Essential New Zealand Poems by Lauris Edmond (ed.); Bill Sewell (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | 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
Spirit in a Strange Land - A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse by Edited by Michael Grimshaw, Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Reference & Anthology Section) SPIRIT IN A STRANGE LAND is the first-ever collection of poetry that focuses on a rich vein in New Zealand writing: our spiritual experience. Religious poetry has always been evident in anthologies, but by exp ...Show more
Spirit Abroad : A second selection of New Zealand spiritual verse by Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts & Mike Grimshaw (eds)
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
This selection, like its predecessor Spirit in a Strange Land, comprises approximately 100 poems. It is divided into six sections - these sections are frames around the notion of New Zealand identity and the hotly contested debates about who we are: * Iconic Kiwis * Waitangi and beyond * Anzacs * W ...Show more
Footfall (Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate 04) by Brian Turner
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Brian Turner was appointed New Zealand's fourth Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate in March 2003: The laureateship has a term of 2 years with twin aims of honouring the work of New Zealnd's foremost poets and raising the profile of poetry in the community. Brian Turner has published eight other collections of ...Show more
121 New Zealand Poems by 121 New Zealand Poets by Bill Manhire (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of NZ - from the country's earliest poems to work by the new poets of the 21st century.Bill Manhire - prize-winning poet, editor of several anthologies, lecturer in creative writing at Victoria University, 2004 Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Mento ...Show more
Mrs Winter's Jump by Jenny Bornholdt
$37.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The fifth in the outstanding series of poetry from New Zealand's Te Mata Estate Poet Laureates (to date, Hone Tuwhare, Elizabeth Smither, Bill Manhire and Brian Turner) Mrs Winter's Jump is a collection of stunning poems from current Laureate Jenny Bornholdt. One of New Zealand's most deft poets, her wo ...Show more
Swings and Roundabouts: Poems on Parenthood by Emma Neale Ed.)
$37.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Eighty of the finest poems on parenthood brought together in an endearing, intelligent and accessible anthology by editor Emma Neale. Attractively packaged to be of gift-book quality, this anthology is beautifully illustrated with outstanding photographs of babies and young children. Editor Emma Neale's ...Show more
The Goose Bath by Janet Frame
$29.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: very good
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more
99 Ways Into New Zealand Poetry by Paula Green; Harry Ricketts
$46.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
This book celebrates the richness and variety of New Zealand poetry by outlining many of the numerous ways to read - and write - poems. It offers 80 key poems that showcase different aspects of the genre, as well as commentary from 25 poets about what inspired them to write specific works. With insightf ...Show more
Rural Delivery: Poems and Images from New Zealand Farms by Stephen Robinson
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Who knew that inside the rugged exterior of many a farmer beats the heart of a poet? Photographer Stephen Robinson came across some of these poems on his travels and set out to collect up more of them to accompany a wide-ranging set of his farm-themed images. From the joys and exhaustion of high-country ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence - Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
$45.00 NZD
Category: World 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
The Art of Walking Upright by Glenn Colquhoun
$24.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2000 winner Best first book - poetry. Glenn is a doctor. During his training he took a year off to live in a remote Bay of Islands community. This is a profound, beautiful and funny distillation of that experience. Rich insights into Maori and Pakeha - a vision of Aotearo ...Show more