Over There a Mountain by Elizabeth Welsh
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
It’s hard to know how to be with a mother who is a mountain. It’s hard to feel how to be with a father who is a mountain. It’s hard to explain that luminous bond and the bewilderingly stretched distance. Anxious, the mountain-daughter holds what is bright to hold and takes without asking what is bright ...Show more
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A witty and enchanting illustrated edition of the Middle English debate poem in a new version by the Poet Laureate - now in paperback.
This Thin Now by Jo Thorpe
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This Thin Now (Hoopla series 2018) tells the story of love lost and of the places the poet goes to find it still – from inside the space two hands make to the numinous blue of sea and sky. These are poems of dazzle and quiet that give the reader a rare gift.
Tres by Roberto Bolano
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
Roberto Bolano's own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. 'Prose from Autumn in Gerona', a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequi ...Show more
Slip Stream by Paula Green
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Through Slip Stream, Paula Green is interested in how to balance a challenging experience against the continuation of everyday life, and proposes small distractions and coping strategies solving cryptic crossword puzzles, for example, the mock-clues of which are scattered through the poems. Making up a ...Show more
Selected Poems of William Wordsworth (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Wordsworth
15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth's greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness.A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionised poetry.Selected Poems brings together some of Words ...Show more
Actions and Travels - How Poetry Works by Anna Jackson
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonan ...Show more
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and th ...Show more
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Timeless Classics) by Emily Dickinson
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
Share in Dickinson's admiration of language, nature, and life and death, with The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson's finest poems. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to ...Show more
Things Lay in Pieces by Richard Langston
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Opens with a 13-poem sequence about the earthquake which struck Christchurch at 12.51 on February 22, 2011 killing 184 people.
Under Glass by Kan Gregory
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'The things that are really big and really close are too big and too close to be seen.' A colossal jungle. Two suns. The sea on fire. If the mind were a place, what might it look like? Under Glass is an ambitious new collection by one of the most exciting young poets writing today. Gregory Kan's second ...Show more
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems l ...Show more