Rachel McAlpine - How To Be Old by Rachel McAlpine
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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
Selected Poems of William Wordsworth (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Wordsworth
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth's greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness.A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionised poetry.Selected Poems brings together some of Words ...Show more
How to Live by Rickerby Helen
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tel ...Show more
Ransack by essa may ranapiri
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In ransack, essa may ranapiri addresses the difficulty of assembling and understanding a fractured, unwieldy self through an inherited language - a language whose assumptions and expectations ultimately make it inadequate for such a task. These poems seek richer, less hierarchical sets of words to descr ...Show more
Conventional Weapons by Tracey Slaughter
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Conventional Weapons is Tracey Slaughter's first full poetry collection. In these dark, lyrical poems, Slaughter closely observe the textures of the world and the beauty and depravity of human nature.
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The new Pelican Shakespeare series incorporates the more than thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the acclaimed original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967.The general editors of the new series of forty volumes-the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel ...Show more
Selected Verse: Kipling (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Lizzy (INT) Rudyard; Welby Kipling
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With subjects as broad as militarism, the British Empire, childhood and death, the Selected Verse of Rudyard Kipling is a treasure trove of the Nobel Prize winner's most striking and moving poetry, dramatic monologues and ballads. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition includes an introduction by Li ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more
Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
The Black and the White by Geoff Cochrane
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Black and the White is a new work- witty, fearless, formidably concise - from one of the most distinctive voices in New Zealand poetry.
Sondheim - Lyrics by Peter Gethers (Editor); Russell Perreault (Editor); Stephen Sondheim
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has won eight Tonys, eight Grammys, six Olivier Awards, an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize. His brilliant songs and lyrics of genius have entertained us for more than half a century and his Broadway shows revolutionized musical theatre. Workin ...Show more