French Love Poems by Tynan Kogane
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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
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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
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by e. e. cummings; George James Firmage; Stephen Dunn (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry
Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, E. E. Cummings, together with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. Today Cummings is recognized as the author of som ...Show more
Walter Benjamin - Sonnets by Walter Benjamin
45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Walter Benjamin's sonnets, written to mourn his friend Fritz Heinle, constitute an important though little-known part of the philosopher's literary achievement and a unique contribution to the history of the German sonnet. Benjamin would add to their number over a decade, having begun his project soon a ...Show more
Snake Like Charms by Joy, Amanda
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Amanda Joys first book Snake Like Charms was five years in the making. Its grounded deep in reality as are the snake cultures and legends it draws from. Amanda Joy is a poet from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, origin of the Rainbow Serpent, the Great Spirit that represents the ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; Stephen Mitchell (Translator, Foreword by)
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Category: Poetry
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more