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By: Cliff Fell
ISBN: 9780864735836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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From the marginal clays and farms of the poet's hometown to the mountains and deserts of the American southwest, this wistful and wise collection offers poems that are fiercely honest and contain a wide variety of images, from science to religion to American life since 9/11.
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By: Sugar Magnolia Wilson
ISBN: 9781869408909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Auckland University Press
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A first collection from a significant new voice in New Zealand poetry.
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By: Vincent O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780864739315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Surveys the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature's finest poets.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Seamus Heaney
ISBN: 9780571203765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 8th April 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The oldest epic tale in the English language composed between the 7th and 10th century.
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By: Michael Alexander
ISBN: 9780140449310
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland.
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By: Kate Lilley
ISBN: 9780992318956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Australian Poetry
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By: Tusiata Avia
ISBN: 9781776921294
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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(Paperback)
By: E Taylor
ISBN: 9781576879917
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Adamson
ISBN: 9780645536904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Upswell Publishing
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By: Andrew Johnston
ISBN: 9780864733863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Ted Hughes
ISBN: 9780571194735
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-seven years and are largely concerned with the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death.
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By: Claudia Jardine
ISBN: 9781776711017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Auckland University Press
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Ancient Greek epigrams drive a bitingly contemporary first poetry collection.
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By: Michael Faudet
ISBN: 9781449481018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2016
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Bitter Sweet Love is the much-anticipated second collection of internationally best-selling poet Michael Faudet, author of Dirty Pretty Things, a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards.
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By: Nafanua Purcell Kersel
ISBN: 9781776922222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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By: Janaka Malwatta
ISBN: 9780702265723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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By: Vincent O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780864735515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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These brief, often biographical verses from one of New Zealand's foremost poets are peppered with playful surprises, worldly observations, and literary allusions while reflecting a painterly eye for vivid scenic detail.
(Hardback)
By: Warsan Shire
ISBN: 9781784743703
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 10th March 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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First published in the US by Random House in 2022.
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By: Greg Hewett
ISBN: 9781566894487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Coffee House Press
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Witty, touching, introspectiveBlindsight finds Hewett becoming a parent and easing toward middle age with a sense of calm and inevitability.
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By: Cameron Lowe
ISBN: 9781923099548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
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BliNk renews Cameron Lowe's exploratory mapping of local space, evident in his previous collections. Immersed in the particulars of everyday life, these poems are alert to the provisional contours of contemporary experience. BliNk is by turns playful, meditative, ironic and, perhaps unavoidably, elegiac.
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By: Hannah Lavery
ISBN: 9781846976070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Blood Salt Springis a meditation on where we are exploring ideas of nation, race and belonging. Much of the collection tackles the isolation and traumas of 2020, but it also looks to find some meaning and makes an attempt to heal the pain and vulnerabilities that were picked and cut open again in the recent cultural shifts and political wars.
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By: dg nanouk okpik
ISBN: 9781950268641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Wave Books
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"American Book Award-winning poet dg okpik's second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a multitude of encroaching methane, ice floe, and rising temperatures."--Publisher's description.
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By: Mary Oliver
ISBN: 9781472153746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates the beauty of nature, in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected backlist.
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By: Danez Smith
ISBN: 9781408773253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith
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By: Danez Smith
ISBN: 9781784745738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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