Selected Poems: John Ashbery by John Ashbery
$35.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. His startling work alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) playful and recondite, affirms poetry's power to astonish and tackle fundamental ...Show more
Waldo’s Game by Peter Bakowski, Ken Bolton
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Waldo’s Game extends the reach of Elsewhere Variations and Nearly Lunch – going around the corner, and around the world. From supermarket aisle to art gallery – from nocturnal shiftiness in industrial zones to dawn reckonings … in bedrooms, on wild coastlines. ‘True, pithy – and curiously groovy.’ – Mi ...Show more
On Luck Street by Peter Bakowski, Ken Bolton
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"On Luck Street builds on Elsewhere Variations, Nearly Lunch, and Waldo’s Game – taking the reader around the corner, and around the world. From a small circus in Nepal, to a florist in New York, and the streets of Coogee and Fitzroy. ‘True, slyly pithy – and trenchant to the max.’ – Millie Dickins ‘Pac ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2023 by Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best of Australian Poems Ser.
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2022 - 1 August 2023, the series, now in its third ...Show more
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.
Fat Chance: Journalism Poems by Kent MacCarter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Fat Chance, poet and publisher Kent MacCarter investigates variations on how non-fiction can be reported, taking an uncanny look into sole survivors of major airline crashes, a memoir approach at the surgical complication known as gossypiboma - where an instrument is left behind in a body cavity afte ...Show more
Anything Can Happen by Susan Hampton
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Warm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful, Anything Can Happen is a memoir from one of Australia’s literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. ...Show more
Returning by Kirli Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Mate, you're standing on stolen land.'Returning is a stunning work – a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli’s journey of rediscovering self, Country and Connection. Kirli’s heartfelt experiences address large contemporary themes of decolonisation, self-determination, Identity, First Nations ...Show more
Souls Of The Labadie Tract by Howe Susan (State University
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Souls of the Labadie Tract finds Susan Howe exploring (or unsettling) one of her favorite domains, the psychic past of America, with Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens as her presiding tutelary geniuses. Three long poems interspersed with prose pieces, Souls of the Labadie Tract takes as its starting ...Show more
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A witty and enchanting illustrated edition of the Middle English debate poem in a new version by the Poet Laureate - now in paperback.
We Play Here by Dawn Watson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Four female friends navigate the political turbulence of North Belfast in the late 80s in this extraordinary, evocative verse novel. We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of politi ...Show more