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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
Secret Garden - Poetry and Letters by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Verse to Inspire Ser.
Teeming with beauty and life, gardens have always been rich territory for metaphor and imagination. This elegant anthology features treasured poems, accompanied by lush, colourful artworks, that both celebrate and meditate on the flora and fauna of the garden as they change with the season. Spanning cen ...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.
Milk and Honey (Clothback Gift edition) by Rupi Kaur
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each. The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebratio ...Show more
Sleeping on Horseback by Frances Samuel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
'A hundred years are but a moment of sleep,' writes Po, still riding. In her first collection, Frances Samuel leads us into the lives of characters we have not met before in New Zealand poetry. A man with a snorkel trawls fountains for coins; a vending machine produces a sailboat; a zookeeper frees all ...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
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
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
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but intriguingly new in form, pocket-sized gem The Lost Spells introduces another beautiful set of spell-poems and artwork by formidable creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Pl ...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