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
Diving Into the Wreck Poems 1971 - 1972 by Adrienne Rich
17.95 AUD
20.95 (14% off)
Category: Poetry
In this reissue of her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim - to discover - what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored.
Life On Mars by Tracy K. Smith
21.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ** A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyri ...Show more
Even in the Dark by Rose Lucas
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Even in the Dark contains delicate poems of the lives of women and the exquisite beauty contained in the act of observation. In a collection evoking luminescent images, Lucas explores nature and beauty, love and travel, in poems set at home and further afield. The entire lifespan is present here: in vit ...Show more
Shark by Terry Jaensch
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Shark reaffirms the originality and depth of Terry Jaensch’s poetic vision. Here are poems that explore the territories of childhood, human relationships and the natural world, but never with anything less than an unsettling sense of what it means to be operating from the margins or entering the unspoke ...Show more
Internal Monologues by Danijela Kambaskovic
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this book of poems, characters from old myths speak to the reader in modern voices and in internal monologue to themselves. Arranged in four cycles, the poems' speakers are archetypal lovers who speak of great love gone wrong: Minerva addresses Jupiter; Iseult speaks to Tristan; Cupid longs for Psych ...Show more
Classic Australian Poems by Christopher Cheng (Editor); Gregory Rogers (Illustrator)
14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Australian poets have a wonderful way with words and their poems bring to life the iconic Aussie characters and unforgettable landscape that are part of our Australian heritage. Many of these - Mulga Bill, Clancy of the Overflow, The Ant Explorer, M'Dougal, The Shearer's Wife and Mr Smith - are larger ...Show more
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, "which, by its vitality alone, became the dominan ...Show more
NEFERTITI IN THE FLAK TOWER by Clive James
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James' power as a poet has increased year by year, and there has been no stronger evidence for this than Nefertiti in the Flak Tower. Here, his polymathic learning and technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever; the effect is merely to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader ...Show more
New Selected Poems: 1984-2004 - Carol Ann Duffy by Carol Ann Duffy
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This volume contains poems chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first six acclaimed collections, from Standing Female Nude (1985) to Feminine Gospels (2002), and a handful of 'other poems' collected her for the first time. It shows a writer who hit the ground running, emerging into the world with an utter ...Show more
Poems to Learn by Heart by Ana Sampson
19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
'Paths of glory', 'Theirs not to reason why', 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep', 'A handful of dust', 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' - these and many others are famous lines of poetry that often occur in everyday speech. But do you know the rest of the verse, or even the rest of th ...Show more