Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
The Book of Tree Poems by Ana Sampson
35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and - as the climate emergency escalates - it has never been more important ...Show more
Gawimarra Gathering by Jeanine Leane
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
Love Poems (Word Cloud Classics) by Editors of Canterbury Classics
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
A collection of the world's finest love poems--from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. For thousands of years, poets across the world have expressed their thoughts on love with profound and memorable verses. Love Poems is a collection of works from more than fifty prolific poets, including Sap ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2023 by Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Best of Australian Poems Ser.
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2022 - 1 August 2023, the series, now in its third ...Show more
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
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Category: Poetry and Drama
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman'This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy' Guardian'This is more than protest.It's a promise.'Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of t ...Show more
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late e ...Show more
Walt Whitman: The Great Poets by Walt. Whitman
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain immortalised in the film Dead Poets Society, this short collection is the ideal introduction to the poetry of Walt Whitman. One of the greats, he was celebr ...Show more
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: An inspiring collection from the great Romantic and Lakeland poet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England. His work - still popular today - includes such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as well as the beautiful early poem Fros ...Show more
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: The Great Poets by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.From The Soldier to Anthem for Doomed Youth Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are two of the best-loved poets from the heroic lost generation of the First World War. Brooke's work was well-known befor ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Great Poets by Omar Khayyam
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published - a poem that embraces the theme 'seize the moment''One thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies'The epic, beautiful poem Rubaiyat is widely attributed to Omar Khayyam. As much a philosopher as a poet, he was a Persian ...Show more