Rain by Don Paterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the ...Show more
Selected Poetry: Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library, Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
Gathers sonnets, odes, poems, and selections of Prometheus Unbound by the early-nineteenth-century British poet.
The Best Australian Poetry 2009 by Duwell Martin Lea Bronwyn Wearne Alan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian Poetry Ser.
In its seventh year, Alan Wearne brings to this collection his endless inquisitiveness and his mastery of the infinite complexity of Australian social life. His selection of 40 poems from Australia's print and online journals shows us of the many radically different ways that poetry can portray lives. W ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2009 by Robert Adamson (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
'When Australian poetry soars to new heights, it's usually because poets open up to the whole place . . . they take risks and write from the core of our culture.' - ROBERT ADAMSON By turns playful and topical, intimate and engaged, this vibrant collection gathers voices from all across the country - fro ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas, Anthony Thwaite and Geoffrey Bownas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clich s of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic c ...Show more
The Possibilty of Flight by Lia Hills
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Lia Hills' first collection journey from 'artesian memories' of the Australian desert to the 'shifting territory of the gods' in rural Pakistan, as they glide with a wing shift between love, language and faith. "This is a rich and rewarding book." --Robert Adamson "There is somethi ...Show more
The Door by Margaret Atwood
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing ...Show more
Ghost Poetry Project by Nathan Curnow
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A unique exploration of fear, courage, and the power of mystery and myth and one poet's attempt to find a language of guts and daring.
W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats; Seamus Heaney (selection by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. ...Show more
Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ari ...Show more
John Betjeman: Poems Selected by Hugo Williams by Hugo Williams
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Category: Poetry
Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment as Poet Laureate in 1972 were universally welcomed. Other volumes in this series, include: "Auden", "Eli ...Show more