Category: NZ Poetry
Tātai Whetū: Seven Māori Women Poets in Translation is a ground-breaking bilingual poetry collection, which features a poem each by seven Māori women writers, originally written in English, and a translation in Māori. The two version of the poems are presented on facing pages. The fourth book in the Ser ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Category: Poetry
Explosive political satire and acerbic wit leap from stage to page in Mondeo Man - the hotly anticipated debut collection from Luke Wright. Yummy mummies and debauched Tory grandees mingle with drunk Essex commuters and leering tabloid paps; a small town chip-shop becomes the site of a heart-wrenching s ...Show more
Category: Poetry
You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Category: Poetry
A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. ...Show more
Category: Poetry
An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner holds a tower block f te; and the silent majority takes to the streets. Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -- 'where industry meets marsh' -- with poet Luke Wright. Discover a country riven by inequality and corr ...Show more
Category: Poetry
'Fatimah Asghar writes my heart' Riz Ahmed 'Fatimah Asghar's debut collection brought me to tears many times over. It is urgent, compelling and filled with fragments of history that have changed the face of the world. Its exploration of queerness, grief, Muslim identity, partition and being a woman of ...Show more
Category: Poetry
Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eig ...Show more
Category: Poetry
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 ...Show more
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants | Series: Inspirational Poetry Book 1 Ser.
Celebration Of Life contains 137 poems including Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Dickinson, Browning, Rossetti, Brooke as well as Michael Ashby's own more modern, global poems. Michael Ashby's work includes: "I AM NOT GONE," "MY MUM," "GRANDPA'S LOST HIS GR," "BING ...Show more
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
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