Self-Love for Small-Town Girls by Lang Leav
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Self-Love for Small Town Girls is an exciting offering from beloved bestselling author Lang Leav. A collection of stunning poetry and prose that seeks to define the loaded question of what it means to be a woman in the modern world. As women, we create lives with our bodies but often do not have aut ...Show more
Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe: 25 Essential Poems
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Age range 7 to 10In this gorgeously illustrated collection of poems, readers are introduced to twenty-five of Poe's most beloved works, each illustrated with stunning, full-colour collage artwork. Brief commentary and helpful definitions accompany each poem, making The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe among ...Show more
A Nature Poem for Every Winter Evening by Jane McMorland Hunter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A wonderful bedside companion on a winter's evening to enjoy our place in nature, even on a cold wintery night, in a collection of poems taken from the Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year anthology. From Shakespeare to Keats to Ted Hughes, this is the perfect book to immerse yourself in the seaso ...Show more
This Afterlife - Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator. This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier po ...Show more
Human Looking by Andy Jackson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to ‘correct’. They range widely, finding figures to identif ...Show more
Gilgamesh - A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by Sophus Helle
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace "Sophus Helle's new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read."--Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe "Looks to be the last word on this ...Show more
Selected Poems 1968-2014 by PAUL. MULDOON
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals', Muldoon seems determined to escape definition yet thi ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A scintillating account of the making of The Waste Land on its centenary-and a remarkable feat of biography and storytelling. Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It ...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
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In my selection, which is roughly chronological ...Show more
Eggs for Keeps by Barry Hill
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Eggs For Keeps picks up where the selected essays left off . It features short reviews, of poetry mainly, collected over thirty years, including the decade Hill was Poetry Editor for the Australian - responses to books by Paul Kane, Ian Wedde, Les Murray, Judith Beveridge, Robert Adamson, Seamus Heaney, ...Show more