Shakespeare - Sonnets by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Verse to Inspire Ser.
A stunning foiled cover does justice to Shakespeare's elegant sonnets in this first book of a new series of inspirational writing. The sonnets here are given space to breathe: divided thematically and sparsely illustrated, the beautiful verse delivers its full impact. In a collection of around 60 of his ...Show more
Shift by Rhian Gallagher
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Rhian Gallagher's second collection - her first with a New Zealand publisher - encompasses a departure from London, where she lived for 18 years, and a return to her country of birth. In three parts, Shift takes us both back and outwards - from the poet's early history out towards the wider world - Lond ...Show more
Short Poems of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller." —Jenny Bornholdt Funny, ...Show more
Sidelights: rugby poems by Mark Pirie
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The book’s title “Sidelights” comes from an Eden Park rugby column of the same name in the Auckland Weekly News, 1938. The poems, written between 1993 and 2013, have been widely published in journals, anthologies and newspapers such as Ron Palenski’s Touchlines: An Anthology of Rugby Poetry (NZ Sport ...Show more
Skinny Dip: Poetry by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals. A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranh ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence - Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
$44.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed'. Hone Tuwhare, one of this country's best-loved poets, died in 2008. He was New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate and in 2003 was among ten of New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of NZ Icon Artists. His rhythmic voice ran ...Show more
Snow White's Coffin by Kate Camp
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
These poems were written in Berlin while Kate Camp held the Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency between September 2011 and October 2012.
Social Media by Mary Macpherson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Is our identity more of a composite than we realise? We often think of ourselves as formed from our core values or our DNA, but in Social Media, Mary Macpherson explores identity as a creation of the interactions we have with others: friends, family and the wider world, and the evolving role technology ...Show more
Some Things to Place in a Coffin by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Bill Manhire's first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its heart is the sequence 'Known Unto God', commissioned by the BBC for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of mem ...Show more
Something in the Waters by John Horrocks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
These are poems about water, its healing powers and nourishment of life. Some are about Lake Rotorua itself, lying in the dormant crater of a volcano; signs of its past can still be seen in hot springs at its foreshore.