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Elizabeth Smither - The Year of Adverbs by Elizabeth Smither
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Eight years after her last, prize-winning, collection, The Lark Quartet, this is a new book of poems from a major poet. The Year of Adverbs is full of the stuff of daily life, fizzing with personalities, alive with incidents and travelling from New Plymouth to Paris and back again. There is a wedding, a ...Show more
Listening to the Everly Brothers and other stories by Elizabeth Smither
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
These stories are so good that they make you want to re-read them immediately because you just know there?s lots more that you?ve missed. The subjects are mainly about love, romance and relationships, with an array of fascinating characters. Smither?s talent for providing fascinating glimpses into the l ...Show more
Loving Sylvie by Elizabeth Smither
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A sensual, witty novel that weaves together the stories of three women, beautifully written by one of our most clever wordsmiths. Sylvie rows across a lake to her wedding. Madeleine flees to Paris and works in Le Livre Bleu bookshop. Isobel is summoned to her doctor's surgery late one afternoon. Elizabe ...Show more
My American Chair by Elizabeth Smither
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
White lies, hip replacements and ballet with a sawhorse. Parisian drycleaners and the brush of the grass in Central Park. In My American Chair, Elizabeth Smither leads us through serendipitous encounters, the uncanny in the ordinary, the intricacies of friendship and ruminations on mortality. Assured, i ...Show more
Red Shoes by Elizabeth Smither
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
Elizabeth Smither was appoionted New Zealand's third Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate in 2000. This new book is the collection that resulted from her term as Poet Laureate.
The Blue Coat by Elizabeth Smither
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Whimsical and tender, this poetry collection examines the commonplace and the quirky for resonance, contemplation, and verve. From an out-of-season daffodil and a chipped Limoges plate to a lipstick stain on a poem and a bee being released, it illuminates the poetry in the everyday by focusing on a sing ...Show more
The Girl Who Proposed: New short stories by Elizabeth Smither
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Have times changed?
The Journal Box by Elizabeth Smither
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This work comprises four journals kept at different times since 1975 by the poet Elizabeth Smither. It records a rich life of the mind and of feelings, discussing friends, events, literary and religious ideas, gardens, clothes and more.
The Legend of Marcello Mastroianni's Wife by Elizabeth Smither
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry
The Mathematics of Jane Austen and Other Stories by Elizabeth Smither
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a collection of short stories which portray a selection of women who will not be defined by the music they listen to, the men they love (and leave), or the money they have (or don't have). Elizabeth Smither is the author of a volume of journals called "The Journal Box".
The Seventies Connection by David Hill; Elizabeth Smither
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good
The Tudor Style - Poems New and Selected by Elizabeth Smither
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth Smither is recognized as one of New Zealand's leading poets. This is a generous selection from eight of Elizabeth Smither's earlier collections, along with 33 new poems. The poems appear mostly in chronological order but some of the new poems occur early in the book; and one or two older ones ...Show more
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