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Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
$34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet.By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects an ...Show more
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and inhome body , she walks readers through a reflective andintimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of ofis a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself -reminding readers to fill up on love ...Show more
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and b ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. ...Show more
Milk and Honey (Clothback Gift edition) by Rupi Kaur
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey ...Show more
Selected Poems by Ian Wedde; John Reynolds (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Ian Wedde has been a major presence in New Zealand poetry since his work began appearing in journals in the late 1960s. His first book of poetry appeared in 1971; his sixth book won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1978; his sixteenth and most recent was a finalist in 2014. By the mid-1980s, as ...Show more
How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Very Good
In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other East Asian immigrants. Chris Tse uses this story - and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later - to reflect on the experien ...Show more
Frost Fair by Carol Ann Duffy; David de las Heras (Illustrator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
The tenth and final Christmas book, set in the frost fairs on London's Thames in the 16th-century, from UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Beautifully illustrated and produced in a gorgeous small format, this is an irresistible festive gift and Christmas stocking must-have for poetry lovers.
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Popular Penguin) by William Shakespeare
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more
For Weddings and a Funeral by John Marsden (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
For Weddings and a Funeral is a collection of very special poems, for very special occasions.Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone... When Matthew spoke these lines in the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral every reviewer was moved.Few occasions in our lives are more important than weddings and f ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Weddings by Laura Barber (ed.)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremo ...Show more
Tightrope by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Very Good
Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, ...Show more