The Funny Side by Wendy Cope
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In "The Funny Side" Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole illustrates the great range to be found under the h ...Show more
The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse by Francis Turner Palgrave
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Golden Treasury is one of the best loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar, Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate. It's arranged chronologically into four books which each celebrat ...Show more
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson; Jen Bervin (Editor); Marta Werner (Editor); Susan Howe (Foreword by)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Gorgeous Nothings -- the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts ever to appear -- is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of envelopes. A never-before-possible glimpse into th ...Show more
The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900 by Michael Schmidt
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Reproduced within this book are the essential poems of Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and many othe ...Show more
The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900 by Michael Schmidt
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900
The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900 by Michael Schmidt
$52.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Great Modern Poets and CD is the perfect introduction to the finest poetry of the 20th century. This ideal gift is now complete with an 80-minute audio CD featuring original recordings of 29 inspiring poems, read by their authors. Here the listener will find beautiful verse by the greatest poets of ...Show more
The Highwayman (Visions in Poetry) by Alfred Noyes & Murray Kimber
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Visions in Poetry
"The Highwayman" is the second book in a unique series "Visions in Poetry" featuring classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists.Originally published in 1907, The Highwayman is a haunting ballad of doomed love. Seldom have mood and character been so memorably evoked. The pounding rhyt ...Show more
The Lady of Shalott (Visions in Poetry) by Alfred Lord Tennyson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Visions in Poetry
The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. TennysonâÃÂÃÂs beautiful and enigmatic poem of unrequited love, set in Arthurian England, has enthralled artists for ...Show more
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countrysid ...Show more
The Leaf-Ride by Dinah Hawken
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
There is a remarkable range of poems in The Leaf-Ride as it travels along in its 'down-welling, up-welling drift': poems that range from the power of a single word to the horror of violence to the joy of a newborn child. At the heart of the book are three sequences to stand alongside those that have for ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, GuardianA noir narrative written with the intensity a ...Show more
The Love Poems of Rumi by Nader Khalil
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Indulge in Rumi's passion with this collection of 13th century love poetry. Become lost in the words of The Love Poems of Rumi. Included in this book is a collection of Jalal al-Din Rumi's passionate love poems, translated by Nader Khalili. Beautifully designed and illustrated throughout, you'll become ...Show more