Come on In! New Poems by Charles Bukowski
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his production.This collection is selected from an arch ...Show more
The Poetry of Edward Thomas by Andrew Motion
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Category: Poetry
When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of his day: poems of war, nature, friendship, despair and exultation. Andrew Motion's pioneering study of Thom ...Show more
Poems 1957-2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann
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Category: Poetry
Geoffrey Lehmann's distinguished career as a poet culminates in this volume of collected work from 1957-2013. Displaying the breadth and depth of his poetry, Lehmann explores human nature in settings as diverse as ancient Rome and rural New South Wales, from searing satire to the domestic life of a fami ...Show more
Ecstacies and Elegies: Poems by Paul Carter
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Category: Poetry
Paul Carter's intuition that space is history has distinguished his cultural writing, public art and radiophonic scripting. In his first full length volume of poems, a celebrated debut, we encounter a startling overlay of immemorial myth and ephemeral urban encounter. Spirits of the classical world jost ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2014 by Geoff Page
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Category: Poetry
'From London, some ten years ago, Clive James opined that we are living in "a golden age of Australian poetry." The quality of work between these covers suggests that Clive might still be right.' -Geoff Page In The Best Australian Poems 2014, award-winning poet Geoff Page compiles an anthology that ...Show more
Paper Aeroplane Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come. Now, twenty-five years on, Simon Armitage's reputation as one of the nation's most ...Show more
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes' poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronologicall ...Show more
The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri-the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his ...Show more
An Existential Grammar by Paul Scully
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'An Existential Grammar' is a new collection by Australian poet Paul Scully.
Poems that make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden
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$35.00 (5% off)
Category: Poetry
GROWN MEN AREN'T SUPPOSED TO CRY. But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their earl ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam P/B by Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of wh ...Show more