Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all of Samuel Wagan Watson's publications, as well as his unpublished new work. This generous collection opens with his 1999 Unaipon-winning volume Of Mu ...Show more
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
Poems that make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
GROWN MEN AREN'T SUPPOSED TO CRY. But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their earl ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses by Mr A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
These books were originally published in 1914 as a 'pocket editions for the trenches', designed for soldiers to slip into their back pockets and carry with them through their war days. Probably purchased by wives, girlfriends and mothers, they were a little piece of Australia to relish amongst the horro ...Show more
Seamus Heaney: New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...Show more
Poems by Wang Wei
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Wang Wei, one of Chinese literature's greatest poets, divided his time between the court and his country estate, where he drew inspiration from the mountains and solitude. His poetry affirms his belief in a whole natural order, and his delicately observed descriptions of landscapes are infused throughou ...Show more
Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection by Bernard O'Donoghue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emis ...Show more
The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become ...Show more
Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine Von Radics
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Titled after the poem that burned up on Tumblr and has inspired wedding vows, paintings, songs, YouTube videos, and even tattoos among its fans, Mouthful of Forevers brings the first substantial collection of this gifted young poet’s work to the public. Clementine von Radics writes of love, loss, and ...Show more
Lullabies by Lang Leav
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Lang Leav
A sequel to the hugely popular, best-selling Love & Misadventure, Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss.Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece fr ...Show more
Of Love and Desire by Louis de Bernières; Donald Sammut (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Berni res, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms - from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Berni res? first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality ...Show more