Fredy Neptune by Les A. Murray
$32.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize. I never learned the old top ropes, I was always in steam. Less capstan, less climbing, more re-stowing cargo. Which could be hard and slowas farming- but to say Why this is Valparaiso ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray by Les Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From his life's work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this collection is guaranteed to delight Murray fans a ...Show more
Summer Requiem by Vikram Seth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mind That I am forever waking in a lost country...' SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both 'gifts and harms'. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems trace the dying days of summer, ...Show more
The Pleasures of the Damned - Poems 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Celebrating the full range of Bukowski's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before collected poems penned during the final days before his death. Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's lon ...Show more
Fire Songs by David Harsent
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in David Harsent's new collection, whether single poems, dramatic sequences, or poems that 'belong to one another', share a dark territory and a sometimes haunting, sometimes steely, lyrical tone. Throughout the book - in the stark biography of 'Songs from the Same Earth', the troubling fractu ...Show more
Hold Your Own Poems by Kate Tempest
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
My heart throws its head against my ribs, / it's denting every bone it's venting something it has known since I arrived and felt it beat.Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Award for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's leading spoken word poet, has produced a new poem-sequence of elect ...Show more
Brush by Joanne Burns
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
The title of Joanne Burns' new collection brush highlights the reader's first experience of a poem, its initial electricity; and the way the poem offers a surface of words that proceeds to reveal their possibilities or intentions. The central sequence 'road' is an animated display of the fashions of bei ...Show more
Personal Weather by Peter Bakowski
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Personal Weather reveals, through image and narrative, the intimate worlds of diverse real and fictitious characters. Peter Bakowski condenses biography, the history of art and literature, crime fiction, and traveller's tales into a unique vision, glimpsed at the junction of personal and public life. ...Show more
A Human Pattern, Selected Poems by Judith Wright
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants. As John Kinsella writes in his introduction, 'she looked inwards into Australia, and in doing so made the local...universa ...Show more
Poetry by Heart: Poems for Learning and Reciting by Andrew Motion
$43.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart. "The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking". (Simon Armitage). Two years ...Show more
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poets like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets, accompanied by his own enlivening commentary. In this personal anthology ...Show more