36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
Everything, All At Once by Various
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Identity – who are you? Who or what do you identify with? What does that even mean? In a world that likes to paint us as black or white we’re often searching for an opportunity to fit in.This anthology features 30 of Australia’s best writers under 30 exploring the theme identity – searching for unique p ...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'.
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
The River in the Sky by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday TimesClive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Inju ...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
The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion; Stephen Regan
$75.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolationElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature- a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of l ...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
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
I Don't Know How That Happened by Oliver Driscoll
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In turns unsettling and funny, Oliver Driscoll's debut collection is a testament to the mundane resonances of contemporary life and language. Driscoll's wry eye captures the subtle whimsy of the everyday, while exploring the capacity of its language to disturb the field of human meaning.
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight:New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more