The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood by Gwen Harwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A must-have collection from one of Australia's finest poets'The outstanding Australian poet of the twentieth century' -Peter Porter O could one write as one makes lovewhen all is given and nothing kept,then language might put by at lastits coy elisions and ineptwithdrawals, yield, and yielding castaside ...Show more
The Big Amazing Poetry Book: 52 Weeks of Poetry From 52 Brilliant Poets by Gaby Morgan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Plays
From John Agard and Julia Donaldson to Nikita Gill, Brian Bilston and Carol Ann Duffy, The Big Amazing Poetry Book is a brilliant, accessible introduction to poetry and to fifty-two fantastic poets. Introduced by Roger McGough, the book features the illustrations of former Children's Laureate and belove ...Show more
The Cyprian by Amy Crutchfield
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry/Plays
Powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in its various formsFrom poems of desire and sexual longing to poems of love in the face of death, The Cyprian explores the joy and heartbreak love weaves into our lives. The collection confronts some of our primary questions about love: how is it pos ...Show more
The Drama Student by Autumn Royal
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry/Plays
Intense, dramatic, theatrical — an important new poetry collection which draws its strength from its confrontation with grief and mourning. As its title suggests, the poems in Autumn Royal’s The Drama Student explore theatrical responses to life. And in particular, the staging of the emotional life. ...Show more
The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara M Saleh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Plays
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh.The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat is a dazzling collection that examines and represents the complexity of Arab-Australian Muslim women's identities, as well as exploring gender a ...Show more
The Gleaner Song: Selected Poems by Song Lin, Dong Li
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Category: Poetry/Plays
Song Lin is one of China’s most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was imprisoned for almost a year. He left China soon afterwards. This selection of poems, made by the translator Dong Li and the poet himself, sp ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
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
The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Visceral and energetic, Omar Sakr’s poetry confronts notions of identity and belonging head-on. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a seething, urgent collection from a distinctive new voice. ‘The tyranny that we can inflict on each other, the harms of fa ...Show more
The Love Poems of Rumi by Rumi
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Category: Poetry | Series: Timeless Rumi Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Love Poems of Rumi is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumis poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for inspirational themes and messages about love.
The Poetry Pharmacy Forever: New Prescriptions to Soothe, Revive and Inspire by William Sieghart
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry/Plays
After the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life's ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails he received from the public during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-pe ...Show more
The Street Poet by Jaidyn Luke Attard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry on the walls. Needles in the gutters. Preachers on the corners. Protesters on the roads. People begging on the streets. This is 21st century Melbourne. Johnny Lock - young and fragile, purposeless and paranoid - meets Jay Khan, a wanderer who writes letters to strangers while trapped in Melbourne ...Show more
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
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Category: Poetry/Plays | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blo ...Show more