A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems by Robert Burns
$27.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of Auld Lang Syne, and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns' Night ...Show more
Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A collection of more than 150 witty and edgy poems about love and relationships from the YouTube comedian and vlogger behind 'The Gabbie Show'.Gabbie Hanna disarms the sacred and elevates the mundane in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poems. Ranging from the sing-song rhythms of childr ...Show more
After-Burn - Poetry Aotearoa New Zealand Yearbook 2023 by Tracey Slaughter (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #57 features over 150 new poems - including ...Show more
All We Saw by Anne Michaels
$34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A mesmerising, luminously beautiful new poetry collection from Anne Michaels, internationally acclaimed poet and bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces In this passionate, profound collection, Anne Michaels explores one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of, and incapable of'. Here i ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
And Yet: Poems by Kate Baer
$37.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A follow-up to her number one New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, And Yet takes the themes of modern womanhood in all its beauty and overwhelm to the next level. In an increasingly isolating and divisive world, Kate calls us back together, cha ...Show more
Another Beautiful Day Indoors by Erik Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Out on the pleasure pier on that benign afternoon,the air heavy with the blossom of vinegar and old tyres,you asked what was the closest I had come to death. Another Beautiful Day Indoors is more likely to end with a dark flood than a beautiful sundown. As these poems grapple with climate catastrophe, ...Show more
Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy (ed)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'Poetry, the poets here teach us, is language as life; not only a baton-like passing-on of tradition but a way of making the human immortal. With all their joys, jokes, passions, protests, loves and losses, the poems here prove that it is not only silence that poetry answers back'. Carol Ann Duffy has i ...Show more
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Jon Stallworth
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Twelve soldier poets of the First World War Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades and poet ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Ariel (The Restored Edition) by Sylvia Plath
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, "Ariel", in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of "Ariel" left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide ...Show more
Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search ...Show more