Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' -- Boston Globe In Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
$31.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Odyssey is a poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed Odysseus has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemac ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
.The Prophet, an international besteller and translated into over fifty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahil Gibran's many spiritual and religious writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet, arrayed as twentysix prose poetry essays, speaks of love an ...Show more
Vasko Popa - Complete Poems by Vasko Popa; Anne Pennington (Translator); Ted Hughes (Introduction by); Francis R. Jones (Revised by)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart ...Show more
Ghost Poetry by Robbie Coburn
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
I saved the pieces of you when you fell apart Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence". Largely set within stark farmland and surreal, nightmarish dreams, Coburn's new collection of poems, Ghos ...Show more
Television by Kate Middleton
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poetry collection which is part criticism, part autobiography, and always acute in its recollection of the emotions inspired by television dramaIn her new collection Television, award-winning poet Kate Middleton considers the emotional impact that television programs had on her formative years — from ...Show more
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem by Maya Angelou, Dr.
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward," she writes, "and speak the word aloud. Peace." Read ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told YouA book of bravado and introspection, of femi ...Show more
Circadia by Judith Bishop
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Perched on a tablecloth with glasses for a summer drink- life, on its haunches like a kitten, thoughtful. Extending a paw- What happens if? Circadia is a shattering testament to the fragility of life and the weight of the present. Exquisitely attuned to atmosphere and emotion, Judith Bishop's poems grie ...Show more