Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living ...Show more
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest o ...Show more
Essentials by David Whyte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'Great poems,' David Whyte has said, 'are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.' Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing the experience itself, whether that is in the daily shifts, the ever-turning seasons or the bigger cycle o ...Show more
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as w ...Show more
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told YouA book of bravado and introspection, of femi ...Show more
Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion; Stephen Regan
$75.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolationElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature- a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of l ...Show more
Brand New Ancients by Kae Tempest
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap and storytelling - combined with ...Show more
Planting Gardens in Graves II by R. H. Sin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
r.h. Sin continues his bestselling series with Planting Gardens in Graves II, another powerful collection of poetry that hones in on the themes dearest to his readers. This series celebrates connection, mourns heartbreak, and above all, empowers its readers to seek the love they deserve.
Wrecked by Louisa Reid
$16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Joe and Imogen seem like the perfect couple - they've been in a relationship for years and are the envy of their friends at school. But after accidentally becoming involved a tragic fatal accident, they become embroiled in a situation out of their control, and Joe and Imogen's relationship becomes slowl ...Show more
Villain by Justin Clemens
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
VILLAIN is a new collection by Justin Clemens. Invoking the spirit of celebrated French poet, vagabond and thief Francois Villon – some of whose ballads are translated here – these poems range from the violent and obscene to the lyrical and sublime, sometimes within a single verse. Villain unleashes a w ...Show more
Banjo Paterson Complete Poems by Banjo Paterson
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: A&R Classics
When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou ...Show more