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A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction by Anna Jackson & others
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
This ground-breaking book looks at the way in which New Zealand young adult fiction 'makes up' the nation in which the stories are set, through the ways in which they make use of both real and fictional events and locations. Chapters on Settings, Biculturalism, Egalitarianism, Utopias and Dystopias, Fut ...Show more
Actions and Travels - How Poetry Works by Anna Jackson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonan ...Show more
Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction by Anna Jackson & Jane Stafford (eds)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The ground-breaking New Zealand fiction of the last fifteen years has not attracted critical commentary beyond initial reviews, despite its success with readers both local and international, and despite its attracting major awards both local and international. Floating Worlds contains stimulating and in ...Show more
I, Clodia, and Other Portraits by Anna Jackson
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category
'I, Clodia' is the story of Clodia Metelli - poet and lover - and her relations with her far-away paramour Catullus, with her husband Metellus Celer, her brother Publius Clodius and her accuser Cicero. By giving Clodia - the 'Lesbia' of Catullus's famous love poetry - her own first-person narration, Ann ...Show more
Kimono by Anna Jackson
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fashion | Series: V&a Pattern Ser.
This series celebrates the V+A's status as a source of inspiration for designers, reflecting the unique breadth and depth of a collection that represents over 3000 years of objects from all over the world. Kimono features some of the best Japanese textile patterns at the V+A ranging over 200 years from ...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
Shards of Silver: Paul Thompson's Images on Language - New Zealand Poets on Photography by Paul Thompson; Anna Jackson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A kind of photographs made with words is how New Zealand poet Riemke Ensing describes what a poem is. Like many of our finest poets, she draws inspiration from photographs andphotography. Paul Thompson has investigated the interplay between photography and poetry to see if there were deeper corresponden ...Show more
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