A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex by Stu Bagby
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In this collection New Zealand poets tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny, or disturbing. It can be ordinary, extraordinary, lusty or tender. Poets range from the classic to the contemporary and write from a variety of perspectives. First published January 2008.
A Place to Go on from: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie by Iain Lonie
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Dunedin poet Iain Lonie (1932–1988), a Cambridge scholar who enjoyed an international reputation as a medical historian, died before his poetry was fully appreciated. He published five slim volumes but his style was not the one that dominated New Zealand poetry at the time. And yet, argues Damian Love i ...Show more
A Poet for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, <i>A Poet for Every Day of the Year</i>, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world’s greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new dis ...Show more
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall- what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Per ...Show more
AUP New Poets 4 by Chris Tse
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: AUP New Poets ; v. 4
This fourth in AUP's New Poets series includes three very different voices. Chris Tse's work draws fascinatingly on his family history and Chinese heritage. His selection, 'Sing Joe', includes narrative poems about his great-grandparents' emigration to New Zealand and about his own childhood and his res ...Show more
AUP New Poets: Volume 3 by Janis Freegard & Katherine Liddy & Reihana Robinson
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
This is the third book in AUP's New Poets series, which began in 1999 and has launched an oustanding range of poets. The new poets in this third volume, Janis Freegard, Katherine Liddy and Reihana Robinson, all have vastly different yet complementary styles. Freegard writes quirky and often surreal poem ...Show more
Abandoned Novel by David Beach
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A poem is an opening line plus work. My forte is the opening line but I toil too. I bang my brain upon the page, read through as far as I have got again and again . . (
Aeneid: Book VI by Seamus Heaney
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the impo ...Show more
After the Dance by Michele Amas
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
After the Dance is a superb first collection of poems.
Afternoon of an Evening Train by Gregory O'Brien
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Gregory OÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂBrien is a poet, anthologist, art writer and painter. Born in Matamata in 1961, he trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland before returning to study art history and English at Auckland University. In ...Show more
Airports and Other Wasted Days by Kevin Ireland
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Kevin IrelandÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs 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 ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàthose necessary yet infuriating hijackers of our time and patience ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàthen re ...Show more
Allen Curnow Collected Poems by Caffin Elizabeth
$59.98 NZD
Category: World poetry
Allen Curnow (1911-2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move - from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and my ...Show more