Celebrating Australia - A Year in Poetry by Lorraine Marwood
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Category: Poetry
A beautiful collection of poems about celebrations.Australia Day, ANZAC Day, Boxing Day and birthdays. Weddings, Chinese New Year, the first day of spring and Ramadan. So many special occasions! So much to celebrate. In this vibrant new poetry collection, Lorraine Marwood explores the many ways we celeb ...Show more
Around the Boree Log and The Parish of St Mel's by John O'Brien
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Category: Poetry
In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the centre of their lives.
What is Poetry? by Michael Rosen
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Category: Poetry
A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the country's leading children's poets. Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and reading poetry. In this invalua ...Show more
RIO GRANDE AND OTHER VERSES by A. B. Paterson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Editions for the Trenches Ser.
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvi ...Show more
Earth Hour by David Malouf
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Category: Poetry
A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon, David Malouf’s first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers. Earth Hour comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of “silence, following talk” ...Show more
Untangling Spaghetti (Selected Poems) by Steven Herrick
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Category: Poetry
Each day after school, Steven's sons would come home and tell him about their day. These stories became poems and these poems became fodder for the many school talks Steven gives around the country each year. Topics include food, animals, school, friends, sport (esp. soccer!), dogs and anything and ever ...Show more
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest
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Category: Poetry
Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, ...Show more
The Dictionary of Dads by Justin Coe
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Category: Poetry
Look out for Big Bad Dad and Caveman Dad, laugh at Daddy Disaster and Donkey Dad, feel sorry for Faraway Dad and look forward to Homecoming Dad. Then raise a cheer for Mum-Dad! There are more than fifty different dads in The Dictionary of Dads. Find your favourite - but watch out for Exploding Dad! This ...Show more
Out and About: A First Book of Poems by Shirley Hughes
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Category: Poetry
In this wonderful collection of poems, by best-loved and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner, Shirley Hughes, Katie and her little brother Olly go out and about, romping through the changing seasons. They take pleasure in the different elements and weather conditions - sunshine, wind, rain, mist and even snow. ...Show more
Classic Australian Poems by Christopher Cheng
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Category: Poetry
"Australian poets have a wonderful way with words and their poems bring to life the iconic Aussie characters and unforgettable landscape that are part of our Australian heritage. Many of these - Mulga Bill, Clancy of the Overflow, The Ant Explorer, M'Dougal, The Shearer's Wife and Mr Smith - are larger ...Show more
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
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Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2019 Carnegie Medal. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an ...Show more