Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
Wild by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in each one of us - the freedom of our spirit, the child ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry by Cassandra Atherton; Paul Hetherington
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years. The Anthology of ...Show more
The Cat in the Treble Clef by Louis de Bernières
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the very start of his writing career Louis de Bernières has loved poetry. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns to this first love with his third collection. Writing on a variety of subjects, including the dream that inspired the title poem, de Bernières shares his pa ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...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
Come on In! New Poems by Charles Bukowski
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his production.This collection is selected from an arch ...Show more
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson; Jen Bervin (Editor); Marta Werner (Editor); Susan Howe (Foreword by)
$47.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Gorgeous Nothings -- the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts ever to appear -- is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of envelopes. A never-before-possible glimpse into th ...Show more
The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe | Reading Level: very good
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, ...Show more
To My Country by Ben Lawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry, helpless and broken-hearted as he watched the ...Show more