Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year by Colin Salter (Editor)
52.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every night of the year. Chosen especially by a Shakespeare fanatic to reflect the changing seasons and yearly events, the entries in this glorious book include Romeo and Ju ...Show more
Uyghur Poems by Various, Elkun, Aziz Isa
37.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
An unprecedented collection of newly translated poems spanning the rich thousand-year cultural legacy of the Uyghur people. The Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry - indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieval ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell (editor)
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
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, passion and married bliss to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the unive ...Show more
The Poetry Pharmacy Forever: New Prescriptions to Soothe, Revive and Inspire by William Sieghart
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
After the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life's ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails he received from the public during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-pe ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world ...Show more
Ten Poems about Sisters by KATHARINE TOWERS
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A sister often knows us better than anyone. This selection of poems (a companion to Ten Poems about Brothers) explores that special relationship from the games and secrets of early childhood that we remember so vividly to the separate journeys of later life. For Dorothea Smartt, two sisters form a pair ...Show more
Ten Poems of Hope by CASPER ANNIE-SOPHIE
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
We couldn't survive without hope that light at the end of the tunnel which seems to promise 'this will pass' when times are hard. These poems offer hope in a whole range of guises from the uplift of the first signs of spring to the infectious optimism of a child who believes he will live for ever if he ...Show more
Ten Poems of Happiness by DEBORAH ALMA
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful alternative to a greeting card, this lovely collection of ten poems comes complete with an envelope - perfect to accompany a gift, or unusual enough to be a gift on its own.
Ten Poems for a Wedding by KATHRYN BEVIS
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A wedding isn't a wedding without a poem. The enduring quality of great poetry seems to promise that all will be well for a couple on the threshold of marriage. You'll be dazzled by the brilliance and beauty of this selection, which offers everything from heartfelt blessings to reflections on the rich r ...Show more
Ten Poems about Tea by Dahl, Sophie, Perry, Jill, Mariner, Lorraine, Hardy, Thomas, Shapcott, Jo, Boland, Eavan, Agard, John
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Ten Poems about Tea has a fabulous introduction by Sophie Dahl (PG with milk, no sugar) and was the brilliant idea of Picador poet Lorraine Mariner, who also works as a librarian in the Poetry Library at London's South Bank Centre. She has helped choose the poems, advised us along the way and agreed wit ...Show more
Ten Poems about Trees by KATHARINE TOERS
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful alternative to a greeting card, this lovely collection of ten poems comes complete with an envelope - perfect to accompany a gift, or unusual enough to be a gift on its own.
Ten Poems about Art by GEOFF DYER
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer's remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes. We find ourselves ...Show more