Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Description: No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore."Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes,"than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not exp ...Show more
John Keats (Faber Nature Poets) by John Keats
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
Selected Poems - Thea Astley by Cheryl Taylor (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This exciting collection by Australian literary legend Thea Astley brings together for the first time many poems that have never been seen or published.Winning multiple prizes for her fiction, including four Miles Franklin Awards, Astley?s earliest ambition was to write poetry. It remained her private p ...Show more
On the Outskirts by John Kinsella
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Inspired by the natural worlds surrounding T3bingen in Germany, Cambridge in England, the village of Schull in southwest Ireland and the West Australian wheatbelt, Kinsella explores through his poems the protection and valuing of human and animal life, and the environment itself. Reflecting on how the l ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Book of Prose/Verse Ser.
Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen ...Show more
Henry V by Bill (NRT); Arkangel Cast (NRT) Brian (NRT); Nighy William; Cox Shakespeare
$50.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Arkangel Complete Shakespeare
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems by T. S. Eliot; Christopher Ricks (Editor); Jim McCue (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This critical edition of T. S. Eliot's Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains t ...Show more
Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria: A Novel in 34 Cantos by Brian Castro
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Blindness and Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin's great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro's hero Lucien Gracq is a townplanner from Adelaide who is writing a book-length poem, Paidia. Doubtful of its reception, he travels to Paris to join a literary club wh ...Show more
The Bronze Horseman - Pushkin by T. E. Little (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Russian Texts
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A Passing Bell by Paul Kane
$44.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In the tradition of long-poem elegies--like Tennyson's In Memoriam, Thomas Hardy's verses to his wife and, more recently, Edward Hirsch's Gabriel, A Passing Bell, about the untimely passing of the poet's wife gives a shape to grief. In a pilgrimage we all undertake eventually, Kane's poetry offers lumin ...Show more