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Author: Simon Reeve
Published by: Sugar loaf press
DoP December 2008, Wellington

Simon Reeve was the winner of the Novice Writer's division of the 1991 Katherine Mansfield Awards, and has published short stories in Landfall, Listener and NZ Short Short Stories 4. First Anniversary marks a return to poetry after an 18 year gap.

Simon Reeve is married with two children and works as a patent examiner. He lives in Wellington.
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Author: Maya Angelou
Published by: Virago Press Ltd
Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou's poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Celebrations is a collection of timely and timeless poems: the inspiring 'On the Pulse of Morning', read at President William Jefferson Clinton's 1993 inauguration; the heartening 'Amazing Peace'; 'A Brave and Startling Truth', which marked the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations; and 'Mother', which beautifully honours the first woman in our lives. Angelou writes of celebrations public and private. Angelou is a chronicler of history, an advocate for peace, and a champion for the planet, as well as a patriot, a mentor, and a friend. To be shared and cherished, the wisdom and poetry of Maya Angelou proves there is always cause for celebration.
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Author: Hinemoana Baker
Published by: Victoria University Press
In this compelling second collection from one of New Zealand's most exciting rising poets, Hinemoana Baker amplifies what's usually whispered, magnifies the microscopic and x-rays the mundane.

First published August 2010.
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The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls order quantity
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Author: Kate Camp
Published by: Victoria University Press
The first Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls caused its author to be burnt at the stake for heresy in 1310.
Kate Camp's fourth collection of poems demonstrates a darker turn in the work of this popular poet.
Shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, it establishes her in the front rank of New Zealand poets.

First published March 2010
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Further Convictions Pending : Poems 1998-2008 order quantity
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Author: Vincent O'Sullivan
Published by: Victoria University Press
Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-two new poems, displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is renowned.

DoP May 2009, Wellington
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9780864736185
Since June order quantity
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Author: Louise Wallace
Published by: Victoria University Press
Since June is a poised and confident first book of poems. These deceptively simple, conversational poems tell stories and capture details of daily existence, but then take odd and surprising turns. Language slips and miscommunications lead to suddenly unnerving perceptions, and leave the reader both moved and a little unbalanced.

First published 2009.
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The Adventures of Vela order quantity
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Author: Albert Wendt
Published by: Huia Publishers
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagatanei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, as he recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearsome warrior queen, before whose powers Palagi priests and travelling chroniclers still bow down today.
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Author: Bill Manhire
Published by: Victoria University Press
Bill Manhire's first new book since Lifted shows him building on the themes and expanding the techniques of that prize-winning collection. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, and even a bracket of songs. The Victims of Lightning is Bill Manhire at the height of his powers.

First published March 2010.
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Author: Robert Sullivan
Published by: Huia Publishers
This collection of poetry follows the author's thoughts as he travels to the Italian cities his grandfather fought in during the Second World War. It also muses on questions of life and death, cosmology and the status of Maori in New Zealand and contains literary references to poets, writers, artists and philosophers and their works.
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Author: Ian Wedde
Published by: Auckland University Press
Ian Wedde's new poetry collection, his fourteenth, finds him still in business. At the heart of the book is the stunning 'Good Business' sequence, at once an ode to walking the side-streets of central Wellington and an elegy for the poet's father. Quietly hilarious, the poems are titled after Wellington businesses and institutions - Tony's Tyre Service, Metalworx Engineering, Wellington Scrap Metal, the KFC on the corner of Pirie Street and C O Products Ltd. Gradually, though, Wedde's jaunty and self-deprecating tone becomes more serious and elegiac. Other sequences include "Seven Dreams" and the lyrical but mordant "Arriving Blind", in which Wedde travels from Bangladesh to the south of France, playing with the contrasts of light and dark, dawn and dusk, arriving and departing, sight and blindness. In Good Business Wedde 'continues that vivid exchange he has long worked at between the disconnected particulars of experience and ... more
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9781869403928
Incognito - NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry 2008 order quantity
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Author: Jessica Le Bas
Published by: Auckland University Press
Incognito is a first, rather engaging, collection by a Nelson poet whose work has already appeared in many literary journals and general magazines such as North & South and the Listener. It is well organized into six sections. The book's dedication reads 'for my father', and a lot of the poems are about family members, friends and domestic situations. Many have rural or seashore settings and many see life from the perspective of a child. Le Bas writes in a relaxed way with an intimate and affectionate tone.

First published May 2007.

