Fabulous by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
From the author of the "sophisticated and erudite" Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe), comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times. It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable. Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their char ...Show more
Mercies - Selected Poems by Anne Sexton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos of subject ma ...Show more
Selected Poetry - Alexander Pushkin by Alexander Pushkin; Antony Wood (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Pushkin's Selected Poetry is the most famous poem in Russian literature after his Eugene Onegin, and notoriously difficult to translate. This new translation, described by Robert Chandler as 'truly wonderful', is accompanied here by Pushkin's greatest shorter verses. They range from lyric poetry to narr ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is trea ...Show more
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
T S Eliot - Selected Poems by T S Eliot
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Faber Poetry | Reading Level: very good
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. Other volumes in this series: Auden, Bet ...Show more
Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader by Charles Bukowski
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.
Cat Poems by Various
$19.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affec ...Show more
New Poems: Bk. 1 by Charles Bukowski
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poems were kept by him and his publisher for posthumous publication. This is the first collection of these unique poems.
Lake Like a Mirror by Sok Fong Ho
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Winner of a PEN Translates award By an author described by critics as "the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop," Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization, patria ...Show more
Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection by Alex Preston (ed.)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination, en ...Show more