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A Fugitive Presence by Peter Bland
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Peter Bland's poems have an ecstatic sensibility and a vividly personal voice, or voices. In this new collection Peter continues his search for 'a lost sense of the sacred' and explores his 'wanting to be a child again.' These are poems of recovery and intervention, full of the intoxicating feeling his ...Show more
Breath Dances by Peter Bland
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category
Following the publication of his critically acclaimed Collected Poems, Peter Bland's new work has a startling freshness and immediacy. These poems celebrate a growing spiritual awareness of everyday life and the gifts of the natural world. They are spoken in a wonderfully fluent and imaginative voice. ...Show more
Coming Ashore by Peter Bland
$19.99 NZD
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Award-winning poet and a distinguished actor Peter Bland (Came a Hot Friday) was born in Yorkshire and emigrated to NZ in 1954. In this new collection he continues 'to give the world back to itself'' with insight, energy and tact. Vivid - witty - original - accessible ...the perfect introduction to poet ...Show more
Expecting Miracles by Peter Bland
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: Near Fine
Poems of love, loss, comic insight and sensory delight. At 81, Peter Bland’s new work continues to dazzle and amuse. PN Review praises his ‘gentle but powerful assurance’ and Poetry London the ‘intoxicating feeling’ his poetry evokes.
Hunting Elephants by Peter Bland
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: Very Good
At 80, Peter Bland's new collection celebrates what he calls 'the extraordinary in the ordinary'. There's a remarkable imaginative zest in this new work that follows on from his highly popular Breath Dances.
Just Looking by Peter Bland
$27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that hes written over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child alongside art by Br ...Show more
Loss by Peter Bland
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category
A moving sequence of poems written in the year following the death of Peter Bland's wife, Beryl.
Mr Maui's Monologues by Peter Bland
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
DoP - April 2008 80pp Peter Bland's seventh collection of poems. In this new collection his use of the dramatic monologue and his mastery of everyday speech show him to be as moving, humorous and insightful as ever.
Nowhere is Too Far Off by Peter Bland
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A new collection of poetry from Peter Bland.
Peter Bland - Collected Poems 1956 - 2011 by Peter Bland
$44.99 NZD
Category: Penguin AU 2021 | Reading Level: Very Good
This volume makes possible a proper assessment of the scope and stature of Peter Bland's work. These poems - often witty and beautiful - are a lifetime's achievement, a testament to an ongoing power to engage us in his vision. Peter Bland arrived in New Zealand in 1954 and since the 1970's has divid ...Show more
The Happy Garden: New & Selected Poems for Children by Peter Bland
$24.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Peter Bland’s collected poems for children are a major addition to a poetic presence spanning over sixty years. He began writing these poems for his own children in the 1950s, and has continued ever since … “Beguiled,” he says, “by the physicality of the childhood imagination, a sense of performance, an ...Show more
When Gulls Fly High by Peter Bland
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
When Gulls Fly High is actor and poet Peter Bland's second collection of children's verse following the popular The Night Kite. Beautifully illustrated by Peter's daughter, Joanna Bland, this lively, humourous and often thought-provoking collection of poetry will appeal to readers of all ages.
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