Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son. In this follow-up, he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent, father, Though these poems threaten to break under the weight of their emotions, the ...Show more
Clarity & Connection by yung pueblo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Yung Pueblo Ser.
From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...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
Life Support: 100 Poems to Reach for on Dark Nights by Julia Copus (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
These carefully selected poems will offer solace; provide an escape from the constant chatter of everyday thought; help make space for the unexpected; enable us to reinvent ourselves within the chaotic landscape of our lives. Some will be old favourites; others less well-known; all the poems will have t ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, GuardianA noir narrative written with the intensity a ...Show more
Change Your Life: Essential Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"Crucefix's translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives" - Philip Pullman A new selection and translation - by an acclaimed poet - of Rilke's most essential work, the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life In these dazzling new translations by acclai ...Show more
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed Claire McEachern)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Sonnets (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pelican Shakespeare S.
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more
My Father's Pigs by Roland Leach
$15.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Roland Leach's poems explore the elusive link between the self and memory, our fragile landscape and its human connections in lucid and often moving language that sustains a delicate balance between intellect and emotion. These are poems unafraid to make sense in human terms and all the better for doin ...Show more
Year of the Wasp by Joel Deane
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Year Of the Wasp finds its origins in shattering personal experience and then rises from this personal focus to confront the realities of politics, culture, and language in contemporary Australia. This is a deeply engaged collection, much of the time it reads like the poet is writing for his life in a v ...Show more