Mirabilia by Lisa Gorton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Mirabilia test the relationship between art and politics. They are ekphrastic poems complicated by historical narrative; or, they are political poems, inspired by artworks. The title poem is a tribute to the pangolin, the world’s most-trafficked mammal – implicated, some say, in the evoluti ...Show more
Dante : The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Renowned critic and poet Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's new translation ? his life's work and decades in the making ? presents Dante's entire ep ...Show more
Looking for Clancy (HB) by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson and Robert Ingpen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In 1889 the revered Australian folk poet, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, first published his ballad, Clancy of the Overflow. The verse achieved immediate popularity and, with the creation of his legendary character, Clancy — a free-spirited stockman — Paterson had summed up the essence of the Australian outback ...Show more
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this remarkable debut poetry collection, National Book Award finalist and Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers creates a startling, affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. LETTER COMPOSED DURING A LULL IN THE FIGHTING captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life: driving down the Texas highw ...Show more
Open Door by John Kinsella
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
The final book in the Jam Tree Gully trilogy, Open Door continues Kinsella's investigation into environmental responsibility and the complexity of our connection to the land of rural Australia.
Bloom by Beau Taplin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is your renewal. This is your regrowth ... You may come into this softly or bristling with thorns, beneath the light of the sun or the moon and the stars, so long as you always remember it is never too late to return to the root of your heart and begin again.Broken hearts, false starts, new beginni ...Show more
The Ascension of Sheep: Collected Poems Volume One (1980-2005) by John Kinsella
$55.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is the first volume of a three-volume Collected Poems by John Kinsella that dates back to when he was seventeen, and moves on through forty-one-plus years of writing and memorising poetry. Collected in one place for the first time are poems that have appeared in chapbooks or other publications outs ...Show more
Falling Toward the Moon by R. H. Sin; Robert M. Drake
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose. The heart will ache, the soul will feel weary, and the mind will be weighed down by the things you wish to forget. There will be nights when all you have is yo ...Show more
Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses was the first major English version and brought Ovid to ...Show more
Fish Song by Caitlin Maling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Maling's new work is rich and diverse, exploring physical landscapes as well as historical and socio-cultural aspects of place. In her latest, deeply personal, collection Maling travels the coast of Western Australia writing about what the ocean provides--fish, livelihoods, sand and the ever-present sea ...Show more
Continuous Creation: Last Poems by by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureateIn a poetic gift from beyond the grave, Les Murray left a trove of last poems. These are poems he was working on up to his death, as well as work uncovered from his scrapbooks and files. Various, intriguing and moving, th ...Show more