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Legacy by Julie Watts
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript "Legacy holds a delicate strength both in form and subject. These are poems that reflect, with grace, honesty and a sometimes unnerving directness, on the complex interconnections of contemporary life. As the poet writes about her man ...Show more
Mabinogi by FRANCIS MATTHEW
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Matthew Francis's poetic retelling of the first four stories of the Welsh national epic The Mabinogi captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world - now in paperback.
Milk Teeth by Rae White
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In the bright mirror morning, I scratchat flaked skin & peel lengthsof stringy flesh to exposecrackle quartz jutting from my neck. In this highly original debut collection, Rae White's edgy and playful poems challenge notions of category, identity, form and gender. Bodies transform, nature morphs an ...Show more
MoonFish by Harry Laing
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Poetry
MoonFish is Harry Laing's sparky new collection of poems featuring eye-catching and fresh art by some of Australia's best known illustrators including Shaun Tan, Leigh Hobbs, Judy Watson and Anna Pignataro. Children will love the humour and catchy rhymes of the twenty-nine poems featuring manic TVs, mon ...Show more
Moonlight on Oleander - Prose Poems by Paul Hetherington
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Paul Hetherington has become a master of the prose poem form, creating intriguing yet hospitable pieces whose tonal, emotional and imaginative range are a delight. Each piece has been carefully wrought to become sharp and revelatory; his graceful cadences reach right into the heart of his subjects. This ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...Show more
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire
$36.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and meta ...Show more
Old/New World: Selected Poems by SKRZYNECKI PETER
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
For nearly forty years Peter Skrzynecki has published poetry that explores the assimilation of post-war immigrants in Australia, chronicling their struggle for identity and acceptance into mainstream society. His poems are elegiac, meditative and lyrical - intimately concerned with the Australian landsc ...Show more
Open Door by John Kinsella
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
The final book in the Jam Tree Gully trilogy, Open Door continues Kinsella's investigation into environmental responsibility and the complexity of our connection to the land of rural Australia.
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make ...Show more
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