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1953 by Geoff Page
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
A moment in time, an Australian country town and characters to remember, all brought to life in engaging verse. 1953 is a unique verse narrative composed of monologues and verse portraits. Together, these build towards the story of an Australian town, Eurandangee, and its people on a particular summer's ...Show more
A Happy Poem To Start Every Day
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
This poetry anthology provides a bright and cheery way to start your day, with one joyful poem for every morning of the year. Whether you wake up to the chirping of birds or stumble out the door in a last-minute rush, it's important to take some time for yourself in the mornings to boost your mood. Bef ...Show more
ASYMMETRY by COLEMAN, AIDAN
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: POETRY
Coleman's images are lightning flashes. With lucid spareness this powerful collection contains beautiful, and sometimes shocking, poetry. The poems vividly and movingly trace experiences inconceivable to most: losing and then fighting to regain mind, movement, voice, words. It is emotional, but always c ...Show more
Appreciating Poetry by Rex Kevin Sadler
$39.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Poetry Ser.
"In Appreciating Poetry poems are grouped according to theme or in order to illustrate an aspect of the techniques of poetry. The selection comprises poems commonly studied by Year 9-10 students, covering the complete range of poetry in English from Chaucer to the present day.Authors: Sadler, Hayllar, P ...Show more
Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: UQP Poetry Series | Reading Level: General Adult
Alizadeh finds grace, wit and fire in this latest volume of poetry, which explores themes such as fatherhood and migration. It ranges from the Tehran of Alizadeh's childhood to the Australian coast of his teenage years. From the opening poem's hymn to mobility and renewal to the elegiac ending, Ashes in ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the city of Lo ...Show more
Casey at the Bat (Visions in Poetry) by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Visions in Poetry
The fourth book in the highly acclaimed Visions in Poetry series is a slice of baseball lore, which revives the poem for a new generation.
Casey at the Bat (Visions in Poetry) by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Visions in Poetry | Reading Level: fine
Visions in Poetry is an exciting and unique series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. Casey at the Bat, the fourth book in the series, is more than a poem about a proud and mighty slugger who strikes out during the big game. It is a slice of ...Show more
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. WILDE, GLAMOROUS AND NOTORIUS, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the ha ...Show more
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Michael Irwin (Introduction by)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the l ...Show more
Collected Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the e ...Show more
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
$16.95 AUD
Category: Art & Music | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communi ...Show more