Formica by Maggie Rainey-Smith
25.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Formica begins in 1950s Richmond with the author’s family struggling in the aftermath of a war that took her father to Crete to fight and then Poland as a prisoner of war. At the Formica kitchen table, Maggie’s mother is reciting poems while chopping the veggies for tea. Maggie listens while tying her b ...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
A Magical Year: Lift Your Spirit With 365 Poems and Reflections From Around the World by Susanna Bailey
36.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
What better way to start or end the day than by immersing yourself in a poem, thought, or reflection from the Eastern and Western mystics and sages. Passages featured have been carefully selected to feed your soul, awaken your spirit, and tap into your innate wisdom using inspiration from across the age ...Show more
Things OK With You? by Vincent O'Sullivan
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Know what a thing’s called, and we own it; if not, there’s really only pointing, our still wishing we knew. The afternoon wilts round its edges, unless we’ve said it. Things OK with you? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems ...Show more
Raids and Settlements: Seamus Heaney as translator by Edited by Marco Sonzogni & Marcella Zanetti
30.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Toku Papa by Solly Ruby
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now it’s time for you to believe me. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival ...Show more
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
34.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry | 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 ...Show more
Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems 2004:2020 by Bernadette Hall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Hedge through the hedge and way back then pushing my way out into the Central Otago sun there was the laughing face of Jean and someone else whose name I have forgotten they played with me as if I was a doll Bernadette Hall is Otago born and bred. Following a long and much enjoyed career as a high sch ...Show more
The Death Of Music Journalism by Simon Sweetman
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Simon Sweetman – blogger, reviewer, podcaster, and author of On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand’s Pop Classics – releases his first poetry collection, The Death of Music Journalism. Simon’s been writing poems since he was first listening to bands on his Walkman, but then he started sharing them via soc ...Show more
She Will Soar: Bright, brave poems about freedom by women by Ana Sampson
34.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A stunning gift book featuring 130 poems about wanderlust, freedom and escape written by women. With poems from classic, well loved poets as well as innovative and bold modern voices, She Will Soar is a stunning collection and an essential addition to any bookshelf. From the ancient world right up to th ...Show more