The Best Australian Poems 2016 by Sarah Holland-Batt (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
'Above all, poetry - for both its readers and its writers - is a form that demands attentiveness and active intelligence. It treats language as a volatile and charged commodity, and one whose subtleties and nuances are worth puzzling over.' Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-B ...Show more
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
How do you like to go up in a swing,Up in the air so blue?Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thingEver a child can do!aRobert Louis Stevenson's rhymes have charmed children and adults alike since 1885, when they first appeared to a delighted public. Stevenson's joyful exploration of the world speaks dire ...Show more
Greek Iambic Poetry - From the Seventh to Fifth Centuries B. C. - Archilochus, Semonides, Hipponax, and Others by Douglas E. Gerber (Edited and Translated by); Archilochus; Hipponax; Semonides
$65.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The poetry of the archaic period that the Greeks called iambic is characterized by scornful criticism of friend and foe and by sexual license. The purpose of these poems is unclear, but they seem to have some connection with cult songs used in religious festivals--for example, those honoring Dionysus an ...Show more
Man-Handled by Melinda Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Man-handled, Melinda Smith's seventh poetry collection, includes the found-text chapbook Listen, bitch plus new work from the last three years. Its central concern is gendered violence, both verbal and physical. These poems also extend their gaze to violences perpetrated in the names of colonialism, nat ...Show more
Net Needle by Robert Adamson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. In The Times Literary Supplement, David Wheatley calls Robert Adamson "one of the finest Australian poets at work today." NET NEEDLE brings together the presiding influences of his life, early and late. He casts an affectionate eye on the Hawkesbury fishermen who "stitched their lives into my da ...Show more
Second Fleet Baby by Nadia Rhook
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poetry collection that explores the connections between mothering, healing, history and inheritance.Second Fleet Baby examines birth and motherhood, with a consciousness that spans centuries. This poetry draws on theenergies of 18th Century English convict women, including Rhook's own ancestors, to op ...Show more
Sound the Deep Waters - Women's Romantic Poetry in the Victorian Age by Ed Pamela Norris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Who was the Victorian Woman? The popular myth that she was the Angel in the house', the loving wife, caring mother, in possession of neither opinions nor passions is one that if not already exploded, will certainly vanish with a reading of this delightful anthology. This collection offers familiar favou ...Show more
Rupi Kaur Boxed Set by Rupi Kaur
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Available for the first time, #1 New York Times bestselling author, rupi kaur, presents a gorgeous boxed set of her books milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Global sensation and internationally renowned author - rupi kaur's milk and honey celebrates the challenges and triumphs facing the mode ...Show more
The Farewell Glacier by NICK DRAKE
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Category: Poetry
The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with people from Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was the end of the Arctic summer. The sun took eight ho ...Show more
Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
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Category: Poetry
At the time of his death in 1962 E.E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentie ...Show more