Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology by Tim Kendall
$17.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of wa ...Show more
Hand in Hand with Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry by Simon Avery (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A celebration of queer voices throughout the ages, Hand in Hand with Love features an electrifying range of poems from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen, and many more. From Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this lumin ...Show more
An Open Book by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 1 Poetry
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ...Show more
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and th ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
Almost Forever by Maria Testa
$12.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Rapt readers don't need to know anything about Vietnam to understand love, loss, fear, and waiting. A tour de force." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) When the six-year-old narrator of this lyric novel watches her father march off to serve a year in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, a year seems like a ve ...Show more
Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Jennifer Maidens poems are like verse essays, subjecting the political issues of our time, and the figures who dominate them, to a fierce scrutiny, while allowing the personal aspects of experience to be portrayed in the most delicate and imaginative ways. This is the quality of liquid nitrogen which gi ...Show more
Henry Lawson Treasury by Henry Lawson; Oslo Davis (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Henry Lawson is one of Australia's best-known writers and poets. His short stories such as 'The Drover's Wife' and 'The Loaded Dog' are colourful chronicles of the hardships, struggles and triumphs of Australian bush life at the turn of the nineteenth century. Known as 'The Poet of the People', Lawson c ...Show more
Australian Poems That Would Boggle a Bull by Philip Rush
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Collection of poems which capture the spirit and laconic humour of rural Australia.
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to 'The Electric, 1960', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled lik ...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
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: W. H. Auden: Critical Editions
For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian ...Show more