Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across ...Show more
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky an ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Robert Graves by Robert Graves
$40.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Robert Graves described poetry as his ruling passion and for him love was "the main theme and origin of true poems". He created a mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Combining realism and magic, his poems are considered among the finest of the 20th century. I ...Show more
The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, ...Show more
The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of t ...Show more
Being Alive - The sequel to Staying Alive by Neil Astley (editor)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Being Alive is about being human: about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and wonder. Being Alive is the sequel to Neil AstleyâÂÂs Staying Alive,which became BritainâÂÂs most popular poetry book, because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern wor ...Show more
That Awkward Age by Roger McGough
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this new book of poetry, acclaimed poet Roger McGough builds us a world of chance encounters and embarassing moments, of big questions and small wonders. Finding himself at 'that awkward age between birth and death', he wrestles with mortality; he resolves (and fails) to live every day as if it were ...Show more
Pirate Rain - New Poems by MAIDEN Jennifer
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Pirate Rain explores arbitrary power, as delivered by piratical, natural and human forces. Greed and ambition cause disasters in the poems, in complex sequences - featuring Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the return of George Jefferys and Clare. It interweaves political poems with a more pers ...Show more
Dark Bright Doors by Jill Jones
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This latest book by award-winning poet Jill Jones raises questions of the self, as well as the ecology of place and language. This is Jones at her most versatile and idiosyncratic, at times a little wild and dark.