A Child's Garden of Verses (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$7.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 2-12
The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched w ...Show more
A Lack of Good Sons by Jake Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
I am seconds away from everything. I am the bullseye of the world. A Lack of Good Sons is a book of poetry that carries us through many realms - Greek myth, the Bible, dream, and the earthly world, with all its beauty and violence. An eclectic range of speakers, from deities to inanimate objects, descri ...Show more
A Tingling Catch by Pirie, Mark
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This substantial volume traces the history of cricket poetry in New Zealand from 1864 to 2009 spanning 145 years of New Zealand cricket. It brings together verse and song by some of our best poets - past and present. From Samuel Butler's classic description of the visiting All-England XI in 1864 to Arno ...Show more
A Vase And a Vast Sea by Jenny Nimon (Ed)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In A Vase and a Vast Sea, poetry and prose rustle against the window, scatter palm fronds across the road and sneak off to the movies on a Tuesday. There are moments of nostalgia blended with dangerous undercurrents and domestic life. Edited by Jenny Nimon, this collection is a reunion of writers such a ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
After-Burn - Poetry Aotearoa New Zealand Yearbook 2023 by Tracey Slaughter (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #57 features over 150 new poems - including ...Show more
Afternoon of an Evening Train by Gregory O'Brien
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Gregory OÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂBrien is a poet, anthologist, art writer and painter. Born in Matamata in 1961, he trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland before returning to study art history and English at Auckland University. In ...Show more
Andrew Johnston - Selected Poems by Andrew Johnston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fiine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Andrew Johnston's five published collections, from How to Talk (1993) to Fits & Starts (2016).'Andrew Johnson does the best titles. And then he puts the best poems underneath them.' -Bill Manhire'Andrew Johnston's first collection, How to Talk, is a book of s ...Show more
As the Trees Have Grown by Stephanie de Montalk
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Stephanie de Montalk's new collection engage with the world as if through a window - cloaked, distanced, guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees. As de Montalk seeks a cure to the life-changing limitations of her physical self, she finds something close to sol ...Show more
Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love by Jessica Urlichs
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to scho ...Show more
Beside Herself by Price Chris
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
'All of my best lines are accidents', Chris Price writes in this book, and proceeds to prove that she has the knack of putting herself in harm's way and the skill to build from there. Beside Herself plays with character, and with language, and with the way the one works on the other. Pronouns and person ...Show more
Bill Manhire - Selected Poems by Bill Manhire
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This generous selection of Bill Manhire's poems moves from playful early pieces like ‘On Originality’ and ‘How to Take off Your Clothes at the Picnic’ to major works of recent years such as ‘Hotel Emergencies’, a powerful response to contemporary atrocities, and ‘Erebus Voices’, written to be read by Si ...Show more