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How You Doing?: A Selection of New Zealand Comic and Satiric Verse by Harry Ricketts (ed.); Hugh Roberts (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand comic verse is celebrated in this anthology, which contains an exciting mix of the well known and the unexpected - tramping and pop songs, kiwiana, bush ballads, satire, parody, light and nonsense verse. Some is previously unpublished.
Spirit in a Strange Land - A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse by Edited by Michael Grimshaw, Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Reference & Anthology Section) SPIRIT IN A STRANGE LAND is the first-ever collection of poetry that focuses on a rich vein in New Zealand writing: our spiritual experience. Religious poetry has always been evident in anthologies, but by exp ...Show more
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War by Harry Ricketts
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
"Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914 -1919, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous mo ...Show more
Winter Eyes by Harry Ricketts
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Poetry as comfort, poetry as confrontation. In Winter Eyes Harry Ricketts reaches into past and future, with other writers and artists - from Kipling to Dylan, Austen to Frame - in the crosscurrents. These are poems of friendship, of love's stranglehold, of the streets and buildings where history played ...Show more
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