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Making Stories : How ten Australian novels were written order quantity
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NZ$ 29.95 each
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Author: Kate Grenville & Sue Woolfe
Good writers make writing look easy - but is it? Anyone learning to write should be encouraged by "Making Stories" - it shows that even great novelists come to their books by a long and uncertain process. The book shows ten acclaimed Australian authors at work, painstakingly constructing their books from rough notes, dimly-glimpsed ideas, and trial and error. By referring to extracts from drafts and published versions of their novels, each author candidly discusses how she or he works, taking the reader step by step through the creative process to share the invisible hours of toil that shape a work of fiction. All faced problems and doubts, and solved them in sometimes startling ways. The authors are both widely experienced as teachers of literature and creative writing. Sue Woolfe is the author of the acclaimed novel "Painted Woman" and of textbooks for English classes about literature and language. Kate Grenville is the author of ... more
 
One Hundred and One Classic Love Poems order quantity
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NZ$ 34.95 each
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Author: Sara Whittier
 
The Paper Road order quantity
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NZ$ 21.95 each
Author: Julie Leibrich
 
The Penguin Book of Historical Speeches order quantity
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NZ$ 29.95 each
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Author: Brian MacArthur
 
Shadow Friend order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Author: Julie Leibrich
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Just This order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Brian Turner
First published July 2009, Wellington
Softcover
Poetry

Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems.




Author Biography: Brian Turner is one of New Zealand's leading poets. His first collection, Ladders of Rain (1978) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and his sixth, Beyond (1992), the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. He was New Zealand Poet Laureate 2003-2005. His acclaimed work in other genres includes co-authorship of the autobiographies of All Black stars Josh Kronfeld and Anton Oliver, a biography of Colin Meads, significant contributions to Timeless Land and The Art of Grahame Sydney, and Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany.

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80 Great Poems order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: Geoff Page
A new and particularly Australian look at the canon of great poets in English going back as far as Chaucer. A collection of poets living and long dead whose poems are remembered, celebrated and studied, the book is an exciting companion to seven centuries of poetry in English. Each poet is represented by one key poem that appears alongside an informative essay written with the flair and insight of a poet.
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The Little Red Writing Book order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: Mark Tredinnick
"The Little Red Writing Book" is a book on technique, style, craft and manners for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design, structure and planning. Enriched by examples of fine prose from great writers including Tim Winton; flush with exercises informed by the author's expertise in both creative writing and functional prose; and written with flair, "The Little Red Writing Book" is a lively and readable guide to lively and readable writing.
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The Trouble with Poetry order quantity
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NZ$ 27.95 each
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Author: Billy Collins
The "Trouble with Poetry" is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is inimitable. Drawled and knowing, yet without a hint of world-weariness or cynicism, he fearlessly addresses the reader as friend and intimate - and comrade, inviting them to square up to the various collective crises of the bald ape in the 21st century. Collins remains the only poet who can write about the next-to-nothing of our lives, the little boredoms, habits and frustrations of our daily and domestic existence, revealing their true importance and meaning - and demonstrating that the same historical and cosmic forces bear upon them as upon the great events of the age. 'Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world.' - Carol Ann Duffy. 'I'd follow this man's mind anywhere.' ... more
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Bright Star : Complete poems & selected letters (Vintage Classics) order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: John Keats
This book includes an introduction by director Jane Campion. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.
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Ballistics : Poems order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Billy Collins
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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Sixteen Satires ~ order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Juvenal (Author) , Peter Green (Translated by) , Peter Green (Introduction by) , Peter Green (Notes by)
The complexity of the Roman scene is presented by the satirist Juvenal in these verses, which were written during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. Peter Green's introduction says of Juvenal's satires, "... he simply hangs a series of mortal portraits on the wall and forces us to look at them".
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Virgil - The Aeneid ~ order quantity
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author: Virgil - Translated by W. F. JacksonKnight.
Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the conquering Greeks. He undergoes many trials and adventures on a long sea journey, from a doomed love affair in Carthage with the tragic Queen Dido to a sojourn in the underworld. All the way, the hero is tormented by the meddling of the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods and a bitter enemy of Troy, but his mother and other gods protect Aeneas from despair and remind him of his ultimate destiny - to find the great city of Rome. Reflecting the Roman peoples' great interest in the myth' of their origins, Virgil (70-19 BC) made the story of Aeneas glow with a new light in his majestic epic.
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The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the poet within order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms. Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so. Brimful of enjoyable exercises, witty insights and simple step-by-step advice, "The Ode Less Travelled" guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts.

First published 2005.
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Doubtless : New and Selected Poems order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known poet. For almost 40 years he has been writing, reading and performing poetry, touring New Zealand constantly and reading his poems in pubs, theatres, schools and many other venues. No other poet in New Zealand has managed to make a living by performing their poems, and it says much about the affection with which Sam is regarded in New Zealand that he has continued to do this for so long. It is well over ten years since a new collection of Sam's poems has appeared and over 15 years since a volume of selected poems was published, so the publication of Doubtless is very timely. It includes new work as well a comprehensive selection of his best poems from the last 40 years, all of which are currently unavailable in print.

First published August 2008.
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For You: a libretto order quantity
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NZ$ 19.00 each
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Author: Ian McEwan
Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he is oblivious to the growing turmoil around him; his wife's poor health and dissatisfaction; the exhausted efforts of his secretary; and, the disquieting diligence of his housekeeper, Maria. As the first performance draws near, the maestro is suddenly awoken to the chaos, and as Charles struggles to regain control of his life, a terrible tragedy begins to unfold. "For You" is a beautifully wrought and compelling libretto - It is Ian McEwan at his very best.
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Swings and Roundabouts : Poems on Parenthood order quantity
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author: Emma Neale (ed) (photography Mark Smith)
Eighty of the finest poems on parenthood brought together in an endearing, intelligent and accessible anthology by editor Emma Neale. Attractively packaged to be of gift-book quality, this anthology is beautifully illustrated with outstanding photographs of babies and young children. Editor Emma Neale's approach is to bring together around 90 wonderful poems, both by New Zealand and international poets, which are accessible but also strong and important. Beautifully packaged, this volume features stunning photographs by well-known photographer Mark Smith.

First published May 2008.
 
Book of Mischief Makers order quantity
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NZ$ 22.00 each
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Author: Heather Jackson & Daniel Jankowiski (ill.)
This is the true book of mischief makers from around the world.
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Coastlines order quantity
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NZ$ 29.95 each
Author: Holloway, Judith
Short stories and poems relating to and extolling the south west coast of New Zealand's North Island
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Painted Poems : One artist - 20 Poems order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Eion Stevens
In Painted Poems painter Eion Stevens has responded to 20 New Zealand poems -- poems from poets as diverse as Jenny Bornholdt and Katherine Mansfield, James K Baxter and Cilla McQueen -- with an intelligent playfulness. Encountering the paintings alongside their companion poems is a thought-provoking and enriching experience. Steven's witty visual language, his ability to find meanings in simple forms, is startling. For some viewers, the poems will read like translations of the paintings, for others the paintings will act as alert readings of the poems. Here is an energetic and intellectual interchange between Stevens and the range of poets he responds to. Steven's open ended narrative devices mean that viewers will come back to his work again and again, reading their own worlds in the scenes. Each painting seems in essence to be an attempt to get a fix on a haunting, story-telling image. A lovely book to hold, to read, to ... more
 
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