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
W. H. Auden: Poems Selected by John Fuller by W.H. Auden
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet S.
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 accessible introduction to some of the greatest poets in history. W. H. Auden ...Show more
John Keats by John Keats, Andrew Motion (edited by)
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) abandoned a career in medicine to write poetry, until his life was cut tragically short from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. By that time, he had published three volumes of verse to an unreceptive critical response. But as the nineteenth century wore on Keats's reputation ...Show more
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton
27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Nightmare Before Christmas, among others - now gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children: misunderstood outcas ...Show more
Collected Poems
35.00 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun ...Show more
First World War Poems by ANDREW MOTION (ed)
45.00 NZD
49.95 (9% off)
Category: Poetry
The First World War produced some of the most haunting and memorable poetry of our age. In this compelling anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a generous s ...Show more
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.
Ariel - use other isbn by Sylvia Plath
18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Many of the poems in Ariel were written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before Sylvia Plath's death in 1963. It is the volume on which her reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests. First published 1965.
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvi ...Show more