“it’s hard to imagine there will be a better first book”. Cliff Fell
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Author: Douglas Wright
Published by: steele roberts
Following much-acclaimed memoirs Ghost Dance (winner Montana best first non-fiction work) and Terra Incognito, is Douglas Wright's first book of poetry, laughing mirror. Richly illustrated with his own drawings, Douglas's poems contain a raw truthfulness that will be a revelation for those unfamiliar with his earlier works and a must for those rediscovering his wide-ranging talent.


First published August 2007.
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9781877338854
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Author: Helen Jacobs
Published by: Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
"Black sand, grey sea, sombre orange
coloured onto the pot
its clay shape receiving a past
not known to the potter,
my coast, long deserted and with me

where the words began."

Helen Jacobs 5th collection of poems.

First published September 2006.
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9781869404406
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Author: Michele Leggott
Published by: Auckland University Press
Twelve months of a laureate: in 2008 Michele Leggott wrote a poem a week to record her term as the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. In her new collection of poems Mirabile Dictu ('mi.rah.buh.lay dik.tu' - Wonderful to relate; amazing to say), she relates the wonders of those 12 months, which took her to Matahiwi Marae in Hawke's Bay to receive her brilliant sky-blue, specially carved tokotoko, Te Kikorangi; through a time of mourning for and celebration of former poet laureate Hone Tuwhare; to Florence, across a 'poetic bridge'; and to Wellington 'hand to hand' with four other laureates. With her is Te Kikorangi as guide and companion - 'almost as good as the blue from Kapiti/ we eat when the good times roll'. Leggott also delves back into the past, layering poems of today with poems of then - and finds, among others, Isabella - growing up in a colonial town, 'named for a grandmother over the sea'. The poems in Mirabile Dictu are ... more
 
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9780719567445
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Author: ed: Roger Hudson
Published by: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd
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Author: Desiree Gezentsvey
Published by: Steele Roberts & Associates
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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each order quantity
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Author: Peter McMillan
Published by: Princeton University Press
Compiled in the thirteenth century, the "Ogura Hyakunin Isshu" is one of Japan's most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as "The Tale of Genji" and "The Tales of Ise". The text is an anthology of one hundred waka poems, each written by a different poet from the seventh century to the middle of the thirteenth, which is when Fujiwara no Teika, a renowned poet and scholar, assembled and edited the collection. The book features poems by high-ranking court officials and members of the imperial family, and each is composed in the waka form of five lines with five syllables in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the second, fourth, and fifth ( waka is a precursor of haiku). Despite their similarity in composition, these poems evoke a wide range of emotions and imagery, and touch on themes as varied as frost settling on a bridge of magpie wings to the continuity of the ... more
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Poems and Readings for Christenings and Naming Ceremonies order quantity
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Author: Susannah Steel
Published by: New Holland Publishers Ltd
Throughout history we have sought to welcome our children into the world. Whether you choose a religious service, a naming ceremony or simply a gathering of friends or relatives, choosing a reading can be difficult. "Poems and Readings For Christenings and Naming Ceremonies" is a lovely collection of readings on birth, new life and the joys of children and parenthood. It gathers together around 150 poems, readings and quotations from various and diverse sources including Biblical and spiritual texts, extracts from classic and modern literature, song lyrics and well-known and less familiar poems. Writers include William Wordsworth, C. Day Lewis, Shakespeare, Bob Dylan and Kahlil Gibran. The collection presents a wealth of literature that will inspire anyone who is either reading at or arranging a christening or a naming ceremony.
 
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Poems and Readings for Funerals and Memorials order quantity
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Author: Luisa Moncada
Published by: New Holland Publishers Ltd
The death of a loved one is one of the hardest things that most people have to deal with. Selecting a reading that commemorates or reminds you of that special person can be very difficult and finding it easily can be even harder. "Poems and Readings for Funerals and Memorials" gathers together many of the most treasured and poignant poems, readings, quotations and religious extracts that both celebrate life and express grief and sorrow about death. The readings have been chosen from a wide range of sources and include both well-known and less familiar poems, extracts from the New and Old Testaments, song lyrics, quotations from plays and extracts from books. Authors are diverse including Nick Cave, W. H. Auden, Simon Armitage, A. A. Milne, Raymond Carver and Alice Walker. This collection hopes to inspire and provide much-needed help for anyone dealing with the death of a loved one and is indispensable at this difficult time.
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The Blind Singer order quantity
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Author: Chris Price
Published by: Auckland University Press
Drawing on a wide range of material, this compendium of poetry integrates science, legend, history, biography, and film into a fiery collection of verse. From melody and empiricism to skepticism and superstition, the work's dialogue between poetry and science is by turns observant, charming, and dramatic. Bursting with musical elements from bells, nursery rhymes, and traditional ballads to Chaplin and Einstein playing string quartets, this poetry collection is a luminous performance that reverberates long after the reading is finished.

