Non-Essential Work by Omar Sakr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost ArabsIn this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection The Lost Arabs, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep into his loves and losses to create a riveting literary experience. Asking questions of timeliness and tim ...Show more
Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings by Peter Boyle
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Against the backdrop of a world in crisis these poems speak of grief and beauty, of spirituality and resilience. Poems responding to nature, ekphrastic poems and meditations on the randomness of fate sit alongside more personal poems of loss, while in the title sequence dream narratives are interspersed ...Show more
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott ...Show more
Old/New World: Selected Poems by SKRZYNECKI PETER
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
For nearly forty years Peter Skrzynecki has published poetry that explores the assimilation of post-war immigrants in Australia, chronicling their struggle for identity and acceptance into mainstream society. His poems are elegiac, meditative and lyrical - intimately concerned with the Australian landsc ...Show more
On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren; Abby Strangward (Designed by, Cover Design by, Editor); Kyla Rain (Cover Design by, Editor); Lydia Stone (Illustrator); Ria Kealey (Editor)
$24.00 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
"On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinned knees and red wine, satin and switchblades, rosaries and Dionysian ecstasy. Her writings are haunted by the ghosts of girlhood, god/s, lovers and the landscape of childhood, but Warren is unflinching - s ...Show more
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by BADER DAVID
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of (respectively) three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to 100 Great Books. From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally withi ...Show more
Othello: Student Shakespeare Series - Complete Edition by William Shakespeare
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Student Shakespeare S.
These popular Shakespeare editions attractively presented and designed to make Shakespeare relevant to students. The plays are initially summarised in lively line illustrations that present the story in pictures to assist students to recognise the plot and major issues. This is followed by an introducti ...Show more
POEMS OF LIFE & DEATH by Jas H Duke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
An exciting portrait of Australia’s Dadaist Anarchist\nPerformance Poet. This book charts his life achievements, as a film\nstar, chess champion, thru various artistic works, including poems,\nPlays, and hidden histories canvassing London, Berlin, and\nMelbourne in the late 60s, 70s, 80s, and early 90s. ...Show more
Pacific Light by David Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
David Mason was born in Washington State, forty-odd degrees north latitude, and now lives on the Australian island of Tasmania, forty-odd degrees south latitude. That Pacific crossing is the work of a lifetime of devotion and change. The rich new poems of Pacific Light explore the implications of the li ...Show more
Pam Ayres on Animals by Pam Ayres
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful collection from much-loved poet Pam Ayres, compiling her best verse dedicated to animals, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon. 'Oh WHY must you bark at the postman?Why must you batter my ears?I know it seems rumBut the postman has comeEvery morning for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.' From her very fir ...Show more
Pandemonium by Andrew McMillan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE* After two prize-winning collections which examined the intimacies and intricacies of the physical body, McMillan's third book marks a shift: both inward, into the difficult world of mental health, and outwards into the nat ...Show more