Best of Australian Poems 2022 by Jeanine Leane, Judith Beveridge
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Best of Australian Poetry is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2021 – 7 August 2022, the series, now in its second year, will ...Show more
Big Book of Verse For Aussie Kids by HAYNES Jim (ed)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The most comprehensive, authoritative and definitive book of poetry ever published in Australia for children. The famous rub shoulders with schoolyard rhymes, alphabets and nonsense verse. Over 600 of the best verses for children in the English language have been especially chosen, with emphasis on Aust ...Show more
Birds by Judith Wright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Judith Wright (1915—2000) was one of Australia’s most celebrated poets and one of only two to be considered for the Nobel prize. Her volume Birds was first published in 1962, and 60 years on the National Library of Australia is proud to be bringing this precious collection to today’s audience in this m ...Show more
Birds: Poems by Judith Wright
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems are complemented by full-colour illustrations drawn from the National Librarys Pictures Collection, featuring the work of artists such as John Lewin, Lionel Lindsay, Lilian Medland, William T. Cooper and Betty Temple Watts.
Bisky Bats and Pussy Cats - The Animal Nonsense of Edward Lear by Edward Lear
$32.68 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Children's Classic Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
This is a collection of Edward Lear's animal nonsense verse, illustrated in soberly surreal and hard-edged pictures by Matilda Harrison. It includes the verse which beings, 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat'.
Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria: A Novel in 34 Cantos by Brian Castro
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Blindness and Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin's great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro's hero Lucien Gracq is a townplanner from Adelaide who is writing a book-length poem, Paidia. Doubtful of its reception, he travels to Paris to join a literary club wh ...Show more
Bloom by Beau Taplin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is your renewal. This is your regrowth ... You may come into this softly or bristling with thorns, beneath the light of the sun or the moon and the stars, so long as you always remember it is never too late to return to the root of your heart and begin again.Broken hearts, false starts, new beginni ...Show more
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Border Security by Bruce Dawe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'With each change of poetic clothes, at each moment, [Dawe] displays us ironically, satirically, good-humouredly to ourselves, with a warmth and sadness for humanity's follies.' - Thea Astley, Three Australian Writers 'Bruce Dawe is that rare phenomenon, a natural poet with a superlative feeling for lan ...Show more
Burnt Sienna Sky by Jackie Smith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Burnt Sienna Sky explores the passage of time, and how it shapes one's existence. It's about acceptance and being comfortable in your own skin.But most of all Burnt Sienna Sky is about finding the courage of resilience and speakingup when you think something needs to change, even if you think no one wil ...Show more