You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James LaughlinAcross the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with compani... read more
| Author: | Clive James |
| Category: |
Poetry |
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday Times
Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, h... read more
| Author: | Anne M. Carson |
| Category: |
Poetry |
The central heart of the book is an extended mediation on the loss of Anne's husband - poems both deeply personal and universal. They are held by two other sections which explore her relationship with and place within the natural world, particularly drawing on the theme of regenerat... read more
| Author: | Anne M. Carson (Editor) |
| Category: |
Poetry |
A chapbook published by Mark Time Books and dedicated and donated to the work of Anti Slavery Australia as a fundraiser to help in ending slavery. It comprises two essays (by Profess... read more
| Author: | David Malouf |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Reading Level: | 1 Poetry |
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative,... read more
| Author: | Bernadette Brennan (Introduction by) |
| Category: |
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: | 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 f... read more
| Author: | Rupi Kaur |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Reading Level: | General Adult |
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, lo... read more
| Author: | Robin Robertson |
| Category: |
Poetry |
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 ... read more
| Author: | Jean Moorcroft Wilson |
| Category: |
Poetry |
The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as ... read more
| Author: | Rupi Kaur |
| Category: |
Poetry |
A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur, author the #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey. Her long-awaited second collection of poetry is a vibrant and transcend... read more
