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Love Is Strong As Death: Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly (HB) by Paul Kelly
$39.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
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
Homeland Calling - Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices by Desert Pea Media; Ellen van Neerven (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
With lyrics rich in rhyme, Homeland Calling is a hip-hop poetry collection that channels culture and challenges stereotypes. The words have all been written by First Nations youth from remote and regional communities around Australia, edited by award-winning author and poet Ellen van Neerven, and brough ...Show more
Millefiori by Omar Musa
$24.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
A collection of love poems and fierce raps, Millefioriis Omar Musa's third book of poetry. Both dream-like and gritty, it also includes gorgeous illustrations and draft poems from Musa's notebook. Heartbreak, cocaine, colonial violence, memory and cave paintings- this is a world full of unbearable beaut ...Show more
Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson by Banjo Paterson
$29.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
The "Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson" have always been, and still remain, firm favourites with most Australians. He was "a poet who captured characters, moments and events which are now part of our national consciousness...no one managed to tell stories which as much wit and humour as 'The Banjo'" Thi ...Show more
Wise Children by Angela Carter; Ali Smith (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Basho Matsuo
$14.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho stri ...Show more
Omar & Enzo in the Big Talking Book by Colin Batrouney
$24.95 AUD
Category: POETRY
This multilayered, confronting novel deals with repression, violence and transformation.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt (General Editor); M. H. Abrams (Founded by); Jahan Ramazani (Editor); Jon Stallworthy (Editor)
$42.95 AUD
Category: POETRY
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors an ...Show more
King Henry IV Part 1 (Arden Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Series: Arden Shakespeare: Third Series
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that t ...Show more
The Circus by Ken Bolton
$19.95 AUD
Category: POETRY
A small circus arrives near Trieste - Strong Man, lion, ballerina - from these elements is constructed a contemporary idyll of troubled beauty and humour. With a nod to Robbe-Grillet's 'Jealousy' and 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg', and yet another to 'A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty', The Circus succeeds i ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (illus david Messer)
$19.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Series: William Shakespeare .S
Teachers the world over are despairing these days of how to get students interested in Shakespeare. Acclaimed cartoonist David Messer has created a unique comic book format, which combines the visual impact of a play of film with the literary depth of a conventional text.
Maisie and the Black Cat Band by E. Anne Gleeson
$25.00 AUD
Category: POETRY
E. A. Gleeson has that rare talent of lifting a moment of intimacy into the realm of universal truth, of capturing instances of recollection and infusing them with emotion and thoughtful language where every word gleams. Maisie and the Black Cat Band is her second award winning book with IP. The first, ...Show more
