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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
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
The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Since Katherine Mansfield wrote some of her greatest stories on the Riviera, France has occupied a place in the imagination of New Zealand writers and readers. This anthology includes memoirs, stories and poems written in France by some of New ZealandÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs gre ...Show more