How We Fell (a love story) by Glenn Colquhoun
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Faster than a speeding simile! Able to leap hyperbole in a single bound! Can Poetryman rescue the damsel from catastrophic cliches Award-winning poet Glenn Colquhoun's innovative new collection describes his ten year relationship with his former wife through all its highs, cries, lies and sighs. Vivid i ...Show more
How to Live by Rickerby Helen
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tel ...Show more
How to Survive the Morning - New Poems by Kevin Ireland
$24.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This is the 18th book of poetry from award winning poet Kevin Ireland.
Humphrey Bogarts Great Sacrifice by Ireland, Kevin
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Whether he's speculating about Bogart and Bergman, redefining the days of the week, celebrating days of nothing done, remembering the joys of being 83, or just laying down the law on dogs, Kevin Ireland, here in his twenty-third collection of poems, is as irreverent, incisive and enjoyable as ever.
Inside, Outside by Brian Turner
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This substantial new collection by award-winning poet Brian Turner develops themes characteristic of his poetry. Love poems and elegies keep company with poems of satire, protest and metaphysical speculation. The book concludes with 'Post-operative', a raw and risky sequence written in the wake of major ...Show more
James K. Baxter - Poems selected and introduced by Sam Hunt by James K. Baxter; Sam Hunt
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Poet and performer Sam Hunt first became aware of the poems of James K Baxter as a schoolboy. Aged 14, he was strapped for reciting Baxter's poem 'Evidence at the Witch Trials' in an English lesson (one of the final in a series of events resulting in his expulsion from college). James K Baxter later bec ...Show more
Jenny Bornholdt - Mrs Winter's Jump by Jenny Bornholdt
$37.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate 05 | 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
Jerusalem Sonnets, Love, Wellington Zoo by David Beach
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
In his fourth collection David Beach tackles a subject inescapable for any New Zealander writing sonnets; a subject inescapable for any writer of sonnets at all; and a subject which is just inescapable.
Joanna Preston - The Summer King by Joanna Preston
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
The inaugural winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award, The Summer King tells stories, exploring the world we inhabit and our relationships with the other. Myth, catastrophe, family, strangers, sex, sport all feature in this fine and fierce first collection (Gillian Clark). Preston is a new Australasian po ...Show more
Just Another Fantastic Anthology: Auckland in Poetry by Stu Bagby (ed.)
$29.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Dop 2008, Auckland softcover Editor Stu Bagby has attempted to cover the geological, cultural and historical aspects of the city while keeping a focus on the people;Auckland sprawls between 2 magnificent and quite different coastlines, the biggest Polynesian city in the world. This collection hopefully ...Show more
Just Looking by Peter Bland
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that hes written over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child alongside art by Br ...Show more
Just Then by Harry Ricketts
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
In his new collection, Harry Ricketts finds room for three songs written in Hong Kong in 1975, and a 1979 poem about a War poet. Other poems remember departed friends and early experiences, and celebrate the abiding pleasure of reading, writing and cricket. Formally adroit, Just Then is by turns tender, ...Show more