Letters on Cezanne by Rainer Rilke
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art "For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes." Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful let ...Show more
Jam Sticky Vision by Luke Beesley
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"He seems to start writing a poem and then becomes shocked, stunned, by a word he's just put down, unable to go past it, as if discovering the letters for the first time, as if the poem has somehow written him." Kirsten Krauth, The Australian Jam Sticky Vision is the successor to Luke Beesley's highly-r ...Show more
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is graduall ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A unique collection of poetry so powerful that 100 grown men--bestselling authors, poets laureate, and other eminent figures from the arts, sciences, and politics--have been moved to tears. Here they deliver touching and insightful personal introductions to a range of beloved poems. Grown men don't ...Show more
Cigarette Poems by Dean Thomas
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Cigarette Poems can be described as a politically incorrect treatise on love, cigarettes, poetry and self-preservation. It is also a series of free form poems written around a relationship, creating an abstract narrative as the writer explores how he works, what inspires him, when he writes and what he ...Show more
Beautiful Waste by David Mccomb
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
McComb was lead singer of the Triffids, and a brilliant songwriter. Always more than a pop musician, he was a perceptive poet who explored and confronted addiction, pop culture, the colloquial and the metaphysical. Now collected and published for the first time, this is the poetry he wrote in his 20s &a ...Show more
Net Needle by Robert Adamson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. In The Times Literary Supplement, David Wheatley calls Robert Adamson "one of the finest Australian poets at work today." NET NEEDLE brings together the presiding influences of his life, early and late. He casts an affectionate eye on the Hawkesbury fishermen who "stitched their lives into my da ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Jeanette Winterson This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man ...Show more
Crow's Breath by John Kinsella
$25.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and Christopher Brennan Award (for lifetime achievement in poetry) and shortlisted in the Steele Rudd Prize for a collection of short fiction, John Kinsella returns with a not-to-be-missed addition to the canon of one of Australia's most original ...Show more
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discove ...Show more
Lays of Ancient Rome: A Collection of Narrative Poems by Thomas Babbington Macaulay
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Lays of Ancient RomeByThomas Babbington MacaulayLays of Ancient Rome is a collection of narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these recount heroic episodes from early Roman history with strong dramatic and tragic themes, giving the collection its name. Macaulay also included tw ...Show more