Burning Rice by Eileen Chong
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fourth edition of this Singaporean Australian poet's first collection. Written with an Australian Poetry Fellowship and nominated for the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry.
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion; Stephen Regan
$75.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolationElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature- a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of l ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
Rainforest by Eileen Chong
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mind of poetry, breath of calligraphy, sweep of painting.
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
The Lights by Ben Lerner
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.
We Play Here by Dawn Watson
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Four female friends navigate the political turbulence of North Belfast in the late 80s in this extraordinary, evocative verse novel. We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of politi ...Show more
An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy She is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He an accountant, dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. She attempts to ...Show more
Divisible by Itself and One by Kae Tempest
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper.I want to take you back where you began,Find the scraps of you you hid in secretAnd bring them back to life beneath my tongue. Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, ...Show more