The Best American Poetry 2022 by Matthew Zapruder (ed.)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Best American Poetry Ser.
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2022 by Jeanine Leane, Judith Beveridge
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Best of Australian Poetry is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2021 – 7 August 2022, the series, now in its second year, will ...Show more
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 extracts from Shakespeare's plays and poems. Each page of this unique book features an extract - which might be a famous poem, quote or scene - matched to the date it sits on - and an introductory paragraph which gives readers a n ...Show more
The River in the Sky by Clive James
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday TimesClive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Inju ...Show more
Changing with the Tides by Shelby Leigh
$29.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
TikTok poet Shelby Leigh presents a moving and inspirational collection of poetry about growing up and embracing all the beauty life has to offer. The perfect gift for fans of Rupi Kaur, Connor Franta, and Cleo Wade. Shelby Leigh breaks up her poignant and reflective poetry collection into two themes: t ...Show more
Balladz by Sharon Olds
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times- a book of fear, fragililty and love of life. 'At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror,' writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating collection, which opens with a section of qu ...Show more
Monster Field by Lucy Dougan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Dougan’s elliptical work hints at a life that hovers just beyond our comprehension; in dreams, tales, the past, in the imagination of the poet. This other world surrounds even the most domestic of the poems.' — Winner’s citation, West Australian Premiers Poetry AwardLucy Dougan’s new collection draws o ...Show more
Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George by Olivia Harrison
$60.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' – Olivia Harrison Olivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening, a book of twenty poems dedicated to George, marking the twentieth year since ...Show more
We Travelled: Essays and Poems by David Hare
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'A writing career which is the most consistently adventurous of any British dramatist.' ObserverRecording dizzying changes in culture and politics, this is a powerful compilation of prose and poetry by one of the distinctive thinkers of our time. The elegant essays range from a celebration of Mad Men to ...Show more
Cold Mountain Poems by Han Shan; J. P. Seaton
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, T'ang-era rebel poet Han Shan is an icon of Chinese poetry and Zen. He and his sidekick, Shih Te, are known as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and monastery walls, calling other ...Show more
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devasta ...Show more
Decadence: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Thuy On
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Funny, clever and keenly observed, Decadence is a profound musing on literature and language, that deftly skewers the would-be gatekeepers of verse. With this second collection, Thuy On has cemented herself as a vibrant, unique and captivating new voice in Australian poetry.' — Maxine Beneba Clarke'In ...Show more