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
Wise Children by Angela Carter
$19.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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.
The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables by Robert Henryson; Seamus Heaney (Translator)
$22.95 AUD
Category: POETRY
The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. Henryson's finest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of Scots literature, is the narrative Testament ...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 Mystery of Rosa Morland by Diane Fahey
$19.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
New Year's Eve 1900. A passenger disappears from a sleeping car on the Edinburgh bound night train - is it murder or suicide?
King Henry IV Part 1: Arden Shakespeare 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
Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson: A selection of old favourites by Newell Rex
$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
Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell
$29.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel. Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods - Poetry in the Shadow of the Past by William Logan
$74.00 AUD
Category: POETRY
William Logan reconciles history and poetry to provide new ways of reading poets ranging from Shakespeare and Shelley to Lowell and Heaney. In these striking essays, Logan presents the poetry of the past through the lens of the past, attempting to bring poems back to the world in which they were made. ...Show more
Echoes of Memory by John O'Donohue
$24.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
"In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings. Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Celtic tradition and the rugged, majestic landscape of his birth, the west of Ireland, here he also creates a unique vision of a plac ...Show more
Sand by Robert Drewe
$27.95 AUD
Category: POETRY
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer Robert Drewe teams up with internationally acclaimed poet John Kinsella to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are d ...Show more
Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart by Courtney Peppernell
$19.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Series: Pillow Thoughts Ser.
Courtney Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration.A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart.