When We Were Fifty by Christopher Matthew
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
These days we feel almost as young at fifty as we did at thirty - give or take the odd twinge. However, we are also becoming increasingly aware that the cradle is a lot further off than the grave. Is this the moment to start shaking things up a bit? The last chance to realize those long-cherished dreams ...Show more
A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems by Robert Burns
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of Auld Lang Syne, and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns' Night ...Show more
Two Centuries of Australian Poetry by Mark O'Connor
$72.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Features: * Themes include the Aboriginal world, Migrant experience and Multiculturalism, sport, environment, ecology, women's experiences, cities, workplaces, war and relationships * Traditional verse, free verse and performance poetry are also explored * Indexes which provide comparisons of authors, t ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Love by BARBER LAURA
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken hearts. Bringing together the greate ...Show more
The Picador Book of Birth Poems by Kate Clanchy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
Essential inspiration for welcoming a new child into the world - chosen by award-winning poet Kate Clanchy. Where do we find the words to greet a new arrival? In this celebratory book, poet Kate Clanchy has made an inspired choice of poems that speak powerfully of the wonder, joy, bewilderment and myste ...Show more
Divine Comedy by John Kinsella
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books: Purgatorio: up close, Paradiso: rupture, and Inferno: leisure centre. The poet-narrator takes the reader on a tour through the wonders of nature in its full regalia, ...Show more
Winter by Marjorie L. Caygill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The season of winter is one of contrasts. Snow-swept landscapes and dark nights are punctuated by the celebration of Christmas and the ushering in of a new year, with its log fires, cosy gatherings with friends and family, and an abundance of food and drink. This book celebrates these contrasts with pic ...Show more
When Love Speaks: Poetry and Prose for Weddings, Relationships and Married Life. by Adam O'Riordan
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with harmony' "Love's Labour's Lost," William Shakespeare. "When Love Speaks" brings together the greatest writing on love and commitment - from Donne to Cole Porter, Sappho to P.G. Wodehouse, love letters of the great composers to Edw ...Show more
LATE NIGHT SHOPPING by MCMASTER, RYHLL
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
These are poems that reflect many aspects of the human condition and the individual, from poems about love and death, the family, science, the natural world and historical figures such as Ned Kelly and Charles Darwin. Her sequence on Ned Kelly (originally published in an illustrated limited edition) is ...Show more
The Picador Book of Love Poems by John Stammers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
A dazzling anthology of classic and contemporary love poems selected by an award-winning poet. With The Picador Book of Love Poems, award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts, he presents a bo ...Show more
Sand by Robert Drewe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer Robert Drewe teams up with internationally acclaimed poet John Kinsella to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are d ...Show more
The Picador Book of Funeral Poems by Don Paterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
Designed for those in need of poetic solace, and a gift book for the recently bereaved, it is also intended as a book to read from at memorial ceremonies, when judging the tone and hitting the right note is everything