PARTS OF US by Shapcott Thomas
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In Parts of Us, Thomas Shapcott demonstrates why he remains one of the country's leading poets. Poetic styles in the volume range from sonnet sequences to long lyrical meditations, from dramatic monologues to more confessional works. The poems are often amusing or evocative portrayals of everyday things ...Show more
SESTETS by Wright CHarles
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country's most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright's acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the nature of description itsel ...Show more
Voices of Arabia :A Collection of the Poetry of Place by Ted J. Gorton
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It developed wherever Arabic came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo, as well as in the Arabian heartland. This book takes us on a poetic journey through the classical age of Arabic poetry, from the years AD 600-1000. This c ...Show more
The Continual Condition by Charles Bukowski
$34.50 AUD
Category: Poetry
A volume of never-before-collected poems from America's most imitated and influential poetIn the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he has struck a chord with generations of readers, writing ...Show more
Islamic Mystical Poetry by Mahmood Jamal
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbue ...Show more
Penguin's Poems For Love by Barber Laura
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken hearts. Bringing together the greate ...Show more
Traditional Australian Verse: The Essential Collection by Richard Walsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, CJ Dennis and Adam Lindsay Gordon. Once upon a time these were household names and Australians could recite their most famous verse. Here for the first time in one volume are all the great bush ballads, memorable songs and other poetry from the glory days of our bush tradi ...Show more
Puncher and Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry by John Leonard (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
will benefit it is attentive and brilliant readers, of whom John Leonard is without doubt one of its finest. - Martin HarrisonAustralian poetry from a 21st century perspective, with a selection from a wide range of living poets as well as familiar voices from the past. There is an emphasis on social obs ...Show more