Poetry
Discover the beauty of language with our collection of classic and contemporary poetry books, featuring timeless works and modern masterpieces from renowned poets. Whether you're drawn to the lyrical elegance of classic poetry by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, or Robert Frost, or the innovative voices of today’s contemporary poets, our selection has something for every poetry lover. Explore themes of love, nature, identity, and social justice through powerful verse and vivid imagery. Perfect for both seasoned poetry enthusiasts and newcomers, experience the transformative power of words.
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Shakespeare: Sonnets - Kate Gath
A stunning foiled cover does justice to Shakespeare's elegant sonnets in this first book of a new series of inspirational writing. The sonnets here...
View full detailsShelter - Kirsten Le Harivel
Where she came from was a place of kippers and chip butties, castles and cagoules and bluebells. Where she came to was a place of plum-sized cherri...
View full detailsSinging with Both Throats - Maris O'Rourke
A colleaction of poetry by Maris O'Rourke.
Social Media - Mary Macpherson
Is our identity more of a composite than we realise? We often think of ourselves as formed from our core values or our DNA, but in Social Media, Ma...
View full detailsThe Death Of Music Journalism - Simon Sweetman
Simon Sweetman - blogger, reviewer, podcaster, and author of On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand's Pop Classics, releases his first poetry collecti...
View full detailsUppish Hen and other poems | Robin Hyde
In 1934, four-year-old Derek Challis found a homemade book in his Christmas stocking. On the typed pages bound with pink ribbon were poems written ...
View full detailsWe are tiny beneath the light - H North
'We are tiny beneath the light' charts the end of a marriage and the tumble of tiny moments that make up a life under stress, including the unexpec...
View full detailsWilliam Blake: Poetry - Emma Suret
Visionary poet, artist and engraver William Blake is now recognised among the greatest contributors to English literature and art. His writing, oft...
View full detailsWorking the tang - Easthope Nicola
From the Orkney Islands to Coastlands shopping mall, Working the tang is liberally seasoned with salt and spit, kelp and wrack, and the creatures w...
View full detailsWriting Haiku - Bruce Ross
A world of dew And within every dewdrop A world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its si...
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