The Water Bearer by Tracy Ryan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Water is contained in these poems in many different ways- from the water filling a second-hand cooler in an old farmhouse to ocean riptides and impassive dams; from swimming lessons to paddocks layered with water after rain. From scheme water, pipelines and a countryside in the grip of drought - the wat ...Show more
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronological ...Show more
The Universe of Us by Lang Leav
$27.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour | Series: Lang Leav Ser.
Planets, stars, and constellations feature prominently in this beautiful, original poetry collection from Lang Leav. Inspired by the wonders of the universe, the best-selling poetess writes about love and loss, hope and hurt, being lost and found. Lang's poetry encompasses the breadth of emotions we a ...Show more
Sack by Kinsella John
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This most recent collection from John Kinsella takes its title from a poem of the same name. In the metaphor of the sack tumbling downstream with its cargo of drowned kittens lie layers of use, meaning and representation: love, cruelty, the pastoral, colonisation, landscape and identity. These poems are ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more
Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle by Krissy Kneen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Raised by her maternal grandmother, Australian novelist and bookseller Krissy Kneen was understandably bereft when she died. In the midst of writing a novel, she suddenly found herself paralyzed with grief and unable to write fiction. Instead, she became obsessed with writing poems about her grandmother ...Show more
Glasshouses by Stuart Barnes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"trumpeting through blood bone the glasshouse's yellow stars These poems orchestrate an eclectic and original music, curating their treasury of the new and reimagined. Exquisitely crafted, they balance attention and adventure, emerging from a croche of stars' to blast wild and high in gilded radiance. W ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2012 by John Tranter (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'I was struck ... by just how many poems depended on the ancient devices of the storyteller ... Many have a lyrical or meditative feel, but most have a story to tell, captured in a brief glimpse of the meaning of life, or a dramatic climax.' -John Tranter In this impressive anthology John Tranter weave ...Show more
Novelties by Fiona Hile
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In her first full-length collection, prize-winning poet Fiona Hile applies the ambitions and strategies of fiction to produce genuinely novel poems that signal 'a state of poetic emergency'. Novelties resonates with the themes of nature, love, and literature while showcasing Hile's command of style and ...Show more
The Banjo Paterson Treasury by Banjo Paterson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A treasury of classic verse from Australia's most famous poet, Banjo Paterson. Includes 'Waltzing Matilda', 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and many more. Banjo Paterson is Australia's most famous poet. Ballads such as 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow', 'The Man f ...Show more
Special The by David Stavanger
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Award. Both fun and playful, Stavanger's poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.
Fire Songs by David Harsent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This book is the winner of the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry. "A writer we should treasure." (Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph). "With every book [Harsent's] stature as a truly significant writer becomes more undeniable." (Fiona Sampson, Independent). The poems in David Harsent's new collection, whet ...Show more