Johnny James - And Other Verses by Dave Morrell
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Since moving to a remote cattle station in Western Australia's far north-west as a young child, the red dirt of the Kimberley has coloured Dave Morrell's blood and filled his life with adventure. This collection of his bush poetry and memoirs portrays a raw and untold history of his home.Often with humo ...Show more
Cocky's Joy by Michael Farrell
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Michael Farrell has a reputation as the most adventurous and experimental of contemporary Australian poets, since he continually pushes the boundaries of what our poetry can do. Cocky's Joy is likely to be his breakthrough collection, the one which wins him a wider audience, and part of the reason for t ...Show more
Poems Of Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson by Patterson Banjo ; Lawson Henry
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Combined with Pro Hart's paintings, which capture the humour of some of these poems, the pathos and loneliness of others, the poems of Paterson and Lawson come alive once more in this exciting boxed set. These books are not only for the countless Paterson and Lawson admirers who can now enjoy their work ...Show more
I Love Poetry by Michael Farrell
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
In I Love Poetry Michael Farrell continues to affirm poetry as a mode of thinking. His poems aspire to both memorability and meaning, and to invoke new Australian realities - 'the rhyme's a moral that becomes a fence; a fallen-down fence is a joy forever.' The tone is playful and ironic, more under the ...Show more
Swamp Poems: Walking the Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain by Nandi Chinna
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Chinna uncovers the lost places that exist beneath the townscape of Perth. For the last four years the poet has walked the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain - and she has walked the paths and streets where the wetlands once were. Chinna writes with great poignancy and beauty of our inability to return, ...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
Refugia by Elfie Shiosaki
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
‘in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...’Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beeliar (Swan River) and the NASA James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of science, this collection ...Show more
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Right Way Down by Various Authors
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Featuring entertaining poems with themes of animals and nature, this is a great introduction to the wonder of poetry for middle readers, and is complete with stunning illustrations on every page. Stand on your head with Sally Murphy, explode some dynamite with Cristy Burne or shoot some hoops with Cher ...Show more
Songs of Innocence by William Blake
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful cloth-bound edition of William Blake's Songs of Innocence, delicately illustrated with his exquisite designs, and accompanied by an introduction to his life and work. One of the most important books of illustrated poetry in English literature, William Blake's Songs of Innocence was meticulou ...Show more
Ask No Questions by Eva Collins
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No Questions, Eva Collins writes spare affecting lines about her own experience as a teenager when her parents decided to emigrate from ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (Macmillan Classics) by Charles Causley
$17.99 AUD
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