My Garden My Paradise - The Garden in New Zealand Literature by Christina Stachurski (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
My Garden, My Paradise will delight and inspire as it celebrates the relationship between New Zealand literature and the garden. Over fifty of New Zealand's finest writers express the beauty, joy and satisfaction of gardening, of growing food and flowers, of creating and enjoying a private haven. Prose ...Show more
My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems by Jenny Bornholdt (ed.); Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The poems in My Heart Goes Swimming attest to the enduring nature of love and reflect the many ways in which it is written about. This collection is a celebration of love, but also of life, language and place. From delicate narratives to ecstatic lyrics, from Katherine Mansfield to Dinah Hawken, from R. ...Show more
New New Zealand Poets in Performance (With 2 audio-CDs) by Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (selection); Jack Ross (ed)
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
A collection of the work of 28 young and mid-career poets - who came to prominence in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s - notable for their variety, their fresh approaches to poetic form and subject - and their distinctive but complementary voices. This book is a companion to the bestselling Classic New ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
$36.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore by Gregory O'Brien
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories and a d ...Show more
Nice Morning For It, Adam by Vincent O'Sullivan
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Poetry category in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005. The judges said that OÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂSullivan was an extraordinary voice in New Zealand literature, and perhaps, only perhaps, this is best seen in his poetry. Vincent O'Sullivan is one of New Zealand's leading writers. ...Show more
Night Fishing by Brian Turner
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
In these new poems about friendship, mortality and home, Brian Turner asks how we can face the truths and uncertainties of our experiences and how we can live with them. Night Fishing is defined by Turner's unmistakable wit and feeling, precision and insight.
Night Horse by Smither Elizabeth
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout ...Show more
Nothing for it but to Sing: New Poems by Michael Harlow
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Michael Harlows poems are small detonations that release deeply complex stories of psychological separations and attractions, of memory and desire. Frequently they slip into the alluring spaces just at the edges of language, dream and gesture, as they carefully lower, like measuring gauges, into the ine ...Show more
Ocean and Stone by Dinah Hawken
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
I went straight into the sea.I wanted its lift and cold,its salt, its curve and its breaking. I remembered its clarity. I lovedits heartiness and with thatI remembered the recent dead. Ocean and Stone, Dinah Hawken’s seventh collection of poetry, is a book of many elements. The central sequence page ...Show more
One Shapely Thing: Poems and Journals by Dinah Hawken
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Dinah Hawken's new book is a bold and innovative extension of her previous work. At its heart is a collection of superb new poems. To them, Dinah Hawken has added two prose journals: the first covering the month immediately after 9/11 when she remained in Wellington while her husband traveled to work at ...Show more
Open Book Poetry & Images by Claire Beynon
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The alphabet is a primitive yet sophisticated instrument of communication. Here it provides a rhythmical structure . People, landscapes, memories of Africa and recent adventures on continents as far-flung as Europe and Antarctica are juxtaposed and brought to life in this first collection.