A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
$20.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--N ...Show more
A Pocketful of Poems by Bogdan Meunier (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poems on the go, a daily source of inspiration for everyone to discover.Crafted to provide the ideal travel reading experience, our pocket-sized collection includes the ultimate treasury for the everyday reader to explore the power of verse.Our selected poems provide the ideal space for reflection on th ...Show more
A Treatment by Ann Shenfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of new work by award-winning poet Ann Shenfield. Delving into family trauma in a post-Holocaust context and informed by psychoanalysis, these poems explore identity and the frailty of the human and physical world.A Treatment presents a poetic reflection of family trauma in a post-holocaust ...Show more
Aice Oswald - Dart by Alice Oswald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Using conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon as a poetic census, Alice Oswald creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are varied and idiomatic - poacher, ferryman, sewage worker, mill worker, forester and swimmers.
Alexa, what is there to know about love? by Brian Bilston
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Someone who knows their way round both a joke and a bittersweet narrative.' The Times 'Part John Cooper Clarke, part Frank Sidebottom . . . all brilliant.' Esquire 'Bilston is a magician with words' Guardian Alexa, what is there to know about love? is a wonderful collection of poems about l ...Show more
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: An outstanding collection of his best-loved poems by Alfred Tennyson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die' 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all' His genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language o ...Show more
And to Ecstasy by Marjon Mossammaparast
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matched with the belief we are also spirit beings. And to Ecstasy is a poetic journey through space and time, projecting a transcendental element of reality. In her exquisite poems, M ...Show more
Another Time by W.H. Auden
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times, and they show ...Show more
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry by Cassandra Atherton; Paul Hetherington
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years. The Anthology of ...Show more
Anxious in a Sweet Store by Anna Jacobson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Anna Jacobson mixes up the fiercely serious with the whimsical in her second book of poems, exploring a daily life of navigating small rituals and routines along with anxiety, a crippling companion.Anxious in a Sweet Store is Anna Jacobson's second illustrated poetry collection where the 'sweet', whimsi ...Show more
Australian Poetry Since 1788 by Lehmann, Geoffrey
$69.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A good poem is one that the world can't forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia's foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Incl ...Show more
BREAK BLOW BURN by CAMILLE PAGLIA
$45.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
America's most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis and appreciation to bear on the great poems of the Western tradition, and on some unexpected discoveries of her own. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia refreshes our understanding of p ...Show more