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An Autobiography by Lauris Edmond
49.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
To write your life story is to go down to the dark and steamy kitchen of the soul, to lift the lids of cooking pots and examine the contents, one by one... This book distils into a single compelling volume the three autobiographies of poet Lauris Edmond: Hot October, Bonfires in the Rain and The Quick W ...Show more
Essential New Zealand Poems by Lauris Edmond (ed.); Bill Sewell (ed.)
29.95 NZD
36.00 (16% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At the time of her death Lauris Edmond was working with poet Bill Sewell to complete a collection of accessible New Zealand poems and this is the result. This beautifully presented anthology includes over 200 works from a wide range of local poets and it will become an essentail book for every New Zeala ...Show more
Late Song by Lauris Edmond
19.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Poetry section. A last collection by a much-loved poet, this was accepted for publication just before Lauris Edmond's death in January 2000. Inevitably there are poems, poised and calm, about death. But there are many also about new life: her gra ...Show more
Selected Poems, 1975-2000 by Lauris Edmond
39.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
"My life as a writer is strange, it's so short - I wonder if it has a future, if I have the power to take hold of my experience, and give it one?...The thing that concerns me most constantly and most painfully is growing old. And being alone, of course. But I don't write about that, yet...whenever I try ...Show more
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