Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at hers ...Show more
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in medita ...Show more
A Garden is a Long Time by Jenny Bornholdt; Annemarie Hope-Cross
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The photographs in A garden is a long time take us beyond the perimeter of the Central Otago garden where they were created. Incorporating processes and materials from the darker, more mysterious corners of early photographic history, the images offer an account of the life and sensibility of a remarkab ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Collected Poems – Carol Ann Duffy by Carol Ann Duffy
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold more than one million copies of her books around the world. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. ...Show more
Duino Elegies: The Original English translation of the Classic Poetry Cycle by Rainer Maria Rilke
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Duineser Elegien Elegies from the Castle of Duino. The original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, translated from the German by Vita and Edward Sackville-West. With an Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain.
Felicity by Mary Oliver
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'And just like that, like a simpleneighbourhood event, a miracle istaking place.''If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,' Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver's love poems. Here, great happiness abounds ...Show more
Fleur Adcock Collected Poems - (Expanded Edition) by Fleur Adcock
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This expanded edition of Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, includes her latest collection The Mermaid's Purse, and twenty new poems. It is published simultaneously with Bloodaxe Books (UK) on the occasion of Fleur Adcock's 90th birthday on 10 February 2024.
Forbidden Rumi by Ergin Nevit & Johnson Will Tr
$26.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The first collection of poems translated into English from the forbidden volume of the Divan of Rumi• Presents Rumi’s most heretical and free-form poems• Includes introductions and commentary that provide both 13th-century context and modern interpretationAfter his overwhelming and life-altering encount ...Show more
Funeral Readings and Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | 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
How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living. Barbara Kingsolver's generous collection is divided into thematic sections that loop and interweave to form a carefully patterned whole: a series of 'How to' poems that smartly balance tong ...Show more
Katūīvei - Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Katuivei) by David Eggleton (Editor); Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Mere Taito (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices ...Show more