Dog Park Poems

$15.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Poetry by Nicholas Pak

$18.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

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The Underwritten Plain by Tim Metcalf

$20.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Set at an abandoned bore-hole in South's Australia's Nullarbor plain, this epic poem in four parts, sparse as the plain itself, offers its vast and solitudinous explanation of Australia. Tim Metcalf is an award-winning poet who has for many years worked around Australia as a country doctor, giving him an intimate knowledge of this enormous continent and its people. This is his eighth poetry collection. He works in Bombala NSW. ...Show more

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (movie tie-in) by T. S. Eliot

$16.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The poems by T. S. Eliot that inspired the movie CatsCats Some are sane and some are mad and some are good and some are bad. Meet magical Mr. Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy, and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you'll be lucky to meet Macavity because Macavity's not there In 1925 T. S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr. Mistoffelees, and many other cats under the name of "Old Possum." In 1981 Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as Cats, which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history and is now a film starring Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellan, Rebel Wilson, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Francesca Hayward, and James Corden. With illustrations by Rebecca Ashdown. ...Show more

A Psalm for Us by Reyna Biddy

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

A Psalm for Us is Reyna "Biddy" Mays's soulful collection of prose, self-affirmations, spoken word poems, and short stories exploring questions of faith and self. 

Poems of Henry Lawson: Illustrated by Pro Hart by Henry Lawson

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

In any part of Australia, almost in any company, the mere mention of Henry Lawsons name will bring an immediate response. Whether it gives rise to an anecdote or a recitation of a few lines of his verse or leads to a discussion of his place in Australian literature it will not pass unnoticed. The poems selected in this book have been enjoyed by more than seven generations, from the famous Facers in the Street which exposed the social injustices of the late 1800s, to "The Sliprails and the Spur", described as possibly the most tender and most perfect of all his poems. Combined with Pro Harts paintings, which capture the humour of some of these poems, the pathos and loneliness of others, the poems come alive once more. ...Show more

Australian Poems That Would Flummox a Farmer by Philip Rush

$14.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

Poetry for Millennials - A Collection of Wise and Wonderful Words for Every #MillennialProblem by Tamsin KING

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

When your partner spends too much time on their Xbox: Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? from 'Why So Pale and Wan?', John Suckling From dating and house-shares to digital detoxing and growing up, Poetry for Millennials is the answer to all your hardships and woes. It offers relatab le verse from some of our greatest literary figures to help you laugh away the most common millennial problems *after wiping away your tears*. ...Show more

Australian Outback Poems by Rush Philip

$14.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author.  The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look. ...Show more

Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray

$59.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis tic development, it shows an ever-changing power, grace and humour, as well as great versatility and formal mastery. ...Show more

What Are We Fighting For? New Poems About War by Roger Stevens

$9.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

What Are We Fighting For? explores the concept of war in a brilliantly accessible way for younger readers. Fascinating and moving in equal measure, there are poems about incredibly brave dogs, cats and pigeons; the Christmas truce of WWI when soldiers played football in No Man's Land; poems about ration ing and what it was like to be an evacuee, poems about modern warfare and the reality of war today; plus lots of amazing true historical facts. This cross-curricular poetry book is a brilliant way to get young readers thinking about both the historical and philosophical aspects of war. ...Show more