Pen in Hand - Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries by Tim Parks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a comprehensive answer in a series of stimulating and challeng ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III by R. H. Sin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III! His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the series.r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion a ...Show more
Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
William Wordsworth (Faber Nature Poets) by William Wordsworth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
Continuous Creation: Last Poems by by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureateIn a poetic gift from beyond the grave, Les Murray left a trove of last poems. These are poems he was working on up to his death, as well as work uncovered from his scrapbooks and files. Various, intriguing and moving, th ...Show more
Wild by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in each one of us - the freedom of our spirit, the child ...Show more
Another America Otra America by Barbara Kingsolver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she found was quite different, "another America" that she chronicled through her poetry, in which she came to share her ...Show more
Fallen among Reformers - Miles Franklin, Modernity and the New Woman by Janet Lee
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literature
Spine Poems - An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers by Annette Dauphin Simon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines--illustrated with 110 full-color photographs. Easy to create and share online, spine poems--also known as collage poems or centos--have become a fun and popular way o ...Show more
Maus Now: Selected Writing by Hillary Chute (editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture and the world of comics. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these pract ...Show more
Dear Lover by JOHNSON SAMUEL
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the bestselling, cancer-vanquishing Love Your Sister team, and edited by the indefatigable Samuel Johnson, comes Dear Lover, a funny, revealing and soul-stirring collection of letters written by notable Australians like Turia Pitt, Samuel Johnson, Susie Youssef, Hilde Hinton, Stuart Coupe, Jacqui L ...Show more