Rest in the Mourning by R. H. Sin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and emotion. Documenting unhealthy relationships and why the heart ends up in the hands of those deemed unworthy. It speaks to the heart's ability to hold on to relationships that no longer de ...Show more
Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. - Gerald Murnane, 'The Darkling Thrush' Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth yea ...Show more
Bone by Daley-Ward, Yrsa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
You will come away bruised. You will come away bruised but this will give you poetry.'Global star Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection bone is something unique and beautiful. Visceral, revealing, and unrelenting, Yrsa's poetry ranges from brief glimpses of stark emotional reality that have won her tens of thous ...Show more
The Flowers of Evil (Alma Classics) by Charles Baudelaire; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff -- but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake. When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decr ...Show more
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
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Category: Poetry
Writers 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. In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse ...Show more
Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Cook
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Category: Poetry
A poet, journalist, and activist, Alicia Cook offers a soundtrack of survival. Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook's lyric message to anyone who has dealt with addiction. "Side A" touches on all aspects of the human condition: life, death, love, trau ...Show more
Resilience: A Celebration of Poetry, Fiction and Essays From Mascara Literary Review by Michelle Cahill, Monique Nair, Anthea Yang
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Resilience looks upwards to the ever-changing, ever-present skies, where fingers and fist touch the horizon. Resilience is often deeply imagined and hard won. Resilience, by turn, is fervent, supple, rhizomatic, generative. Like the beguiling evenness of an orchid, resilience is enduring and delicate. T ...Show more
The Wing Reader : An Illustrated Poem by Brooke Smith; Brian Rea (Photographer)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this enchanting book, Brian Rea (the beloved artist of the New York Times column "Modern Love") illustrates Brooke Smith's poignant poem about the healing power of creativity. A woman in the midst of grief discovers a wonderful secret: she can see words on the wings of butterflies. And these words in ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe; David Galloway (Editor, Foreword by); Tatiana Rapatzikou (Contribution by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. "The Fall of the House of Usher" describes the final hours of a family tormented ...Show more
Leaves of Grass (Illustrated Ed) by Walt Whitman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
First published by Walt Whitman, in 1855, Leaves of Grass is the landmark poetry collection that introduced the world to a new and uniquely American form. Alive with the mythical strength and vitality that epitomized the American experience in the nineteenth century, and published here with rarely colle ...Show more
The Cat in the Treble Clef by Louis de Bernières
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the very start of his writing career Louis de Bernières has loved poetry. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns to this first love with his third collection. Writing on a variety of subjects, including the dream that inspired the title poem, de Bernières shares his pa ...Show more
An Open Book by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ...Show more