Best Australian Poems 2015 by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
InThe Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who's who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality, Geoff Page's selection celebrates the vital, the vigorous and the graceful voices that populate our poetry ...Show more
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: W. H. Auden: Critical Editions
For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian ...Show more
The Farewell Glacier by NICK DRAKE
$26.95 AUD
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
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
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
$34.99 AUD
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 finds James in a ...Show more
Odes by Sharon Olds
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Opening with a powerful and tender 'Ode to the Hymen', Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way on parts of her own story which will be familiar from earlier works, ...Show more
Dreaming Tree by Oliver,Jo
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Free verse poems celebrate the joy and freedom of being a child in the Australian landscape.
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
A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A Poem For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. These poems are funny, thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! Perfect for re ...Show more
Complete Poems Of Banjo Paterson by A B Paterson
$35.00 AUD
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. today Banjo Paterson is still one of A ...Show more
Totem: Totem Poem plus 40 Love Poems by Luke Davies
$23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This is an exquisite collection of physical, sensual poems which confirms Davies reputation as one of Australia's foremost poets.