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These Tiny Threads Remind Me by Nillumbik Shire Council (Editor)
$15.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
In response to impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of the people of Nillumbik, and on creative practitioners across Australia, Nillumbik Shire Council called for writers to provide short texts, reflecting on their pandemic experiences. At the time, and for months afterwards, walking was one of the few sanc ...Show more
The Perfect Nine by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gender
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls 'one of the greatest writers of our time' Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the Guardian and the New York Times Book Review; he has be ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
An Ordinary Magic by Anna Foletta; Tilda Foletta (Illustrator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
an ordinary magic is Anna Foletta's first book of original poetry and is a powerful and vulnerable exploration of the world around her. This book is a raw and intimate collection of musings, exploring the journey of finding magic in the perfect wonderfulness of ordinary life. It offers a deeply personal ...Show more
To My Country by Ben Lawson; Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
On January 10, Ben touched the hearts of Australians with the reading of his poem To My Country in response to the Australian bushfires. This gorgeous 4 colour book combines Ben's heartfelt words with stunning illustrations by Bruce Whatley.
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
SONGS OF A SENTIMENTAL BLOKE by C. J. Dennis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Editions for the Trenches Ser.
The perfect collector's item - a beautiful facsimile edition of C. J. Dennis's classic tribute to the larrikin, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. In the rough Australian vernacular that became his signature style, C. J. Dennis te ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Dancing by the Light of the Moon by Gyles Brandreth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of over 250 of our nations best-loved poems to read, relish and recite, handpicked by Gyles Brandreth . . . 'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness through learning poetry by heart. It's wonderful and so much fun.' Dame Judi Dench __________ A little poetry really can save y ...Show more
Richard Wagner as Poet and Thinker by Robertson,J.G.
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Richard Wagner as poet? Yes! This hitherto unpublished study invites the reader to see Wagner's texts not just as opera librettos but as dramatic poems in their own right. An authority on German literature, Robertson offers an engaging account of the poems in the light of nineteenth-century drama and th ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects ...Show more
