Formica by Maggie Rainey-Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Formica begins in 1950s Richmond with the author’s family struggling in the aftermath of a war that took her father to Crete to fight and then Poland as a prisoner of war. At the Formica kitchen table, Maggie’s mother is reciting poems while chopping the veggies for tea. Maggie listens while tying her b ...Show more
Jill by Philip Larkin
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Jill is Philip Larkin's first novel, originally published in 1946. A subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by many critics as a classic of its kind.
Saga by Hannah Mettner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Saga, the permafrost is melting and the secrets frozen within are emerging. Nothing is spared, from the old family recipe for pineapple cheesecake to the portrait of an ancestor, from the wife who sleeps with an axe under her bed to the tough heart of a man that beats beneath the skin. With an uneas ...Show more
Ekho by Roslyn Orlando
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
From Greek mythology to the Amazon Echo smart speaker, Orlando restores the Ekh into a dynamic poetic voice. Ekho is a poem in three parts. Through poetic narrative, this work considers the 'echo' as a social and historical phenomenon. From Echo, the nymph of Greek mythology who's voice was stolen by th ...Show more
The Sets by Victor Billot
$27.50 NZD
$28.00 (1% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Sets returns again and again to the ever-present sea as a metaphor, a mirror, a companion and an otherworld that contains our dreams and nightmares. Dunedin poet Victor Billot finds in the South Pacific Ocean an oracle of the future and a keeper of our histories. The Sets begins with reflections on ...Show more
Middle Youth by Morgan Bach
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems of Middle Youth look directly into the fire. Sometimes they find joy and the possibility of sustaining oneself; sometimes they feel the sense of an ending. Morgan Bach writes with a dark, crackling energy and controlled rage about the world we find ourselves in. Here are the loves that fi ...Show more
Fat Chance: Journalism Poems by Kent MacCarter
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Fat Chance, poet and publisher Kent MacCarter investigates variations on how non-fiction can be reported, taking an uncanny look into sole survivors of major airline crashes, a memoir approach at the surgical complication known as gossypiboma - where an instrument is left behind in a body cavity afte ...Show more
Spindrift by Bob Orr
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Bob Orr is one of our finest poets, admired by academia, by people who don't normally even read poetry - and a wide audience between. This major new volume offers a generous selection of Bob's previously published work, and 36 new and hitherto unseen poems.
Illustrated Odyssey by Homer
$59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
The Illustrated Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
$59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature."Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived there as simply as possible, le ...Show more
A Nature Poem For Every Night Of The Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Relax and unwind at the end of the day with this calming collection of nature poems--one for each night of the year. Now more than ever we need something to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by your bedside and enjoy a dreamy stroll through the natura ...Show more