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View from the South by Owen Marshall
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers. David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, sno ...Show more
The Pleasures of the Damned - Selected Poems 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
THE BEST OF THE BEST OF BUKOWSKI The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of ...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
Auden: Poems (1930) by Auden, W.H.
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the ...Show more
The Ones Who Keep Quiet by David Howard
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Fine
The ones who keep quiet for the longest are the dead, yet there are echoes of them everywhere. A turn of the head brings a glimpse of a Victorian banker retrieving his top hat from the gutter. A walk across a bridge lets you pass the ghosts of a Catholic saint, a Marxist martyr, and a boy with a tin dru ...Show more
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Michael Irwin (Introduction by)
$17.99 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the l ...Show more
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
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol.Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," ...Show more
Shakespeare - Sonnets by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Verse to Inspire Ser.
A stunning foiled cover does justice to Shakespeare's elegant sonnets in this first book of a new series of inspirational writing. The sonnets here are given space to breathe: divided thematically and sparsely illustrated, the beautiful verse delivers its full impact. In a collection of around 60 of his ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
$37.99 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Paradise Lost: And Paradise Regained (Vintage Classics) by John Milton
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Paradise LostMilton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuri ...Show more
Mr Clean & the Junkie by Jennifer Compton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Hoopla
Mr Clean and The Junkie is a 70s love story which begins at a Sydney casino and ends in a remote river valley in northern New Zealand. An Elvis Costello lookalike and the son of a local crime boss, Jon is weighed down with the burden of his filial responsibilities. But on his way to the casino to launde ...Show more