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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.
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
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
Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James (Editor)
$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 celebration ...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
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
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Popular Penguin) by William Shakespeare
$15.00 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
National Anthem by Mohamed Hassan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
National Anthem is a new poetry collection from award-winning journalist and writer Mohamed Hassan. It charts an intimate course through memories from his childhood and upbringing in Egypt, New Zealand, Turkey and elsewhere to untangle the intersecting traumas of migration, Islamophobia and grief and as ...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
Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell by Lawrence Durrell
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
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