Cat Poems by Various
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affec ...Show more
Funeral Readings and Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To find solace from grief, we have always turned to the written word. With poetry and prose spanning continents, religions and cultures, this moving anthology examines loss, celebrates lives well lived and offers words of consolation.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning clothb ...Show more
The Book of Tree Poems by Ana Sampson
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and - as the climate emergency escalates - it has never been more important ...Show more
Out There in the Wild (HB) by Nicola Davies, James Carter, Dom Conlon
38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
<b>A stunning poetry gift book celebrating the natural world, illustrated by Diana Catchpole.</b> Us humans mostly live in towns and cities nowadays — yet still we retain our sense of wonder in nature, and that’s why we wander the rivers, lakes, forests, beaches and ancient paths of the worl ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...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
Don't be Interesting by Jacob McArthur Mooney
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Don't Be Interesting is a collection that grapples with 'The Future' as public morality-keeper and private reckoner. The book explores the lines dividing the present from both the future and the past. Its channels include all the breadth of mass experience, from film and sport to science fiction novels, ...Show more
The RHS Book of Flower Poetry and Prose by Unnamed
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
An RHS curated collection of the finest writing on more than 60 evocative flowers, from anemone to auricala and jasmine to wisteria by poets and authors including Milton and John Clare. Selected by Charles Elliott and featuring illustrations from the world-famous Lindley Library. Artists and writers ali ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
Ian Wedde - Selected Poems by Ian Wedde
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
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
William Blake: The Great Poets Series by William Blake
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William Blake William Blake was a poet and artist. Born in Soho in the eighteenth century, the son of a shopkeeper, he is now acclaimed as a radical left-field ar ...Show more