Allen Ginsberg - Selected Poems 1947-1995 by Allen Ginsberg
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic 'Beat Generation' image. Presented chronologica ...Show more
Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis
17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"For the first time in one volume here are the complete verse stories of the Sentimental Bloke, Doreen, Ginger Mick, Digger Smith and Rose. Dennis's larrikins, lasses, soldiers and settlers won the hearts of Australians when they first appeared early last century. Such is the humanity to be found in the ...Show more
Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
36.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was one of the primary poets and writers of the Surrealist movement of 1924-1930. He wrote, and collaboratively wrote, many influential and celebrated books. Besides poetry, Desnos wrote on a wide range of subjects from film texts and criticism to novels. During WWII he became ...Show more
Poems on the Underground by JUDITH CHERNAIK EDITOR
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This beautiful new edition of "Poems on the Underground" is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets ...Show more
Love Poems by Erich Fried
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fried's poetry holds some of the most tender lines of poetry in any language. The universal theme of humanity and the various issues that perplex the human race are central to the reading of his poetry. A stoic who could find humour and an optimistic message in every aspect of human life, Fried's depth ...Show more
Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden
24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Jennifer Maidens poems are like verse essays, subjecting the political issues of our time, and the figures who dominate them, to a fierce scrutiny, while allowing the personal aspects of experience to be portrayed in the most delicate and imaginative ways. This is the quality of liquid nitrogen which gi ...Show more
Gwen Harwood: Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Gwen Harwood is celebrated as one of Australia's greatest poets. This is an all-encompassing collection of a lifetime of writing, including poems published just before her death.
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry by Wes Davis
34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as "An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry". Collected here is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Cla ...Show more
Being Alive - The sequel to Staying Alive by Neil Astley (editor)
27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Being Alive is about being human: about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and wonder. Being Alive is the sequel to Neil AstleyâÂÂs Staying Alive,which became BritainâÂÂs most popular poetry book, because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern wor ...Show more
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Taller When Proneis Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The BiplaneHouses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape ...Show more
Banjo Paterson's Bush Ballads by Banjo Paterson
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Banjo Paterson is Australia's greatest balladist and folk poet. His work captures the spirit of the Australian bush. This attractive collection contains all of Banjo's bush ballads in one volume. Relive such classics as The Man from Snowy River, Clancy of the Overflow and Waltzing Matilda, as well as so ...Show more
Selected Poems: Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire; Carol Clark (Editor, Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
'I have sought forgetful sleep in love; but love is nothing but a mattress of needles'The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal ...Show more