Plot by Claudia Rankine
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen.In this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they find themselves propelled into the cla ...Show more
Selected Poems – Lesbia Harford by Gerald Murnane, Lesbia Harford
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A collection of poems by the Australian poet Lesbia Harford, selected and introduced by Gerald Murnane.I love you moreThan God loves the world.Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poems-about social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and ...Show more
Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son. In this follow-up, he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent, father, Though these poems threaten to break under the weight of their emotions, the ...Show more
Dress Rehearsals by Madison Godfrey
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body. My femininity is not a survival instinct, it is a song. In their brilliant new poetry collection, Madison Godfrey documents a decade of performing womanhood, from teenage fangirl to tender femme. ...Show more
100 Queer Poems by Mary Jean Chan; Andrew McMillan
$37.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past.Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, 100 Queer Poems presen ...Show more
Continuous Creation: Last Poems by by Les Murray
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureateIn a poetic gift from beyond the grave, Les Murray left a trove of last poems. These are poems he was working on up to his death, as well as work uncovered from his scrapbooks and files. Various, intriguing and moving, th ...Show more
At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new v ...Show more
Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry by Sarah Holland-Batt
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Sarah Holland-Batt's highly acclaimed and popular poetry columns from The Australian are collected together for the first time in Fishing for Lightning - suitable for the general reader as well as poetry aficionados. Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's c ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
.The Prophet, an international besteller and translated into over fifty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahil Gibran's many spiritual and religious writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet, arrayed as twentysix prose poetry essays, speaks of love an ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more