Credo: Selected Essays by Imants Tillers
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Credo brings together essays from different stages in Imants Tillers’ career, from ‘Locality Fails’ to ‘Metafisica Australe’ and ‘Journey to Nowhere’, and closes with an essay written especially for the collection, ‘The Sources’, on the artists and writers he has drawn on in his art. These essays expres ...Show more
Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson: A selection of old favourites by Newell Rex
$19.99 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Poetry
The "Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson" have always been, and still remain, firm favourites with most Australians. He was "a poet who captured characters, moments and events which are now part of our national consciousness...no one managed to tell stories which as much wit and humour as 'The Banjo'" Thi ...Show more
At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new v ...Show more
The Big Amazing Poetry Book: 52 Weeks of Poetry From 52 Brilliant Poets by Gaby Morgan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A brilliant introduction to 52 fantastic poets introduced by Roger McGough and illustrated by Chris Riddell. The Big Amazing Poetry Book is a warm, funny collection packed with different styles of poetry - ballads, riddles, tongue-twisters, shape poems, haikus, sonnets and raps - about seasons, festival ...Show more
Comfort Food by Ellen van Neerven
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
I also saw those spirit dogs and poetry travelled with me like rivers I didn't ever eat alone 'Goan Fish Curry' Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this luscious collection. Moving between places an ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2022 by Jeanine Leane, Judith Beveridge
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Best of Australian Poetry is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2021 – 7 August 2022, the series, now in its second year, will ...Show more
On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers by Geraldine Brooks
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia's greatest writersIn this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers, Tim Winton. In the Wr ...Show more
LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms by Atticus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars, and The Truth About Magic comes Love & Poetry, a dazzling new journey into the great unknown by Atticus. Featuring over 250 brand new poems, this sees Atticus take his readers on an enthralling, unforgettable new a ...Show more
Michael Rosen's Book of Very Silly Poems by Michael Rosen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Let your imagination run riot and laughter fill your belly as you explore traditional poems, rhymes with a twist, and subversive playground favourites in this playful treasure chest of verse.
The Best Australian Science Writing 2022 by Ivy Shih (Editor); Norman Swan (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser.
What can a microbial gravesite on a moon teach us? Why are a group of scientists risking their life to safeguard a seed bank? How does a virus detective story show us why we need to be vigilant about the next disease outbreak? Great science writing compels us to pay attention to parts of the world often ...Show more
Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. The text is preceded b ...Show more