Duino Elegies: The Original English translation of the Classic Poetry Cycle by Rainer Maria Rilke
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Duineser Elegien Elegies from the Castle of Duino. The original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, translated from the German by Vita and Edward Sackville-West. With an Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain.
the body country by Susie Anderson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'I keep looking at the stars to see the universe, but the joke is I am the universe.' the body country is an evocative exploration of a world that too often marginalises and the power of a land that can offer connection. A meditation of wandering and wondering on Country, inviting the reader to understa ...Show more
Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan
$18.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautifully illustrated poetry gift book about making the most of the time we have
Ten Poems about Baking by HELENA NELSON
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
These ten poems celebrate all that's wonderful about baking the time-honoured recipes, the patient kneading and stirring of ingredients, the sticky fingers in the mixing bowl. Baking, the poems seem to say again and again, is a profoundly human art: a homemade summer pudding can create "a stillness lost ...Show more
How to Be Happy Though Human - New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human is Kate Camp’s superb seventh book of poetry.It is published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by House of Anansi Press. Kate Camp’s poetry has been described by ...Show more
The Poetry of Birds by Samuel Carr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy. Poets and artists have always looked to birds for inspiration. In this collection Audubon's iconic birds illuminate, as well as illustrate, the poems. Since the poets and the painters here ...Show more
Harmony: poems to find peace by Whitney Hanson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the progression of a life through the elements of musicIn this collection of all new poems, Whitney Hanson explores the progression of a life through the lens of music. We each begin with a simple note, but as life progress ...Show more
Reading the Signs by Janis Freegard
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Janis Freegard’s new collection take their starting point from the poet’s daily ritual of reading the tea leaves while writing in the Ema Saikō room in the Wairarapa. This leads to unexpected discoveries about the world around her, from spider visitors to the writing room and a papyrus-fine ...Show more
Green Rain by Alistair Clarke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Alastair Clarke’s poetry considerably addresses his re-seeing his country after living for many years overseas. Though this element is not explicit, it does underlie the feelings and ideas of much of the poetry. Returning to live in the Wairarapa - a rich, wide valley bordered by mountains (frequently ...Show more
Louise Gluck: Poems, 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
$65.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet. For the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form- the boo ...Show more
Circadia by Judith Bishop
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Perched on a tablecloth with glasses for a summer drink- life, on its haunches like a kitten, thoughtful. Extending a paw- What happens if? Circadia is a shattering testament to the fragility of life and the weight of the present. Exquisitely attuned to atmosphere and emotion, Judith Bishop's poems grie ...Show more
Home: poems to heal your heartbreak by Whitney Hanson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems"the bees aren't going to go awaybut they are going to change with yousometimes they will be chaoticsometimes they will restsometimes they will give you sweet hone ...Show more