Refugees by Brian Bilston
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Refugees is a book of two voices. The first one sees the people fleeing from war and persecution and asks, "Why here? Why my country?" It is a feeling many people share. It is one of fear and suspicion. But when you read the text the opposite way, a new voice emerges. It says, "Why not make them welcom ...Show more
A Month of Sundays by Courtney Peppernell
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Category: Poetry
From poet Courtney Peppernell comes the story of a very long winter, a month of dark and unforgiving Sundays, that will make you question your strength and the purpose of living. Bestselling poet and author of the acclaimed Pillow Thoughts series, Courtney Peppernell returns with a story of uncovering ...Show more
The Poems of Octavio Paz by Octavio Paz; Eliot Weinberger (ed.)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before, plus ne ...Show more
Senselessness: A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute by Horacio Castellanos Moya
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it u ...Show more
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea by Dunya Mikhail; Elizabeth Winslow (Translator)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mikhail writes: "Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand." The two halves of Mikhail's book merge past and present in a lyrical memoir that moves between memories of her childhood, her father's death, her Iraqi poet-p ...Show more
Tintinnabulum by Judith Beveridge
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Judith Beveridge’s much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018 Judith Beveridge’s much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018.The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on anim ...Show more
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by O Tuama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times
Selected Poetry - Alexander Pushkin by Alexander Pushkin; Antony Wood (Translator)
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Category: Poetry
Pushkin's Selected Poetry is the most famous poem in Russian literature after his Eugene Onegin, and notoriously difficult to translate. This new translation, described by Robert Chandler as 'truly wonderful', is accompanied here by Pushkin's greatest shorter verses. They range from lyric poetry to narr ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year by Colin Salter (Editor)
$47.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every night of the year. Chosen especially by a Shakespeare fanatic to reflect the changing seasons and yearly events, the entries in this glorious book include Romeo and Ju ...Show more
Drawn to the Light: Poems on Rembrant's Religious Paintings by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry