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Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
$34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet.By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects an ...Show more
Selected Poems by Ian Wedde; John Reynolds (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Ian Wedde has been a major presence in New Zealand poetry since his work began appearing in journals in the late 1960s. His first book of poetry appeared in 1971; his sixth book won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1978; his sixteenth and most recent was a finalist in 2014. By the mid-1980s, as ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. ...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
The Flame (PB) by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
$33.00 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
Frost Fair by Carol Ann Duffy; David de las Heras (Illustrator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
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.
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countrysid ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Weddings by Laura Barber (ed.)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremo ...Show more
For Weddings and a Funeral by John Marsden (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
For Weddings and a Funeral is a collection of very special poems, for very special occasions.Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone... When Matthew spoke these lines in the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral every reviewer was moved.Few occasions in our lives are more important than weddings and f ...Show more
Tightrope by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$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
Heartland by Michele Leggott
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
I stood in the dark with many others, some of them close enough to touch, some further away. One by one they turned, light fell on faces that were at once strange and familiar, and they began to speak or sing. Soon the riot of their voices was everywhere, the plane of memory tilted at 36,000 feet, fract ...Show more
What I Lick Before Your Face ... and Other Haikus by Dogs by Jamie Coleman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Imagine if your dog could talk to you. Better still, imagine if it could express its innermost feelings in poetic form. This hilarious, insightful book confirms what we've all long suspected - that inside every dog is the soul of a poet. From retrieving sticks to rivalry with cats; from cold winter wal ...Show more