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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
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
Free Logic by Rachael Briggs
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Free Logic is a collection of poems about love, logic, sin, gender, and imaginary animals. Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Rachael Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. Structured as eight set ...Show more
Gig Ryan: New and Selected by Gig Ryan
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Giramondo Poetry Classics Ser.
Gig Ryan's poetry is studied widely in secondary schools and universities, and has been anthologised in major collections of Australian poetry. She is considered an important canonical figure in Australian poetry, and in feminist poetry. This collection brings her work for the first time into a single v ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ("The Old Fools", "This Be the Ver ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Poetry of Love for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Celebrate love with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year. From well-known classics to modern fresh takes, Poetry of Love for Every Day of the Year explores love in all its forms. Love is such a uniquely human feeling which has made it an inexhaustible subject for wr ...Show more
Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Shakespeare's Sonnets" are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the read ...Show more
Revolving Days by David Malouf
$26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
An up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with their grace and intelligence, remain among the finest examples of the Australian lyric. An essential compendium for all lovers of literature.
Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year by Colin Salter (Editor)
$47.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every night of the year. Chosen especially by a Shakespeare fanatic to reflect the changing seasons and yearly events, the entries in this glorious book include Romeo and Ju ...Show more