The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become ...Show more
Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life by William Sieghart
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol A ...Show more
The Rivered Earth by Vikram Seth
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer. Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven Elements', they take us all over the world - from ...Show more
Dickinson - Poems by Emily Dickinson
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Poems: Dickinson contains poems from The Poet's Art, The Works of Love, and Death and Resurrection, as well as an index of first lines. The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content.
The Truth is We are Perfect by Janaka Stucky
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Stucky's verse has the power of the best East European poets--some of his poems seem to be perfect, magnificent, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful, cogent, incisive phrase-maker."--Bill Knott "The yearning in these poems is awash in dense, spiritual sexuality buffeted by time and the mish ...Show more
Favourite Poems of the Countryside by Samuel Carr
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A rich collection of poetry that celebrates our idyllic countryside, with verses on rural life, the changing seasons, the vast woodlands and seascapes of Britain and the wildlife that inhabit them. Beautifully illustrated with nostalgic scenes of Englanda (TM)s pastures, sleepy villages and dramatic lan ...Show more
Prayers of a Secular World by Jordie Albiston
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of prayers written by Australian poets expressing praise, thanksgiving, joy and sadness, faith and doubt in the existence of any kind of god, and forgiveness for our human frailties.
Peace Talks by Sir Andrew Motion
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all war ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition by Dylan Thomas
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do. Rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical and full of memorable lines, his poems are anthology favourites; his 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood a modern classic. Much loved by The Beatles and Bob ...Show more
Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology by Deborah Alma
22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A brilliant new anthology of poems that will help you to overcome stress, depression and other anxieties. Arranged by spiritual ailment, the sections include a range of verse, new and old, which may be of comfort to those in need of a pick-me-up for the soul. The collection has been carefully compiled b ...Show more
On Love by Charles Bukowski
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more
Cinepoems and Others by Benjamin Fondane
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Benjamin Fondane (1898-1945) was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerfully lyric poetic style: a near-surrealist who embraced and produced his own version of existential philosophy: a Romanian poet who wrote in French: a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose la ...Show more