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Poems to Save the World With by RIDDELL CHRIS
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A brilliant, thoughtful anthology of poems full of hope, selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.In Poems to Save the World With, Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems full of hope and wit to untangle the madness of life.In this gorgeous anthology, Chri ...Show more
How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do ...Show more
Granta 152: Still Life by Sigrid Rausing
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new writing and art.
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
$34.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet.By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects an ...Show more
Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In her bestselling Mophead, poet laureate and fast talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a difference. In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westm ...Show more
Nouns Verbs Etc: Selected Poems by FIONA FARRELL
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are ...Show more
How to Fly by Barbara Kingsolver
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.
Wow by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. The ...Show more
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
$28.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and inhome body , she walks readers through a reflective andintimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of ofis a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself -reminding readers to fill up on love ...Show more
Letters to Young People by Glenn Colquhoun
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
“It is difficult to ignore the story of a young person. When they are in pain, that pain seems all the more demanding because they are vulnerable and because their life still lies ahead of them ... I have learnt that the most important medicine they need from me is to listen to these stories, to hold th ...Show more
A Vase And a Vast Sea by Jenny Nimon (Ed)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In A Vase and a Vast Sea, poetry and prose rustle against the window, scatter palm fronds across the road and sneak off to the movies on a Tuesday. There are moments of nostalgia blended with dangerous undercurrents and domestic life. Edited by Jenny Nimon, this collection is a reunion of writers suc ...Show more