The Ones Who Keep Quiet by David Howard
26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Fine
The ones who keep quiet for the longest are the dead, yet there are echoes of them everywhere. A turn of the head brings a glimpse of a Victorian banker retrieving his top hat from the gutter. A walk across a bridge lets you pass the ghosts of a Catholic saint, a Marxist martyr, and a boy with a tin dru ...Show more
Emily Dickinson: A selection of poems from one of America s most iconic poets by Emily Dickinson
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted: 'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all' Emily Dick ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
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. This clothbound edition features deckled edg ...Show more
Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
16.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
He's So Masc by Chris Tse
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
In How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. He's So MASC confronts a contemporary world of self-loathing poets and compulsive liars, of youth and sexual identity, and of the author as character - pop star, ac ...Show more
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Poems for Remembering by Mike Beveridge
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Mike Beveridge's poems return us to a time when poems had rhyme and rhythm (they are, in short, Poems For Remembering), while at the same time being wholly modern in their scope and points of reference. And New Zealand is a constant presence...
Second World War Poems by Hugh Haughton (Editor)
33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Now in paperback, a powerful, wide-ranging anthology of international poetry from the 1939-45 conflict.The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who ...Show more
Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love by Jessica Urlichs
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to scho ...Show more
Robert Burns: The Great Poets Series by Robert Burns
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert Burns Robert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the National Poet of Scotland - and much of his work has become part of everyday modern language: 'The best laid schemes o' m ...Show more
Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
The complete collection of Kingsley Amis's poems, as witty, scabrous and bracing as his celebrated novelsAlthough best known for his comic novels, Kingsley Amis wrote poetry throughout his career. Collected Poems spans subjects from nature and cricket to love, ageing and literature, brimming with his ch ...Show more
Unseasoned Campaigner by Janet Newman
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Unseasoned Campaigner is a layered collection exploring the complexities of farming life in Horowhenua. Poet Janet Newman uncovers territory ripe for exploration as she juxtaposes the often troubled aspects of commercial farming –the life and death of animals – with loving family relationships. The coll ...Show more