Typewriter by Paul Hetherington
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The private matters of Hetherington’s Typewriter are thinly veiled behind an ever so gently crafted prose, causing the reader to walk in the poet’s shoes, and tripping over lines like ‘a diary from a shelf. It says she doesn’t love him’, evoking unwelcome memories.
Leftovers by Cassandra Atherton
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Atherton’s treatment of the prose poem in Leftovers creates a synæsthesia-like experience. Her inventive regard of ordinary things triggers a breadth of sensations and memories, blurring in and out of her real world and her other ‘real’ world of literary fiction.
Recipe for Risotto by Clarke, Josephine
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Josephine Clarke's poems shimmer with everyday grace: moments in ordinary lives, celebrated with compassion and photographic vividness. From ancestral Italy, via the Karri forests, farms and small towns of southern WA to contemporary Perth, they record a transplanting of culture and acknowledge the imp ...Show more
Anh and Lucien by Page, Tony
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Anh and Lucien is a compelling celebration of male desire and intimacy - and also a gripping clash of cultures and ideologies. Danger and death pervade Tony Page's sensuous and sensitive evocation of a risky love affair in an alluring, unsettled place and time, Indochina 1940. Intrigue and art, passion ...Show more
Selected Poems by Brodsky, Joseph
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, "Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling." The poems in this volume span Brodsky's career, which was marked by his expulsion from the Soviet Union ...Show more
The Puncher and Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry by John Leonard (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The rich diversity of Australian poetry stands in no need of makeovers or prescriptions. What will benefit it is attentive and brilliant readers, of whom John Leonard is without doubt one of its finest. - Martin HarrisonThis anthology realigns Australian poetry from a 21st century perspective, with a se ...Show more
Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres
$40.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The brand new collection of verse from the nation's favourite poet, Pam Ayres.With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam's new collection is by turns side-splittingly funny, at others so reflective and profound that it moves whole audiences to tears.From the horror o ...Show more
Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices by Desert Pea Media
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
With lyrics rich in rhyme, Homeland Calling is a hip-hop poetry collection that channels culture and challenges stereotypes. The words have all been written by First Nations youth from remote and regional communities around Australia, edited by award-winning author and poet Ellen van Neerven, and brough ...Show more
Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, ...Show more
James Agee - Selected Poems by James Agee; Andrew Hudgins (Editor)
$34.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: American Poets Project Ser.
Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, "as restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiti ...Show more