These Wild Houses by Omar Sakr
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
I won’t keep you long. First, I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, on whose land the majority of this collection was written. Now you are about to read the poetry of an Arab Australian, which is a rare thing when it shouldn’t be. Now you are about to read the work of a queer Arab Austra ...Show more
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas; Sally Minogue (Introductions and notes by)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Under Milk Woodis Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dogis his first collection solely of short stories, published in 1940. These two works show us his remarkable creative brilliance at the start ...Show more
William Blake Selected Poems - Crane Classics by William Blake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Crown Classics Ser.
This selection of some of William Blake's best loved poems, including the words to the hymn Jerusalem, from his poem Milton, and his very familiar and popular poem The Tyger.
You Do You by Sam Morley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Meditations on parenthood, memory, death, the natural world, the fluctuations of pop culture, and the suburban grind with aplomb in a keen observational styleSam Morley's second collection comprises poetry that is image-rich, fusing the sublime with the common. Always committed to observation as a chann ...Show more
the body country by Susie Anderson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'I keep looking at the stars to see the universe, but the joke is I am the universe.' the body country is an evocative exploration of a world that too often marginalises and the power of a land that can offer connection. A meditation of wandering and wondering on Country, inviting the reader to understa ...Show more
100 Poems by Umberto Saba
$37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The most extensive selection to be published in the UK of the poetry of one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th Century. Umberto Saba (1883-1957) is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century, as closely associated with his native city Trieste as Joyce is with Dublin. He received a ...Show more
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devasta ...Show more
365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri
$46.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri.This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language. Whether you're searching for wisdom or looking t ...Show more
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
$20.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--N ...Show more
A Treatment by Ann Shenfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of new work by award-winning poet Ann Shenfield. Delving into family trauma in a post-Holocaust context and informed by psychoanalysis, these poems explore identity and the frailty of the human and physical world.A Treatment presents a poetic reflection of family trauma in a post-holocaust ...Show more
Aice Oswald - Dart by Alice Oswald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Using conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon as a poetic census, Alice Oswald creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are varied and idiomatic - poacher, ferryman, sewage worker, mill worker, forester and swimmers.