The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blo ...Show more
Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Jenny Joseph
17.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older - now beautifully redesigned with new illustrations.
The Poetry of Horses by Unnamed
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration.Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of galloping together across open country. They provide entertaining antics when we're bored and quiet understanding whe ...Show more
Expecting Miracles by Peter Bland
22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Near Fine
Poems of love, loss, comic insight and sensory delight. At 81, Peter Bland’s new work continues to dazzle and amuse. PN Review praises his ‘gentle but powerful assurance’ and Poetry London the ‘intoxicating feeling’ his poetry evokes.
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late e ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
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
The Wild Verses by Helen Mort
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
A striking poetry collection by Helen Mort.
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Popular Penguins by William Shakespeare
16.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more
The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi by Eugene Ostashevsky
26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to make themselves understood by peop ...Show more
Tightrope by Marsh Selina Tusitala
29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Very Good
Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, ...Show more
View from the South by Owen Marshall
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers.David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, snow ...Show more