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Crow by Ted Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more
Dark Convicts by Judy Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Uwap Poetry
It is a little known fact that eleven African American convicts arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Two of these ex-slaves were the author's ancestors. In extensively researched poems, award-winning writer Judy Johnson vividly portrays scenes from her black forebears' lives, both before tra ...Show more
Dart by Alice Oswald
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and i ...Show more
Emily Dickinson (Poetry for Kids) (HB) by Emily Dickinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's General | Series: Poetry for Kids
Let your children discover the works of poet Emily Dickinson in Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson. As the premier title in the Poetry for Kids series, Emily Dickinson introduces children to the works of poet Emily Dickinson. Poet, professor, and scholar Susan Snively has carefully chosen 35 poems of in ...Show more
Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Field Work, his fifth volume, from 1979, is a collection of po ...Show more
Flute of Milk by Susan Fealy
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UWAP Poetry
Flute of Milk is Susan Fealy's first full-length collection of poems after years of publication in Australian and US journals and anthologies including Poetry (Chicago), Island, Cordite, Rabbit and in the Anthology of Australian Contemporary Feminist Poetry (Hunter, 2016). The collection is in two parts ...Show more
Free Logic by Rachael Briggs
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Free Logic is a collection of poems about love, logic, sin, gender, and imaginary animals. Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Rachael Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. Structured as eight set ...Show more
Goblin Market And Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
Goblin Market and Other Poemswas Christina Rossetti's first full volume of poetry, published in 1862. The collection received widespread critical praise and established Rossetti as the foremost female poet of her time. Tennyson, Hopkins and Swinburne all admired her work. The title poem 'Goblin Market' ...Show more
Helium by Rudy Francisco
$32.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Button Poetry Ser.
Helium is the debut poetry collection by internet phenomenon Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers. Rudy's poems and quotes have been viewed and shared millions of times as he has travelled the country and the world performing for sell-out crowds. Helium is filled ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ("The Old Fools", "This Be the Ver ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Interval by Judith Bishop
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Uqp Poetry
Bishop's attentive poetic gaze unfailingly reveals the luminous. In Interval, her poems - many addressed to a lover, or to children - explore intimacy, solitude and the 'chemical mess' of human love. As Carl Phillips said of Event, 'These are splendid poems indeed, whose intelligence, vision, and sheer ...Show more