Ian Wedde is the award-winning author of six novels, 15 collections of poetry, and two collections of essays, the most recent of which was the critically acclaimed Making Ends Meet. From 2011 to 2013, he was New Zealand”s poet laureate.
24 Ebooks by Ian Wedde
Ian Wedde: Good Business
From jaunty and self-deprecating to serious and nostalgic, the poems in this collection paint a vivid portrait of Wellington businesses and institutions. Quietly hilarious, the verse captures the ess …
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€24.46
Ian Wedde: Commonplace Odes
A strong new collection from an important poet, his first in seven years. It draws inspiration from the odes of Horace (and Keats), shows a new reflective and sober mood, but also evokes the rich wor …
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€24.61
Ian Wedde: Drummer
The Drummer is Ian Wedde’s eighth collection and it is plump with exquisite visual images, lost faith in language, revelations of intense beauty and literary allusions (from the Romantics to the New …
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€24.34
Ian Wedde: Lifeguard
Ian Wedde’s latest collection of poems are a complex mix of rhapsody, fear, and humor, and the prose explore the contradictions between life’s pool-side surfaces and frightening undertows. Opening wi …
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€24.39
Ian Wedde: Catastrophe
Christopher Hare has done well for himself: one of the world’s top food writers, he has travelled to the best restaurants in the most exotic locations, accompanied by the chic dining companion known …
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€12.85
Ian Wedde: Castaly
The poems that make up Castaly: Poems 1973–77 have been selected by the poet from work completed over the course of four years. Ian Wedde writes: The poems in this book represent my attempts to …
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€24.39
Ian Wedde: Good Business
From jaunty and self-deprecating to serious and nostalgic, the poems in this collection paint a vivid portrait of Wellington businesses and institutions. Quietly hilarious, the verse captures the ess …
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English
DRM
€20.40
Ian Wedde: Spells for Coming Out
A collection of poems by one of New Zealand’s major poets, Spells for Coming Out exhibits a unity derived from mood and circumstance. Memories of Europe, regrets at the absence of ‘friends, fugitives …
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€24.70
Ian Wedde: Tales of Gotham City
Tales of Gotham City consists of three groups of poems that were written over a period of seven years, from 1977–83. Ian Wedde says of this collection: When I went ‘greedily’ looking for meanin …
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€20.32
Ian Wedde: Tendering
Steeped in the brilliance of the banal and the daily splendours of language, Wedde presents a beautifully controlled and ordered sequence of verse in Tendering: New Poems. The book was written, he sa …
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€24.47
Ian Wedde: Commonplace Odes
A strong new collection from an important poet, his first in seven years. It draws inspiration from the odes of Horace (and Keats), shows a new reflective and sober mood, but also evokes the rich wor …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.53
Ian Wedde: Drummer
The Drummer is Ian Wedde’s eighth collection and it is plump with exquisite visual images, lost faith in language, revelations of intense beauty and literary allusions (from the Romantics to the New …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.38
Ian Wedde: Lifeguard
Ian Wedde’s latest collection of poems are a complex mix of rhapsody, fear, and humor, and the prose explore the contradictions between life’s pool-side surfaces and frightening undertows. Opening wi …
EPUB
English
DRM
€24.70
Ian Wedde: Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty
This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical ideas with zest, energy, wit, and humor. A uniqu …
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€20.38
Ian Wedde: Selected Poems
Ian Wedde has been a major presence in New Zealand poetry since his work began appearing in journals in the late 1960s. His first book of poetry appeared in 1971; his sixth book won the New Zealand B …
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€49.41
Ian Wedde: Reed Warbler
Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. She finds refuge with her sister’s Danish family in Sønderborg, then in H …
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€12.84
Ian Wedde: Castaly
The poems that make up Castaly: Poems 1973–77 have been selected by the poet from work completed over the course of four years. Ian Wedde writes: The poems in this book represent my attempts to …
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English
DRM
€20.66
Ian Wedde: Spells for Coming Out
A collection of poems by one of New Zealand’s major poets, Spells for Coming Out exhibits a unity derived from mood and circumstance. Memories of Europe, regrets at the absence of ‘friends, fugitives …
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English
DRM
€20.58
Ian Wedde: Tales of Gotham City
Tales of Gotham City consists of three groups of poems that were written over a period of seven years, from 1977–83. Ian Wedde says of this collection: When I went ‘greedily’ looking for meanin …
PDF
English
DRM
€20.58
Ian Wedde: Tendering
Steeped in the brilliance of the banal and the daily splendours of language, Wedde presents a beautifully controlled and ordered sequence of verse in Tendering: New Poems. The book was written, he sa …
PDF
English
DRM
€20.52
Ian Wedde: Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty
This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical ideas with zest, energy, wit, and humor. A uniqu …
PDF
English
DRM
€20.49
Ian Wedde: Selected Poems
Ian Wedde has been a major presence in New Zealand poetry since his work began appearing in journals in the late 1960s. His first book of poetry appeared in 1971; his sixth book won the New Zealand B …
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€40.99
Ian Wedde: Dick Seddon’s Great Dive and Other Stories
First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding’ s literary magazine Islands (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1976), Dick Seddon’ s Great Dive won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and was repub …
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€16.65
Ian Wedde: Social Space of the Essay 2003-2023
‘From the outset, the social space of the essay is involved with the text’ s readers to the degree that conversation is implied – more or less intimate, even argumentative. The essay will often …
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€12.85
