Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
No Bliss Like This by Jill Hollis
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Here, the bitter and the sweet mingle as women from the last five hundred years write about jealousy, fickleness, exhilaration, the pain of parting and the transience of love. Revealed is poetry which has been largely invisible since the fifteenth century; surprises from women better known for other thi ...Show more
Nameless Earth by Robert Gray
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Believing, as Ezra Pound did, that real emotion is all that endures, Robert Gray has avoided 'magic realism', whismy, irony and mannered tone in his poetry. Instead, his style is classically direct, clear and concrete, demonstrating an Augustan preference for substantial content. The poems of "Nameless ...Show more
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, ...Show more
Selected Poems: Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andulucian childhood. From the playful "Suites" and stylized "Gypsy Ballads", to his own dark vision of ur ...Show more
e.e cummings: Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings
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Category: Poetry
"Among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets," according to Jenny Penberthy in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, E. E. Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A Cummings poem is spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically place ...Show more
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make ...Show more
Logue's Homer Cold Calls: War Music Continued: Vol 1 by Christopher Logue
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The scene is set for Cold Calls, the fifth and penultimate instalment of Logue's Homer, an ongoing project - a piece of performance-art for the page rather than the stage - which has taken several decades to unfold, and has been described as, 'Less a translation than an adaptation. Less an adaptation in ...Show more
Collected Poems by Les Murray
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Displays the full range of Les Murray's poetic art. This volume includes all the poems he wants to preserve from his first book Ilex Tree to Poems the Size of Photographs, from 1965 to 2002.
The Biplane Houses by Les A. Murray
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Les Murray' s first new book since "Poems the Size of Photographs "(2002) finds him at his near-miraculous best. Where that book and the book-length poem "Fredy Neptune "(1999) were animated by Murray' s choice of a single mode of approach (the short poem, the modern epic), this one calls on his ability ...Show more
What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
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$25.00 (12% off)
Category: Poetry
An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey Gospel "How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?""With an economy based on flattery and self-protection?""and a sewage system of selective forgetting?""and an extensive history of b ...Show more