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Backroads: Charting a Poet's Life by Sam Hunt
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
In Backroads, Sam Hunt looks back on the life that has seen him become one of New Zealand's best-loved poets. For over 40 years he has lived off his wits as a full-time poet, always writing, and tirelessly performing through the length and breadth of New Zealand. As a child Sam was surrounded by 'a lot ...Show more
Chords by Sam Hunt
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Secondhand. Sam Hunt has always believed in the essential musicality of a good poem, a belief that has become more intense over the years.Part 1 of this book, ‘the Chords’ that give this collection its title, are a loosely connected group of poems that he feels are best described as a musical score. Str ...Show more
Doubtless - New and Selected Poems by Sam Hunt
34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known poet. For almost 40 years he has been writing, reading and performing poetry, touring New Zealand constantly and reading his poems in pubs, theatres, schools and many other venues. No other poet in New Zealand has managed to make a living by performing their poems, a ...Show more
James K. Baxter - Poems selected and introduced by Sam Hunt by James K. Baxter; Sam Hunt
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Poet and performer Sam Hunt first became aware of the poems of James K Baxter as a schoolboy. Aged 14, he was strapped for reciting Baxter's poem 'Evidence at the Witch Trials' in an English lesson (one of the final in a series of events resulting in his expulsion from college). James K Baxter later bec ...Show more
Salt River Songs by Sam Hunt
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Salt River Songs is Sam Hunt's latest collection of poems, written over the last few years in his house that sits amongst a grove of totara trees on the Arapaoa, one of the five main salt rivers of the Kaipara Harbour. As always, his unflinchingly honest, elegiac and moving poems roam around familiar th ...Show more
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