Human Looking by Andy Jackson
25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to ‘correct’. They range widely, finding figures to identif ...Show more
A Beginners Guide To Japanese Haiku by William Scott Wilson
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
An old pond;a frog jumps in: the sound of water-- Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by William Scott Wilson, the book features 26 poets and 550 haiku, exquisitely translate ...Show more
The Letters I Will Never Send: Poems To Read, To Write and To Share by Isabella Dorta
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A collection of poetic confessional letters to the most influential people in your life from TikTok spoken word poet. For fans of Burn After Writing (100k+ worldwide), Wreck This Journal (940k worldwide) and Rupi Kaur (450K UK TCM).Embrace honesty and heal beautifully.In The Letters I Will Never Send, T ...Show more
W. B. Yeats: An inspiring collection from one of Ireland s greatest literary figures by W.B. Yeats
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.' W B Yeats was one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. Winner of ...Show more
Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems by Brian Bilston
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's own relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen ...Show more
The Ink Dark Moon by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and conduct love affairs according to their desires. Education and refinement were so highly valued that the cou ...Show more
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 extracts from Shakespeare's plays and poems. Each page of this unique book features an extract - which might be a famous poem, quote or scene - matched to the date it sits on - and an introductory paragraph which gives readers a n ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devasta ...Show more
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British and American literature have given us some of ...Show more