The Illustrated Emerson - Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson; David Mikics (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. One of the young nation's first recognized public intellectuals, he championed the writing of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman and opined on everything from the evils of slav ...Show more
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman
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Category: Poetry
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to delive ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam P/B by Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of wh ...Show more
At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao
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Category: Poetry
These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new v ...Show more
Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker
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Category: Poetry
This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, ...Show more
Selected Poems by Sharon Olds
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Category: Poetry
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection - made by the author - exhibits those qualities in poem aft ...Show more
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace; Ladybookmad Staff
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Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing your own ending. From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece tog ...Show more
The Man From Snowy River by A. B. Paterson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Editions for the Trenches Ser.
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "Th ...Show more
Typewriter Music by David Malouf
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Category: Poetry
David Malouf's brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love - with 'grace unasked for, urgencies that boom under the pocket of a shirt' - and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar where there is no need for words. This volume is marked by an astonishing breadth of intelli ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (Macmillan Classics) by Charles Causley
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Category: Poetry
This beautiful paperback edition of Collected Poems for Children by Charles Causley contains a foreword by Roger McGough and evocative line art by John Lawrence. The poems in this collection were chosen and arranged by the author himself, celebrated Cornish poet Charles Causley. They feature as great a ...Show more