Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
In Flèche, Mary Jean Chan evokes the difficulties of reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Much like the fencer who must constantly read and respond to her opponent's tactics during a fencing bout, this debut collect ...Show more
Actual Air by David Berman
$60.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Released in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry (including names that still make waves today like The New Yorker and GQ), David Berman's first (and only) book of poetry was and is a journey though shared and unreliable memory. ...Show more
Lemons in the Chicken Wire by Alison Whittaker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
From a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling with stunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, Lemons in the Chicken Wire delivers a collage of work that reflects rural identity through a rich medley of techniques an ...Show more
Guwayu, for all times: A Collection of First Nations poems by Leane Jeanine (Ed)
$25.00 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
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Description: Here, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the 'American Lyric' form which makes her Forward Prize-winning collection Citizen so distinctive: an original combination of poetry, lyric essay, photography and visual art, virtuosically dep ...Show more
Tongues of Fire by Sean Hewitt
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A remarkable first collection by an important new poetIn this collection, Sean Hewitt gives us poems of a rare musicality and grace. By turns searing and meditative, these are lyrics concerned with the matter of the world, its physicality, but also attuned to the proximity of each moment, each thing, to ...Show more
No Art:Poems by Ben Lerner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public expression. No Art is an exhilarating argument both w ...Show more
Letterature - Verse Letters from Australian Women by Timoshenko Aslanides
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Apart from this present compilation, then, there appear to be no collections of verse - letters written by men in the personas of women since Ovid's Heroides. I found this quite surprising, because to my accomplished literary taste, such a verse - letter has a number of quite useful qualities, all of wh ...Show more
Pocket Book of Romantic Poetry: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Various Authors
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romanti ...Show more
How a Poem Moves A Field Guide for Readers Afraid of Poetry by Adam Sol
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of playfully elucidating essays, to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse. Developed from Adam Sol's popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays ...Show more
Nouns and Verbs - New and Selected Poems by Campbell McGrath
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets.Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of America's most highly lauded poets. Offering a hint of whe ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas, Anthony Thwaite and Geoffrey Bownas
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clich s of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic c ...Show more