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Keeper of the Ritual by Marque Shey
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Shey Marque's debut full collection is wonderfully responsive to the complexity and sensuality of ocean, bush, animals, art and human relationships. The poems are always wryly intelligent, self-aware and carefully crafted, across an impressive variety of forms. She brings to this rich collection the for ...Show more
Kim Kardashian's Marriage by Sam Riviere
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement. Kim Ka ...Show more
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems Penguin Pocket Poetry by John Keats
$19.98 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Pocket Poetry
In the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had started coughing up blood; the following February, he would die of tuberculosis in Rome, aged just twenty-five. This volume contains his greatest work, written in an astonishing bur ...Show more
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's inn ...Show more
Legacy by Julie Watts
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript "Legacy holds a delicate strength both in form and subject. These are poems that reflect, with grace, honesty and a sometimes unnerving directness, on the complex interconnections of contemporary life. As the poet writes about her man ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads (HB Clothbound) by William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
When it was first published, Lyrical Balladsenraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classicsedition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original con ...Show more
Madness by Sam Sax
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: National Poetry Ser.
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine ...Show more
Milk Teeth by Rae White
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In the bright mirror morning, I scratchat flaked skin & peel lengthsof stringy flesh to exposecrackle quartz jutting from my neck. In this highly original debut collection, Rae White's edgy and playful poems challenge notions of category, identity, form and gender. Bodies transform, nature morphs an ...Show more
MoonFish by Harry Laing
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Poetry
MoonFish is Harry Laing's sparky new collection of poems featuring eye-catching and fresh art by some of Australia's best known illustrators including Shaun Tan, Leigh Hobbs, Judy Watson and Anna Pignataro. Children will love the humour and catchy rhymes of the twenty-nine poems featuring manic TVs, mon ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...Show more
New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham by Nathanael O'Reilly (Editor); Anna Wickham
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Anna Wickham (1883-1947) was one of the most important female poets writing in English during the first half of the twentieth century. A pioneer of Modernist poetry, she was also a fierce feminist, social activist, and friend of many significant writers, including D.H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Dyl ...Show more
Old/New World: Selected Poems by SKRZYNECKI PETER
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
For nearly forty years Peter Skrzynecki has published poetry that explores the assimilation of post-war immigrants in Australia, chronicling their struggle for identity and acceptance into mainstream society. His poems are elegiac, meditative and lyrical - intimately concerned with the Australian landsc ...Show more