Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A Vintage Classics reissue of the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--not otherwise in print as a stand-alone edition. Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age's most beloved p ...Show more
Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'In McCrae's hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through' Kate Kellaway, Guardian 'Confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time' Kit Fan, Guardian Writing you I give the death I take I know I should feel wounded by your death I write ...Show more
Googlecholia by Michael Farrell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Judith Wright Calanthe Award is Australia’s most prestigious poetry prize. Its award to Michael Farrell marks him out as one of our most important poets. There is no one like him for his souped-up surrealism, the range of his images, his wit and playfulness, his satirical takes on contemporary life. ...Show more
Plot by Claudia Rankine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen.In this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they find themselves propelled into the cla ...Show more
Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book ...Show more
Timeless Love: Poems, Stories, And Letters by William Shakespeare, John Keats
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature's most beloved writers. Because it defines human existence, love is one of art's favorite subjects. Timeless Love: Poems, Stories, and ...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
Kuracca - Us Mob Writing First Nation Voices by Kerry Reed-Gilbert; Barrina South; Brenda Gifford; Belinda Nelson-McDowell (Artist); Yvette Henry Holt (Foreword by); Lisa Fuller; Joyce Graham; Samantha Faulkner (Editor); Samia Goudie; Elaine Patricia Lomas; Odette Fuller; Jessika Spencer; Marissa McDowell (Compiled by, Preface by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Powerful and palpable, Kuracca honours the work of a cultural powerhouse and matriarch in style. The book showcases the strengths and fresh and exciting writing of a tightly bonded group. This is healing.- Ellen van NeervenThrough Kuracca eleven First Nation writers offer a Us Mob Writers literature cam ...Show more
Whisper Songs by Tony Birch
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Category: Poetry
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most. He also challenges the past to speak up by interrogating the archive, including documents from his own family history, highlighting forcefully the ways in which the person ...Show more
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith by Stevie Smith
$79.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning- ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A witty and enchanting illustrated edition of the Middle English debate poem in a new version by the Poet Laureate - now in paperback.