Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems that is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. It creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected.
The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Philip Larkin's second collection, "The Less Deceived" was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers. The eye can hardly pick them out. From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The ot ...Show more
The Land's Meaning: New Selected Poems by Randolph Stow
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In The Land's Meaning, John Kinsella brings together selected works of one of Australia's finest modernist poets. Including previously uncollected pieces, the volume's wide-ranging introduction provides a rich context for the work of this extraordinary and important poet in the most comprehensive collec ...Show more
Internal Monologues by Danijela Kambaskovic
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this book of poems, characters from old myths speak to the reader in modern voices and in internal monologue to themselves. Arranged in four cycles, the poems' speakers are archetypal lovers who speak of great love gone wrong: Minerva addresses Jupiter; Iseult speaks to Tristan; Cupid longs for Psych ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2013 by Lisa Gorton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'What characterises Australian poetry now is its variousness ... Here are collage poems with a confessional impulse, short short stories, late surrealist couplets, poems that weave satire and lyric together, fragmentary essays in epistles, metaphysical pastorals, epic narratives glimpsed through keyhole ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2014 by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'From London, some ten years ago, Clive James opined that we are living in "a golden age of Australian poetry." The quality of work between these covers suggests that Clive might still be right.' -Geoff Page In The Best Australian Poems 2014, award-winning poet Geoff Page compiles an anthology that ...Show more
Open Closed Open: Poems by Yehuda Amichai
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experi-ence upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and resurrection. Amichai's last volume is one of medi-tation an ...Show more
The Landing by Paul Croucher
$23.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
'This is a poetry of mindfulness, of balance, and of measure. A poetry that is at home in Nepal or at the football, in a Buddhist monastery or in Brunswick. A realism - that has its feet in the backyard and its head in the clouds.' - Pi O 'Reading these economical and elegant poems is like wandering in ...Show more
Poetry For Dummies by The Poetry Center, John Timpane
$30.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: For Dummies Ser.
Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as "the best words in the best order." St. Augustine called it "the Devil's wine." For Shelley, poetry was "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." But no mat ...Show more
Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems by Pablo Neruda
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014. Neruda is renowned for poetry that casts away despair and celebrates living, fired by his belief that there is no unsurmountable solitude. Then Come Back presents ...Show more
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (On the Pulse of Morning and His Day ...Show more