Final Theory by Bonny Cassidy
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
Final Theory is a long poem told in episodes, combining two fragmentary story lines a the one following a couple as they travel through landscapes which are at different times pristine and ravaged by progress; the other portraying the sensations of a child tumbling through the ocean, encountering eviden ...Show more
e.e cummings: Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
"Among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets," according to Jenny Penberthy in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, E. E. Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A Cummings poem is spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically place ...Show more
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and meta ...Show more
Poems by Banjo Paterson
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics
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 Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou ...Show more
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. ...Show more
John Keats (Faber Nature Poets) by John Keats
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Poetry Notebook (2006-2014) by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book h ...Show more
Traits of the Aborigines of America. a Poem. [By Lydia H. Huntley, Afterwards Sigourney.]
$45.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In 1944 the Australian literary world was rocked by a hoax which was to become a worldwide scandal. Ern Malley, deceased motor mechanic and poet, was the invention of two Sydney poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, who were intent on proving that modern poetry was a sham. The work of Malley comprise ...Show more
Our Numbered Days by Neil Hilborn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, OUR NUMBERED DAYS. In 2013, Hilborn's poem "OCD" went viral, and has amassed over 11 millio ...Show more