Waldo’s Game by Peter Bakowski, Ken Bolton
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Waldo’s Game extends the reach of Elsewhere Variations and Nearly Lunch – going around the corner, and around the world. From supermarket aisle to art gallery – from nocturnal shiftiness in industrial zones to dawn reckonings … in bedrooms, on wild coastlines. ‘True, pithy – and curiously groovy.’ – Mi ...Show more
On Luck Street by Peter Bakowski, Ken Bolton
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"On Luck Street builds on Elsewhere Variations, Nearly Lunch, and Waldo’s Game – taking the reader around the corner, and around the world. From a small circus in Nepal, to a florist in New York, and the streets of Coogee and Fitzroy. ‘True, slyly pithy – and trenchant to the max.’ – Millie Dickins ‘Pac ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2023 by Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best of Australian Poems Ser.
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2022 - 1 August 2023, the series, now in its third ...Show more
Fat Chance: Journalism Poems by Kent MacCarter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Fat Chance, poet and publisher Kent MacCarter investigates variations on how non-fiction can be reported, taking an uncanny look into sole survivors of major airline crashes, a memoir approach at the surgical complication known as gossypiboma - where an instrument is left behind in a body cavity afte ...Show more
Returning by Kirli Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Mate, you're standing on stolen land.'Returning is a stunning work – a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli’s journey of rediscovering self, Country and Connection. Kirli’s heartfelt experiences address large contemporary themes of decolonisation, self-determination, Identity, First Nations ...Show more
The Light the Dead See - Selected Poems of Frank Stanford by Frank Stanford; Leon Stokesbury (Editor)
$39.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his intr ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem Pearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought ...Show more
A Line in the Sand: 20 Years of Red Room Poetry Collection by Red Room Poetry
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
An anthology spanning 20 years, 80+ projects and 1200+ commissioned poets with a body of original poetic work unlike any other literary organisation. Featuring 80 poems that are highly representative of both contemporary poetry as a form as well as drawing on a multitude of voices across the history of ...Show more
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's own relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen ...Show more
Devotions by Mary Oliver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Devotions is a stunning, definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty ...Show more
Collected Poems by Rainer Brambach; Esther Kinsky (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left school at the age of fourteen to become a manual labore ...Show more