AfterLife by Kathryn Lomer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Even the titles thrum, so that the index reads like a suite of small poems. Kathryn Lomer’s is a house with many rooms, Wunderkammers all, filled with curious objects drawn from the worlds of art, science, nature, love, life, death… everything. Supple lines and sensitive rhythms make surprising conjunc ...Show more
What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from across the world into a poem in ai ...Show more
New Hampshire by Robert Frost
$9.99 AUD
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 ...Show more
In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena Dinic
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Jelena Dinic came to Australia during the collapse of the war-torn former Yugoslavia and her poems are created from fractured landscapes. Winner of the 2019 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award, this collection beautifully charts the territory where cultures, languages and family life intersec ...Show more
Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon; Don Mee Choi
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book,Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea' ...Show more
A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Every Day of the Year by Lou Peacock
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A brilliantly illustrated collection of 366 hilarious poems to keep you laughing all year round! From rib-ticklingly funny to wryly witty, each poem in this uplifting collection is guaranteed to put a smile on your face and is perfect for reading aloud to share even more side-splitting hilarity with fa ...Show more
Hand in Hand with Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry by Simon Avery (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A celebration of queer voices throughout the ages, Hand in Hand with Love features an electrifying range of poems from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen, and many more. From Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this lumin ...Show more
What Are We Fighting For? New Poems About War by Roger Stevens
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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 ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kem (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about real ...Show more
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...Show more
Henry Lawson Poems by Henry Lawson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
First published in 1979, this edition includes 30 new selections, including highly significant poems addressed to his lost love, Hannah Thorburn, and some for young children.