Product Description: This definitive edition of the poetic works of Lauris Edmond draws on her earlier selections and includes work from the last published volumes. Having published her book at the age of 50, she devoted the remaining 19 years of her life to producing poetry that was celebratory, sociable, and yet solitary...read more

Product Description: This remarkable autobiography of poet Lauris Edmond tells of her "two lives." It recalls a Hawkes Bay childhood in an unconventional home, wartime life as a student in Wellington, and years spent as a mother and country schoolteacher...read more

Offers an historical survey of New Zealand's heritage of amorous poetry. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Lauris Edmond is one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets. Her career has been extraordinarily compressed. Born in 1924, she did not publish her first book until 1975. Since the eleven major collections have appeared, plus An Autobiography in three volumes...read more

Product Description: This work presents a collection of poems by Lauris Edmond. The poems deal with daily experience and personal relationships and on the ways in which individual lives are shaped by family connections and by large natural and social forces...read more

A collection of poems dealing with such topics as middle age, the loss of a friend, and life

Product Description: One of New Zealand's most distinguished poets casts an eye on the fragility of relationships and the impermanence of human existence in this collection of his work.