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    Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats - Ursula K. Le Guin
    THE PURR-FECT GIFT FOR CAT LOVERS: Discover the literary legend's quirky and winsome cat poems, meditations, and drawingsIncludes the hard-to-find The Art of Bunditsu, plus 30 other delights from a lifetime of reflection on the mystery and magic of catsTHE PURR-FECT GIFT FOR CAT LOVERS: Discover the...
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    Words Can Fly - Donna Ashworth
    Uplifting poetry for children from the UK's no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild Hope.This enchanting poetry collection serves as a compassionate guide through the journey of childhood, crafted with wisdom and warmth by No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Ashworth.The perfect gift f...
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    The Dog is Full of Love - Lou Peacock
    A brilliantly illustrated collection of over 30 poems about how we love dogs and they love us - the perfect gift for dog loversLoyal, cheerful, kind and very silly, dogs steal all the space in the bed, and they steal our hearts too. With poems from a wide range of voices, this warm and witty collect...
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    Poems & Prayers - Matthew McConaughey
    From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.My prayers are my poems are my p...
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    This Moment, Every Moment - Ruth Dallas Collected Poems
    I am fastened to the earth.Travelling.Where?– Ruth Dallas, from ‘Night’This Moment, Every Moment is a new and updated edition of the collected poems of internationally renowned Aotearoa New Zealand poet Ruth Dallas. Edited and introduced by Nicola Cummins, and with cover art by Kushana Bush, t...
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    Ten Poems about Weather (instead of a card)
    The weather is always a good topic of conversation, especially if we don’t know the other person very well. Wherever we are on the planet we can’t help noticing when it’s too hot or too cold or something in between.In these ten poems we encounter everything from drought to a hurricane, taking...
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    Touch Screen - Philip Armstrong
    The word ‘touchscreen’ entered the English language in the early 1970s to describe a computer display screen that also functions as an input device operated by touching its surface. In this absorbing collection, Touch Screen, poet Philip Armstrong dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us...
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    To the Women: The New Collection of Wise Words Every Woman Needs - Donna Ashworth
    THE COMPLETELY UPDATED COLLECTION WITH OVER 70 BRAND NEW POEMS, FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE AND WORDS TO LIVE BY'Amazing. Donna's words speak to my heart' Davina McCallTo the Women is a celebration of the beauty, strength and joy of being a woman. A love letter to our...
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    Pakiaka - Gabrielle Huria
    Pakiaka, the lean, essential debut volume by Gabrielle Huria, is a timely reminder of how good poetry can be at storytelling. The stories Huria tells are local and cosmic, firmly rooted in Ngāi Tahu whakapapa and Te Waipounamu history but always attuned to the wide, interconnected world.These are a...
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    The Companion to Volcanology - Brent Kininmont
    The Companion to Volcanology is not a field guide to volcanoes. But tectonic shifts are present in Brent Kininmont’s second book of poetry, and so are companions. The child, for instance, carried up a mountain in the titular opening poem, and companions alive to the brevity of their time together...
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    The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poems - Fiona Kidman
    In The Midnight Plane, Dame Fiona Kidman, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished writers, to her first and deepest literary love, poetry. This beautifully curated volume opens with selected work from Kidman’s six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the prese...
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    Words to Live By: A Daily Journal - Donna Ashworth
    Write Your Way to Clarity and CalmA beautiful daily journal of inspiration, comfort and encouragement, from the UK's No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild Hope.'I love her poetry, I love her ethos. I think she's amazing' - DAVINA MCCALLA daily journal of inspiration, comfort and encouragemen...
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    Doggedly Onward A Life in Poems - Pam Ayres
    The ultimate Pam Ayres collection showcasing Britain's favourite poet's lifetime of work, stretching back over more than 50 years'Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life.' The Sunday TimesPam Ayres has spent a lifetime bring...
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    Nice & Naughty Nursery Rhymes : For Grown-Ups & Precocious Kids - Garrick Tremain
    The Cockerel:A noisy little cockerelWould sing at break of day:Dogs would bark, kids would cryFrom bloody miles away.Folk signed a petitionTo say it wasn’t proper;The cockerel said “Hey get a life!I’m Bantam of the Opera". A collection of “Nice and Naughty" rhymes each illustrated with Garri...
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    A Poem for Every Summer Day - Allie Esiri
    Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous collection, A Poem for Every Summer Day, you will find verse that will transport you to striking summer scenes and inspire adventure. The poems are selected from Allie Esiri’s bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for...
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    Skinny Dip - edited by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi
    A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranhas in the gym, that someone’s painted everything blu...
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    You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves - edit…
    Poems to Turn to Again and Again – from Amanda Gorman, Sharon Olds, Kate Baer, and More Created and compiled just for young women, You Don’t Have to Be Everything is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest, unafraid, and skilled at addressing the complex feelings of coming-of-a...
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    Letter to 'Oumuamua - James Norcliffe
    James Norcliffe’s eleventh poetry collection, Letter to ‘Oumuamua, follows his recent receipt of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry. In this wry and witty collection – addressed to the first interstellar object ever to be detected in our solar system ...
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    Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019–2022 Poetry - David Eggleton
    Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton’s tenure as the nation’s poet-at-large during his time as Aotearoa Poet Laureate (2019–22).In this collection of probing, kaleidoscopic and richly sensuous poems, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four ext...
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    Say I Do This: Poems 2018-2022 - C. K. Stead
    A beautiful new collection from this country’s leading poet.‘It’s hard to renounce life once one is fond of it.’ — Ludwig WittgensteinIn this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country’s most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. ‘I lead...
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    James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems - edited by John Weir
    James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his variou...
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    Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand - Edited b…
    From the South Auckland Poets Collective to regional writers festivals, at poetry slams and open mic nights, in theatre works like Show Ponies and Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, performance poetry has taken off in Aotearoa.In this anthology, ninety performance poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, slam po...
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    Liberty Faber Poetry Journal - Various Poets
    A handsome A5 hardback journal wrapped in Liberty fabric containing 12 poems and over a hundred lined pages with a ribbon bookmark and an elastic closure. This Liberty Faber Poetry Journal contains a selection of new and classic poems and over a hundred lined pages for the reader to fill as they wis...
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    The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud - Clive James
    Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebra...
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