Michael Leunig Poems 1972-2002 by MICHAEL LEUNIG
24.95 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Poetry
This edition is out of print. This elegant volume focuses on Michael Leunig's brilliant texts (not his drawings), with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joy. Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy of war, and revels in the redeeming power of love.
Buddhist Scriptures by Various
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Striving to understand the truth of the human condition and determining the path to spiritual enlightenment is the fundamental nature of Buddhism. Lighting this path is the Buddha, committed to guiding human beings to pure and happy lives. Buddhist Scriptures presents a collection of various teachings ...Show more
Love Poems by Anonymous
19.95 NZD
24.95 (20% off)
Category: Poetry
As timeless as the emotion itself, the poetry collected here celebrates the universal experience of love - tentative love, new love, enduring love, unrequited love. Love Poems is bound in a narrow hardback format, a beautiful gift edition for your valentine.
Just a Saying by Catherine Cookson
34.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
This collection of poems draws on many themes that should be familiar to the readers of Catherine Cookson's novels: love, work, class and the beauty of nature. She also shares more personal thoughts, reflections on her own writing, marriage to her beloved Tom and life in the north of England.
Voices of the Great War by Geoff Barton
21.99 NZD
23.99 (8% off)
Category: Poetry
The voices of the Great War still haunt, disturb and move us, From famous poems of the trenches to little known letters and diaries, this collection of fiction and non-fiction captures the emotions and aspirations of the women and men at the front.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This title presents twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind "Batman", "Edward Scissorhands", "Mars Attacks!", "Beetlejuice", "Nightmare Before Christmas", "Alice in Wonderland" among others - gives birth to a cas ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Poetry in the Making : A handbook for writing and teaching by Ted Hughes
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself, (Ted Hughes) explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals', 'Wind and Weather' and 'Writing about People'. The purpose throughout is to lead on, via discussion of the poems to some direct encoura ...Show more
Various Voices : Prose, poetry, politics 1948-1998 by Harold Pinter
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Harold Pinter's plays are lauded the world over but, until now, little has been gathered together of his other writings. Various Voices presents a wealth of material and a multiplicity of form in which to enjoy the crystal clarity of language and style which marks out Pinter as a true original. Through ...Show more
Collected Poems: Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete text of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales fr ...Show more
Ezra Pound (Poet to Poet) by Ezra Pound (selected Thom Gunn)
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and ...Show more