Lines for Birds by Barry Hill
$59.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
They follow flight paths and habitats of birds, from the Victorian Mallee to the forests of South East Asia, to Japan and the South of France. Sometimes, as the painter says, its almost as if I am looking at the earth with a birds eye view the birds suggest new ways of telling stories about the earth. T ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2012 by John Tranter (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'I was struck ... by just how many poems depended on the ancient devices of the storyteller ... Many have a lyrical or meditative feel, but most have a story to tell, captured in a brief glimpse of the meaning of life, or a dramatic climax.' -John Tranter In this impressive anthology John Tranter weave ...Show more
Novelties by Fiona Hile
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In her first full-length collection, prize-winning poet Fiona Hile applies the ambitions and strategies of fiction to produce genuinely novel poems that signal 'a state of poetic emergency'. Novelties resonates with the themes of nature, love, and literature while showcasing Hile's command of style and ...Show more
The Banjo Paterson Treasury by Banjo Paterson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A treasury of classic verse from Australia's most famous poet, Banjo Paterson. Includes 'Waltzing Matilda', 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and many more. Banjo Paterson is Australia's most famous poet. Ballads such as 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow', 'The Man f ...Show more
Banjo Paterson Complete Poems by Banjo Paterson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics
When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou ...Show more
Special The by David Stavanger
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Award. Both fun and playful, Stavanger's poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.
Sack by Kinsella John
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This most recent collection from John Kinsella takes its title from a poem of the same name. In the metaphor of the sack tumbling downstream with its cargo of drowned kittens lie layers of use, meaning and representation: love, cruelty, the pastoral, colonisation, landscape and identity. These poems are ...Show more
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler (Editor, Notes by); Boris Dralyuk (Editor, Notes by); Irina Mashinski (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporari ...Show more
Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle by Krissy Kneen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Raised by her maternal grandmother, Australian novelist and bookseller Krissy Kneen was understandably bereft when she died. In the midst of writing a novel, she suddenly found herself paralyzed with grief and unable to write fiction. Instead, she became obsessed with writing poems about her grandmother ...Show more
Love and Misadventure by Lang Leav
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Lang Leav
Lang Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted fans from all over the world. Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Her work expresse ...Show more
Fire Songs by David Harsent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This book is the winner of the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry. "A writer we should treasure." (Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph). "With every book [Harsent's] stature as a truly significant writer becomes more undeniable." (Fiona Sampson, Independent). The poems in David Harsent's new collection, whet ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more