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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
The Lustre Jug by Bernadette Hall
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Near Fine
Finalist in the Poetry category. In 2007 Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland, not far from Blarney, on the Rathcoola Fellowship. The poems in this collection arise from that experience. With light-heartedness and daring, they track between dualities: the North and the South in Ireland; the rain- ...Show more
Poems for Love (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gary (EDT) Joanna (INT); Morgan Trollope
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
He's So Masc by Chris Tse
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
In How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. He¿s So MASC confronts a contemporary world of self-loathing poets and compulsive liars, of youth and sexual identity, and of the author as character ¿ pop star, ac ...Show more
Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. Swimming Lessons is the first collection of poetry from one of the most beloved young actresses working today. It follows the euphoric beginnings of young love, battlin ...Show more
The Love Poems of Rumi - Translated by Nader Khalili by Rumi; Nader Khalili (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser.
The Love Poems of Rumi is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumis poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for inspirational themes and messages about love.
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
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
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
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
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