Gold by Rumi; Haleh Liza Gafori (Translator, Editor)
35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The thirteenth-century Persian sage Rumi was chiefly known as a preacher and a man of serious and sober views. But at the age of forty, his encounter with the poet Shams of Tabriz left him utterly transformed. Rumi became a poet himself, a poet in single-minded pursuit of ecstatic illumination and liber ...Show more
Queer Nature - A Poetry Anthology by Michael Walsh (Editor)
40.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
An anthology of queer nature poetry spanning three centuries.This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context f ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam P/B by Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of wh ...Show more
Ahead of Us by Dennis Haskell
27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
but in fact / we are as we are / together, alone, as you can see, / with elusive memories for company, /with your wisps of hair / disappearing as gently as breath. 'After Chemo' Ahead of Us is Haskell's eighth book of poetry. Dedicated to his wife Rhonda, who lost her battle with cancer after a long ill ...Show more
Complete Poems: Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore
32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Best Australian Poems 2011 by John Tranter
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
What a rich, strange and diverse lot these poems turned out to be . . . I suspect that these baroque and potent imaginings can only have come into existence as fragments of dreams or nightmares. - JOHN TRANTER In The Best Australian Poems 2011, celebrated poet John Tranter selects the most vigorous, var ...Show more
Haphazard Quilt: Poems of the Mornington Peninsula by Weston Bate
25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems celebrating sixty years of holidays on the Mornington Peninsula.
Australian Passport by S. S. Charkianakis
26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The author is the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia. This anthology, collected over 30 years, reflects Charkianakis' experience of Australia and his research into the historic memory and natural landscape of the country.
Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Sir Richard Francis Burton
9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift S.
"The Arabian Nights is more generally loved than Shakespeare," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. And the best-known versions of these ancient middle eastern tales are those by the great Victorian English explorer and writer, Richard F. Burton. Also known as A Thousand and One Nights, the stories were told b ...Show more
Poems by Young Australians: Vol. 5 by Taronga Foundation
16.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Here is a collection to share and enjoy - the very best poems for young people, by young people. This anthology of winning and commended poems from the 2007 Taronga Foundation Poetry Prize is both a delight and a revelation, showcasing the remarkable talent of poets from 8 to 19 years of age. The brainc ...Show more