Poems to Live Your Life By by Chris Riddell
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Poetry
This gorgeously illustrated collection includes forty-six poems and is divided into sections covering: musings, youth, family, love, imaginings, nature, war and endings. Chris Riddell brings them to life with his exquisite, intricate artwork in this beautiful anthology. Perfect as a gift, it features fa ...Show more
Rimbaud : Complete Works, Selected Letters by Seth Adam Seth Adam (FRW); Whidden Wallace; Whidden Arthur; Fowlie Rimbaud
30.45 AUD
31.95 (4% off)
Category: Poetry
The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the youn ...Show more
Second World War Poems by Hugh Haughton (Editor)
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Poetry
Now in paperback, a powerful, wide-ranging anthology of international poetry from the 1939-45 conflict.The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who ...Show more
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Into the jaw of Death Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred' As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age. The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years of his literary careerand show the wide variety of poetic ...Show more
Selected Poems of William Wordsworth (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Wordsworth
14.25 AUD
14.99 (4% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth's greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness.A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionised poetry.Selected Poems brings together some of Words ...Show more
Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word by David Stavanger; Anne-Marie Te Whiu
28.45 AUD
29.95 (5% off)
Category: Poetry
Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audi ...Show more
Sunrise: Poems to Kick-Start Your Day by Susie Gibbs
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
If you struggle to get out of bed in the morning here's a poetry collection that's just right for you. Sunrise is an energizing and rousing collection of classic poetry all about purpose, hope and perseverance.Wise, reassuring words and magical verses conjure up the promise and possibilities of each new ...Show more
TAKE CARE: Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Eunice Andrada
22.99 AUD
24.00 (4% off)
Category: Poetry
TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the mag ...Show more
Ten Poems for a Wedding by KATHRYN BEVIS
14.25 AUD
14.99 (4% off)
Category: Poetry
A wedding isn't a wedding without a poem. The enduring quality of great poetry seems to promise that all will be well for a couple on the threshold of marriage. You'll be dazzled by the brilliance and beauty of this selection, which offers everything from heartfelt blessings to reflections on the rich r ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
31.50 AUD
34.99 (9% off)
Category: Poetry
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebration ...Show more