Landfall 238 by Emma Neale
Category: Poetry | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest books ...Show more
Denis Glover: Selected Poems by Denis Glover
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classic Ser.
Denis Glover wrote New Zealands most famous poem, yet his work has fallen in and out of print over the years. First published in 1995, Bill Manhires selection is based on Glovers own 1981 Selected Poems, and includes The Magpies along with a wide variety of other poems, lyrical and satirical. It reveals ...Show more
Eileen Duggan: Selected Poems by Peter Whiteford
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classic Ser.
Eileen Duggan (1894-1972) was New Zealand's best known poet while she was writing and publishing - for many years her reputation outside New Zealand exceeded that of any other New Zealand poet - but today her work is largely out of print. Duggan's poetry showed an undeniable lyric gift and genuine skill ...Show more
How to Live by Rickerby Helen
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tel ...Show more
The Pocket Sappho by Sappho (Translated by Willis Barnstone)
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator. Sappho's thrilling lyric verses have been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years--certainly a record for poetry of any kind--and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though h ...Show more
The Essential Rumi Revised by Coleman Barks
Category: Poetry
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making th ...Show more
Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean by Wilson Sugar Magnolia
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson's riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with extravagant and surprising imagery, only to reveal th ...Show more
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart
Category: Poetry
As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensaryWhen we're grieving, when we're broken-hearted, and when we find ourselves struggling to understand the things we're feeling, we long for the connection poetry can provide. To find the right poem at that crucia ...Show more
Seamus Heaney: New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...Show more
Palgrave's Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave
Category: Poetry
Originally published in 1861, Palgrave's Golden Treasury quickly established itself as the most popular selection of English poems. Today it stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native poetic writing from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth, to Tennyson, Yeats, Eliot, and Betjeman. This ...Show more
Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins by John Keats
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that sets his name among the greatest in English poetry, and the most admired by other poets. This pocket-sized selection for general readers ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more