The Bloomin' Notions of Other Beau by Toby Fitch
25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud told his friends in Africa that he had "seen Australia". But what did he mean by "seen"? Visited? Viewed on the horizon? Imagined? The Bloomin' Notions of Other Beau is a book of antipodes-inversions-of the prose poems collected in Rimbaud's Les Illumination ...Show more
I Must be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014 by Eileen Myles
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favourites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of nineteen books including Chelsea Girls. Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. At once intimate and open-h ...Show more
Ghostspeaking by Peter Boyle
29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Eleven fictive poets from Latin America, France and Quebec. Their poems, interviews, biographies and letters weave images of diverse lives and poetics. In the tradition of Fernando Pessoa, Boyle presents an array of at times humorous, at times tormented heteronymous poets. In their varied voices and sty ...Show more
We British by Andrew Marr
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'This book includes some of the greatest of our poetry. I hope that it adds up to a new way of thinking about who we have been, and who we are now.' We British is much more than an anthology. This is a veritable history of Britain, told through the verse of its greatest poets. With the entertaining and ...Show more
Poetry Notebook (2006-2014) by Clive James
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book h ...Show more
Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward Fitzgerald by Robert D. Richardson
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam's quatrains, known as rubai, were written individually for an audience at court, and explored the meanings of life, love, and friendship. They were almost completely unknown in the West until Edward FitzGerald--himself a relatively obscure critic- ...Show more
French Love Poems by Tynan Kogane
16.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve to the piercing lyricism of the Romantics and the dreamlike comp ...Show more
Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Orhan's brilliant and eccentric grandfather, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades - old business. But his grandfather has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, Seda, an aging woman in a retirement ...Show more
Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This title was the winner of the Sunday Times/ PFD Young Writer Award 2015. It was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2015. It was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for the Best Collection 2015. There is a Chinese proverb that says: 'It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.' But geese, li ...Show more
Time Capsule by David Ireland
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Time Capsule the poem-like writings of a breadth of fictional voices are gathered together in an incisive reflection on contemporary existence. Painting students, surfers, pharmacists, retirees, sports lovers, budding writers, Toastmaster members, churchgoers, people from diverse walks of life - all ...Show more
Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Meeting the British is Paul Muldoon's fifth collection of poems. They range from an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare, through a meditation on a bar of soap, to a sequence of monologues spoken by some of the famous, or infamous, inhabitants of '7, Middagh Street', New York, on Thanksgiv ...Show more
Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver
31.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in medita ...Show more