Inside My Mother by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
'...an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My ...Show more
Float by Anne Carson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Anne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness, her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes our perspectives. With Float, she goes further still: exploring myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with - and pushing - the limits of language and form. W ...Show more
New Directions Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poetry by Weinberger Eliot
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The first general anthology ever to consider the process of translation by presenting different versions of the same poem by various translators, as well as examples of the translators rewriting themselves. The collection, serves as an introduction to the art and tradition of Chinese poetry.
Poets of the English Language: Blake to Poe: v. 4: Romantic Poets - Blake to Poe by W. H. Auden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Viking portable library
DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: A MASTERFUL SELECTION OF WORKS FROM ONE OF THE RICHEST OF ALL LITERARY PERIODS. WILLIAM BLAKE, ROBERT BURNS,SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, LORD BYRON, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, JOHN KEATS, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, EDGAR ALLAN POE. AND MANY OTHERS. "I FIND IT HARD TO USE ANYTHI ...Show more
Contemporary Australian Poetry by Martin Langford (Editor); Judith Beveridge (Editor); Judy Johnson (Editor); David Musgrave (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The quality of Australian poetry has never been higher, nor the number of distinctive voices greater. A landmark publication, this collection presents the astonishing achievements of Australian poetry during the last quarter of a century. Over ten years in preparation, gathering over 200 poets and 500 ...Show more
Aeneid: Book VI by Seamus Heaney
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the impo ...Show more
The Unaccompanied by Simon Armitage
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"The most popular English poet since Larkin." (Sunday Times). After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh collection of poems heralds a return to his trademark contemporary lyricism. The pieces in this ...Show more
Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology by David Hinton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world litera ...Show more
On Bunyah by Les Murray
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
oMurray is a brash but also breathtakingly brilliant and often both at onceo -The AustralianBunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illuso ...Show more
T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected ...Show more
The Seven Ages of Woman: And Other Poems (Classic Reprint) by Agnes Strickland
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Excerpt from The Seven Ages of Woman: And Other Poems And thinks that, like herself, they all are good And blind to all its shoals, its storms, 'and strife, She enters on the treacherous waves of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mo ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry : 100 Women on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to toda ...Show more