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99 Ways Into New Zealand Poetry by Paula Green; Harry Ricketts
39.99 NZD
44.99 (11% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This book celebrates the richness and variety of New Zealand poetry by outlining many of the numerous ways to read - and write - poems. It offers 80 key poems that showcase different aspects of the genre, as well as commentary from 25 poets about what inspired them to write specific works. With insightf ...Show more
Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page by Selected by Siobhan Harvey, James Norcliffe & Harry Ricketts
45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
A must-have poetry companion for all lovers of New Zealand poetry New Zealanders adore poetry, and this expertly selected and handsomely packaged collection of over 150 poems published since the 1950s shows exactly why: New Zealand poetry is, by turns, distinctive, affecting, joyous, revealing, moving, ...Show more
How We Remember - New Zealanders and the First World War by Charles Ferrall; Harry Ricketts
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: very good
A poem, a waiata, a family photograph, a painting, a half-recalled history lesson, a parade, a name on a plaque in a small town: we remember the First World War in so many ways. These original, insightful essays by a raft of historians, writers and other prominent figures reflect on our different forms ...Show more
How to Catch a Cricket Match (Ginger #9) by Harry Ricketts
26.00 NZD
Category: Cricket | Series: Ginger
Rudyard Kipling called cricketers 'flannelled fools'. Groucho Marx asked halfway through a cricket match when it would begin. Alfred Hitchcock put two cricket fans in a thriller as comic relief. Yet despite its famously odd practices, slow pace, strange language, eccentric umpires and frequent scandals ...Show more
How to Live Elsewhere (Montana Estates Essay Series) by Harry Ricketts
9.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Montana Estates Essay Ser. | Reading Level: very good
âÂÂOvidâÂÂs Tristia, my nomadic childhood, living now in New Zealand: these have set me thinking about the difference between exile and immigration. On the face of it, the distinction seems straightforward. Exile (like becoming a refugee) is usually compelled; immigration is usually voluntary. In ...Show more
Just Then by Harry Ricketts
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In his new collection, Harry Ricketts finds room for three songs written in Hong Kong in 1975, and a 1979 poem about a War poet. Other poems remember departed friends and early experiences, and celebrate the abiding pleasure of reading, writing and cricket. Formally adroit, Just Then is by turns tender, ...Show more
Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts by Harry Ricketts
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. From his 1989 collection Coming Here – in which he wrote the first of his ‘Secret Life’ poems – to his 2018 collection Winter Eyes, which reviewer Tim Uppert ...Show more
Spirit Abroad : A second selection of New Zealand spiritual verse by Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts & Mike Grimshaw (eds)
39.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
This selection, like its predecessor Spirit in a Strange Land, comprises approximately 100 poems. It is divided into six sections - these sections are frames around the notion of New Zealand identity and the hotly contested debates about who we are: * Iconic Kiwis * Waitangi and beyond * Anzacs * W ...Show more
Spirit in a Strange Land - A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse by Edited by Michael Grimshaw, Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts
39.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Reference & Anthology Section) SPIRIT IN A STRANGE LAND is the first-ever collection of poetry that focuses on a rich vein in New Zealand writing: our spiritual experience. Religious poetry has always been evident in anthologies, but by exp ...Show more
Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War by Harry Ricketts
38.99 NZD
Category: History
Strange Meetings" provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous mom ...Show more
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War by Harry Ricketts
59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
"Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914 -1919, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous mo ...Show more
The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing by Harry Ricketts
40.00 NZD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand is a sports-mad country, a state of affairs that is mirrored by a wealth of writing on sport and sports - not only by sports journalists, but by novelists, poets, columnists, historians, essayists and academics. In this sweeping and often surprising anthology, Harry Ricketts casts the net ov ...Show more