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Ariel by Sylvia Plath
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Poetry
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
$19.98 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Fa ...Show more
Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search ...Show more
Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Alizadeh finds grace, wit and fire in this latest volume of poetry, which explores themes such as fatherhood and migration. It ranges from the Tehran of Alizadeh's childhood to the Australian coast of his teenage years. From the opening poem's hymn to mobility and renewal to the elegiac ending, Ashes in ...Show more
Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
'A book of rare, complex beauty. Dearborn's range is huge: from the mysteries and beauties of the molecular world to hard-earnt poems of family trauma, from complex love poems to a brilliant sequence based on the life of Virginia Woolf. Her miniatures - often small masterpieces - are built around decept ...Show more
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvi ...Show more
Blue Pearl by Harrison Lesley
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Category: No Category | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
What does northness sound like? The music of Iceland, Greenland, the Svalbard archipelago. Songs of birds and ice and wind. In Lesley Harrison's Blue Pearl, her first collection to appear in the United States, northern landscapes come alive through an intimacy of language that forms a collective sense o ...Show more
Charlie Twirl by Alan Gould
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Category: No Category | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
From the intrigue of his earlier poetry in fatalism and the mysteries of character, Alan Gould's interest has moved to music. In many of the poems in this book, the folk songs or the homages to Vaughan Williams, his enquiry is one of synaesthesia: What is it we see when we hear? In meditating this the p ...Show more
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
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Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
No book has done more to define modern poetry than T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems. The pinnacle of a lifetime's curation by Eliot himself, it was initially published in 1936, and then revised by Eliot to form the present edition of the text that was issued in 1963. But over the course of a lifetime, and ...Show more
Collected Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
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Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the e ...Show more
Crossing the Water (PB) by Sylvia Plath
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Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal ...Show more