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Airports and Other Wasted Days by Kevin Ireland
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Kevin IrelandÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs sixteenth book of poems takes a wry, comic-serious look at the glorious ways we fritter away our days. It opens with reflections on airports ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàthose necessary yet infuriating hijackers of our time and patience ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàthen re ...Show more
Backwards to Forwards - A Memoir by Kevin Ireland
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Echoing the erratic shape of remembrance, Kevin Ireland's second volume of memoirs is 'derived from impressions, conversations, anecdotes and poems, and its vague focus is a trip to Eastern Europe', which he took by chance in 1959. Leading indirectly and haphazardly towards and away from this sing ...Show more
Daisy Chains by Kevin Ireland
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
David Asquith is a bumptious, preposterous rogue, yet as the rest of the world slides into financial ruin he plans a radiant pathway to personal success and universal happiness. The catalyst for his miraculous transformation is a chance meeting with a young woman called Daisy, beginning a chain of unlik ...Show more
Getting Away with it by Kevin Ireland
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'I know your dirty little secrets, Professor Motte.ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàA placid and secure retirement seems certain for Kendill Motte, distinguished Professor of History at Arch Hill University ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàuntil an anonymous late-night ...Show more
How to Catch a Fish by Kevin Ireland
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: The Ginger Series | Reading Level: very good
This fine, funny, beautiful book should be on the shelf of every fisherman - and woman - and their long-suffering friends and family. If you think fishing is a simple matter of casting off from a river bank with rod and reel, or dropping a hook and line over the isde of a dinghy, you're in for a shock. ...Show more
How to Survive the Morning - New Poems by Kevin Ireland
23.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This is the 18th book of poetry from award winning poet Kevin Ireland.
Just Like That - New Poems by Kevin Ireland
25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
Poems greet Kevin Ireland in the morning with a crafty smile, or fly into his kitchen out of nowhere. Some dream themselves into his mind, or twist a bottle-cap and offer to share a cup of friendship. Lively words vie for places in his poems, or catch alight from cheerful thoughts. They are never predic ...Show more
Kevin Ireland: Selected Poems, 1963-2013 by Kevin Ireland
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Kevin Ireland lives in Devonport and is one of New Zealand's most prominent and well-loved writers. This is his 20th book of poetry, 50 years after his first book in 1963, Face to Face. His most recent book was Dreamy Days & Nothing Done (2012). He has also published a collection of short stories, S ...Show more
Looking Out To Sea by Kevin Ireland
19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Here in his 22nd collection of poems, Kevin Ireland is as deft and wise as ever: The perfect loving phrase the one that tongues a dazzling parting thought and leaves a vapour trail across the heart does not force its truths from gravities (or likelihoods from similarities) but weaves an arc of steamy sp ...Show more
On Getting Old (Montana Estates Essay Series) by Kevin Ireland
9.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Montana estates essay series | Reading Level: very good
Kevin Irland is a poet, short story writer, novelist and memoirist. In 2004 he received a Prime Minister's Award for his contribution to New Zealand literature. First published April 2005.
Selected Poems 1963 - 2013 by Kevin Ireland
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Kevin Ireland lives in Devonport and is one of New Zealand's most prominent and well-loved writers. This is his 20th book of poetry, 50 years after his first book in 1963, Face to Face. His most recent book was Dreamy Days & Nothing Done (2012). He has also published a collection of short stories, S ...Show more