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
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
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
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
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
A Garden is a Long Time by Jenny Bornholdt; Annemarie Hope-Cross
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The photographs in A garden is a long time take us beyond the perimeter of the Central Otago garden where they were created. Incorporating processes and materials from the darker, more mysterious corners of early photographic history, the images offer an account of the life and sensibility of a remarkab ...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
Ten Poems about Birds by KATHARINE TOWERS
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful alternative to a greeting card, this lovely collection of ten poems comes complete with an envelope - perfect to accompany a gift, or unusual enough to be a gift on its own.
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