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99 Ways Into New Zealand Poetry by Paula Green; Harry Ricketts
45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This book celebrates the richness and variety of New Zealand poetry by outlining many of the numerous ways to read - and write - poems. It offers 80 key poems that showcase different aspects of the genre, as well as commentary from 25 poets about what inspired them to write specific works. With insightf ...Show more
Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page by Selected by Siobhan Harvey, James Norcliffe & Harry Ricketts
45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A must-have poetry companion for all lovers of New Zealand poetry New Zealanders adore poetry, and this expertly selected and handsomely packaged collection of over 150 poems published since the 1950s shows exactly why: New Zealand poetry is, by turns, distinctive, affecting, joyous, revealing, moving, ...Show more
First Things by Harry Ricketts
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of ‘firsts’: those moments that can hold their detail and potency across a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright fragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and obsessions that have shaped Ricke ...Show more
How We Remember - New Zealanders and the First World War by Charles Ferrall; Harry Ricketts
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A poem, a waiata, a family photograph, a painting, a half-recalled history lesson, a parade, a name on a plaque in a small town: we remember the First World War in so many ways. These original, insightful essays by a raft of historians, writers and other prominent figures reflect on our different forms ...Show more
How to Catch a Cricket Match (Ginger #9) by Harry Ricketts
26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Ginger
Rudyard Kipling called cricketers 'flannelled fools'. Groucho Marx asked halfway through a cricket match when it would begin. Alfred Hitchcock put two cricket fans in a thriller as comic relief. Yet despite its famously odd practices, slow pace, strange language, eccentric umpires and frequent scandals ...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
The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing by Harry Ricketts
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
New Zealand is a sports-mad country, a state of affairs that is mirrored by a wealth of writing on sport and sports - not only by sports journalists, but by novelists, poets, columnists, historians, essayists and academics. In this sweeping and often surprising anthology, Harry Ricketts casts the net ov ...Show more
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing by Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds)
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
'The editors ...have cast their nets widely indeed. They have produced a volume that no-one with an interest in wars in which this country has become ensnared should miss reading. The book is a vast treasure trove of material'. - Otago Daily Times Warfare, both at home and abroad, has shaped the way New ...Show more
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