How to Live with Mammals by Ash Davida Jane
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
we love an underdog especially when it’s a whale we see ourselves in themliterally in them lounging in their cathedral of a mouthjust looking for love All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others and so many last things? How to Live With Mammals is n ...Show more
I Am in Bed with You by Emma Barnes
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A bold, playful, poetic exploration of sex, gender and identity. I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I’m always on theleft. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winterI left myself behind in the 90s. I’m coming back now. Youcan see the light touching me. I can see layers of tissu ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeous collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These ...Show more
How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do ...Show more
How to Be Happy Though Human - New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human is Kate Camp’s superb seventh book of poetry.It is published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by House of Anansi Press. Kate Camp’s poetry has been described by ...Show more
Lost and Somewhere Else by Jenny Bornholdt
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Where do I stand? Usually in the little square of sunlight by the back door. In Lost and Somewhere Else, Jenny Bornholdt finds many places to stand: at home, in memories of places and people, and in the Ernst Plischke-designed Henderson House in Alexandra, Central Otago, in which she lived while writi ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry : 100 Women on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to toda ...Show more
How I Get Ready by Ashleigh Young
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Are you in the mood? I am. Let's put the kids down. Have a light dinner. Shower. Maybe not drink so much. And do that thing I would rather do with you than with anyone else. Lie in bed and look at our iPhones. Written with brilliant wit, sharp observation and a big dose of reality, Love Poems for Marrie ...Show more
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace; Ladybookmad Staff
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing your own ending. From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece tog ...Show more
It Had to Be You - A Love Journal by Editors of Rock Point
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Celebrate the love of your life with It Had To Be You, a journal that will warm your heart and remind you that love conquers all. This beautifully-designed journal features prompted sections that will allow you to write down the story of your romance, creating a memorable keepsake for your children, gra ...Show more
Saying Farewell by Robert Allen
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
I always thought that people, who are vibrantly individual creatures, deserve more than a mere formal ritual at their farewell, so I began to write individual pieces to help say farewell in a more personal way. Then it became clear that others would like to use some of these, so they have been generalis ...Show more