Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Great Poets Series by Alfred Tennyson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die' 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all' His genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language o ...Show more
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly 'red wind' blows through the city, forcing ever ...Show more
William Blake: The Great Poets Series by William Blake
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William Blake William Blake was a poet and artist. Born in Soho in the eighteenth century, the son of a shopkeeper, he is now acclaimed as a radical left-field ar ...Show more
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones. Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected the landscape of her Yorkshire ho ...Show more
I Think the Clouds are Cotton Wool by John Ansell
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Book of humourous rhymes. 136 pages The author of I Think the Clouds are Cotton Wool also believes the Moon to be a giant lamp, low tides to be evidence of thirsty whales, rugby to reducible to a series of mathematical formulae and the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis to be an accep ...Show more
Plastic by Stacey Teague
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvy In Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Māori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form th ...Show more
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt by Tusiata Avia
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
This vivacious collection of poetry charts the author's experience with the sometimes painful intersection of New Zealand and Samoan cultures in her life. Alive with the energy and rhythm of performance poetry and oral traditions, these poems reshape common understanding of New Zealand culture.
Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology by Mikaela Nyman & Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women – and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 to Vanuatu's coming of age in 2020. Most of these ...Show more
Super Model Minority by Chris Tse
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE'S SO MASC - by looking to a future where 'it's enough to look up at a sky blushing r ...Show more