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Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: good
Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet within by Stephen Fry
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discove ...Show more
Surgically Enhanced - Gift Edition by Pam Ayres
$40.00 NZD
Category: Humour
This new gift edition is a must-have for Pam's many fans - and for anyone who enjoys beautifully crafted stories and poems to make you laugh and make you think. Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work is popular with f ...Show more
The Man From Snowy River by A. B. Paterson
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Pocket Editions for the Trenches Ser.
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "Th ...Show more
Banjo Paterson : Collected Verse by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Clement Semmler (Editor)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili by Rumi; Nader Khalili (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser.
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumi's spiritual poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for a stronger spiritual core.
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
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. Review: The most beautiful and thought-provoking book I've read this year * Obse ...Show more
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Basho Matsuo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho stri ...Show more
Poems of John Keats (Popular Penguin) by John Keats
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that sets his name among the greatest in English poetry, and the most admired by other poets. This pocket-sized selection for general readers ...Show more
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
$34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearlyare about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects an ...Show more