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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
Best-Loved Poems: A Treasury of Verse by Ana Sampson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Best-Loved Poems collects the nation's favourite and the English language's best: poetry's greatest hits. From the classics of Wordsworth, Donne and Keats to such modern masters as Hughes, Heaney and Larkin, work from half a millennium of poetry resides in one beautiful anthology for readers to cherish ...Show more
The Yield by Sue Wootton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Very Good
Wootton addresses subjects as various as the fraught relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energizing power of solitude and the rewarding demands of creativity and love. This is a collection about give and take, loss and gain; ab ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, Guardian A noir narrative written with the intensity ...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
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 b ...Show more
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Ray
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I ...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.
The Friendship Poems of Rumi - Translated by Nader Khalili by Rumi; Nader Khalili (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser.
The Friendship Poems of Rumi is an elegantly illustrated gift book of the famous Rumis poems, translated by Nader Khalili, that center on the meaning of friendship and its many beautiful meanings.
Our Isles: Poems Celebrating the Makers and Craftsmen Working Today by Angus D. Birditt; Lilly Hedley
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
From baker, beekeeper and birdwatcher to falconer, farrier and forager, join poet Angus and printmaker Lilly as they explore the British Isles, uncovering and celebrating lost and forgotten crafts and traditions. This collection of poetry and printmaking aims to capture and celebrate the heritage and c ...Show more
The War Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Wilfred Owen was the greatest poet of the First World War, and his death in battle, a few days before Armistice, was a disastrous loss to English letters. This volume gathers together the poems for which he is best known, and which represent his most important contribution to poetry in the twentieth ce ...Show more
Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A brilliantly original debut about a love affair cut short, and how lonely it is to live inside a secret -- for fans of Sally Rooney, Sheila Heti, and Ottessa Moshfegh. Ana Kelly can deal with death. As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of her day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informin ...Show more