Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam P/B by Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
$23.99 AUD
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
Leaves of Grass: (1855) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Walt Whitman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and tit ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker
$24.99 AUD
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
365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri
$46.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri.This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language. Whether you're searching for wisdom or looking t ...Show more
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author. Anne Carson is a celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routi ...Show more
Tossed Up By the Beak of a Cormorant: Poems of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River. Nandi Chinna in dialogue with Anne Poelina by Nandi Chinna, Anne Poelina
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant is a poetic collaboration between award-winning poet Nandi Chinna and Aboriginal elder Professor Anne Poelina. It explores the politics and the culture of one of Australia's last great unregulated waterways, the Martuwarra Fitzroy River. Martuwarra Fitzroy River is A ...Show more
At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
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
Selected Poems by Sharon Olds
$34.99 AUD
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
$24.99 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
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
The River in the Sky by Clive James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday Times Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Inj ...Show more