The World Awaits by Tomos Roberts
$26.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The second inspiring and heartfelt picture book from the creator of the viral video sensation The Great Realisation. ‘All the things that make life wonderful, all the colours, sounds and tastes begin to lose a touch of magic when your goodness goes to waste.' We all have within us ‘potential', an amou ...Show more
Goblin Market - An Illustrated Poem by Christina Rossetti; Kirsty Gunn (Editor, Foreword by); Georgie McAusland (Illustrator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The first in a new illustrated poetry series. The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, who are tempted by the fruit sold by the goblin merchants. In this fully illustrated and beautiful volume, illustrator Georgie McAusland brings the words and s ...Show more
Goblin Market: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #53 by Christina G. Rossetti
$2.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth. The pioneering nineteenth-century poet's best-known and most darkly imaginative verses on love, death and loss. This volume contains a selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter.' Introduc ...Show more
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems l ...Show more
Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: 1st
Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at ...Show more
Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts by Harry Ricketts
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. From his 1989 collection Coming Here – in which he wrote the first of his ‘Secret Life’ poems – to his 2018 collection Winter Eyes, which reviewer Tim Uppert ...Show more
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
Selected Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke; Stephen Mitchell (Translator, Editor); Robert Hass (Introduction by)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: International Ser.
The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritu ...Show more
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to delive ...Show more
More Favourable Waters - Aotearoa poets respond to Dante’s Purgatory by Marco Sonzogni (ed.); Timothy Smith (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
More Favourable Waters is an anthology of contemporary poets from Aotearoa New Zealand commemorating one of the world's great poets, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), 700 years after his death. The anthology was published on 25 March 2021, which is Dante Day, chosen by the Italian Government to celebrate the ...Show more
Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They ...Show more