In a Time of Distance - And Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith; Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love - themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar, and descriptions that will make you laugh and real ...Show more
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones. Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected the landscape of her Yorkshire ho ...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
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden
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Category: Poetry
A unique collection of poetry so powerful that 100 grown men--bestselling authors, poets laureate, and other eminent figures from the arts, sciences, and politics--have been moved to tears. Here they deliver touching and insightful personal introductions to a range of beloved poems. Grown men don't ...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
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Various
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology serves as a truly holistic and global survey to a lyric conversation about the divine that has been going on fo ...Show more
Paradise Lost by John Milton
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, "Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in "Penguin Classics". In "Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosm ...Show more
Complete Poems Of Banjo Paterson by A B Paterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Australia's most-loved bush poet, Banjo Paterson, is the writer who in many ways defined what it was to be Australian. When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'the Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. today Banjo Paterson is still one of A ...Show more
Devotions by Mary Oliver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Devotions is a stunning, definitive and carefully curated collection featuring work from over fifty ...Show more
In Memoriam: Thirty Poems of Bereavement by AUTHORS VARIOUS
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful alternative to a sympathy card, this lovely collection of thirty poems comes complete with an envelope -a perfect gift for anyone who needs solace.
Australia’s Beating Heart: An Illustrated Anthology of Classic Bush Poetry by Australian Geographic
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful collection of australian poetry in celebration of Australian culture. Australia’s Beating Heart is celebration of our wide brown land, and the people and stories that landscape shapes. This luxe anthology features 70 iconic bush poems hand-selected by Australian champion bush poets Melanie H ...Show more