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.
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kem (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about real ...Show more
The Pleasures of the Damned - Selected Poems 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
THE BEST OF THE BEST OF BUKOWSKI The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of ...Show more
The Pocket Rumi by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
The cry of the soul in love with God has never been more eloquently expressed than by the great Persian Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Readers have thrilled to his ecstatic songs of divine union for more than eight hundred years. Now, here is the collection of the best of Rumi's poetry reissue ...Show more
The Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
The Poetical Works by Rupert Brooke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poets of the Great War
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by l ...Show more
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensaryWhen we're grieving, when we're broken-hearted, and when we find ourselves struggling to understand the things we're feeling, we long for the connection poetry can provide. To find the right poem at that crucia ...Show more
The Poetry of Birds by Simon Armitage
$32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds.
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"The Prophet" is known and loved by readers all over the world. It is a wise and warm testimony to life, whose wisdom speaks to us all. This beautiful edition of Kahlil Gibran's timeless classic is illustrated with the author's own mystical drawings.