W. B. Yeats: The Great Poets by W.B. Yeats
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.' W B Yeats was one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. Winner of ...Show more
Pam Ayres on Animals by Pam Ayres
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
A beautiful collection from much-loved poet Pam Ayres, compiling her best verse dedicated to animals, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon. 'Oh WHY must you bark at the postman?Why must you batter my ears?I know it seems rumBut the postman has comeEvery morning for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.' From her very fir ...Show more
Tomorrow Is Beautiful by Sarah Crossan
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Sometimes it's hard to find the right words. This poetry anthology provides the antidote, offering calm, hope and peace to all. Focusing on positivity, this is the perfect collection to dip into whenever you need a boost. Containing a selection of classic and contemporary poems chosen by Sarah Crossan - ...Show more
Who Are You Calling Vermin? by Pam Ayres
26.00 NZD
Category: Humour
A poetic satire on country life, full of Pam Ayres's characteristic charm and wit, and beautifully illustrated by Joel Stewart.'Nature, red in tooth and claw,One goes down the other one's maw,Fox and badger, owl and stoat,We all disappear down the other one's throat.'Pam Ayres has lived in the countrysi ...Show more
How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Very Good
In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other East Asian immigrants. Chris Tse uses this story - and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later - to reflect on the experien ...Show more
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones. Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected the landscape of her Yorkshire ho ...Show more
Sleeping With Stones by Serie Barford
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
In Sleeping with Stones, beloved Pasifika poet Serie Barford navigates seasons of grief. As she moves through autumn, winter, spring and summer, she traverses the pain, anger, longing and heartache of losing a loved one in poetry that is both steely with resolve and exquisitely tender.
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Hand in Hand with Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry by Simon Avery (Editor)
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A celebration of queer voices throughout the ages, Hand in Hand with Love features an electrifying range of poems from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen, and many more. From Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this lumin ...Show more
Off the Shelf - A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy
23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
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
Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The moving portrayal of life in the trenches in WW1, now a new film from the director of Suite Francaise, starring Sam Clafin, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham and Asa ButterfieldSet in the First World War, Journey's End is the story of a group of British officers on the front line, in a dugout in the trenc ...Show more
Another America Otra America by Barbara Kingsolver
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she found was quite different, "another America" that she chronicled through her poetry, in which she came to share her ...Show more