Best of Australian Poems 2024
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was.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 20231 August 2024, the series (now in its fourth ye ...Show more
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devasta ...Show more
Slivers, Shards and Skerricks: A one-man anthology by one of Australia's most intelligent and more handsome Renaissance men by Shaun Micallef
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
a superb anthology of funny writing from Australia's pre-eminent comedy mind. This indefinitive collection brings together under one cover the very best comic writing - parody, poetry, prose, plays, philosophy and political treatise - by Australia's greatest living television host. From 'I Was Scott Mor ...Show more
Curious Incident of the Dog in the: The Play by Mark Haddon
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Critical Scripts Ser.
A bestselling modern classic--both poignant and funny--about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Christopher John Francis Boone ...Show more
Cactus by Madelaine Nunn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'Everyone knows that friendships made in bathrooms are ones that last for life.' Cactus is a brutally funny, heartbreakingly honest new play for anyone who is or ever has been a teenager. This timely play by Madelaine Nunn follows Abbie and her best friend PB as they navigate their last year of high sch ...Show more
Garage Girls by Anna Madelaine and Rodway Nunn Candace Miles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Meet Alice Anderson: Mechanic. Trailblazer. Entrepreneur. Founder of Australia's first all-girl garage! It's 1920s Melbourne-society reels from the aftermath of World War I, women's fashion sets startling trends and the city hums with the music of the motorcar. Meanwhile, one small woman defies convent ...Show more
Tchekov at the House of Special Purpose by R. Johns
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Category: Poetry & Plays
'To Moscow! To Moscow! What are you waiting for?' The Reds–once the powerless, now the powerful. The Whites–once the absolute rulers, now the powerless. The former Tsar and his family are imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in a provincial house. It is a fact the Romanov girls performed Chekhov to pass the ...Show more
Girl Asleep by Matthew Whittet
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Caught in the headlights of her fifteenth birthday, Greta wishes she could be anywhere else. And strangely enough 'anywhere else' is exactly where she finds herself—a peculiar Through-the-Looking-Glass existence that transforms the weird hypocrisy of the adult world into something absurdly beautiful. Th ...Show more
My Brilliant Career: The Play: Based on the novel by Miles Franklin by Kendall Feaver
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Category: Poetry & Plays
Rural New South Wales, 1899. Sybylla Melvyn is a force of nature-a young woman of spirit, born in the wrong time and place, but filled with dreams. Will she be a writer? An actor? An artist, a musician, a politician? Will she explore the world? Any one of these would be better than the path of wife and ...Show more
Roald Dahl's The Twits by Roald Dahl
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Category: Poetry & Plays
Mr and Mrs Twit are not very nice. In fact they're extremely nasty. They're nasty to each other, and they're VILE to everyone else. They hold a family of monkeys hostage in a cage and force them to stand on their heads. ALL THE TIME. We told you they weren't very nice. Can the monkeys find a way to sh ...Show more