Poems for Happiness (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms - whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a ser ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray by Les Murray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia.
How to Fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfol ...Show more
NANGAMAY dream MANA gather DJURALI grow: First Nations Australia LGBTQIA+ Poetry by Whittaker, Alison
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
A ground-breaking collection of First Nations Australia LGBTQIA+ poets, writers and storytellers published to commemorate Sydney WorldPride being held on the unceded lands of the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Bidigal, Dharawal and Dharug Nations.Edited by Alison Whitaker, Gomeroi poet and academic, and Steven L ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
Clarity & Connection by yung pueblo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Yung Pueblo Ser.
From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in ...Show more
Waltzing Australia HB by Tim Borthwick
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"A unique collection of original Australian bush ballads and the stories that inspired them - in the tradition of Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. WALTZING AUSTRALIA is a wonderful celebration of the Australian bush and the people who live there, written by a gifted storyteller who's spent much of his l ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses by Mr A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
These books were originally published in 1914 as a 'pocket editions for the trenches', designed for soldiers to slip into their back pockets and carry with them through their war days. Probably purchased by wives, girlfriends and mothers, they were a little piece of Australia to relish amongst the horro ...Show more
An Open Book by David Malouf
$29.99 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
The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Taste of River WaterNew and selected poems by Cate Kennedy Disarming, warm and always accessible, Cate Kennedy's poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here- compassion, insight, lyrical precision and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can ...Show more