Gawimarra Gathering by Jeanine Leane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David Bader
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of (respectively) three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to 100 Great Books. From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally withi ...Show more
A Life Deserves Nine Cats by Ron Heard
$18.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A Life Deserves Nine Cats is a collection of poems and drawings of cats by Sue Schindler and Ron Heard. Tough and tender. Vivid and well observed. Never sentimental. A book for cat lovers and for readers of poetry. 'If you have ever known, or loved or mourned a cat, these poems and portraits will insin ...Show more
Archival Poetics by HARKIN NATALIE
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Archival-Poetics is an embodied reckoning with the State’s colonial archive and those traumatic, contested and buried episodes of history that inevitably return to haunt; a way of knowing and being in the world that carries us lovingly back and forward and back again toward something else restorative/ t ...Show more
Best Loved Irish Ballads by Eoin Emma & O'Brien Byrne
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of Ireland's greatest and best-loved ballads, including the lyrics, music and chords, along with an introductory piece on each song. Illustrated with photographs and woodcuts. A beautiful guide to the cream of the Irish ballad tradition. Songs of love, yearning, revolution, celebration, emi ...Show more
When She Rises - Journey of Growing Awareness, Reclaiming Her Power and Rewriting Her Story by Marzena Pressence
$28.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"An evolutionary voice for women's empowerment, Marzena has crafted a book of poems to connect you to the quiet, healing places within. You'll find yourself reading her pieces again and again, for comfort as well as new awareness, skillfulness and vision." - endorsement by Elena Brower, bestselling auth ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$27.99 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
Signora Bella's Grand Tour - A Novella in Haiku by Lesley Synge; Steven Moriarty (Cover Design by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Signora Bella can't resist touring Italy before she delivers a poetry workshop in Ravello. She beaches herself in Sicily, adds her caress to the worn cobblestones of Naples and Genoa, gets into alpine lakes and valleys, then swans around the medieval town of Ravello above the Amalfi Coast. In a three-li ...Show more
The Mouth in the Sky by Dominic Kirwan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'This is a vast collection of meaty poetry, and it traverses diverse topics with irreverent wordplay and dirty-hearted love. To be truthful and self-expressive under the vicious hail of mental illness is not easy. There are so many repeatable quips, but I quote here lines about Andy, who was my always p ...Show more
The Rocks Remain: Blak poetry and story
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Like rocks, we are shaped by forces over time. Despite being eroded, fractured, immersed, put under pressure - The Rocks Remain. Always was, always will be. Through poetry and prose, twenty-five Aboriginal writers share narratives that embody: strength of family and community; love found and lost; endur ...Show more
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall- what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Per ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2023 by Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best of Australian Poems Ser.
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 2022 - 1 August 2023, the series, now in its third ...Show more