The Picador Book of Love Poems by John Stammers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
A dazzling anthology of classic and contemporary love poems selected by an award-winning poet. With The Picador Book of Love Poems, award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts, he presents a bo ...Show more
Plain and Purl by STEWART ALISTAIR
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Plain and Purl, cinematic in its imagery, psalm-like in its renditions of pain, loss and renewal, carves a unique path through contemporary poetic trends. In close-up, tightly crafted poems Alistair Stewart’s collection begins in the silence of personal tragedy and emanates outward in epic sequence arou ...Show more
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his "Ruba'iyat". The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one ...Show more
Jam Tree Gully : Poems by John Kinsella
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this daring new collection, Australia's preeminent environmental poet confronts the legacy of Thoreau's Walden. With Walden as his inspiration, John Kinsella moved with his family back to rural Australia, where he wrote the poems in this original collection exploring the nature of our responsibility ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2013 by Lisa Gorton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'What characterises Australian poetry now is its variousness ... Here are collage poems with a confessional impulse, short short stories, late surrealist couplets, poems that weave satire and lyric together, fragmentary essays in epistles, metaphysical pastorals, epic narratives glimpsed through keyhole ...Show more
Looking for Clancy (HB) by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson and Robert Ingpen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In 1889 the revered Australian folk poet, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, first published his ballad, Clancy of the Overflow. The verse achieved immediate popularity and, with the creation of his legendary character, Clancy — a free-spirited stockman — Paterson had summed up the essence of the Australian outback ...Show more
A Dylan Thomas Treasury by Dylan Thomas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This selection provides the perfect introduction to Dylan Thomas' work, from poems and broadcasts to his short stories. It highlights his myriad talents, as well as the fluctuating moods and passions that inform his work. Discovered at the age of 19 through a poetry competition in a London newspaper, Dy ...Show more
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This edition of Dwight Allen's acclaimed story collection, The Green Suit, ends with a new story, rounding out a dozen interlinked tales about a well-to-do Kentucky family called the Sackriders. The stories cover a period of forty years, from the Vietnam War to the Age of Foreclosure. Chief among the ...Show more
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
This novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts.
Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humour earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America. This Penguin Classics edition ...Show more
The Man From Snowy River & Other Verses by Banjo Patterson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Facsimile of the 1895 Edition of 'The Man From Snowy River and other Verses'. First published by Angus & Robertson on 17 October 1895, the Man From Snowy River & Other Verses took the country by storm and has remained one of Australia's bestselling and most popular books ever since. the classic ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more