Our Favourite Poems : New Zealanders choose their best-loved poems by Iain Sharp
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
What is your favourite poem? Who is it by? Why do you love it? When do you recite it? How does it make you feel? A poem's ability to create an emotional response is quite remarkable. A favourite poem may capture something everyday and domestic, or try and answer one of life's big questions. Our Favourit ...Show more
Painted Poems : One artist - 20 Poems by Eion Stevens
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
In Painted Poems painter Eion Stevens has responded to 20 New Zealand poems -- poems from poets as diverse as Jenny Bornholdt and Katherine Mansfield, James K Baxter and Cilla McQueen -- with an intelligent playfulness. Encountering the paintings alongside their companion poems is a thought-provoking an ...Show more
Palaver Lava Queen by Sue Fitchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Sue Fitchett?s second collection of poems evokes the layers and facets of Auckland: the city of volcanoes and the sea, the Polynesian city and its people, the brash city of the Sky Tower and the real estate agent. Its geology, myths, history and weather all inhabit these poems, which are lively with cha ...Show more
Paneta Street by Michael O'Leary
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
DoP November 2008, Welllington 138 x 180mm / 80pp Taking Bob DylanâÂÂs 1975 album Desire as its creative starting point, Michael OâÂÂLearyâÂÂs book contains a mix of new and earlier hard-to-find poems. The first section âÂÂLivinâ ina AucklanâÂÂâ contains most of OâÂÂLearyâ ...Show more
Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems by Anna Jackson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
A time-spanning collection of sequences and poems from the poet of the everyday extraordinary. There are some poets you travel the routes ofso often you could feel your way in the dark,that turn, that corner, and then the plummettowards the end. What does it give you, after all,to meet in person in a r ...Show more
Peter Bland - Collected Poems 1956 - 2011 by Peter Bland
$45.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This volume makes possible a proper assessment of the scope and stature of Peter Bland's work. These poems - often witty and beautiful - are a lifetime's achievement, a testament to an ongoing power to engage us in his vision. Peter Bland arrived in New Zealand in 1954 and since the 1970's has divid ...Show more
Glenn Colquhoun - Playing God by Glenn Colquhoun
$24.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Poetry Section & Reader's Choice). Glenn Colquhoun'?s The Art of Walking Upright won the 2000 Montana NZ best first book award for poetry. He has also published a children'?s book and An Explanation of Poetry to my Father, which sold over 1000 copies. T ...Show more
Poems to a Glass Woman 1944-1945 by James K Baxter; John Weir (ed.)
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Written in 1944-5, these poems record the immediate impact of James K. Baxter's first serious love affair. The sequence is published for the first time on the 40th anniversary of the poet's death, 22 October 2013
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 2017 by Jack Ross (ed.)
$34.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: good
TERRIFIC NEW NEW ZEALAND POETRYPoetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices.Issue #51 features 128 new poems, including work by featured poet Eliza ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 2019 by Jack Ross (ed.)
$34.98 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcasesnew writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices. Issue #53 features 130 new poems (including work by this year's featured poet, Stephanie Christie), es ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 by Johanna Emeny (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook | Reading Level: near fine
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. Issue #54 features 133 new poems (including by this year's featured poe ...Show more
Poetry Reading at Kaka Point by Peter Olds
$10.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
First published October 2006.