The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900 by Michael Schmidt
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900
The Highwayman (Visions in Poetry) by Alfred Noyes & Murray Kimber
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Visions in Poetry
"The Highwayman" is the second book in a unique series "Visions in Poetry" featuring classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists.Originally published in 1907, The Highwayman is a haunting ballad of doomed love. Seldom have mood and character been so memorably evoked. The pounding rhyt ...Show more
The Lady of Shalott (Visions in Poetry) by Alfred Lord Tennyson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Visions in Poetry
The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. TennysonâÃÂÃÂs beautiful and enigmatic poem of unrequited love, set in Arthurian England, has enthralled artists for ...Show more
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countrysid ...Show more
The Leaf-Ride by Dinah Hawken
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
There is a remarkable range of poems in The Leaf-Ride as it travels along in its 'down-welling, up-welling drift': poems that range from the power of a single word to the horror of violence to the joy of a newborn child. At the heart of the book are three sequences to stand alongside those that have for ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, GuardianA noir narrative written with the intensity a ...Show more
The Love Poems of Rumi by Nader Khalil
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Indulge in Rumi's passion with this collection of 13th century love poetry. Become lost in the words of The Love Poems of Rumi. Included in this book is a collection of Jalal al-Din Rumi's passionate love poems, translated by Nader Khalili. Beautifully designed and illustrated throughout, you'll become ...Show more
The Man From Snowy River by A. B. Paterson
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Editions for the Trenches Ser.
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "Th ...Show more
The Map and the Clock by Carol Ann Duffy; Gillian Clarke
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands. Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse - beginning with the first writings from the old l ...Show more
The Music of Time - Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
$60.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Weste ...Show more
The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the poet within by Stephen Fry
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Stephen Fry's On Poetry provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry. TERZA RIMA The terza rima mode is very fine, Great Dante used it for his famous text; It rhymes the words in every other line With each thought drawing you towards the next: A B A B, C B, C D C D. ...Show more
The Oxford Book of American Poetry by David Lehman
$90.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Featuring the work of more than 200 poets, and including a head note introducing each author, this is an anthology of American poetry. It is suitable for interested in American literature.