Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across ...Show more
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Taller When Proneis Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The BiplaneHouses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape ...Show more
Vanishing Point by Felicity Plunkett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Vanishing Point opens with a surreal vision of creativity and mourning and returns to the flakes of desire, memory and dreams. By turns witty, vulnerable and passionate, Vanishing Point traces the currents of the imagination and the erotic ...Show more
Song for a Wren: Country Poems and Images by John Peel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Some of David Campbell's most admired country poems complemented by John Peel's sensitive and poignant photographs. A remarkable tribute to one of Australia's greatest lyric poets.
The Striped World by Emma Jones
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings: of s ...Show more
Traditional Australian Verse: The Essential Collection by Richard Walsh
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, CJ Dennis and Adam Lindsay Gordon. Once upon a time these were household names and Australians could recite their most famous verse. Here for the first time in one volume are all the great bush ballads, memorable songs and other poetry from the glory days of our bush tradi ...Show more
W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats; Seamus Heaney (selection by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. ...Show more
Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his introduction. By the time he published his final collection, "Birthday Letters" in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape. Other volumes in this se ...Show more
John Betjeman: Poems Selected by Hugo Williams by Hugo Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment as Poet Laureate in 1972 were universally welcomed. Other volumes in this series, include: "Auden", "Eli ...Show more
The Bee Hut: Poems 2001-2008 by Dorothy Porter; Andrea Goldsmith (Foreword by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Bee Hutbrings together the poems Doroty Porter wrote in the last fi ve years of her life. By turns expansive and intimate, effusive and contemplative, these poems roam widely - into history and to sacred places both mythic and personal. Porter's writing glows and shimmers with passionate curiosity a ...Show more
Penguin's Poems by Heart by Laura Barber
$16.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favor as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favorites, and thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (editor ...Show more
The Great Modern Poets: The Best Poetry of Our Times by Michael Schmidt
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"The Great Modern Poets" is the perfect introduction to the twentieth and twenty-first century poets and their best poetry. Over 100 complete and unabridged poems are accompanied by a concise text that provides insight, observations, and a historical context for each poet and t ...Show more