A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
The Big Amazing Poetry Book: 52 Weeks of Poetry From 52 Brilliant Poets by Gaby Morgan
$28.00 NZD
Category: Children's/YA
From John Agard and Julia Donaldson to Nikita Gill, Brian Bilston and Carol Ann Duffy, The Big Amazing Poetry Book is a brilliant, accessible introduction to poetry and to fifty-two fantastic poets. Introduced by Roger McGough, the book features the illustrations of former Children's Laureate and belove ...Show more
At The Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ
At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Ōtepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching’s poems bestow a unique attention upon the world. Her eye is finely attuned to the well-trodden yet overlooked – the places between ‘dirt and thumb’ ...Show more
The Uppish Hen & other poems by Robin Hyde
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's/YA | Reading Level: near fine
In 1934, four-year-old Derek Challis found a homemade book in his Christmas stocking. On the typed pages bound with pink ribbon were poems written for him by his mother, the writer Robin Hyde. Derek - known as Derry - treasured the gift and could recite the poems until his death in 2021. Hyde hoped the ...Show more
Andrew Johnston - Selected Poems by Andrew Johnston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fiine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Andrew Johnston's five published collections, from How to Talk (1993) to Fits & Starts (2016).'Andrew Johnson does the best titles. And then he puts the best poems underneath them.' -Bill Manhire'Andrew Johnston's first collection, How to Talk, is a book of s ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fine
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
A Songbird Dreams of Singing by Kate Hosford
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children's/YA
Do you know how animals sleep?Beautiful poems about sleeping animals are interspersed with fascinating facts and beautiful illustrations - in this perfect book for bedtime!Otters fall asleep while holding hands; zebra finches practise their songs while dreaming; dolphins keep one half of their brain awa ...Show more
Tunui | Comet by Robert Sullivan
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
my old friend I wonder how far north you travel?The road goes west starting two doors up from The Dog’s Bollix ending at sunset. So many sunsetsFacebook and Instagram couldn’t contain them. Tūnui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Māori poets. Roll ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell, Various
$28.00 NZD
Category: Children's/YA
In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the universal expe ...Show more
Unseasoned Campaigner by Janet Newman
$18.00 NZD
$28.00 (35% off)
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
Unseasoned Campaigner is a layered collection exploring the complexities of farming life in Horowhenua. Poet Janet Newman uncovers territory ripe for exploration as she juxtaposes the often troubled aspects of commercial farming –the life and death of animals – with loving family relationships. The coll ...Show more
Little Ache, The by Ian Wedde
$20.00 NZD
$30.00 (33% off)
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
The Little Ache – a German notebook was written in 2013–14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler. In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.