The Inferno of Dante Alighieri by Ciaran Carson (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Quite simply the best version of Dante there is' PAUL MULDOON, Irish Times. Almost eight centuries after its first publication, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedyremains an icon of Italian literature and of the epic genre. In Inferno, the first volume, the poet Virgil leads Dante's hero through hell, sho ...Show more
Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. Swimming Lessons is the first collection of poetry from one of the most beloved young actresses working today. It follows the euphoric beginnings of young love, battlin ...Show more
'Mappings of the Plane': New Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood
$47.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) is one of the best loved Australian poets of the twentieth century - and a fierce prankster, who published poems under half-a-dozen names and identities. By turns poignant, sensuous and mischievous, passionately musical, her poetry is marked by sure intelligence and a quicksilve ...Show more
Cat Poems by Various
$17.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affec ...Show more
Homie by Danez Smith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"& colin kaepernick is my president, who kneels on the airbent toward a branch, throwing apples down to the children & vets & rihanna is my president, walking out of global summitswith wine glass in hand, our taxes returned in goldto dust our faces into coins& my mama is my president, h ...Show more
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.'His wor ...Show more
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
One of Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2017 A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Poetry Collections of SpringA Most Anticipated book at Buzzfeed, NYLON and BustleOne of i-D's emerging female authors to read in 2017'Outstanding collection of poems. So much soul. So much ...Show more
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Thom Gunn's The Man With Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a set of poems about the deaths of friends from AI ...Show more
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018* *A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017* *A Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018* ‘[Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy’ The New Yorker Award-winning poet ...Show more
Where Only the Sky Had Hung Before by Toby Fitch
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Where Only the Sky had Hung Before disassembles and reassembles language found in the textual wastelands of the internet and the literary canon. Across many spectrums, from slippery lists of factoids to indices of figurative language, from a pantoum of #staywoke tweets to deep cuts and collage treatmen ...Show more
A Passing Bell by Paul Kane
$45.00 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
Towards the End by Ali Alizadeh
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Towards the End presents the contemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversibly towards collapse as well as rebirth. The collection begins with the speaker’s disillusion with the ideals of capitalism, and the ironic realisation that happiness and prosperity may no longer be a ...Show more