The: Selected Poems Wilder Years by David Eggleton
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019-21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a 'Best Of '. The Wilder Years: Selected Poems is a hardback compendium of the poet's own selection from 35 years of published work, together with a handful of new poems. Cover art by Nige ...Show more
Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
$24.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
$36.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
$32.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
A revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the noise of time into a kind of music. The Music of Time is a unique history of twentieth-century ...Show more
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embody ...Show more
Leaves of Grass (Leatherbound Classics) by Walt Whitman
$55.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
Revered as one of the most influential American poets of all time, Walt Whitman used his own money to publish his first collection of poetry in a slim volume called Leaves of Grass. Over the following years, it became his life's work as he continuously revised and expanded it. Freed from restraints of ...Show more
GLUGS OF GOSH by DENNIS C J
$35.97 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Classic Australian Works
The Glugs of Gosh is a political satire about the inhabitants of Gosh, a world that seems to be suspiciously full of the same weaknesses and absurdities as our own ... From the pride and grumpiness of kings, judges, mayors and teachers to the dangers of importing luxury goods and exporting weapons, C. J ...Show more
Doreen by C. J. Dennis
$16.88 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Classic Australian Works
Doreen, C.J. Dennis' third publication, extends on the narrative of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. It was first published by in October 1917 by Angus and Robertson. The four tales in verse in Doreen describe the married life of "the Bloke", dramatising his communication and his conflicts with his "li ...Show more
The Sentimental Bloke by C.J. Dennis
$22.46 NZD
Category: World poetry
The Sentimental Bloke tells the story of Bill, a member of a larrikin push (or gang) in Melbourne's Little Lonsdale red-light district, who encounters Doreen, a young woman "of some social aspiration", in a local market. Narrated by Bill, the poems chronicle their courtship and marriage, detailing his t ...Show more
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
$34.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the ...Show more
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems by Marie Howe
$31.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time-during those a ...Show more