Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection by Bernard O'Donoghue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emis ...Show more
The Temple by George Herbert
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Pocket Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
Poems on Nature (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beaut ...Show more
The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become ...Show more
Worlds of You by Beau Taplin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Another gorgeous collection of poetry and prose from Australian poet and social media sensation Beau Taplin. Beautiful, inspiring, and empowering, Worlds of You sweeps readers away on a journey of emotion. Filled with lyric wisdom, Taplin's second book expands on the themes introduced in Bloom, offe ...Show more
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Charles Bukowski
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems ...Show more
Star Struck by David McCooey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'In the beautifully calibrated "cardiac ward poetics" of Star Struck, David McCooey re-energises the old binaries of life and death, public and private, culture and nature. Irony's the pacemaker here, driving these superbly restrained poems home, though never at the expense of feeling and tenderness. Mc ...Show more
The Essential Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOYCE CAROL OATESBetween them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche....Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human sufferin ...Show more
Of Love and Desire by Louis de Bernières; Donald Sammut (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Berni res, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms - from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Berni res? first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality ...Show more
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is trea ...Show more
Killernova (PB) by Omar Musa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poetry and wood carvings that burns blindingly bright.The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world, and its people have always carved wood beautifully. In KILLERNOVA, grappling with his heritage, Omar Musa remixes this ancient art form with fiery poetry forged in th ...Show more
A Treatment by Ann Shenfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of new work by award-winning poet Ann Shenfield. Delving into family trauma in a post-Holocaust context and informed by psychoanalysis, these poems explore identity and the frailty of the human and physical world.A Treatment presents a poetic reflection of family trauma in a post-holocaust ...Show more