The Cornfield & Other Poems by Mark Raffills
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Mark Raffills - the Nelson-based publisher, journalist,columnist and publicist - has crafted text as though his life depended on it. Most of the poems in this collection have been performed by their author at concerts and festivals around the country over the past dozen years. Raffills' ear for spoken r ...Show more
Lifeblood by Joel Hayward
19.95 NZD
43.00 (53% off)
Category: Poetry
Relaxed and fluid poetry, expressed in various styles and always with verve and insight, reflects the author's breadth of experience as well as his reflections on those most mysterious of beliefs: animism and humanism. Dr Joel Haywood is a former Senior Lecturer who abandoned academia to pursue his goal ...Show more
My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems by Jenny Bornholdt (ed.); Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The poems in My Heart Goes Swimming attest to the enduring nature of love and reflect the many ways in which it is written about. This collection is a celebration of love, but also of life, language and place. From delicate narratives to ecstatic lyrics, from Katherine Mansfield to Dinah Hawken, from R. ...Show more
Big Weather - Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien & Louise White (eds)
32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Every Wellingtonian - dammit, every New Zealander - should be severely tempted to buy Big Weather for the home bookshelf. It's a lovely book to handle, with a cool cover and excellent layout. If you think these are trivial aspects in a poetry book, think again. Design messages hit most readers sublimina ...Show more
Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
At the time of his death in 1962 E.E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentie ...Show more
Inside, Outside by Brian Turner
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This substantial new collection by award-winning poet Brian Turner develops themes characteristic of his poetry. Love poems and elegies keep company with poems of satire, protest and metaphysical speculation. The book concludes with 'Post-operative', a raw and risky sequence written in the wake of major ...Show more
The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire & Damien Wilkins (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensa ...Show more