Coast Road: Selected Poems by Robert Gray
$22.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Coast Road: Selected Poems is the definitive Robert Gray collection.Robert Gray is one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. Among his many prizes are the Patrick White Award, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal, and the Australia Council's Writer's Emeritus Award for lifetime achievement. His Selected P ...Show more
Classic Love Poems by Max Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright. I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Hath led me - who knows how? - To thy window chamber, Sweet! Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is the perfect medium to expres ...Show more
Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Bloom by Beau Taplin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
This is your renewal. This is your regrowth ... You may come into this softly or bristling with thorns, beneath the light of the sun or the moon and the stars, so long as you always remember it is never too late to return to the root of your heart and begin again.Broken hearts, false starts, new beginni ...Show more
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour- A Memoir of Li ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2016 by Sarah Holland-Batt (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'Above all, poetry - for both its readers and its writers - is a form that demands attentiveness and active intelligence. It treats language as a volatile and charged commodity, and one whose subtleties and nuances are worth puzzling over.' Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-B ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2014 by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'From London, some ten years ago, Clive James opined that we are living in "a golden age of Australian poetry." The quality of work between these covers suggests that Clive might still be right.' -Geoff Page In The Best Australian Poems 2014, award-winning poet Geoff Page compiles an anthology that ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter by Dorothy Porter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's true originals, renowned for her passionate, punchy poetry and verse novels. This collection, the best of her life's work as selected by her partner Andrea Goldsmith, presents the many facets of Porter, from her break-out verse novel The Monkey's Mask to her posthum ...Show more
Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups by Ben Holden (ed.)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health? In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think ...Show more
The Banjo Paterson Treasury by Banjo Paterson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
A treasury of classic verse from Australia's most famous poet, Banjo Paterson. Includes 'Waltzing Matilda', 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and many more. Banjo Paterson is Australia's most famous poet. Ballads such as 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow', 'The Man f ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more