Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through this structure, Tempest holds up a mirror to contempora ...Show more
Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Costa Poetry Award - Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize"These lyrics...illustrate poetry's unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world." --Washington Post Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, "give s] us the sensation of l ...Show more
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Mouthmark
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in ...Show more
Banjo Paterson's Poems of the Bush by Paterson Banjo
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poetry selected for this collection reveals Paterson's love and appreciation for the Australian bush and its people. It contains not only widely published and quoted poems such as 'On Kiley's Run' and 'Clancy of The Overflow', but also lesser known poems such as 'The Uplift' and 'The Wind's Message' ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
The Tin Wash Dish by Les Murray
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: International Poets in Hong Kong
This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is "Poetry and Conflict." 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Ni ...Show more
John Clare (Faber Nature Poets) by John Clare
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing by Paul Muldoon
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. One Thousand Things Worth Kno ...Show more
Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
Thomas Hardy - Faber Nature Poets by Thomas Hardy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus ...Show more