Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle by Krissy Kneen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Raised by her maternal grandmother, Australian novelist and bookseller Krissy Kneen was understandably bereft when she died. In the midst of writing a novel, she suddenly found herself paralyzed with grief and unable to write fiction. Instead, she became obsessed with writing poems about her grandmother ...Show more
Love and Misadventure by Lang Leav
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Lang Leav
Lang Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted fans from all over the world. Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Her work expresse ...Show more
Fire Songs by David Harsent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This book is the winner of the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry. "A writer we should treasure." (Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph). "With every book [Harsent's] stature as a truly significant writer becomes more undeniable." (Fiona Sampson, Independent). The poems in David Harsent's new collection, whet ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2015 by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
InThe Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who's who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality, Geoff Page's selection celebrates the vital, the vigorous and the graceful voices that populate our poetry ...Show more
Memories by Lang Leav
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Lang Leav Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For fans of Lang Leav, this beautiful gift book is a must-have! Beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this illustrated treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover. The author's ...Show more
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronological ...Show more
The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry by John; Ryan Kinsella
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry is a comprehensive survey of the state's poets from the 19th century to today. Featuring work from 134 poets, and including the work of many WA Indigenous poets, this watershed anthology brings together the poems that have contributed to and def ...Show more
On Love by Charles Bukowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more
Small Town Soundtrack by Brendan Ryan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Small Town Soundtrackcontinues Brendan Ryan's exploration of place and belonging that resonate in country towns.From the lives of farmers, abattoir workers, and dog walkers to the history of aboriginal dispossession; from a tour of the communities of the Mt Noorat Football League in Victoria's isolated ...Show more
Glasshouses by Stuart Barnes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"trumpeting through blood bone the glasshouse's yellow stars These poems orchestrate an eclectic and original music, curating their treasury of the new and reimagined. Exquisitely crafted, they balance attention and adventure, emerging from a croche of stars' to blast wild and high in gilded radiance. W ...Show more
The Guardians by Lucy Dougan
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Many poems in this collection explore the intrusions of 'the wild' into daily life, through memories, in illness, and in places that you've lost or left behind. Dougan is interested in the ways in which the past re-enters the present, particularly through the secrets of family life, in all kinds of atav ...Show more