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Tail of the Taniwha by Courtney Sina Meredith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Near Fine
Tail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer, poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of her signature publications, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick and the award-winning play, Rushing Dolls. Tail of the Taniwha pushes at the boundaries of writ ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Michele Leggott
$30.95 AUD
Category: New Releases
ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂNo brief review can hope to do justice to this dense, intricate and vivid collection. Not to be consumed rapidly like verbal takeaways, but sipped and savoured; soul food, mind food.ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà- NZ Herald Canvas Magazi ...Show more
This Paper Boat by Gregory Kan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: General Adult
In This Paper Boat, poet Gregory Kan traces the life and written fragments of Robin Hyde, vivid with imagery and impression - the tide pool at Island Bay and its shrimp, the driftwood and crushed lemon leaves. He listens to the stories of his parents and of their parents, the eels and milk, frangipani t ...Show more
Selected Poems (Bill Manhire) by Bill Manhire
$38.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
This generous selection of Bill Manhire's poems moves from playful early pieces like ‘On Originality’ and ‘How to Take off Your Clothes at the Picnic’ to major works of recent years such as ‘Hotel Emergencies’, a powerful response to contemporary atrocities, and &lsqu ...Show more
Collected Poems 1967-1999 by Bill Manhire
$38.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Bill Manhire's Collected Poems brings together thirty years of work from the outstanding poet of his generation.
Magnificent Moon by Ashleigh Young
$31.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Magnificent Moon is the eagerly awaited debut collection from one of the new stars of New Zealand poetry. Ashleigh Young's poems have been appearing in magazines for 10 years. She gained an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2009, winning the Ad ...Show more
Twenty Poems from Thomas Hardy by HARDY THOMAS
$12.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Methuen Shilling S.
The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of the gr ...Show more
Twenty Poems from Christina Rossetti by ROSSETTI CHRISTINA
$11.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Methuen Shilling S.
The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of the gr ...Show more
Selected Sonnets from William Shakespeare by SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
$12.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Methuen Shilling S.
The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of the gr ...Show more
Dog by HEGLEY JOHN
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literature
This is a mongrel mix of prose, poem, cartoon strip, letter, and limerick. Musings upon his mum, his chum, his love, his love's loss, and salvation at the paws of his chum's mum's Welsh Border Collie. This collection of verse and drawings from the man dubbed "comedy's poet laureate" combines Hegley's sk ...Show more
Up the Line to Death: War Poets, 1914-18 by BRIAN GARDNER
$22.95 AUD
Category: New Releases
An anthology of the poetry of World War I, this collection is more concerned with the War than with poetry, and as such it is a book with a theme. There are 72 poets represented here - including Wilfred Owen - of whom 21 died in action. Many of the poems have notes and introductions.
The Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day by METHUEN PUBLISHING
$42.95 AUD
Category: New Releases
From the classics to recent favourites, the anthology includes works by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Robert Burns, Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Yeats, Betjeman, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes, Wole Soyinka, Wendy Cope, Andrew Motion and many more, imaginatively arranged to be appropriate to the day and t ...Show more