Dress Rehearsals by Madison Godfrey
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body. My femininity is not a survival instinct, it is a song. In their brilliant new poetry collection, Madison Godfrey documents a decade of performing womanhood, from teenage fangirl to tender femme. ...Show more
100 Queer Poems by Mary Jean Chan; Andrew McMillan
$37.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past.Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, 100 Queer Poems presen ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
Continuous Creation: Last Poems by by Les Murray
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureateIn a poetic gift from beyond the grave, Les Murray left a trove of last poems. These are poems he was working on up to his death, as well as work uncovered from his scrapbooks and files. Various, intriguing and moving, th ...Show more
At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new v ...Show more
Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry by Sarah Holland-Batt
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Sarah Holland-Batt's highly acclaimed and popular poetry columns from The Australian are collected together for the first time in Fishing for Lightning - suitable for the general reader as well as poetry aficionados. Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's c ...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
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