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The Flaw in the Pattern by Rachael Mead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 'This is an alive, refreshing and, quite literally, elemental book of water and skin, muscle and fire. Rachael Mead's poems are immediate and grounded whilst entwined with fragility and struggle. They don't shy from the diff ...Show more
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an a ...Show more
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Picador Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018. Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018. Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018. 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' - John Banville, Guardian A noir narrative written with the in ...Show more
The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry Ser.
Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford's hugely anticipated new collection of poetry, The Luckiest Guy Alive, is his first in over thirty years. These are poems as scabrous, wry and vivid as only John Cooper Clarke could deliver. Inimitable and iconic, this collection will be a complete joy for lifelo ...Show more
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems by T. S. Eliot; Christopher Ricks (Editor); Jim McCue (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This critical edition of T. S. Eliot's Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains t ...Show more
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II - Practical Cats and Further Verses by T. S. Eliot
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This critical edition establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors. As well as the masterpieces, it contains the poems of Eliot's youth which were rediscovered only decades later, others that circulated privately during his lifetime, and love poems ...Show more
The Ruins of Nostalgia by Donna Stonecipher
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poemWhat is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeling and thought? In a series of 64 gorgeous, ramifying, unsettling prose poems addressing late-twentieth- ...Show more
The Secret Life of Poems : A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
'The Secret Life of Poems' is a primer which offers a poem - or an occasion or excerpt - with succeeding commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.
The Tiny Museums by Carolyn Abbs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. "Carolyn Abbs's poems in her poised collection The Tiny Museums live in the gap between deep time and now. They are insistently alive to the rich tensions between those two registers. This pairing of past/present plays out ...Show more
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Famous for juxtaposing Eastern cultures with Western literary references, The Waste Land has been celebrated for its eloquence, depth of meaning, and numerous subtleties. Rich with allusions to the religious texts of Hinduism and Buddhism, ancient literature, and Eliot's own life, the poem continues to ...Show more
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T S Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as w ...Show more