Staying Alive : Real poems for unreal times by Edited by Neil Astley
$22.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Review Quotes: "A magnificent anthology. I can't think of any other that casts its net so widely, or one that has introduced me to so many vivid and memorable poems." "These are poems that hunt you down with the solace of their recognition. Has there ever been such a passionate anthology?" "These poems ...Show more
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Engaging with the matter of England in the here and now, the author focuses his attention on the conflicts within society.
Artaud Anthology by Antonin Artaud
$33.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in lucifer ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is one of the earliest great stories of English literature. It narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who challenges the virtuous Gawain to a wager, re ...Show more
Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Simon Armitage's new collection brings news from unusual places, whether from the recent past (an island being born off the coast of Iceland, the 'Women of Merrie England' coffee houses of the poet's Huddersfield youth) or from the remote warrior worlds of the "Bayeux Tapestry", the "Odyssey" and "Sir G ...Show more
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Part five of Angelou's five-volume autobiography. It coversher emigration to Ghana where she comes to a new awareness of love, friendship and motherhood, civil rights and slaveryand the myth of mother Africa. By the author of "Gather Together in My Name" and "The Heart of a Woman".
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage; Homer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues.
Eighth Habitation by Aitken Adam
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
EIGHTH HABITATION is the fourth collection by Adam Aitken. These poems questions notions of Australianness, delivering a montage of voices, both imagined and real: ex-lovers dead and alive, a hungover businessman en-route to Bali, a failed detective, a tourist caught in a religious blackout, wanderer po ...Show more