Unusual Work

$10.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Rupi Kaur Boxed Set (Milk, Honey, Sun, Flowers) by Rupi Kaur

$55.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Available for the first time, #1 New York Times bestselling author, rupi kaur, presents a gorgeous boxed set of her books milk and honey and the sun and her flowers.   Global sensation and internationally renowned author - rupi kaur's milk and honey celebrates the challenges and triumphs facing t he modern woman. In strikingly personal, yet widely relatable poems accompanied by original illustrations, kaur challenges the idea that women should be quiet, gentle, and submissive and instead encourages women to be strong, powerful, and proud. Each of the four chapters ("the hurting," "the loving," "the breaking," and "the healing") serves a different purpose and explores the many kinds of pain and healing of life's experiences. From breakups to trauma, kaur leads readers through life's most bitter moments to find their hidden sweetness.   Paired with milk and honey in this exquisite boxed set: the sun and her flowers, a vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honouring one's roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated in kaur's signature style, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. ...Show more

The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray by Les Murray

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia.

Blue Milonga by Edward Caruso

$20.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Blue Milonga is Edward Caruso's second collection of poetry. It is a companion volume to Di alture ed altre utopie (Of heights and other utopias, written in Italian), a further exploration of intercultural meeting points, both books written during a series of visits to Latin America. The language of Blu e Milonga - moods, colours and landscapes - captures emotions and deepening connections with countries such as Argentina and Chile. This collection opens with impressionistic perspectives of Buenos Aires and takes the reader through to the ruins of the 2010 earthquake in central Chile. ...Show more

The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett; Eugene Gloria (Selected by)

$29.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: National Poetry Ser.

A "sharp" and "scintillating" (Publishers Weekly) debut collection of poetry, selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett's mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize r epresentations of black history and contemporary black experience. What animates these poems is a desire to assert life, and interiority, where there is said to be none. Figures as widely divergent as Bobby Brown, Martin Heidegger, and the 19th-century performance artist Henry Box Brown, as well as Bennett's own family and childhood best friends, appear and are placed in conversation in order to show that there is always a world beyond what we are socialized to see value in, always alternative ways of thinking about relation that explode easy binaries. ...Show more

Selected Poems by Marianne Moore

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Category: Poetry

A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a wider public. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten key titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda; Nathaniel Tarn (Editor)

$14.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

"The perfect gift for Valentine s Day /i>elected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statement s and a frank celebration of sex. This is an enticing, distinctive and celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet." ...Show more

Blakwork by Alison Whittaker

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker's BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present. Whittaker is unsparing in the interrogation of familiar ideas - identifying and dissolving them with idiosyncratic imagery, layering them to form new connections, and reinterpreting what we know. 'Alison Whittaker's second book, Blakwork is a bold mix of poetry, micro-fiction, memoir and critique, and a follow-up to her award-wining debut poetry collection, Lemons in the Chicken Wire...Whittaker has drawn on the strength of past generations to become a strong blak woman in contemporary Australia, and readers are gifted her insights into growing up blak. With a unique style of writing, she bravely unpacks themes such as colonisation and Aboriginal rights in Australia.' -- Karen Wyld, Books+Publishing   ...Show more

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown's mastery, and his invention of the duplex-a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues-is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction. ...Show more

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur, author the #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey. Her long-awaited second collection of poetry is a vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healin g. Ancestry and honouring one's roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.   Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.   this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept  think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year  they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom ...Show more

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem - From Baudelaire to Anne Carson by Jeremy Noel-Tod

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer 'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily Telegraph This is t he prose poem: a 'genre with an oxymoron for a name', one of literature's great open secrets, and the home for over 150 years of extraordinary work by many of the world's most beloved writers. This uniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing from every stage of the form's evolution, beginning with the great flowering of recent years before moving in reverse order through the international experiments of the 20th century and concluding with the prose poem's beginnings in 19th-century France. Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod ...Show more

Selected Poems: Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore (tr from Begali William radice)

$22.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

"It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances... It soars to the sky with delight." First published 1985. This edition in 2005.