Just This by Brian Turner
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems.
Kevin Ireland - Airports and Other Wasted Days by Kevin Ireland
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Kevin Ireland's sixteenth book of poems takes a wry, comic-serious look at the glorious ways we fritter away our days. It opens with reflections on airports - those necessary yet infuriating hijackers of our time and patience, then returns home again to puzzle at, satirise and celebrate the intricate ...Show more
Kingdom Animalia: The Escapades of Linnaeus by Janis Freegard
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Swedish-born naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) is known as the "Father of Modern Taxonomy", his legacy to the world the standardised genus and species system we still use to name animals and plants. Linnaeus believed it was his mission in life to catalogue everything on the planet: animals, plants ...Show more
Koiwi Koiwi / Bone Bone by Hinemoana Baker
$26.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
First published August 2010.
Land Very Fertile: Banks Peninsula in Poetry and Prose by Coral Atkinson
$29.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
Land Very Fertile is a collection of poetry and prose about Banks Peninsula on the eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island. Drawing from a wide variety of sources, including such New Zealand greats as Ursula Bethell, Denis Glover, James K. Baxter, Ngaio Marsh, Allen Curnow and Maurice Shadbolt, alon ...Show more
Laughing Mirror by Douglas Wright
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Following much-acclaimed memoirs Ghost Dance (winner Montana best first non-fiction work) and Terra Incognito, is Douglas Wright's first book of poetry, laughing mirror. Richly illustrated with his own drawings, Douglas's poems contain a raw truthfulness that will be a revelation for those unfamiliar wi ...Show more
Leaves of Grass (Leatherbound Classics) by Walt Whitman
$55.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
Revered as one of the most influential American poets of all time, Walt Whitman used his own money to publish his first collection of poetry in a slim volume called Leaves of Grass. Over the following years, it became his life's work as he continuously revised and expanded it. Freed from restraints of ...Show more
Life & Customs by Bernadette Hall
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Life & Customs begins and ends in Otago. It circles through places and through history, picking up the rhythms of a maze. It is full of stories: a girl slips into an anorexic silence as cold as Antarctica; lovers wander hand in hand into a southern future. ‘The hope thing’ emerges as a stubborn poss ...Show more
Lifted by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: VUP Classics | Reading Level: very good
Description: The last lines of Bill Manhire's astonishing poem 'Kevin' lie at the heart of this book. These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; ...Show more
Like Love Poems: Selected Poems by Joanna Paul
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Joanna Margaret Paul, best known for her art, was preparing her writing for publication at the time of her early death. In these 75 luminous poems, edited by poet Bernadette Hall, readers can see the scale of her literary achievement for the first time.
Lives of the Poets by John Newton
$26.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'The Romantic inheritance may be poison, but it seems to be all we have. When I first began writing I didn't look at it this way, which made being a poet, and writing poetry, easier. Ever since that time I have been trying to teach myself how to write again. This has felt mostly like a kind of beachcomb ...Show more
Lost and Somewhere Else by Jenny Bornholdt
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Where do I stand? Usually in the little square of sunlight by the back door. In Lost and Somewhere Else, Jenny Bornholdt finds many places to stand: at home, in memories of places and people, and in the Ernst Plischke-designed Henderson House in Alexandra, Central Otago, in which she lived while writi ...Show more