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Paris: Poetry of Place by Hetty Meyric Hughes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry of Place
Whether you're a backpacker from Idaho on your first visit, or a cultural swallow on an annual migration to Paris, this pocket book will intoxicate and inspire, goad and guide. Unlike the grand city of public architecture and political achievement, the poetic tradition of Paris is personal, irreverent, ...Show more
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Poems Selected by Fiona Sampson by Fiona Sampson; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Maurice Riordan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Rom ...Show more
Poems Under Saturn Poemes Saturiens by VERLAINE PAUL
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
The first complete English edition of Verlaine's important first book of poems Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nin ...Show more
Poems of Solitude by Emily Bronte
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Hesperus Classics - Poetry
This unique collection of Emily Bronte's most beautiful poems is a fantastic introduction to one of the greatest authors of English literature. The cheerful comforts of home, and the joys of memory and hope, form the background for an expression of inner fortitude in this moving book of solitude and sor ...Show more
Rallying by Quinn Eades
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
Rallying was written alongside Quinn Eades's first book, all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body, and before he began transitioning from female to male. A collection very much concerned with the body, and the ways in which we create and write under, around, without, and with children, this ...Show more
Revolving Days by David Malouf
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
An up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with their grace and intelligence, remain among the finest examples of the Australian lyric. An essential compendium for all lovers of literature.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam H/C by Omar Khayyam
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman Poetry
Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, best-selling 1859 translation of the Rubaiyat (650 editions in 150 years), with Attar's charming narrative poem, Bird Parliament. Extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.
SKIN PAINTING by HODGSON ELIZABETH
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
This collection of poetry considers the nature of memory and its historical and emotional significance. Hodgson's use of language is matched by the imagery and structure as she explores themes of art, identity, sexuality and loneliness. The poems reference widely and have the impact and haunting qualiti ...Show more
Satan Repentant by Michael Aiken
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
A violent epic leaping from the cosmological to the infinitesimal, Satan Repentant is a modern-day drama of revenge, resentment, and remorse, telling a new myth of what would happen if Satan tried to apologise and atone for all his crimes. Through that story, it explores ideas of power, of authority to ...Show more
Sea, Land, Shadow by Shiraishi, Kazuko, Tsumura, Yumiko
$17.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep --from Sea, Land, Shadow Sea, Land, Shadow, the fourth collection by Kazuko Shiraishi to be published by New Directions, comprises work written over sixty-years, from 1951 to 2015. Shiraishi, described by Don ...Show more
Seamus Heaney - Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Pleiade Ser.
Frank O'Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate ('any time, any place'). This is not the whole O'Hara: he may have scribbled poems on serviettes, but others he worked ...Show more