Taller When Prone by Les Murray
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Taller When Proneis Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The BiplaneHouses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape ...Show more
The Pleasures of the Damned - Poems 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good-very good
Celebrating the full range of Bukowski's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before collected poems penned during the final days before his death. Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's lon ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrate ...Show more
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott by Derek Walcott
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This new "Selected Poems" offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his ...Show more
What the Twilight Says - Essays by Derek Walcott
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate. Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in "The New York Review of Books, The New Republic," and elsewhere for more than twenty years. "What the Twilight Says" collects these pieces to form a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. ...Show more
Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Tiepolo's Hound" joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pisarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris; and the poet himself, longing to rediscover a detail from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York.
Selected Poems by James Ingram Merrill; J. D. McClatchy (Editor); Stephen Yenser (Editor)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
James Merrill himself once called his body of work "chronicles of love and loss," and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his own life--comic and haunting, exotic and domestic--to shape a portrait that in turn mirrored the image of our world and our moment. This volume bring ...Show more
Pilbara by O'Connor Mark
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Over his long career Mark O'Connor has made his poetic homes in a succession of Australian regions. Indeed from the time of Homer much of the best literature has been regional. It knows its own place so well that it has no need to be consciously universal; rather the world of readers comes to it. Pilbar ...Show more
Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets by Edited Michael Farrell and Jill Jones
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The first contemporary book of its kind: poems by gay and lesbian poets writing now in the freedoms and dangers of the 21st century. Poems of the 21st century: sexy, sassy, innovative, and real. Poets in the anthology include David Malouf, Dorothy Porter, Peter Rose, Pam Brown, Chris Edwards, Lee Cat ...Show more
PARTS OF US by Shapcott Thomas
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In Parts of Us, Thomas Shapcott demonstrates why he remains one of the country's leading poets. Poetic styles in the volume range from sonnet sequences to long lyrical meditations, from dramatic monologues to more confessional works. The poems are often amusing or evocative portrayals of everyday things ...Show more
SESTETS by Wright CHarles
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country's most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright's acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the nature of description itsel ...Show more