The Cat's Whiskers: New Zealand Writers on Cats by Peter Wells(ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The cat has purred its way into the hearts of many a New Zealander, and into the pages of this country's writers. Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, James K. Baxter and Frank Sargeson all wrote about cats, and here many current writers - from Fiona Kidman to Sarah Quigley, Brian Turner to Kevin Ireland - ...Show more
The Goose Bath Poems by Janet Frame
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | 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
Dear to Me - 100 New Zealanders Write About Their Favourite Poems
$37.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Published to coincide with Montana Poetry Day, this anthology brings together the 100 favourite poems of 100 well known New Zealanders - with a twist. The 100 Kiwis were approached by the Amnesty International group at Auckland Girls Grammar and asked to include a letter explaining why their chosen poem ...Show more
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 (ed.); Harry Ricketts (ed.); Mike Grimshaw (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: good-very good
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