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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
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and ...Show more
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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
Selected Poems: W. B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This selection of the works of W B Yeats, includes the final book from the unfairly neglected narrative poem "The Wanderings of Oisin" and a number of lyrics from Yeats' work as poetic dramatist. It breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many ot ...Show more
Typewriter Music by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
David Malouf's brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love - with 'grace unasked for, urgencies that boom under the pocket of a shirt' - and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar where there is no need for words. This volume is marked by an astonishing breadth of intelli ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2017 by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Best Australian Poemsreveal the impressive depth, diversity and boldness of this country's poetic talent. For the second year in a row, award-winning poet, critic and academic Sarah Holland-Batt selects Australia's finest poems, from both rising stars and well-known figures, presenting a dazzling ar ...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
Australian Poetry Since 1788 by Geoffrey Lehmann
$69.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
A good poem is one that the world can't forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia's foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Incl ...Show more
The Awesome Book of Rap, Rhyme and Putrid Poetry by Andy Jones
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The funniest collection of rap, rhyme, riddles and poems you've EVER read! An awesome new collection from the bestselling author of THE ENORMOUS BOOK OF HOT JOKES FOR KOOL KIDS and THE FARTIONARY. Ages 6+
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
Lullabies by Lang Leav
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Lang Leav
A sequel to the hugely popular, best-selling Love & Misadventure, Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss.Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece fr ...Show more