Howl - Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Presursor Texts, and Bibliography by Allen Ginsberg; Barry Miles (Editor)
$38.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece— epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation ...Show more
Slam Your Poetry: Write a Revolution by Miles Merrill, Narcisa Nozica
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Miles Merrill, spoken word artist and founder of Australian Poetry Slam, and award winning teacher Narcisa Nozica will take you from to spoken word superstar in no time. With tips from legends of the Australian poetry slam scene, 'Slam Your Poetry' privides step by step instructions and excercises tha ...Show more
A Kinder Sea by Felicity Plunkett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
I run as fast as ink but we are both dissolving: when I reach you, we become a corner of the sea. A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences - love letters, elegies, narratives and odes - it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices ...Show more
We Are Speaking in Code - Living on the Fringe with Grace, Humour and Lucid Rage by Tanya Vavilova
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
We Are Speaking in Code explores difference and deviance in the everyday through the lenses of mental illness, queerness and migrant identity. Weaving personal anecdotes with reflections on trauma, psychology and contemporary relationships this collection of essays catalogues, reconsiders and unravels i ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world ...Show more
Clancy of the Overflow: The legendary bushman by Paterson Banjo; Inopen Robert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
"Clancy of the Overflow", the legendary bushman of Banjo Paterson's immortal verse may never have existed. But does it matter? He is every Australian, a very real, even larger than life figure, a free and independent spirit galloping through the wide open spaces: vigorous, hearty and self-reliant. On th ...Show more
Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Full of zest and flair, Jessen's poems map constellations of desire, loss and longing. Riffing on the future (which isn't what it used to be), dating apps, despair, Bonnie Tyler, Taylor Swift and the lesbian bachelorette, they are set in interstellar queer utopias, maternity wards and single beds. Jesse ...Show more
Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices by Desert Pea Media
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
With lyrics rich in rhyme, Homeland Calling is a hip-hop poetry collection that channels culture and challenges stereotypes. The words have all been written by First Nations youth from remote and regional communities around Australia, edited by award-winning author and poet Ellen van Neerven, and brough ...Show more
Prince Neptune by Cody Simpson; Prince Neptune
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Jack Kerouac meets Arthur Rimbaud for the millennial generation. A debut poetry collection from LA-based Australian writer, singer, songwriter Cody Simpson who has penned hit songs and toured worldwide for the majority of his young life. Conjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: ea ...Show more
Love's Philosophy by S.K. Kelen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
It is impossible to understand how Kelen settled on the diverse subjects he has written on between the years 1978 to 2019. Regardless, the poems presented in Love’s Philosophy are given the same imaginative, romantic treatment—be it the great outdoors or a video game. Kelen’s vigorous style is much like ...Show more
The Poetical Works by John Clare
$16.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
John Clare is one of the foremost "peasant poets" of the English language. His fascination with the countryside, with nature and with the seasons and their changing moods marks a departure from the formal pastoral verse of the 18th century.
Power Politics by Atwood, Margaret
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: A\List Ser.
When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may thi ...Show more