The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
$32.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
A revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the noise of time into a kind of music. The Music of Time is a unique history of twentieth-century ...Show more
The Pohutukawa Tree by Bruce Mason
$17.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: New Zealand playscripts
First published 1960; revised 1963; this revised edition 1988.
The Ponies by Bernadette Hall
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
The poems in this collection range from the hazardous beauty of Antarctica to the urban nightmare of London, July 7, 2005. From love in the 60s to WellingtonÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs lively contemporary scene.
The Radio Room by Cilla McQueen
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In The Radio Room, Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the ancient Celtic islands of her ancestors ('On a cliff-top above screeching gulls I stand still thinking backwards, antipodean poet grafted from ancient taproot i ...Show more
The Red Tram by C K Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Red Tram by C K Stead is another fine collection by one of New Zealand?s best writers. It includes some Auckland poems, some moving memories of childhood, poems about horses and cows, even one about his own legs. There are his usual satirical poems taking weapons from the writers of the past and ske ...Show more
The: Selected Poems Wilder Years by David Eggleton
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019-21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a 'Best Of '. The Wilder Years: Selected Poems is a hardback compendium of the poet's own selection from 35 years of published work, together with a handful of new poems. Cover art by Nige ...Show more
The Sentimental Bloke by C.J. Dennis
$22.46 NZD
Category: World poetry
The Sentimental Bloke tells the story of Bill, a member of a larrikin push (or gang) in Melbourne's Little Lonsdale red-light district, who encounters Doreen, a young woman "of some social aspiration", in a local market. Narrated by Bill, the poems chronicle their courtship and marriage, detailing his t ...Show more
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
The Trials Of Minnie Dean: A Verse Biography by Karen Zelas
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Minnie Dean: the first - and only - woman to be hanged in New Zealand. Baby farmer and child murderer, or hardworking wife and mother, supporting her family by caring for unwanted children in a society that shunned her? Karen Zelas explores the trials of Minnie Dean using a myriad of voices, including D ...Show more
The Yield by Sue Wootton
$12.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Wootton addresses subjects as various as the fraught relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energizing power of solitude and the rewarding demands of creativity and love. This is a collection about give and take, loss and gain; ab ...Show more
The little enemy by Nicholas Reid
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A collection of poetry.
This Is Your Real Name by Elizabeth Morton
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In lieu of flowers, bring weeds. Elizabeth Mortons poems look unflinchingly at a raw and unstable world the crash, the aftermath, the comeback, the black heat at the centre of things. The poems in Mortons second collection are charged with a visceral energy. This is poetry as incantation: an intense, la ...Show more