A Fiercer Light - A New Understanding of the Work of Judith Wright by Peter Skrzynecki (Editor, Contribution by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Fa ...Show more
Around the Boree Log (and) The Parish of St Mels by John O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the centre of their lives.
Australian Poetry Since 1788 by Lehmann, Geoffrey
$69.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
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
Blessed City - Letters of Glen Harwood by Gien Harwood
$16.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Imprint lives
Bookworms, Dog-Ears and Squashy Big Armchairs: A Book Lover's Alphabet by Heather Reyes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Are you a xenophile? Which book dedications make us cry? What were the author events of Ancient Rome like? Why did the U.S. post ban Chaucer? Why do we like reading books in the loo? Are your books 'slightly foxed'? 'Bookworms, Dog-Ears and Squashy Big Armchairs: A Book Lover's Alphabet' is a hugely ent ...Show more
Coast Road: Selected Poems by Robert Gray
$22.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Coast Road: Selected Poems is the definitive Robert Gray collection.Robert Gray is one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. Among his many prizes are the Patrick White Award, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal, and the Australia Council's Writer's Emeritus Award for lifetime achievement. His Selected P ...Show more
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest order. Th ...Show more
Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness by George Saunders
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness' Three months after George Saunders gave a convocation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the websi ...Show more
Contemporary Asian Australian Poets by Adam Aitken; Kim Cheng Boey (Editor); Michelle Cahill (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
..it is clear from the quality of the works collected that the project... is a thoughtful, sensitively realised one that seeks to go beyond mere representation to explore a beautifully ambiguous, ambivalent and therefore more exciting set of linguistic, historical and cultural possibilities.Congratulati ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more
Earth Hour by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon, David Malouf’s first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers. Earth Hour comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of “silence, following talk” ...Show more