Literary Occasions : Essays by V.S. Naipaul (ed Pankaj Mishra)
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Category: Poetry
Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul's boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; ...Show more
The Poetry of Les Murray: Critical Essays: Critical Essays by Bruce Clunies Ross
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Category: Poetry
Les Murray is acknowledged internationally as Australia's leading poet, yet the criticism of his work has not been commensurate with his substantial reputation.These groundbreaking, new essays range across Murray's considerable output, impressive in their depth as well as their coverage as they reveal t ...Show more
LOVE AN INDEX by LINDENBERG REBECCA
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: McSweeney's Poetry
A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story--in verse--of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg's billowing ...Show more
Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Poetry
It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. "The Collected Poems" is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as well as the first critical edition. It establishes a ...Show more
Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir by Ivana Lowell
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Category: Poetry
Beautiful, intelligent and wealthy, Ivana Lowell seemed to have it all. Part of the Guinness dynasty, her family were glamorous and well-connected. Her charismatic but spoilt grandmother Maureen had made an excellent marriage with the Lord of Dufferin and Avon and was a leader of the fashionable set in ...Show more
From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabes Reader by Edmond Jabes
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Category: Poetry
"To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of the house, over the layout of the rooms, over the beauty and rationality of the whole. But what discoveries are made possible for the visitor! The new path permits him to see what no one other than himself could ...Show more
Jam Tree Gully : Poems by John Kinsella
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Category: Poetry
In this daring new collection, Australia's preeminent environmental poet confronts the legacy of Thoreau's Walden. With Walden as his inspiration, John Kinsella moved with his family back to rural Australia, where he wrote the poems in this original collection exploring the nature of our responsibility ...Show more
Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems by Jennifer Fox
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Category: Poetry
Poetry can lift our spirits and inspire our daily lives. William Blake's The Tyger, Emily Dickinson's Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, William Wordsworth's The World Is Too Much with Us, John Keats's A Thing of Beauty, are among the classic poems collected in this pocket-sized edition. Now you can readi ...Show more
Poems by Banjo Paterson
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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
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry
This long-awaited volume, a new selection of his later poems, spans ten major collections by one of America's most visionary and influential poets. Chosen by the author himself, the poems in Notes from the Air represent John Ashbery's best work from the past two decades, from the critically acclaimed Ap ...Show more
Free Logic by Rachael Briggs
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Free Logic is a collection of poems about love, logic, sin, gender, and imaginary animals. Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Rachael Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. Structured as eight set ...Show more