| Author: | Bernadette Brennan (Introduction by) |
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Poetry |
UQP celebrates 70 years of publishing the best Australian writing with a unique anthology that showcases the diversity of the Australian literary landscape.Featuring 25 of the greatest Australian writing names from UQP's past and present, thi... read more
| Author: | Roger Stevens |
| 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... read more
| Author: | A. B. Paterson |
| Category: |
Poetry |
Australia's most-loved bush poet, Banjo Paterson, is the writer who in many ways defined what it was to be Australian. When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'the Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition.... read more
| Author: | Amanda Lovelace; ladybookmad |
| Category: |
Poetry |
Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In this first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses... read more
| Author: | Clive James |
| Category: |
Poetry |
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time ... read more
| Author: | Emily Dickinson |
| Category: |
Poetry |
The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of t... read more
| Author: | Steven (INT) Walt; Schroeder Whitman |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Series: | Knickerbocker Classics |
First published in 1855 with Whitman's own money, Leaves of Grass is a highly sensual collection of verses that became a monument to American poetry.The journalist, philosopher, clerk, and Civil War nurse spent the following four decades revising and expanding the work from twelve p... read more
| Author: | Sappho; John Maxwell Edmonds |
| Category: |
Poetry |
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| Author: | Robert Burns |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Series: | Poetry Library |
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan.Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable... read more
| Author: | Beau Taplin |
| Category: |
Poetry |
Another gorgeous collection of poetry and prose from Australian poet and social media sensation Beau Taplin. Beautiful, inspiring, and empowering, Worlds of You sweeps readers away on a journey of emotion. Filled with lyric wisdom, Taplin's second book expands on the themes introduced in Bloom, offering insight and comfort.
| Author: | Joanna Trollope (Introduction by); Gaby Morgan (Editor) |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Lib... read more
A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker's BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present.... read more
