The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Visceral and energetic, Omar Sakr’s poetry confronts notions of identity and belonging head-on. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a seething, urgent collection from a distinctive new voice. ‘The tyranny that we can inflict on each other, the harms of fa ...Show more
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...Show more
These Wild Houses by Omar Sakr
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
I won’t keep you long. First, I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, on whose land the majority of this collection was written. Now you are about to read the poetry of an Arab Australian, which is a rare thing when it shouldn’t be. Now you are about to read the work of a queer Arab Austra ...Show more
Through Old Eyes: Poems by Uncle Wes Marne by Wes Marne
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Through Old Eyes is a collection of poems by respected Bigambul Elder, Uncle Wes Marne. The book commemorates his 100th birthday on 25 April 2022. The poems in this collection explore the author's aboriginality, his country, culture, family, life and the affects of colonialism.
Under Milk Wood by DYLAN THOMAS
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Under Milk Woodis Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dogis his first collection solely of short stories, published in 1940. These two works show us his remarkable creative brilliance at the start ...Show more
the body country by Susie Anderson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'I keep looking at the stars to see the universe, but the joke is I am the universe.' the body country is an evocative exploration of a world that too often marginalises and the power of a land that can offer connection. A meditation of wandering and wondering on Country, inviting the reader to understa ...Show more
100 Poems by Umberto Saba
$37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The most extensive selection to be published in the UK of the poetry of one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th Century. Umberto Saba (1883-1957) is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century, as closely associated with his native city Trieste as Joyce is with Dublin. He received a ...Show more
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devasta ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri
$46.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri.This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language. Whether you're searching for wisdom or looking t ...Show more