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Large 9781784743895

Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood

$34.00 NZD

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Category: Poetry

The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet.By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects an d rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognizable and celebrated themes, but distilled - from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. It is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour. ...Show more

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I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey

$40.00 NZD

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Category: Poetry

Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, she reveals never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bring ing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey's poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and mental illness. More hand grenades than confessions, these autobiographical poems explore and dismantle conventional notions of what it means to be a feminist in search of power.   Masterful as it is raw, passionate, and profound, I Would Leave Me If I Could signals the arrival of an essential voice.   Book cover painting, American Woman, by the author.   Halsey, born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and recipient of the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame's Hal David Starlight Award. She lives in Los Angeles, California. ...Show more

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How to Fly by Barbara Kingsolver

$33.00 NZD

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Category: Poetry

A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.

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The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay

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Category: Poetry

The Lamplighter takes us on a journey through the dark heart of slavery. Produced both as a radio and stage play, it also reads as a stirring and a multi-layered poem. Four women and one man tell the story of their lives through slavery, from the the fort, to the slave ship, through the middle passage, following life on the plantations, charting the growth of the British city and the industrial revolution. The Lamplighter focuses on parts of history other books rarely touch upon, revealing the devastating human cost of slavery for individual people. Constance has had to witness the sale of her own child; Mary has been beaten to an inch of her life; Black Harriot has had to become a high class whore; and our lead, the Lamplighter was sold twice into slavery from the ports in Bristol. All four very different voices tell their story, in a rousing chorus that speaks to the experiences of all those oppressed by the slave trade, lifting in the end to a soaring and rally conclusion. Radical and widely acclaimed when it was first staged, this groundbreaking play from one of our most beloved poets and writers, Jackie Kay, remains as urgent and daring to this day. ...Show more

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The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane

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Category: Poetry

Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but intriguingly new in form, pocket-sized gem The Lost Spells introduces another beautiful set of spell-poems and artwork by formidable creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Pl aces, The Old Ways, Landmarks and Underland. He is also co-creator of The Lost Words, with Jackie Morris, and Ness, with Stanley Donwood. His work has won multiple awards including most recently the Wainwright Book Prize 2019. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times. Jackie Morris has written and illustrated over forty children's books, including Song of the Golden Hare and Tell Me A Dragon, which have collectively sold more than a million copies worldwide. She is co-creator of The Lost Words, for which she won a Kate Greenaway Medal, and most recently introduced and illustrated a new edition of Barbara Newhall Follett's lost classic The House Without Windows. ...Show more

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SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This by Nikita Gill

$20.00 NZD

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Category: Poetry

It's time to reclaim poetry. Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene. Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known and emerging talent from all walks of life where every style of poetry has a home. With poets such as Raymond Antrobus and Dean Atta guest starring alongside up-and-coming poets in the SLAM scene, this is the perfect introduction to world of modern poetry. Each poet will introduce their poem, tell you a little bit about themselves and give you a tip for preparing brilliant poetry for SLAMs. ...Show more

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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde; Roxane Gay (Editor)

$42.00 NZD

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Category: Essays & Anthologies

Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and c ritical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems--selected and introduced by one of our most powerful contemporary voices on race and gender, Roxane Gay.Among the essays included here are:"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action""The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House""I Am Your Sister"Excerpts from the American Book Award-winning A Burst of LightThe poems are drawn from Lorde's nine volumes, including The Black Unicorn and National Book Award finalist From a Land Where Other People Live. Among them are:"Martha""A Litany for Survival""Sister Outsider""Making Love to Concrete" ...Show more

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Poems to Save the World With by RIDDELL CHRIS

$30.00 NZD

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Category: Poetry

A brilliant, thoughtful anthology of poems full of hope, selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.In Poems to Save the World With, Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems full of hope and wit to untangle the madness of life.In this gorgeous anthology, Chri s's follow-up to one of the Bookseller's best poetry books of the last twenty-five years, Poems to Live Your Life By, will ignite your inner activist. Covering a wealth of subjects such as the climate crisis and human rights issues, these insightful poems are brought to life with Chris's exquisite, intricate artwork.This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems by Wendell Berry, William Blake, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, John Dryden, John Dunne, Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Jane Kenyon, Rudyard Kipling, Emma Lazarus, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Rachel Rooney, William Shakespeare, Percy Shelley, Maggie Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Stewart, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, and many more. ...Show more

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Home Body by Rupi Kaur

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Category: Poetry

rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and inhome body , she walks readers through a reflective andintimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of ofis a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself -reminding readers to fill up on love , acceptance, community,family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark,rest here. i dive into the well of my bodyand end up in another worldeverything i needalready exists in methere’s no needto look anywhere else else -home ...Show more

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Lay Studies by Steven Toussaint

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In Lay Studies, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage. Beneath their formal dexterity and variety, these études sustain a continuous meditation on the concords and dissonances of worshipful life in an age d ominated by spectacle, violence, and environmental devastation. With great skill and compassion, he depicts scenes of domestic life in his adopted home of New Zealand, a transient year of religious and artistic soul-searching in the United Kingdom, and a growing sense of dislocation from his native United States in the Trump era. These are poems of profound contemplative inwardness, conjuring and conversing with a vast tradition of literature, scholarship, and art. Lay Studies is a powerful collection and a welcome music. Cover: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 'Bird', 1913–14 (circa). © Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge  ...Show more

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The Flame (PB) by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)

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Category: Poetry

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intim ate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, this collection is a valedictory work. ...Show more

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Pamper Me to Hell & Back: Laureate's Choice 2018 by Hera Lindsay Bird

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Category: Poetry

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