Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Reading Level: very good
To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they expl ...Show more
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY. "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each wo ...Show more
Poetry Notebook (2006-2014) by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book h ...Show more
Poems of Henry Lawson: With Illustrations by Pro Hart by Lawson Henry
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
In any part of Australia, almost in any company, the mere mention of Henry Lawsons name will bring an immediate response. Whether it gives rise to an anecdote or a recitation of a few lines of his verse or leads to a discussion of his place in Australian literature it will not pass unnoticed. The poems ...Show more
Injury Time by Clive James
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
After Australia by Sweatshop Anthology
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Series: edited Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Austral ...Show more
Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness by Peter Boyle
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
"In a single book-length poem, Boyle questions what it might mean to live and write in the immediate knowledge of death, what response we can find when out of the blue we, or the one we love, are told we have a very limited time to live. At once a work of the most profound depth, and a masterpiece of cl ...Show more
Fragments by Antigone Kefala
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Antigone Kefala is one of the elders of Australian poetry, highly regarded for the intensity of her vision, yet not widely known, on account of the small number of poems she has published, each carefully worked, each magical or menacing in its effects. Fragments is her first collection of new poems in a ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter by Dorothy Porter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's true originals, renowned for her passionate, punchy poetry and verse novels. This collection, the best of her life's work as selected by her partner Andrea Goldsmith, presents the many facets of Porter, from her break-out verse novel The Monkey's Mask to her posthum ...Show more
Sorry For Your Troubles by Padraig O Tuama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
One of the most engaging voices contemporary spirituality in is that of the Irish poet, Padraig O'Tuama. This second poetry collection arises out of a decade of his hearing stories of people who have lived through personal and political conflict in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and other places of c ...Show more