Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.) "Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dal ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary £20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepart ...Show more
Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t ...Show more
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, p ...Show more
SONGS OF A SENTIMENTAL BLOKE by C. J. Dennis
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Pocket Editions for the Trenches Ser.
The perfect collector's item - a beautiful facsimile edition of C. J. Dennis's classic tribute to the larrikin, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. In the rough Australian vernacular that became his signature style, C. J. Dennis te ...Show more
Inside My Mother by Ali Cobby Eckermann
24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
'...an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My ...Show more
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
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
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart
27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensaryWhen we're grieving, when we're broken-hearted, and when we find ourselves struggling to understand the things we're feeling, we long for the connection poetry can provide. To find the right poem at that crucia ...Show more
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
65.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
The poems of one of Scotland's finest poets are published in one volume for the first time. George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature during the last fifty years. Admired by many fellow poet ...Show more
On the Outskirts by John Kinsella
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Inspired by the natural worlds surrounding T3bingen in Germany, Cambridge in England, the village of Schull in southwest Ireland and the West Australian wheatbelt, Kinsella explores through his poems the protection and valuing of human and animal life, and the environment itself. Reflecting on how the l ...Show more
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more