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
The Light the Dead See - Selected Poems of Frank Stanford by Frank Stanford; Leon Stokesbury (Editor)
$39.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his intr ...Show more
A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish; Catherine Cobham (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish's last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwish's musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and hum ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem Pearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought ...Show more
A Line in the Sand: 20 Years of Red Room Poetry Collection by Red Room Poetry
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
An anthology spanning 20 years, 80+ projects and 1200+ commissioned poets with a body of original poetic work unlike any other literary organisation. Featuring 80 poems that are highly representative of both contemporary poetry as a form as well as drawing on a multitude of voices across the history of ...Show more
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's own relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen ...Show more
Devotions by Mary Oliver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Devotions is a stunning, definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty ...Show more
Collected Poems by Rainer Brambach; Esther Kinsky (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left school at the age of fourteen to become a manual labore ...Show more
Seasonal Time Change - Selected Poems by Michael Krüger; Joseph Given (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\German List Ser.
Our twice-yearly daylight savings holiday, in which we faithfully, collectively adjust our clocks, is purely human tampering with the calendar. Yet, it is a practice that is embedded in nature's principles, even as we exact more sunlight for ourselves in an over-organized, technological world. Mirroring ...Show more
Public. Open. Space. by Kate Larsen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Positioned at the intersection of poetic and digital culture, this collection explores the sense of placelessness increasingly resonant for all of us who live and working in the digital realm. Public. Open. Space. is a collection of poetry inspired by spaces, places and situations that are controlled an ...Show more
Haruko / Love Poems by June Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relat ...Show more