Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
When "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets. There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She a ...Show more
W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats; Seamus Heaney (selection by)
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. ...Show more
Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his introduction. By the time he published his final collection, "Birthday Letters" in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape. Other volumes in this se ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land". Other volumes in this series, includ ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
16.00 NZD
20.00 (20% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Children's Classics S.
First published in 1939, T.S. Eliot's collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become a favourite of children's literature.
Seamus Heaney - The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and circumstances. Private memories, classical scenes and humble domestic objects are endowed with talismanic significance and friends and relatives are in ...Show more
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make ...Show more
Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
43.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
The atom, a tuna, laziness, love - the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) wrote three books of odes during his lifetime. Odas elementales was published in 1954, followed in subsequent years by Nuevas ...Show more
Little Rock by Rosetta Allan
22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Little Rock is a collection of poems written over the past decade by Rosetta Allan - one of New Zealand's up and coming poets.
The Joy of Cats by Haddon, Celia
25.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Cats have padded silently into our hearts, bringing with them their grace, their independence and their essential mystery. How have we humans become so fond of these small desert creatures with their sharp claws and carnivorous teeth? Why do we love them so much?' From Herodotus, Darwin and Twain to T. ...Show more
Ten Poems To Change Your Life by Roger Housden
25.00 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Poetry
A powerful book that harnesses the unique ability of poetry to touch the readerâÃÂÃÂs inner-most feelings. Through the voices of ten very individual poets, Roger Housden directs each of us to examine the universal themes that pursue us through life. The ten poems presented are timeless; affecting ...Show more
All the Poems You Need to Say I Do by Peter Forbes (ed.)
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
All The Poems You Need to Say I Do is a collection of poems as much about commitment as marriage. This book will cover all the forms that declarations of love have taken over the centuries, from the restrained coded lyrics of courtly love through to the unbridled passions of the 20th century. All the Po ...Show more