First published May 2009.
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9780864736208
The Worm in the Tequila order quantity
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Author: Geoff Cochrane
Published by: Victoria University Press
Geoff Cochrane's new book is a bracing and invigorating distillation of his distinctive talent.

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9780908877331
100 New Zealand PoemsOP REplaced by 120 nZ Poems order quantity
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Author: Manhire, Bill
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
100 New Zealand Poems is a journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of New Zealand - from the country's earliest poems to work by new poets of the 1990s. 100 New Zealand Poems is an ideal source book for students of New Zealand literature of all ages but will also be a delightful read for anyone with more than a passing interest in poetry. The poems have been chosen by Bill Manhire, who also contributes an introduction and notes on each of the 100 selections.
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9780340839805
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
Published by: Hodder & Stoughton Publishers
When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence of nature, but between the pages of a book. In his fascinating new book accompanying the TV series, Melvyn Bragg presents a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political and personal revolution. Twelve Books that Changed the World presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton and Shakespeare – but we also discover the stories behind some less well-known works, such as Marie Stopes’ Married Love, the original radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – and even the rules to an obscure ball game that became the most ... more
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
Published by: Hodder & Stoughton Publishers
In this digitised age of shared information it is easy to take for granted the power of the printed word. Here, Melvyn Bragg presents a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political and personal revolution. In the fascinating book accompanying the "ITV" series, Melvyn Bragg takes a look at the most important British books in history, and their long-lasting effects which can still be felt throughout the world today. Far from being a study of dry texts, "Twelve British Books that Changed the World" presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. From scientific breakthroughs to seminal human rights treatises; from dramatic works of staggering emotional depth to what were at the time seemingly innocuous documents - all these works have shaped the history of Britain and beyond. Definitive, always illuminating and sometimes controversial, the hidden story of these twelve books is a journey through ... more
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Author: David Beach
Published by: Victoria University Press
    A poem is an opening line plus work. My
    forte is the opening line but I toil
    too. I bang my brain upon the page, read
    through as far as I have got again and
    again . .     (‘Self-portrait 4’)


Abandoned Novel received much praise from the critics on publication and it is a witty, wry collection full of hard-edged exuberance.

David Beach was presented with a $65,000 cheque in Wellington on Saturday 15 March 2008, as winner of the biennial Prize in Modern Letters.

"That a book of poems can win a $65,000 prize makes me feel as if I've stumbled into a parallel universe where poetry is considered important." - David Beach

Collectively, the poems in this volume stake out new territory in contemporary New Zealand poetry and make a powerful case for further exploration.
Hugh Roberts THE LISTENER

...this is a rewarding first book.
Hamesh Wyatt OTAGO DAILY TIMES

By the end of the collection and yes ... more
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9781877257797
A Canoe In Mid-Stream : Poems New and Old order quantity
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Author: Apirana Taylor
Published by: Canterbury University Press
Poems new & old
Apirana Taylor is a popular and acclaimed poet, short-story writer, novlist, playwright, actor, musician and painter. This, his fifth volume of poetry, includes much new work, together with many old favourites (the ones most requested at readings).

First published May 2009, Christchurch
Softcover

172pages
 
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9780689823824
A Child's Garden of Verses order quantity
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Published by: Prentice Hall & IBD
 
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9780806966120
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Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Published by: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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9781877257339
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Author: James Norcliffe
Published by: Canterbury University Press
A collection of poems by James Norcliffe.

Along Blueskin Road is a rich and diverse collection of poems from one of New Zealand’s leading poets. Whether tender, lyrical, quirky or comic, the poems are invariably richly imaginative and beautifully crafted.
Many of the poems were written in Dunedin during James Norcliffe’s tenure as Burns Fellow and are imbued with a sense of this most poetic and individual of New Zealand cities; other poems derive from places as diverse as Borneo and the antebellum American South.
 
