F*ck You Haiku - Little Breakup Poems to Help You Vent, Heal, and Move On by Kristina Grish
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Get through any relationship split with this collection of relatable, impassioned, and irreverent breakup haikus. When her marriage came to a sudden and infuriating end, celebrated relationship columnist Kristina Grish found solace in a unique outlet--penning fiery breakup haikus. Now, she shares he ...Show more
House and Contents by Gregory O'Brien
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Our mother's clouds and insects fly to embrace your clouds and insects. Her architecture, roads, bridges and infrastructure rush to greet yours. Her molecules on their upward trajectory entwine with yours, the colour of her eyes, hair and skin. Her language, with its past participles, figures of speech, ...Show more
Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A tenderly devastating look at our cows and ourselves by a remarkable new poet.In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawkes takes a generous bite from the excesses of earthly flesh - first 'Meat', then 'Lovers'.'Meat' is a coming of age in which po ...Show more
The Uppish Hen & other poems by Robin Hyde
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In 1934, four-year-old Derek Challis found a homemade book in his Christmas stocking. On the typed pages bound with pink ribbon were poems written for him by his mother, the writer Robin Hyde. Derek - known as Derry - treasured the gift and could recite the poems until his death in 2021. Hyde hoped the ...Show more
Playing with Matches by Michael Faudet
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Playing with Matches is the ultimate collector's edition by internationally best-selling poet, Michael Faudet. A beautiful hardcover gift book that has been personally curated by the author featuring a compilation of the best work from his five published books and thirty-five new pieces of poetry and pr ...Show more
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems by Megan Fox
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than 80 poems, Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. "These poems were written in a ...Show more
Rachel McAlpine - How To Be Old by Rachel McAlpine
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Wellington writer Rachel McAlpine blogs and podcasts about living and ageing and is celebrating her 80th birthday with a book of poems. How to Be Old is an explosion of humanity on the page with some practical tips from the author and sage advice from Elsie aged five. Rachel has also written novels, son ...Show more
AUP New Poets 7 by Rhys Feeney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
From Apia to Parnell, ancient Rome to Aro Park and on to the furthest reaches of the internet, AUP New Poets 7 takes readers on an eye-popping journey through contemporary New Zealand poetry. The collection opens with Rhys Feeney's passionate take on contemporary global politics and ecological collapse. ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
$32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more
Wordsworth - Lakeland Poetry by William Wordsworth; Sally Bushell (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Verse to Inspire Ser.
Vivid and personal, William Wordsworth's lyrical works deal with such topics as morality, spirituality, grief, and appreciation of nature. Wordsworth was a central figure of English Romanticism and much of his poetry was inspired by the beautiful setting of the Lake District, where he lived most of his ...Show more
Love is Enough: Poetry Threaded with Love (with a Foreword by Florence Welch) by Andrea Zanatelli
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Drawing its inspiration from the past, Love is Enough references the decorative arts of a bygone era, and is a combination of romantic imagery, antique fabrics and allegorical illustrations mixed with poems and mottos. Often mistaken for real embroidery pieces, the artworks are in fact very detailed and ...Show more