A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
The third poetry collection from Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton. I was Dick. I teased Anne and George.I was Edmund, betrayed my friendsfor a sweet. Something rotten in me. — from ‘My childhood’ In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the ...Show more
Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems by Brian Bilston
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
$28.00 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
Robert Burns: The Great Poets Series by Robert Burns
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert Burns Robert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the National Poet of Scotland - and much of his work has become part of everyday modern language: 'The best laid schemes o' m ...Show more
W. B. Yeats: The Great Poets by W.B. Yeats
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | 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
William Blake: The Great Poets Series by William Blake
$28.00 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
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Great Poets Series by Alfred Tennyson
$28.00 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
Emily Dickinson: A selection of poems from one of America s most iconic poets by Emily Dickinson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted: 'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all' Emily Dick ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
$21.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho stri ...Show more
The Boyfriend Book by Mike the Poet
$41.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An Empowering Book of Poems and Essays Fans of Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, Her by Pierre Alex Jeanty, Whiskey Words and a Shovel by r.h. Sin, and The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Amanda Lovelace will love The Boyfriend Book by Michael E. Reid. No more boyfriends: 300 women sat down with Mik ...Show more
A Happy Poem to End Every Day (HB) by Jane McMorland Hunter
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
These days we're all in need of a little nugget of happiness to help soothe our weary souls at the end of the day. A Happy Poem to End Every Day provides just that: one sublimely happy poem for every day of the year, from cosy fireside idylls in winter to outdoor adventures in summer, encounters with th ...Show more