Goblin Market And Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
Goblin Market and Other Poemswas Christina Rossetti's first full volume of poetry, published in 1862. The collection received widespread critical praise and established Rossetti as the foremost female poet of her time. Tennyson, Hopkins and Swinburne all admired her work. The title poem 'Goblin Market' ...Show more
Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Songs can be incredibly prophetic . . . like a kind of useless magic.'The complete lyrics by the iconic vocalist of Florence + the Machine, beautifully interwoven with poems, sketches and jottings from her never-before-seen scrapbooks. This is a glimpse into the work and creative processes of a fearles ...Show more
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David Bader
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of (respectively) three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to 100 Great Books. From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally withi ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Popular Penguins by William Shakespeare
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more
Wild Honey by Paula Green
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were ...Show more
Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The dazzling and outrageous debut from one of the brightest new talents in New Zealand poetry.
How to Take off Your Clothes by Hadassah Grace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Hadassah's book deals with themes of love, sex and depression. The author describes it as: "Politically it's about leaning in to the negative stereotypes projected onto women, and exploring what it means to embrace and humanize them. Personally it's about me working through the loss of the life I thoug ...Show more
Therese Lloyd - The Facts by Lloyd Therese
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
She is made of blood she raises herself up to be seen The superb second book by the author of the acclaimed 2013 collection Other Animals traces the course of a failing marriage, while illuminating the ways in which art and poetry are essential to life. Deeply felt and lyrically arresting, The Facts off ...Show more
Bill Manhire - Collected Poems by Bill Manhire
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Bill Manhire's Collected Poems brings together thirty years of work from the outstanding poet of his generation.
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog... or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert... this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness... heartbreaking and charged with trees.. ...Show more
Selected Poems of James K Baxter by edited by Paul Millar
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by ...Show more
How I Get Ready by Ashleigh Young
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In her latest poetry collection How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book. An Ashleigh Young poem is a world: hospitable, strange, a little off kilter. The poems in How I Get Ready bristle with humour and curiosity; they ...Show more