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Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun
$32.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser.
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family's wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Through the vehicle of recipe, butchery, and dinner table poems, the collection negotiates the myriad ways d ...Show more
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
Songs of Innocence and Experienceis one of the best-loved poetry collections of all time, an innovative and groundbreaking experiment in which Blake intertwined text and image to dazzling effect. The volume, published sometimes as two separate collections, juxtaposes the innocent world of childhood with ...Show more
Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska by Wislawa Szymborska
$44.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a larg ...Show more
Special The by David Stavanger
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Award. Both fun and playful, Stavanger's poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.
Stone Mother Tongue by Annamaria Weldon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
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Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which ...Show more
Surface to Air by Jaya Savige
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006-2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut, latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti. While many ...Show more
T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected ...Show more
Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems 1957-1994 by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A selection of work by the former Poet Laureate ranging from "The Hawk in the Rain" to "Rain-Charm for the Duchy", as well as uncollected poems from each decade of his working life. Hughes also included a group of new poems, some of which appeared later in "Birthday Letters".
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pitt Poetry Series
This collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from the art form of the calendar pinup to blues music.
The Best American Poetry 2011: Series Editor David Lehman by Kevin Young
$21.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best American Poetry (Paperback)
The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.
The Best American Poetry 2018 by David Lehman; Dana Gioia
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Best American Poetry Ser.
Celebrating thirty years, the 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry--"a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune)--collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia. In a review of Best American Poetry 2017, The Washingto ...Show more