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
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
The Poetry Pharmacy Forever: New Prescriptions to Soothe, Revive and Inspire by William Sieghart
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
After the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life's ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails he received from the public during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-pe ...Show more
Crane Classics: Shakespeare - Selected Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Crane Classics Ser.
A collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to Shakespeare's poetry. Printed in a high quality cloth edition, this volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.
Transposium by Dani Yourukova
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Part philosophy thesis and part psychosexual Ancient Greek fever dream, Dani Yourukova' s Transposium adapts Plato into poetry, featuring queer longing, a choose-your-own-adventure apocalypse, Les Misé rables slash fiction and love poems about dead philosophers.Shameless, witty and hot with curiosity, t ...Show more
Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A reissue of revolutionary poems from the last three decades by cultural icon Linton Kwesi JohnsonA selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson's best poems over three decades. Ranging from protests against police brutality to eulogies for departed friends and playful celebrations of urban life, Johnson's use of ...Show more
We Came from Hamburg by V. Ullrich
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
It is Hamburg, 1920. Abruptly Erna leaves her marriage and her three daughters, and disappears from the family. No one speaks of her again. One by one the other members of the Simon family begin to disappear, with death from natural causes and then as a response to what is happening in Germany with the ...Show more
Deep Colour by Diana Bridge
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Deep colour, the words for it are out of range –That much I can tell you. What I cannot sayis how a life gathers its themes– From ‘Deep Colour’ Deep Colour, by acclaimed poet Diana Bridge, is a fiercely sensory and meticulously crafted collection. These poems respond with graceful precision to the imm ...Show more
As the Trees Have Grown by Stephanie de Montalk
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Stephanie de Montalk's new collection engage with the world as if through a window - cloaked, distanced, guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees. As de Montalk seeks a cure to the life-changing limitations of her physical self, she finds something close to sol ...Show more
The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara M Saleh
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh.The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat is a dazzling collection that examines and represents the complexity of Arab-Australian Muslim women's identities, as well as exploring gender a ...Show more