The Flame by Leonard Cohen
32.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe 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 intim ...Show more
A Songbird Dreams of Singing by Kate Hosford
37.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Do you know how animals sleep? Otters fall asleep while holding hands; zebra finches practise their songs while dreaming; dolphins keep one half of their brain awake . . . Beautiful poems about sleeping animals are interspersed with fascinating facts and beautiful illustrations - making this the perfe ...Show more
Cat Poems by Various
18.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affec ...Show more
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
22.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | 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
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
44.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare's works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike.Make Shakespeare a part of your daily routine with Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, a yearlong collection of passages from Shakespeare's greatest works. Drawing from the full spectrum ...Show more
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
22.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.An unprecedented debut published to immediate accla ...Show more
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins
29.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The "Trouble with Poetry" is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is inimitable. Drawled and knowing, yet without a hint ...Show more
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds by Billy Collins
49.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and Ja ...Show more
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
55.00 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the dance of rhythm, and these 'nonsenses' are full of joy - yet set against darkness. Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures - some gentle, some violent, some musica ...Show more
Frost Fair by Carol Ann Duffy; David de las Heras (Illustrator)
19.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
The tenth and final Christmas book, set in the frost fairs on London's Thames in the 16th-century, from UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Beautifully illustrated and produced in a gorgeous small format, this is an irresistible festive gift and Christmas stocking must-have for poetry lovers.
I Could Pee on This And Other Poems by Cats by MARCIULIANO, FRANCESCO
24.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
Cat lovers will adore this playful calendar of feline poetry, based on the bestselling book I Could Pee on This .
I Could Chew on This - And Other Poems by Dogs by FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO
24.99 NZD
Category: World Poetry
A New York Times bestseller? Oh, you know the dogs weren't going to let the cats get away with that This canine companion to I Could Pee on This, the beloved volume of poems by cats, I Could Chew on This will have dog lovers laughing out loud. Doggie laureates not only chew on quite a lot of things, the ...Show more