Summer Requiem by Vikram Seth
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mind That I am forever waking in a lost country...' SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both 'gifts and harms'. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems trace the dying days of summer, ...Show more
Surgically Enhanced by Pam Ayres
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Includes black and white line drawings. Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work is popular with fans of all ages, and her wry observations on the peculiarities of modern life will raise a smile from even the most harden ...Show more
Surgically Enhanced - Gift Edition by Pam Ayres
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This new gift edition is a must-have for Pam's many fans - and for anyone who enjoys beautifully crafted stories and poems to make you laugh and make you think. Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work is popular with f ...Show more
Sylvia Plath - Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she published just one collection in her lifetime, The Colossus, and a novel, "The Bell Jar", it was following her death in 1963 t ...Show more
Technicians of the Sacred - A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania by Jerome Rothenberg (Editor)
$73.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired generations of poe ...Show more
The 20th Century in Poetry by Simon Rae & Michael Hulse
$60.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic devel ...Show more
The Ariel Poems: Illustrated Poems for Christmas by T. S. Eliot
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
A cherished part of his oeuvre, the 'Ariel Poems' of T. S. Eliot were originally commissioned for a pamphlet series of the same name that first ran between 1927 and 1931. ('Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,' said Eliot of the series, 'so I kept it for myself'). That pamphlet series inventi ...Show more
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump by Robert Sears
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump's words for signs of poetry. What he found was a revelation. By simply taking the 45th President of the United States' tweets and transcripts, cutting them up and reorder ...Show more
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
'Beautiful and moving poetry for the real world' Jeanette Winterson, Guardian 'Wonderful ...a poet alert to every sound and shape of language' Sunday Telegraph The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love p ...Show more
The Biplane Houses by Les A. Murray
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Les Murray' s first new book since "Poems the Size of Photographs "(2002) finds him at his near-miraculous best. Where that book and the book-length poem "Fredy Neptune "(1999) were animated by Murray' s choice of a single mode of approach (the short poem, the modern epic), this one calls on his ability ...Show more
The Blues Comes with Good News by Sonny Hall
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Soul searching poetry for a new generation. Inspired by Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Mick Guffan and others 'who tell it like it is' The Blues Comes with Good News is a collection of poems by prolific writer, Sonny Hall. The collection ranges from articulating addiction, self-destruction and identity, ...Show more
The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, ...Show more