Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy by NEIL ASTLEY
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Staying Alive", "Being Alive" and "Being Human" have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. Each anthology in the Staying Alive trilogy has 500 poems to touch the heart, stir the mind and fire t ...Show more
Everything, All At Once by Various
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Identity – who are you? Who or what do you identify with? What does that even mean? In a world that likes to paint us as black or white we’re often searching for an opportunity to fit in.This anthology features 30 of Australia’s best writers under 30 exploring the theme identity – searching for unique p ...Show more
Penguin Modern Poets 2: Controlled Explosions by Michael Robbins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Poets
The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our mo ...Show more
Second Fleet Baby by Nadia Rhook
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poetry collection that explores the connections between mothering, healing, history and inheritance.Second Fleet Baby examines birth and motherhood, with a consciousness that spans centuries. This poetry draws on theenergies of 18th Century English convict women, including Rhook's own ancestors, to op ...Show more
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2019 Carnegie Medal. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an ...Show more
Australia’s Beating Heart: An Illustrated Anthology of Classic Bush Poetry by Australian Geographic
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful collection of australian poetry in celebration of Australian culture. Australia’s Beating Heart is celebration of our wide brown land, and the people and stories that landscape shapes. This luxe anthology features 70 iconic bush poems hand-selected by Australian champion bush poets Melanie H ...Show more
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones. Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected the landscape of her Yorkshire ho ...Show more
Healing Through Words by Rupi Kaur
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Healing Through Words is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing. This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page. You don’t need to be a writer to take this walk; you ...Show more
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
In Flèche, Mary Jean Chan evokes the difficulties of reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Much like the fencer who must constantly read and respond to her opponent's tactics during a fencing bout, this debut collect ...Show more
A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening by Jane McMorland Hunter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems to immerse yourself in the season. From William Blake and Emily Dickinson to Robert Browning and Eleanor Farjeon, some of the finest poets that ever put pen to paper describe this wondr ...Show more
In a Time of Distance - And Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith; Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love - themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar, and descriptions that will make you laugh and real ...Show more
Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins by John Keats
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Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that sets his name among the greatest in English poetry, and the most admired by other poets. This pocket-sized selection for general readers ...Show more