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
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told YouA book of bravado and introspection, of femi ...Show more
Spirals: Collected Poems Volume Three (2014-2023) by John Kinsella
$55.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Spirals is the third and final volume of John Kinsella’s collected poems and dates from 2014-2023, seeing Kinsella through his fifties and without an end in sight. Spirals is not a case of a poet growing older, steadier, and more sedate but rather brings an ongoing sense of development that is also recu ...Show more
All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The new collection from feminist Irish poet and multi-awarding winning author of As You Were and How to Build a Boat Elaine Feeney brings her poetry to Harvill Secker and Vintage with this powerful, personal, fierce collection about women's lives, bodies, battles and triumphs. From a searing meditation ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more
Owed by Joshua Bennett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a "rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S." (The New Yorker) Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an "arresting debut" that was "ab ...Show more
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.
365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri
$47.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri.This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language. Whether you're searching for wisdom or looking t ...Show more
The Asking by Jane Hirshfield
$70.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A long-awaited New and Selected collection by an iconic poet of global standing, assaying the full ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and our responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both p ...Show more
Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book ...Show more