Alcatraz by Cassandra Atherton (Editor); Paul Hetherington (Editor); Phil Day (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A truly unique book of illustrated creative prose Alcatraz is a one-of-a-kind illustrated anthology of short prose and prose poetry. It showcases works from many of the most exciting practitioners writing in English across the globe. This includes work by luminaries such as Will Alexander, Indran Amir ...Show more
Selected Poems – Lesbia Harford by Gerald Murnane, Lesbia Harford
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A collection of poems by the Australian poet Lesbia Harford, selected and introduced by Gerald Murnane.I love you moreThan God loves the world.Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poems-about social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and ...Show more
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
For A Book of Luminous Things Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz has selected 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages, poems memorable for how they render the realities of the world palpable and immediate. They are organized under eleven headings - including "Epiphany, " "Nature, " ...Show more
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as "Bloody Men," "Men and Their Boring Arguments," "Two Cures for Love," "Kindness to Animals" and ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intim ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
Googlecholia by Michael Farrell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Judith Wright Calanthe Award is Australia’s most prestigious poetry prize. Its award to Michael Farrell marks him out as one of our most important poets. There is no one like him for his souped-up surrealism, the range of his images, his wit and playfulness, his satirical takes on contemporary life. ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's ...Show more
Crossing the Water (PB) by Sylvia Plath
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal ...Show more
Aria by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Sarah Holland-Batt's Aria, winner of the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, is an impressive addition to this award-winning series. Like piano music heard through a high window, her language is haunting but entirely of this world. The poems are awake to the dark constellations of art and history, to wha ...Show more
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems by Megan Fox
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than 80 poems, Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. "These poems were written in a ...Show more
The Gift of Everything by Lang Leav
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
International best-selling author Lang Leav presents The Gift of Everything, a stunning hardcover gift book featuring her finest pieces to date, spanning across her world-renowned poetry and prose titles from Love & Misadventure to Love Looks Pretty on You. In addition, this beautifully conceived cl ...Show more