Paradise Lost & Other Poems by Milton, John
$59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, Paradise Lost has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in Penguin Classics.In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ...Show more
The Poetry of Horses by Unnamed
$19.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration.Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of galloping together across open country. They provide entertaining antics when we're bored and quiet understanding whe ...Show more
Just Like That - New Poems by Kevin Ireland
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Poems greet Kevin Ireland in the morning with a crafty smile, or fly into his kitchen out of nowhere. Some dream themselves into his mind, or twist a bottle-cap and offer to share a cup of friendship. Lively words vie for places in his poems, or catch alight from cheerful thoughts. They are never predic ...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
When I Reach for Your Pulse by Rushi Vyas
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this electrifying debut, Rushi Vyas untangles slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent' s suicide. ' When my father finally / died,' he writes, ' we [... ] burned, / like an effigy, the voiceless body.' In this tough and tender, gently powerful collection, grief returns us to ...Show more
Goblin Market & Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
$19.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1862, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market is a spellbinding fairytale of female desire brought to life in a lavishly descriptive narrative poem.Two young girls, Laura and Lizzie, are enticed by the smells, sounds and sights of the goblin market. Lizzie resists temptation, but Laur ...Show more
The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In The Sea Walks into a Wall, the natural world around us hits back. "The sea crashes its glass onto the bar. You watch from afar. You’d take it all back if you could. Everything.You’d go down there and you’d." And talks back too. "If I’m fucked, you’re coming with me. Sincerely, the stream." From rai ...Show more
The Stupefying by Nick Ascroft
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
It is the time of the stupefying. Just when we least expected it, when we thought the show was over, it clonked out into the limelight, and the world was split in two. The Stupefying is a bruised arm firmly removed from its sling. It isn’t funny ha-ha but funny that-can’t-be-true-but-I-know-it-is. In p ...Show more
Liveability by Claire Orchard
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
any home boils down to one of two options:the place you're on your way back toor the place you're leaving. In Liveability, Claire Orchard places us vividly in the lives, pasts, futures and homes of others: A young farmer obsessively photographs snowflakes in wintry Vermont. A pair of geckos named Romeo ...Show more
The Book of Tree Poems by Ana Sampson
$41.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and - as the climate emergency escalates - it has never been more important ...Show more
Ten Poems about Sheep: Volume Two by ALISON O'NEILL
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
This is our second mini-anthology of sheep poems. Sheep are such a familiar feature of our rural landscape that most of us pay them little attention. Even less visible to the outsider's eye is the year-round work of shepherds who look after their flocks through the changing seasons. This selection of po ...Show more