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The Best Australian Poetry 2008 by David Brooks
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best Australian Poetry Ser.
"The Best Australian Poetry" celebrates the vibrancy and force of contemporary poetry in Australia.Guest editor David Brooks, a much admired poet in his own right, has put together a rich selection of powerful poems - elegant meditations, rapid sketches, and social commentaries - written by both emergin ...Show more
The Best Australian Poetry 2009 by Duwell Martin Lea Bronwyn Wearne Alan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian Poetry Ser.
In its seventh year, Alan Wearne brings to this collection his endless inquisitiveness and his mastery of the infinite complexity of Australian social life. His selection of 40 poems from Australia's print and online journals shows us of the many radically different ways that poetry can portray lives. W ...Show more
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Archie Burnett
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in "Collected Poems" (1988), and in the "Early Poems and Juvenilia" (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affecti ...Show more
The Flaw in the Pattern by Rachael Mead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 'This is an alive, refreshing and, quite literally, elemental book of water and skin, muscle and fire. Rachael Mead's poems are immediate and grounded whilst entwined with fragility and struggle. They don't shy from the diff ...Show more
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an a ...Show more
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry Ser.
Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford's hugely anticipated new collection of poetry, The Luckiest Guy Alive, is his first in over thirty years. These are poems as scabrous, wry and vivid as only John Cooper Clarke could deliver. Inimitable and iconic, this collection will be a complete joy for lifelo ...Show more
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems by T. S. Eliot; Christopher Ricks (Editor); Jim McCue (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This critical edition of T. S. Eliot's Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains t ...Show more
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II - Practical Cats and Further Verses by T. S. Eliot
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This critical edition establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors. As well as the masterpieces, it contains the poems of Eliot's youth which were rediscovered only decades later, others that circulated privately during his lifetime, and love poems ...Show more
The Ruins of Nostalgia by Donna Stonecipher
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poemWhat is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeling and thought? In a series of 64 gorgeous, ramifying, unsettling prose poems addressing late-twentieth- ...Show more
The Secret Life of Poems : A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
'The Secret Life of Poems' is a primer which offers a poem - or an occasion or excerpt - with succeeding commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.