A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$38.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
The Poetry Pharmacy Forever: New Prescriptions to Soothe, Revive and Inspire by William Sieghart
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
After the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life's ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails he received from the public during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-pe ...Show more
A Beginners Guide To Japanese Haiku by William Scott Wilson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
An old pond;a frog jumps in: the sound of water-- Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by William Scott Wilson, the book features 26 poets and 550 haiku, exquisitely translate ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
$29.99 NZD
Category: World poetry
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
Devotions by Mary Oliver
$80.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book Club'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional ...Show more
Haare Williams - Words of a Kaumatua by Haare Wiliams; Witi Ihimaera (ed.)
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A kaumatua - an elder of the Maori people - reflects in poetry and prose on his journey from te ao Maori on the East Coast to contemporary Auckland, New Zealand.Ko te kopara anake e tarere ki te tihi o te makauri. Oti rawa! Kia oti rawa, e!Haare Williams grew up with his Tuhoe grandparents on the shores ...Show more
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or C ...Show more
Love & Misadventure 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition by Lang Leav
$59.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: Lang Leav Ser.
An elegant hardcover collector's edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal annotations interspersed throughout. Also included are newly colored artworks and a ribbon marker. ...Show more
Mezzaluna: Selected Poems by Michele Leggott
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Thirty years of selected poems by the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. Mezzaluna gathers work from critically acclaimed poet Michele Leggott's nine collections, from Like This? (1988) to Vanishing Points (2017). In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush tex ...Show more
Not As the Crow Flies by Tim Heath
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
A poetry collection by esteemed poet Tim Heath. Tim Heath has had a lifelong interest in writing poetry, but only allowed this interest to progress beyond the occasional dabble after he stopped working as a teacher in 2009. In his retirement he has enjoyed, in addition to trying to get words onto paper, ...Show more
R A K Mason - Uncollected Poems by R A K. Mason; Roger Hickin (ed.)
$37.50 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: NEAR FINE
Allen Curnow called R. A. K. Mason (190571) New Zealand's 'first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet'. His Collected Poems, first published in 1962, was arigorous selection made before Mason's 'late flowering' of 196265. Some of the excluded poems and some of the late poems have since seen the lig ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. "A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ..." This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his f ...Show more