The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse by Francis Turner Palgrave
19.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Golden Treasury is one of the best loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar, Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate. It's arranged chronologically into four books which each celebrat ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
45.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look ins ...Show more
Sisters' Entrance by Emtithal Mahmoud
27.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
2015 World Poetry Slam Champion and Woman of the World co-Champion Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud presents her hauntingly beautiful debut poetry collection. Brimming with rage, sorrow, and resilience, this collection traverses an expansive terrain: genocide; diaspora; the guilt of surviving; racism and Isla ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kem (Editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about real ...Show more
He Held Radical Light by Christian Wiman
37.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the rel ...Show more
Off the Shelf - A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy
22.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
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
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
37.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash; Paul Muldoon (Editor, Introduction by); John Carter Cash (Foreword by)
22.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A collection of never-before-published poems by Johnny Cash, edited and introduced by Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon with a foreword by John Carter Cash. Illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash's own handwritten pages. Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash was an icon in th ...Show more
Useless Magic - Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch
50.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anyt ...Show more
The Little Book of Shakespeare by DK
21.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The Little Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes, now in a handy compact size.This bold book covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamle ...Show more
Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems by Anna Jackson
35.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
A time-spanning collection of sequences and poems from the poet of the everyday extraordinary. There are some poets you travel the routes ofso often you could feel your way in the dark,that turn, that corner, and then the plummettowards the end. What does it give you, after all,to meet in person in a r ...Show more
Lasting Lines: 100 poems and poets that you should know by Jamie Grant
27.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The English language is rich in poetry; yet how many people are aware that many of our stock phrases and familiar sayings have their origins as lines of poetry? Ink-stained poet Jamie Grant set out to uncover a selection of these enduring lines in the works of English-language poets all the way from Cha ...Show more