The Long Take by Robin Robertson

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, Guardian A noir narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry, The Long Take is one of the most remarkable - and unclassifiable - books of recent years. Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity and repair. As he moves from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but - as those dark, classic movies made clear - the country needed outsiders to study and dramatise its new anxieties. While Walker tries to piece his life together, America is beginning to come apart: deeply paranoid, doubting its own certainties, riven by social and racial division, spiralling corruption and the collapse of the inner cities. The Long Take is about a good man, brutalised by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it - yet resolved to find kindness again, in the world and in himself. Robin Robertson's The Long Take is a work of thrilling originality. ...Show more

Collected Poems by Galway Kinnell; Edward Hirsch (Introduction by)

$35.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

The life's work of "one of the true master poets of his generation,"* whose poetry helped shape the consciousness of an age For Galway Kinnell, it was "the poet's job to figure out what's happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the self and the world, and to get it down in words t hat have a lasting shape, that have a chance of lasting." This comprehensive volume includes "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World," Kinnell's stunning poem of immigrant life on the Lower East Side of New York, the incantatory book-length poem The Book of Nightmares, the searing evocation of Hiroshima in "The Fundamental Project of Technology," the iconic themes of his middle years--eros, family, the natural world ("After Making Love We Hear Footsteps," "The Bear," "Saint Francis and the Sow," "Blackberry Eating")--and the unflinchingly introspective work of his later years. Spanning six decades, this is the essential collection for old and new devotees of "a poet of the rarest ability . . . who can flesh out music, raise the spirits, and break the heart."** *New York Times **Boston Globe ...Show more

New Hampshire by Robert Frost

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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes of New England, his work embodies penetrating and often dark explorations of universal themes. Frost received more than 40 honorary degrees, and th e first of his four Pulitzer Prizes was awarded for this 1923 collection. New Hampshire features Frost's meditations on rural life, love, and death, delivered in the voice of a soft-spoken New Englander. Critics have long marveled at the poet's gift for capturing the speech of the region's natives and his realistic evocations of the area's landscapes. This compilation includes several of his best-known poems: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and "Fire and Ice" as well as verse based on such traditional songs as "I Will Sing You One-O." The poems are complemented by the atmospheric illustrations created for the original edition by Frost's friend, woodcut artist J. J. Lankes. AUTHOR: Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the 20th century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes of New England, his work embodies penetrating and often dark explorations of universal themes. The four-time Pulitzer Prize winner received more than 40 honorary degrees and taught for decades at Amherst College, Middlebury College, and other institutions. ...Show more

Australian Outback Poems by Rush Philip

$14.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

With a Thousand Kisses - Erotic Poetry and Art by Rowan Pelling; Isabel King

$39.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

With a Thousand Kisses scans the centuries for the cr me de la cr me of poetic and illustrated eroticism, and the result is a beautifully designed gift book that will bring many smiles and perhaps a few blushes to its readers. Among the poets in the collection are John Donne, Lord Rochester, Browning, B audelaire, D. H. Lawrence, Yeats, e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, and many more. There is even a new and unpublished poem from Louis de Berni res, novelist and poet, and the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Illustrations come from from Rodin, Boucher, Titian, Correggio, Fragonard, Courbet, Rodin, Toulouse Lautrec ... to name but a few. ...Show more

Some Corner of a Foreign Field by James Bentley (Editor)

$39.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

An anthology of some of the best known authors and illustrators from the First World War

Australia's Beating Heart - An Anthology of Classic Bush Poetry by Australian Geographic (Editor)

$49.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

Australia’s Beating Heart is celebration of our wide brown land, and the people and stories that landscape shapes. This luxe anthology features 70 iconic bush poems hand-selected by Australian champion bush poets Melanie Hall and Susan Carcary, illustrated beautifully by landscape photographs from the A ustralian Geographic image library. Australia’s Beating Heart is celebration of our wide brown land, and the people and stories that landscape shapes. This luxe anthology features 70 iconic bush poems hand-selected by Australian champion bush poets Melanie Hall and Susan Carcary, including well-known works such as Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Paterson and My Country by Dorothea Mackellar as well as classic works by Will Ogilvia, Mary Durack, CJ Dennis and Duke Tritton. These Australian odes are illustrated beautifully by landscape photographs from the Australian Geographic image library. ...Show more

Hold Your Own by Kate Tempest

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through this structure, Tempest holds up a mirror to contempora ry life in a direct and provocative way rarely associated with poetry. A vastly popular and accomplished performance poet, Tempest commands a huge and dedicated following on the performance and rap circuit. Brand New Ancients, also available from Picador, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and has played to packed concert halls on both sides of the Atlantic. ...Show more

Fire Front: First Nations Poetry by Alison Whittaker

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Lionel Fogarty, Sam Wagan Watson, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Archie Roach and Alexis Wright. Divided into five thematic sections, each one is introduced by an essay from a leading Aboriginal writer and thinker - Bruce Pascoe, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Chelsea Bond, Evelyn Araluen and Steven Oliver - who reflects on the power of First Nations poetry with their own original contribution. This incredible book is a testament to the renaissance of First Nations poetry happening in Australia right now. ...Show more

Guwayu, For all Times by Red Room Poetry

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Category: Poetry

Guwayu, for all times is the highly anticipated and electric collection of First Nations poetry commissioned by Red Room Poetry. This collection extends the ancient and continuing cultural practice of weaving to words. In Guwayu, for all times, the page becomes the vessel — the crafted object that carri es culture. The making and crafting of each vessel, embeds the maker(s) into its final shape and form — its body. The poems in this collection are baskets and nets of the page. Together they are an exquisite vessel of twenty-first living Aboriginal culture. ...Show more

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good

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

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