Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, make ...Show more
Decadence: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Thuy On
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Funny, clever and keenly observed, Decadence is a profound musing on literature and language, that deftly skewers the would-be gatekeepers of verse. With this second collection, Thuy On has cemented herself as a vibrant, unique and captivating new voice in Australian poetry.' — Maxine Beneba Clarke'In ...Show more
The Jaguar: 2023 Stella Prize Winner by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
To My Country by Ben Lawson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry, helpless and broken-hearted as he watched the ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more
Poetic Edda (PB) by Jackson (TRN) Crawford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Hackett Classics
"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, con ...Show more
Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets by Edited Michael Farrell and Jill Jones
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The first contemporary book of its kind: poems by gay and lesbian poets writing now in the freedoms and dangers of the 21st century. Poems of the 21st century: sexy, sassy, innovative, and real. Poets in the anthology include David Malouf, Dorothy Porter, Peter Rose, Pam Brown, Chris Edwards, Lee Cat ...Show more
Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters, looking up at Indigenous skies. Living on Stolen Land is a verse-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience about the colonial contextual history of Australia, in a ...Show more
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts co ...Show more
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Into the jaw of Death Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred' As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age. The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years of his literary careerand show the wide variety of poetic ...Show more
Selected Poems by William Wordsworth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the most enduringly popular of Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworth's life - from 'Tintern Abb ...Show more
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
"I am large, I contain multitudes" When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his ...Show more