The Hollow of the Hand (hardback edition) by PJ Harvey
$85.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Between 2011 and 2014 PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series of journeys together to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected pictures, and together they have created an extraordinary chronicle of our life and times. The Hollow of the Hand marks the first ...Show more
Hollow of the Hand by P. J. Harvey; Seamus Murphy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Between 2011 and 2014 PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series of journeys together to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington, D.C.. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected pictures, and together they created an extraordinary chronicle of our life and times. The Hollow of the Hand marks the first p ...Show more
Desiderata of Happiness by Max Ehrmann
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Inspirational S.
Max Ehrmann was not afraid to express his thoughts about the evils and scandals he saw around him, and in his quest for contentment he turned to nature and the eternal passage of the seasons. This edition contains, in addition to the Desiderata, more of Max Ehrmann's writings. First published 1948.
Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison by Jim Morrison
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Lost Writings of Jim Morrison Ser.
Compiled from the literary estate of the singer who brought a wildly lyrical poetry of the damned to the world of rock 'n' roll. Includes unpublished poems, drawings, photos, and a candid self-interview.
Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
A selection of some of the classic poems considered a major achievement in twentieth century modernist poetry. Includes the masterpieces "The Wasteland," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Portrait of a Lady." By Thomas Stearns Eliot - a poet, dramatist and literary critic who received the Nobel ...Show more
The Rivered Earth by Vikram Seth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer. Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven Elements', they take us all over the world - from ...Show more
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage; Sue Roberts
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Paper Aeroplane' is the author's own selection from across a quarter-century of work, from his debut to the latest, uncollected work. Drawing upon all of his award-winning poetry collections, including 'Kid', 'Book of Matches', 'The Universal Home Doctor' and 'Seeing Stars', this generous selection pro ...Show more
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Beautiful and moving poetry for the real world' Jeanette Winterson, Guardian 'Wonderful ...a poet alert to every sound and shape of language' Sunday Telegraph The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love p ...Show more
Letters on Cezanne by Rainer Rilke
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art "For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes." Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful let ...Show more
Jam Sticky Vision by Luke Beesley
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"He seems to start writing a poem and then becomes shocked, stunned, by a word he's just put down, unable to go past it, as if discovering the letters for the first time, as if the poem has somehow written him." Kirsten Krauth, The Australian Jam Sticky Vision is the successor to Luke Beesley's highly-r ...Show more
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is graduall ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more