Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Great Poets Series by Alfred Tennyson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | 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
William Blake: The Great Poets Series by William Blake
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | 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
W. B. Yeats: The Great Poets by W.B. Yeats
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.' W B Yeats was one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. Winner of ...Show more
How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse
$20.00 NZD
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Category: Sale Books (non-returnable)
In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other East Asian immigrants. Chris Tse uses this story - and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later - to reflect on the experien ...Show more
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Timeless Classics) by Emily Dickinson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
Share in Dickinson's admiration of language, nature, and life and death, with The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson's finest poems. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to ...Show more
Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes
$20.00 NZD
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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
A Poet for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, <i>A Poet for Every Day of the Year</i>, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world’s greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new dis ...Show more
Wedding Readings and Poems by Various
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Offering indispensable inspiration for wedding readings, this gorgeous compilation of writing on love and marriage is also the perfect gift for couples and wedding guests alike. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with foiled edges and ribbo ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
$25.00 NZD
$35.00 (28% off)
Category: Sale Books (non-returnable)
The #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edg ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$16.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology | Series: Text Classics
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and In a German Pension. Virginia Woo ...Show more
A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year (HB) by Jane McMorland Hunter (Compiled by)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
Celebrate nature every day of the year with 365 of the most beautiful poems ever written.From William Wordsworth's springtime daffodils and Christina Rossetti's birdsong to John Keats's autumnal odes and Longfellow's "Woods in Winter," these poems pay tribute to the beauty of nature and the changing sea ...Show more