Chinese Voices - Classical Poetry by Flame Tree Studio (Created by); Zu-Yan Chen (Foreword by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Verse to Inspire Ser.
The Chinese poetic tradition, which dates back to almost 1,000 B.C., is one of the most cherished parts of the nation's cultural heritage. This collection of translated classical poems are a stunning chronicle of Chinese life, culture and history, and remain as compelling today as ever. Moreover, their ...Show more
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to delive ...Show more
The Heart of Things: On Memory and Lament by Richard Holloway
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life's challenges. Now he shares those poems and words which have been his own guide, offered in the hope they ...Show more
Upturned by Kay McKenzie Cooke
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Kay McKenzie Cooke chronicles life as it comes to her – the quotidian happenings in and around her home in Dunedin and further south where she grew up, and not-so-ordinary upturned world she experiences when she visits her son in Berlin. And then there are those things that seem ordinary enough until th ...Show more
From Arsenic to Zirconium - Poems and Surprising Facts about the Elements by Peter Davern
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
93 short poems that teach the lay reader about the elements of the periodic table. An entertaining and informative collection for a general audience by a professor of chemical sciences. The Periodic Table of Poems is a unique collection of 93 short poems that explores the properties and nuances of each ...Show more
The Nightingale: 'The nature book of the year' by Sam Lee
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.' John Lewis-Stempel Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring. For thousands ...Show more
Reading Walter de la Mare by Walter de la Mare; William Wootten (Editor)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A selection of Walter de la Mare's greatest poems presented alongside insightful, reader-friendly commentaries.
Another America Otra America by Barbara Kingsolver
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she found was quite different, "another America" that she chronicled through her poetry, in which she came to share her ...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
Come Closer and Listen by Charles Simic
$55.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor, open-hearted empathy, and perceptive vision, Charle ...Show more
unlock your storybook heart by Amanda Lovelace, ladybookmad
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: You Are Your Own Fairy Tale Ser.
"life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents unlock your storybook heart, the third & final installment in her feminist poetry series, "you are your own fai ...Show more
American Melancholy: Poems by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.Oates ...Show more