Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
The Hurting Kind: The new collection from the US Poet Laureate by Ada Limon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,' writes Limón. 'I am the hur ...Show more
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
$32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, Amanda Gorman's remarkable new collection reveals an energizing ...Show more
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embody ...Show more
Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son. In this follow-up, he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent, father, Though these poems threaten to break under the weight of their emotions, the ...Show more
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Lucy Scholes
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedom ...Show more
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore th ...Show more
Dinner with Groucho by Frank McGuinness
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
I am honoured to meet you.You are, as they say, a man after my own heart.And you have lifted mine.My heart, that is.Two men, together, on the edge of heaven. In a strange restaurant, two American giants who revere each other, Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot, meet for dinner. Both in their own ways great de ...Show more
Night Train to the Stars: Beloved, Enigmatic Japanese Folk Tales by Kenji Miyazawa
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Dark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writersJapanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: The\Penguin English Library
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more
A Literary Christmas - An Anthology by British Library
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the ba ...Show more