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Cadaver Dog by Luke Best
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Be ...Show more
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
No book has done more to define modern poetry than T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems. The pinnacle of a lifetime's curation by Eliot himself, it was initially published in 1936, and then revised by Eliot to form the present edition of the text that was issued in 1963. But over the course of a lifetime, and ...Show more
Collected Poems: Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete text of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales fr ...Show more
Complete Poems and Plays T.S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quar ...Show more
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
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
Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
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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
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