We Troubled the Waters by Ntozake Shange

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Category: Poetry

Shange's stirring poems and Brown's raw, striking paintings evoke the turbulence of the civil rights movement. Illustrations.

Illustrated Rumi by Philip Dunn

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Category: Poetry

The bestselling poet in America today, thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jalalu'ddin Rumi has inspired and enlightened thousands with his playful, passionate work celebrating the sacred in everyday life. Now the spiritual wealth of Rumi's stories and poetry in translation are accompanied by rare and wonder ful art in the Sufi tradition. This fresh rendering brings new life to these incomparable parables, which have transcended time, place, culture, and religion to speak directly to the hearts and souls of contemporary readers. With a foreword by Huston Smith, these selections of the inimitable mystic's prose and poetry have been taken from all of the master's works. Each parable, such as The King and the Handmaiden, The Grocer and the Parrot, The Ugly Old Woman, and The Man Who Was Always Being Swindled, is related as Rumi might have presented it to his fascinated audiences, as he whirled in meditation and trance. But each story also has a spiritual message, a holy essence that applies across all faiths, uttered from the heart of Islam. Each of these messages is provided here in a modern rendering that keeps the flavor of this unique period of history, of culture, and of inspired, passionate beauty. ...Show more

19 Varieties of Gazelle : Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye

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Category: Poetry

Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at th e party; Baba Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside. Maybe they have something to tell us. Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East -- sixty in all -- appear together here for the first time. ...Show more

Collected Love Poems by Brian Patten

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Category: Poetry

Of all the poets writing today, Brian Patten is perhaps the most accessible and popular. Now his love poems, old and new, are collected together in his single volume. Widely acknowledged as one of Europe's foremost writers, Brian Patten's love poems have earned him recognition far and wide. Truthful and tender, profoundly aware of the possibility of magic and the miraculous, these poems are beautiful, informed and, even at their darkest moments, filled with courage and hope. Alongside old favourites, this edition will contain a selection of new and hitherto unpublished poems. This is a must for lovers and poetry lovers everywhere. This edition first published 2007. ...Show more

The "Times" Book of English Verse by Anon

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Category: Poetry

Hue & Cry 8

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Category: Poetry

Loved, Mis-loved and Loved Again : Poems by Mark Rafills by Mark Rafills

$19.99 NZD

Category: Poetry

"I find joy in the belief that 'love and justice and mercy' are worth whatever it takes to find them." - Mark Raffills "His uncluttered and unpretentious delivery makes the most of some striking works" - Stewart Hunt

Poetry NZ No 46 by Various

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Category: Poetry

Poetry NZ, New Zealand

Venus Trines at Midnight

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Category: Poetry

Jenny Bornholdt - (The NZ Poets: The Laureate Series) by Jenny Bornholdt

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Category: Poetry

Jenny Bornholdt has written seven books of poetry, including a selected poems Miss New Zealand (VUW,1997). Jenny Bornholdt was Poet Laureate in in 2005/06 during which she produced Mrs Winter's Jump (Godwit,2007). Her previous book Summer (VUW,2003) was written in Menton, France when she held the Kather ine Mansfield Memorial Scholarship. The 34 poems on this CD can be found in Miss New Zealand (tracks 1-17), Summer (tracks 18-29) and Mrs Winter's Jump (tracks 30-34)The Poems are: In The Garden, Rodnie And Her Bicycles, Instructions for how to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines, Poem, Paul And His Ancestors, In Love, The Man Dean Went To Photograph, Weighing Up The Heart, Make Sure, The Baters, Cast In Order Of Appearance, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Annunciation, Wedding Song, Estonian Songs, Please Pay Attention, Then Murray Came, Being A Poet, Jack's Shirt, Villanelle, The Train To Nice, Train, Outings, France, Ode To The Little Hotel, Peach The Jam, Blue Shirts Descending, Helen's House, Confessional, Photograph, Summer, Concert, Not Go Away and Mrs Winter's Jump. ...Show more

A Canoe in Midstream : Poems New and Old by Apirana Taylor

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Category: Poetry

Poems new & old Apirana Taylor is a popular and acclaimed poet, short-story writer, novlist, playwright, actor, musician and painter. This, his fifth volume of poetry, includes much new work, together with many old favourites (the ones most requested at readings). First published May 2009, Christchu rch Softcover 172pages ...Show more

Res Publica by Zireau

$24.99 NZD

Category: Poetry

DoP July 2008, NZ 230 x 163mm / 288pp 'The following is a true account of seven years and fifty weeks of my life. The thrifty reader who seeks some greater truth from such an amount should stop here. A visiting Kipling once said our island nation is British fed but will repay its debt in stories. '. ..Zireaux's rhymes have a twinkling ingenuity not unworthy of Byron, W.S. Gilbert or Cole Porter ... [He] captivates with a singular charm.' - Iain Sharp (Sunday Star Times) ...Show more