Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems Penguin Pocket Poetry by John Keats
24.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Penguin Pocket Poetry
In the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had started coughing up blood; the following February, he would die of tuberculosis in Rome, aged just twenty-five. This volume contains his greatest work, written in an astonishing bur ...Show more
Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
24.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
The Tower by W. B. Yeats
24.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower ...Show more
Pablo Picasso's Noel by Carol Ann Duffy
22.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A wonderful moving new poem capturing the magic of Christmas, beautifully illustrated and produced in a gorgeous small format. An irresistible festive gift and Christmas stocking must have for all book lovers.
I'm Just No Good At Rhyming... (HB) by Chris Harris
29.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
"Highly recommended. I think it will make children wriggle with delight" Stephen FryIf I ever find myself holding a gecko . . .I'll lecko.Forget what you think you know about poetry - this is something totally different. Chris Harris's I'm Just No Good At Rhyming combines wit, wordplay and nonsense with ...Show more
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland by Gillian Clarke
27.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed in Britain.Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse - beginning with the first writings from the old langu ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
24.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tong ...Show more
The Poetry of Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
47.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, "The New Republic"), to bring into English Rilke's major poetic works. "The Poetry of Rilke"--the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke's German poetry ever to ...Show more
Poetry For Dummies by The Poetry Center, John Timpane
32.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: For Dummies Ser.
Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as "the best words in the best order." St. Augustine called it "the Devil's wine." For Shelley, poetry was "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." But no mat ...Show more
I Ching by David Hinton
24.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever-changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from whi ...Show more
Application for Release from the Dream: Poems by Associate Professor of English Tony Hoagland (University of Houston)
23.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of "What Narcissism Means to Me """"""The parade for the slain police officer""goes past the bakery"" ""and the smell of fresh bread""makes the mourners salivate against their will."" """ from "Note to Reality"Are we corrupt ...Show more
The Magical Land of Birdaylia by Anne Randles
19.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Birdaylia started out as a series of black and white lino cuts, each bird with its challenging name and unique presence. A poetic story developed for each character which explains the reason for their evolvement. Each bird has a purpose and a love of life no matter how unusual their features. From Bolly ...Show more