Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' -- Boston Globe In Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed ...Show more
All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The new collection from feminist Irish poet and multi-awarding winning author of As You Were and How to Build a Boat Elaine Feeney brings her poetry to Harvill Secker and Vintage with this powerful, personal, fierce collection about women's lives, bodies, battles and triumphs. From a searing meditation ...Show more
Cadaver Dog by Luke Best
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Be ...Show more
Brand New Ancients by Kae Tempest
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap and storytelling - combined with ...Show more
Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems by Vikram Seth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mind That I am forever waking in a lost country...' SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both 'gifts and harms'. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems trace the dying days of summer, ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Richard Wagner as Poet and Thinker by Robertson,J.G.
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Richard Wagner as poet? Yes! This hitherto unpublished study invites the reader to see Wagner's texts not just as opera librettos but as dramatic poems in their own right. An authority on German literature, Robertson offers an engaging account of the poems in the light of nineteenth-century drama and th ...Show more
The Glugs of Gosh by C.J. Dennis
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Glugs of Gosh is a book of satirical verse written by Australian author C. J. Dennis, published by Angus & Robertson in 1917. The book's 13 poems are vignettes of life in a fictional kingdom called Gosh, inhabited by an arboreal race (that is to say, climbers) known as Glugs. Dennis describes th ...Show more