Learning to Pray - A Book of Longing by Yahia Lababidi
$51.50 AUD
Category: Poetry
Lababidi's new volume brings a dynamic flow to his subject that is both timeless and very contemporary; his insights summon us to a spiritual but entirely undogmatic journey. -Abdal Hakim Murad, author of Travelling Home and Dean of Cambridge Muslim College*Learning to Pray is a masterpiece. Yahia Laba ...Show more
Case Notes by David Stavanger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The highly anticipated follow up to the award-winning collection The Special, this electric new body of work by poet David Stavanger is a mix tape of free verse, lyric poetry, found text and flash fiction documenting lived mental health experience. Utilising his renowned observational humour and playing ...Show more
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to delive ...Show more
Blue Wren by Bron Bateman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A powerful collection of poetry filled with love, tenderness and anger, queer passion and fulfilment, and maternal gratitude.Blue Wren is a beautiful and moving body of work from poet Bron Bateman. Using Frida Kahlo as her inspiration, she has crafted a collection of poems that builds on the themes from ...Show more
And Yet: Poems by Kate Baer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A follow-up to her number one New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, And Yet takes the themes of modern womanhood in all its beauty and overwhelm to the next level. In an increasingly isolating and divisive world, Kate calls us back together, cha ...Show more
Contemporary Australian Poetry by Martin Langford (Editor); Judith Beveridge (Editor); Judy Johnson (Editor); David Musgrave (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The quality of Australian poetry has never been higher, nor the number of distinctive voices greater. A landmark publication, this collection presents the astonishing achievements of Australian poetry during the last quarter of a century. Over ten years in preparation, gathering over 200 poets and 500 ...Show more
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Guwayu, for all times: A Collection of First Nations poems by Leane Jeanine (Ed)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Guwayu, for all times is the highly anticipated and electric collection of First Nations poetry commissioned by Red Room Poetry. This collection extends the ancient and continuing cultural practice of weaving to words. In Guwayu, for all times, the page becomes the vessel — the crafted object that carri ...Show more
New and Selected Poems Volume One by Mary Oliver
$36.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eig ...Show more
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's own relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry by Anthony Holden; Ben Holden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to toda ...Show more
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace; ladybookmad
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now--indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take control of their own stories. Enemies try to judge, oppress, and marginalize her, but the witch doesn't burn in this one.