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The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebration ...Show more
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
$30.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered an ...Show more
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and inhome body , she walks readers through a reflective andintimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of ofis a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself -reminding readers to fill up on love ...Show more
Beowulf - A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t ...Show more
Rainforest by Eileen Chong
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mind of poetry, breath of calligraphy, sweep of painting.
Apparently by Joanne Burns
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems collected in apparently appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real. Where does a poem come from? Over four sections this question is considered. The first section gathers poems spring-boarding from the clues and solutions to crossword puzzles; the second recounts unsettling dre ...Show more
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (HB) by William Shakespeare; Paul Edmondson (Editor); Stanley Wells (Editor)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epi ...Show more
An Open Book by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: 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
Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. - Gerald Murnane, 'The Darkling Thrush' Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth yea ...Show more
Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
At the time of his death in 1962 E.E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentie ...Show more
The Flame (PB) by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intim ...Show more