36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
Songs of Innocence by William Blake
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful cloth-bound edition of William Blake's Songs of Innocence, delicately illustrated with his exquisite designs, and accompanied by an introduction to his life and work. One of the most important books of illustrated poetry in English literature, William Blake's Songs of Innocence was meticulou ...Show more
Song in the Grass by Kate Fagan
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
New collection by prize-winning singer, songwriter and poet Song in the Grass is Kate Fagan’s most personal collection to date. Each of its five sequences moves out in a widening circle from where the poet is standing in life. The collection is an almanac of significant changes; in particular, new lives ...Show more
Skeletons by Deborah Landau
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 'Deborah Landau's poems make me feel alive. They are the city, the body, the evening drink transformed into pure essence. If you want to be returned to your senses and remember the pleasures of the world, this book is for you' Alex Dimitrov 'Landau's stunning ...Show more
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
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Category: Poetry
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts co ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
rock flight by Hasib Hourani
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
One more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest --Hasib Hourani Hasib Hourani's rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a single personal and historical narrative centered on the violent occupation of Palestine. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, ru ...Show more
Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mourning a Breast was heralded as the first Chinese-language book to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagno ...Show more
Circadia by Judith Bishop
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Perched on a tablecloth with glassesfor a summer drink- life, on its hauncheslike a kitten, thoughtful.Extending a paw- What happens if?Circadia is a shattering testament to the fragility of life and the weight of the present. Exquisitely attuned to atmosphere and emotion, Judith Bishop's poems grieve t ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more
Refugia by Elfie Shiosaki
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
‘in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...’Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beeliar (Swan River) and the NASA James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of science, this collection ...Show more
A Midnight Moon by r.h. Sin
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Category: Poetry
Can we be lonely together? Asks r.h. Sin in this heartbreaking collection of poetry. A Midnight Moon is a moving collection of poetry from celebrated bestselling author r.h. Sin. With the honesty and transparency that he has become known for, Sin takes readers on a journey of goodbyes, the unforgivable, ...Show more