Looking Out from the Bashan: the Republic of Og by Mark Reid
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Og is the last survivor of the giant races of the Old Testament, doomed to conquest by God's chosen people on their way to the Promised Land. Og is not only the king but, as a giant amongst ordinary sized humans, he also represents the monster within. An exciting new collection of poems linked by a stro ...Show more
To My Country by Ben Lawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry, helpless and broken-hearted as he watched the ...Show more
The Love Poems of Rumi by Rumi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Love Poems of Rumi is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumis poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for inspirational themes and messages about love.
An Open Book by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 1 Poetry
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ...Show more
Love Poems by Dante Alighieri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Dante is known to most readers outside Italy for his gritty descriptions of the Inferno, but there is another, gentler side to his poetry, which found expression throughout his career in verses that made him, together with his friend Guido Cavalcanti, the leading love poet of his generation. From the ba ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do. He was the creator of one of the most distinctive and exciting of literary styles - sensuous, playful, rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical, and full of memorable lines. 'Do not go gentle ...Show more
Poetry by Heart: Poems for Learning and Reciting by Andrew Motion
$42.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart. "The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking". (Simon Armitage). Two years ...Show more
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to 'The Electric, 1960', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled lik ...Show more
Favourite Love Poems by Dannie Abse (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Love and poetry just naturally go together--and this collection celebrates romance in its many facets, from first blush to the comedy of lust to profound loss. It includes ancient favorites like the Song of Solomon; recent masterpieces by the Irish Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and the British Poet L ...Show more
Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
A selection of some of the classic poems considered a major achievement in twentieth century modernist poetry. Includes the masterpieces "The Wasteland," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Portrait of a Lady." By Thomas Stearns Eliot - a poet, dramatist and literary critic who received the Nobel ...Show more
T. S. Eliot the Poems: Volume 1 by T. S. Eliot
$89.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in ...Show more