The Major Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose - the lyric poems, plays, longer poems, criticism, and essays - to give the essence of his work and th ...Show more
The Heart at 3 am by Peter Bakowski
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Category: Poetry
This collection of poems explores urban lonliness and personal vulnerability showing the city life of the teeming, tough, neon lit world of barmen, artists, insomniacs, truck drivers and the destitute with humour, whimsy and jazz. The themes of the city are international with settings including Rome and ...Show more
White Clouds Blue Rain by Oliver Driscoll
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Category: Poetry
Told through a series triptychs-each with a poem, a work of essayistic prose and a photographic image-White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail. Taking cues from artists, writers and architects, Driscoll gently binds the everyday to the abstract, movi ...Show more
Politics by Carol Ann Duffy
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Category: Poetry
One of the English language's best-loved living poets, in Politics - one of four themed collections - Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favorites among her political poetry. Drawing on work written over four decades and arranged chronologically, Duffy also adds to the selection her poem written for D ...Show more
Selected Poems by A.D. Hope
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
An important collection of poetry from one of Australia's greatest poets.
The Ascension of Sheep: Collected Poems Volume One (1980-2005) by John Kinsella
$55.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is the first volume of a three-volume Collected Poems by John Kinsella that dates back to when he was seventeen, and moves on through forty-one-plus years of writing and memorising poetry. Collected in one place for the first time are poems that have appeared in chapbooks or other publications outs ...Show more
Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
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Category: Poetry
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. - Gerald Murnane, 'The Darkling Thrush' Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth yea ...Show more
Change Machine by Jaya Savige
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Category: Poetry
Tough and alert, Savige's shapeshifting poems reflect the world in violent transformation. Bodies scarred by history collide in the ruckus of generations, geopolitics and technology. Elegies on the loss of a child appear alongside poems that set a pulse to new life, biomedical surveillance, leaf blowers ...Show more
Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets - from Sylvia Plath to Anne C ...Show more
What Is the Truth? (Collected Animal Poems #2) by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains 'a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment ...Show more
The Rain in Portugal - Poems by Billy Collins
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Category: Poetry
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite poet." The Rain in Portugal--a title ...Show more
Dear Muses - Essays in Poetry by Simon West
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Category: Poetry
Does it make sense to invoke the Muses today? Few of us believe our poems will be better for praying to stola-clad women sitting on a mountain in Greece. This book asks the reader to consider the Muse as something more - a vehicle for acknowledging cultural legacies that radiate out from the past and in ...Show more