Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...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
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones. Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected the landscape of her Yorkshire ho ...Show more
Off the Shelf - A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy
23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops--the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke. From a basem ...Show more
Tomorrow Is Beautiful by Sarah Crossan
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Sometimes it's hard to find the right words. This poetry anthology provides the antidote, offering calm, hope and peace to all. Focusing on positivity, this is the perfect collection to dip into whenever you need a boost. Containing a selection of classic and contemporary poems chosen by Sarah Crossan - ...Show more
Goblin Market - An Illustrated Poem by Christina Rossetti; Kirsty Gunn (Editor, Foreword by); Georgie McAusland (Illustrator)
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
The first in a new illustrated poetry series. The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, who are tempted by the fruit sold by the goblin merchants. In this fully illustrated and beautiful volume, illustrator Georgie McAusland brings the words and s ...Show more
Sleeping With Stones by Serie Barford
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
In Sleeping with Stones, beloved Pasifika poet Serie Barford navigates seasons of grief. As she moves through autumn, winter, spring and summer, she traverses the pain, anger, longing and heartache of losing a loved one in poetry that is both steely with resolve and exquisitely tender.
W. B. Yeats: The Great Poets by W.B. Yeats
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.' W B Yeats was one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. Winner of ...Show more
Who Are You Calling Vermin? by Pam Ayres
26.00 NZD
Category: Humour
A poetic satire on country life, full of Pam Ayres's characteristic charm and wit, and beautifully illustrated by Joel Stewart.'Nature, red in tooth and claw,One goes down the other one's maw,Fox and badger, owl and stoat,We all disappear down the other one's throat.'Pam Ayres has lived in the countrysi ...Show more
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countrysid ...Show more
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and th ...Show more
Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The moving portrayal of life in the trenches in WW1, now a new film from the director of Suite Francaise, starring Sam Clafin, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham and Asa ButterfieldSet in the First World War, Journey's End is the story of a group of British officers on the front line, in a dugout in the trenc ...Show more