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9780679734628
American Night, The order quantity
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Author: Morrison Jim
Published by: Random House Books for Young Readers
 
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9781402705175
American Poetry order quantity
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Author: Edited by John Hollander
Published by: South Pacific Books
Like America itself, this selection of 26 poems and evocative accompanying illustrations celebrates freedom, cultural diversity, art and imagination This introductory collection of his most accessible and mesmerizing American poems of the last 200 years, includes work by: - Walt Whitman - Ralph Waldo Emerson - e.e.cummins - Maya Angelou - - Robert Frost - T.S.Eliot - Emily Dickinson - William Carlos Williams - * A perfect introduction to the power and beauty of American poetry by both famous and lesser-known writers. * A unique perspective by American poets on the land that they love. * These examples of American literature's finest poems will entice children over and over again - and, as always, this acclaimed series features fascinating biographical information, introductions to each verse, and full annotations that define difficult vocabulary. * In full colour: 30 specially commissioned full-page and double-page paintings by Sally ... more
 
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Published by: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Author: Jon Stallworthy
Published by: CONROB
Twelve soldier poets of the First World War

Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades and poets inspired by abstract ideals, in part this reflected the national mood, but it revealed an almost universal failure to understand what modern mass warfare would really mean. The story of the 'war poets' is also the story of an awakening to the full horror of what the twentieth century came to know as 'The Great War'. Wilfred Owen said, 'My subject is War - and the pity of War'. He also said 'true Poets must be truthful'. The best war poetry was the work of writers who were also serving soldiers and was born out of their desire to tell the truth about what it was to be a soldier in the trenches - what it felt like, what it did ... more
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Author: David Crystal
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers
Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather, proverbial wisdom is a key factor in understanding different peoples and cultures. Here David Crystal, the world's leading commentator on language, takes us on a global tour of the world's proverbs. Whether you are in Andorra, China or Tierra del Fuego, there is a nugget of local wisdom to inform and entertain.

Some proverbs to entertain:

• When two elephants struggle, it is the grass which suffers. (Zanzibar)
• One must chew according to one's teeth (Norway)
• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance (Spain)
• A blind man needs no looking glass (Scotland)
• Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot (Ireland)
• Don't call the alligator a big-mouth till you have crossed the river (Belize)
• An untouched drum does not speak. (Liberia)
• Do ... more
 
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Author: Dave Sharp
Published by: Zenith Publishing
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Author: Billy Collins
Published by: Picador
It is no understatement to say that Billy Collins has found poetry a whole new audience across the English-speaking world. No poet writing today insists on such open, direct and courteous engagement with the reader, and no poet has shown the common experience to be such an astonishing and singular one. Collins' gift is to make the reader believe that everything is unfolding in real time and in living speech; his poetry always has the sheen and vibrancy of the present moment.

While Ballistics addresses the most grave and serious of subjects - death and love, solitude and aging - Collins' light touch and lighter spirit never desert him. Even in his darkest verses, Collins never fails to remind us of the sheer miracle, comedy and strangeness of our simply being here.

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Author: Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson (ed Clement Semmler)
Published by: Penguin Books (AU) Ltd.
The poet A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics The Man from Snowy River and Waltzing Matilda, is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Australia. In this collection, leading Paterson scholar Clement Semmler presents more than 100 of Paterson's poems that reflect the remarkable richness and range of his writings. Generously illustrated with period drawings, this first Penguin edition of Paterson's verse pays tribute to one of Australia's favourite sons - 'the Banjo of the Bush.'

First published as The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson 1992.
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Author: Penguin Classics
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
When an evil monster terrorizes the land, only one man can stop him . . .

A new horror stalks the ancient kingdom of the Danes. Grendel, a hideous beast, has crawled from hell to lay waste to the country and devour its people. His reign of slaughter seems unstoppable.
The mighty warrior Beowulf comes forward to fight this demonic enemy. But Grendel has a powerful and deadly ally. Can Beowulf survive the rage of a fiendish mother who will destroy anyone who harms her child?
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Author: Philip Neil
Published by: Little, Brown & Company (UK)
This collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense, and are presented in nine sections, including Poems to Read Aloud and Poems of Life.
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Author: Gregory O'Brien & Louise St John (eds)
Published by: Mallinson Rendel Publishers Ltd
This lively collection of poems outlines Wellington's geography of city and sea, suburbs, hills and bush, and its history from colonial outpost to bustling cosmopolitan centre. A new section has been added to the book: 'red Wellington boots' featuring poems from some of the city's leading contemporary writers.

First published 2000 ; This enlarged hardback edition July 2009.
176pp
 
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