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Crossing the Water (PB) by Sylvia Plath
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more
Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen
$39.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Art & Poetry
Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen visualized through the warm, spirited paintings and collages of Henri Matisse. Now, for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome presents a new edition of Dance Me to the End of Love featuring a revised design. Cohen's song is a lyrical ...Show more
Dart by Alice Oswald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and i ...Show more
Disfortune - Poems by Joe Wenderoth
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Wenderoth's poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the worldDisfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducibl ...Show more
Divine Comedy by John Kinsella
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books: Purgatorio: up close, Paradiso: rupture, and Inferno: leisure centre. The poet-narrator takes the reader on a tour through the wonders of nature in its full regalia, ...Show more
Dublin by John Wyse Jackson
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry of Place
Stuff Dublin into your coat pocket. The perfect companion for a visit to the Fair City, or indeed to any inn, bar or cafe in Ireland. Some of the greatest writers in the English language were born in Dublin and every corner of the city has links with the written word, made explicit in this far-ranging c ...Show more
Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Field Work, his fifth volume, from 1979, is a collection of po ...Show more
Fifteen Iraqi Poets by Dunya Mikhail (Editor)
$17.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
Fifteen Iraqi Poets compiles fifteen poems, each written by a different, prominent twentieth-century Iraqi poet. Selected, with commentary, by award-winning Iraqi-American poet, Dunya Mikhail, this little anthology is the perfect introduction to a glorious literature that traces its roots back to ancien ...Show more
Fingertip of the Tongue by Sarah Rice
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
No longer knowing which is sweeter the cherry or the feel of the word in my mouth Fingertip of the Tongue explores the texture, tone, taste, and touch of language. These are poems that feel their way through word and world with tongue and ear and fingertip. 'In Fingertip of the Tongue we find a poetry o ...Show more
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
In Flèche, Mary Jean Chan evokes the difficulties of reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Much like the fencer who must constantly read and respond to her opponent's tactics during a fencing bout, this debut collect ...Show more
Free Logic by Rachael Briggs
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Free Logic is a collection of poems about love, logic, sin, gender, and imaginary animals. Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Rachael Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. Structured as eight set ...Show more