The Poetry Pharmacy Forever: New Prescriptions to Soothe, Revive and Inspire by William Sieghart
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
After the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life's ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails he received from the public during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-pe ...Show more
A Beginners Guide To Japanese Haiku by William Scott Wilson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
An old pond;a frog jumps in: the sound of water-- Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by William Scott Wilson, the book features 26 poets and 550 haiku, exquisitely translate ...Show more
A Poet for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, <i>A Poet for Every Day of the Year</i>, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world’s greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new dis ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
$29.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
Devotions by Mary Oliver
$37.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Devotions is a stunning, definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty ...Show more
Haare Williams - Words of a Kaumatua by Haare Wiliams; Witi Ihimaera (ed.)
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A kaumatua - an elder of the Maori people - reflects in poetry and prose on his journey from te ao Maori on the East Coast to contemporary Auckland, New Zealand.Ko te kopara anake e tarere ki te tihi o te makauri. Oti rawa! Kia oti rawa, e!Haare Williams grew up with his Tuhoe grandparents on the shores ...Show more
Love & Misadventure 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition by Lang Leav
$59.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Lang Leav Ser.
An elegant hardcover collector's edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal annotations interspersed throughout. Also included are newly colored artworks and a ribbon marker. ...Show more
Mezzaluna: Selected Poems by Michele Leggott
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Thirty years of selected poems by the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. Mezzaluna gathers work from critically acclaimed poet Michele Leggott's nine collections, from Like This? (1988) to Vanishing Points (2017). In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush tex ...Show more
Not As the Crow Flies by Tim Heath
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A poetry collection by esteemed poet Tim Heath. Tim Heath has had a lifelong interest in writing poetry, but only allowed this interest to progress beyond the occasional dabble after he stopped working as a teacher in 2009. In his retirement he has enjoyed, in addition to trying to get words onto paper, ...Show more
R A K Mason - Uncollected Poems by R A K. Mason; Roger Hickin (ed.)
$37.50 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: NEAR FINE
Allen Curnow called R. A. K. Mason (190571) New Zealand's 'first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet'. His Collected Poems, first published in 1962, was arigorous selection made before Mason's 'late flowering' of 196265. Some of the excluded poems and some of the late poems have since seen the lig ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. "A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ..." This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his f ...Show more
Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word by David Stavanger; Anne-Marie Te Whiu
$37.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audi ...Show more