A Question Bigger Than A Hawk by Fitzgerald Jan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Questions burrow through the fourth poetry collection by Jan FitzGerald. An only child until a brother appears in a cradle one day, she wonders about the circumstances of her birth and delves into the memories she has of a childhood in 1950s Tauranga - making traps for birds that she cares for in her be ...Show more
Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The complete collection of Kingsley Amis's poems, as witty, scabrous and bracing as his celebrated novelsAlthough best known for his comic novels, Kingsley Amis wrote poetry throughout his career. Collected Poems spans subjects from nature and cricket to love, ageing and literature, brimming with his ch ...Show more
Catching a Storyfish by Janice N. Harrington
$21.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearWinner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young PeopleArnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award This lyrical middle-grade novel-in-verse celebrates the power of story and of finding one's individual voice. Keet knows the only good thing about moving away from her Alabama hom ...Show more
Ten Poems about Flowers by KATHARINE TOWERS
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A bouquet is a welcome and beautiful thing, but the beauty is inevitably short-lived. This delightful mini-anthology, however, is guaranteed never to wither. Roses, fritillaries, daisies, gentians and the humble ragwort are celebrated here by poets ranging from Mimi Khalvati to William Wordsworth. We ex ...Show more
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. The Waste Land is the greatest poem of the age. But a century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's masterpiece remains a work of comparative mystery. In this gripping account, award-winning biogra ...Show more
Escape Path Lighting by John Newton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong? Rock Oyster Island. It's a slack kind of place, but that's the way the locals like it: lifestyle farmers, pensioned-off bikers, seekers and healers, meth cooks and fishing guides. It's only a ferry ride to the city but ...Show more
All Tito's Children by Tim Grgec
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Who is Marshal Tito? His accent is strange, his birthdate and name uncertain. He addresses his people in a voice that might be his own, or perhaps it is the voice of someone else. Stjepan and Elizabeta are siblings in Kotoriba, a small village between two rivers in Yugoslavia. They want to know everythi ...Show more
The Tip Shop by James Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
You pick one up at the Tip Shop: oblivion’s final sieve meets your lucky day. James Brown shakes out oblivion’s final sieve in The Tip Shop. Found poems jostle with autobiographical poems, essayistic with epigrammatic, formally expert with some of his very best freeform sprawls. Alternately poignant and ...Show more
Body Politic by Mary Cresswell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Fifty years after she arrived in New Zealand from Los Angeles, Mary Cresswell's focus is unchanged. As a poet with a scientist's concern for detail she is still drawn to nature and what humanity has done with it. Seascapes are rocky and forbidding, landscapes are arid and treeless, and drones keep an ey ...Show more
Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins by John Keats
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that sets his name among the greatest in English poetry, and the most admired by other poets. This pocket-sized selection for general readers ...Show more
All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The new collection from feminist Irish poet and multi-awarding winning author of As You Were and How to Build a Boat Elaine Feeney brings her poetry to Harvill Secker and Vintage with this powerful, personal, fierce collection about women's lives, bodies, battles and triumphs. From a searing meditation ...Show more