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
Henry IV: Part One: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
$17.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
A history play alternating between the high drama of court life and the earthy comedy of the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I is a masterful drama of a prodigal son rising to meet his destiny. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Peter Davison with an intro ...Show more
An Open Book by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: POETRY | Reading Level: 1 Poetry
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ...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
Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
$24.00 AUD
Category: POETRY
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. - Gerald Murnane, 'The Darkling Thrush' Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth yea ...Show more
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry by Cassandra Atherton; Paul Hetherington
$39.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years. The Anthology of ...Show more
Tales of Ballycumber by Sebastian Barry
$19.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
Here, now, listen, I'll tell you a tale ...Daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day and stirring the ghosts of a past fraught with sorrow, anguish and emptiness. In search of advice, young Evans Stafford calls at the home of friend and stron ...Show more
On Longing by Blanche D'Alpuget
$10.00 AUD
Category: POETRY | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
Blanche d'Alpuget's intimate and revealing meditation on longing, examines the creative tension between writing and love.
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.
Lines for Birds by Barry Hill
$59.95 AUD
Category: POETRY
They follow flight paths and habitats of birds, from the Victorian Mallee to the forests of South East Asia, to Japan and the South of France. Sometimes, as the painter says, its almost as if I am looking at the earth with a birds eye view the birds suggest new ways of telling stories about the earth. T ...Show more
Long Life by Mary Oliver
$23.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" (Miami Herald). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems."Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whispe ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look ins ...Show more