Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest
$22.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
Dirty Pretty Things by Michael Faudet
$35.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Michael Faudet Ser.
Dirty Pretty Things is the international bestseller by Michael Faudet. A finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards, his whimsical and often erotic writing has already captured the hearts and minds of literally thousands of readers from around the world. He paints vivid pictures with intri ...Show more
The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Taste of River WaterNew and selected poems by Cate Kennedy Disarming, warm and always accessible, Cate Kennedy's poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here- compassion, insight, lyrical precision and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can ...Show more
Time Capsule by David Ireland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Time Capsule the poem-like writings of a breadth of fictional voices are gathered together in an incisive reflection on contemporary existence. Painting students, surfers, pharmacists, retirees, sports lovers, budding writers, Toastmaster members, churchgoers, people from diverse walks of life - all ...Show more
New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham by Nathanael O'Reilly (Editor); Anna Wickham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Anna Wickham (1883-1947) was one of the most important female poets writing in English during the first half of the twentieth century. A pioneer of Modernist poetry, she was also a fierce feminist, social activist, and friend of many significant writers, including D.H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Dyl ...Show more
Rupture by Susan Varga
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Help me, words - you always have. "The directness and simplicity of these poems, beautifully arranged as stages in a recovery, carry the urgency, honesty and celebration of a life reclaimed." Joan London "The poems that comprise Rupture are lucid, deft, unapologetic, forthright. There are images and lin ...Show more
Come to Me My Melancholy Baby by Kate Jennings
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A new edition of acclaimed author Kate Jennings's first book of poetry. These celebrated poems - including her incendiary moratorium speech that launched the second wave of feminism in Australia - will be performed as part of a major music event to be held in Melbourne in October.
The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky by Lucy (EDT) Tim (EDT); Dougan Fay; Dolin Zwicky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Zwicky is one of the world's finest poets; her sophistications of form and theme remind one of Akhmatova, Szymborska, Adrienne Rich and William Blake. With poise and control, she tracks the personal encounter with the weight of history and the obligation to declare a position. - JOHN KINSELLA In her poe ...Show more