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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Since the publication of her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou has been celebrated as one of America's most important writers and her words are indelibly imprinted on the hearts of millions. Inspired by the woman who has inspired us all, Rainbow in the Cloud offers nearl ...Show more
New and Selected Poems Volume One by Mary Oliver
$49.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eig ...Show more
Leaves of Grass Selected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Walt Whitman; Bridget Bennett (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to book lovers everywhere, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection which he revised and expanded th ...Show more
Spiritual Verses : The first book of the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi by Jelaluddin Rumi
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Begun in 1244 AD, "Masnavi-ye Ma navi", or spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored mystical' poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a p ...Show more
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
"The Hunting of the Snark" relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures, the Snark. In 1959 Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley and its mag ...Show more
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: good
* The acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James, turns now to the life of Emily Dickinson, one of America's best-loved poets
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
$17.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his eyes. The poetry reveals his depth of understanding, both of the world around him and within - his frailties and his strengths alike. He pens v ...Show more
The Friendship Poems of Rumi - Translated by Nader Khalili by Rumi; Nader Khalili (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser.
The Friendship Poems of Rumi is an elegantly illustrated gift book of the famous Rumis poems, translated by Nader Khalili, that center on the meaning of friendship and its many beautiful meanings.
The Flame by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
"There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on." --BONO Named a Fall Read by Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME and Vanity FairThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated thro ...Show more
Leaves of Grass - Hardcover by Walt Whitman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's inn ...Show more
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY. "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each w ...Show more