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
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
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
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tong ...Show more
Collected Poems by Vikram Seth
59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Widely celebrated as the author of the worldwide bestselling novels A SUITABLE BOY and AN EQUAL MUSIC, Vikram Seth is also a highly acclaimed poet with a substantial body of work. Here, for the first time in one volume, readers can appreciate the beauty and scope of his poetic vision. Including MAPPING ...Show more
Les Liasons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
The scandalous reputation of Laclos's novel, first published in 1782, is based on its chilling portrayal of the mannered decadence and sexual cynicism of the French aristocracy in the last years of the "ancien regime." Christopher Hampton has made a masterful adaptation for the stage of the conspiracy t ...Show more
On Love by Charles Bukowski
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more