Best Australian Poems 2015 by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
InThe Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who's who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality, Geoff Page's selection celebrates the vital, the vigorous and the graceful voices that populate our poetry ...Show more
Memories by Lang Leav
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Lang Leav Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For fans of Lang Leav, this beautiful gift book is a must-have! Beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this illustrated treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover. The author's ...Show more
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronological ...Show more
The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry by John; Ryan Kinsella
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry is a comprehensive survey of the state's poets from the 19th century to today. Featuring work from 134 poets, and including the work of many WA Indigenous poets, this watershed anthology brings together the poems that have contributed to and def ...Show more
On Love by Charles Bukowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more
Small Town Soundtrack by Brendan Ryan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Small Town Soundtrackcontinues Brendan Ryan's exploration of place and belonging that resonate in country towns.From the lives of farmers, abattoir workers, and dog walkers to the history of aboriginal dispossession; from a tour of the communities of the Mt Noorat Football League in Victoria's isolated ...Show more
Glasshouses by Stuart Barnes
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Category: Poetry
"trumpeting through blood bone the glasshouse's yellow stars These poems orchestrate an eclectic and original music, curating their treasury of the new and reimagined. Exquisitely crafted, they balance attention and adventure, emerging from a croche of stars' to blast wild and high in gilded radiance. W ...Show more
The Guardians by Lucy Dougan
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Many poems in this collection explore the intrusions of 'the wild' into daily life, through memories, in illness, and in places that you've lost or left behind. Dougan is interested in the ways in which the past re-enters the present, particularly through the secrets of family life, in all kinds of atav ...Show more
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest
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Category: Poetry
Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, ...Show more
Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest
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Category: Poetry
Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through this structure, Tempest holds up a mirror to contempora ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2016 by Sarah Holland-Batt (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Above all, poetry - for both its readers and its writers - is a form that demands attentiveness and active intelligence. It treats language as a volatile and charged commodity, and one whose subtleties and nuances are worth puzzling over.' Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-B ...Show more
The Universe of Us by Lang Leav
$27.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour | Series: Lang Leav Ser.
Planets, stars, and constellations feature prominently in this beautiful, original poetry collection from Lang Leav. Inspired by the wonders of the universe, the best-selling poetess writes about love and loss, hope and hurt, being lost and found. Lang's poetry encompasses the breadth of emotions we a ...Show more