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The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Poe has a pervading presence in popular culture. He has made appearances in various forms of modern media,...
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: "This is my letter to the world . . ." -- Emily Dickinson The Poetry of Emily Dickinson is a...
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
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Author: Derek Walcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career He gives us more than himself or 'a world';...
The Prophet
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Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Kahlil Gibran's work The Prophet is a beautiful testimony to life. Its uncomplicated wisdom and strikingly simple descriptions speak...
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
One of the most imaginative minds alive retells the greatest stories in history - the Greek Myths The Greek myths are amongst the best stories ever told, passed down through...
Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
Author: 'Abdallah ibn Sbayyil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the...
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Author: Yoel Hoffmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true...
Inferno: Popular Penguins
Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing...
Dropbear: 2022 Stella Prize Winner
An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene. Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize. I told you this was a...
The Cat Prince: & Other Poems
Author: Michael Pedersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 WINNER of the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry Collection 'Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's...
100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five years of the Forward Books
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Author: William Sieghart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and glamorous' Carol Ann Duffy 100 Prized...
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Author: Amy Jeffs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 By the bestselling author of Storyland. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on...
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Author: Maggie Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Life, like a poem, is a series of choices' In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning...
Granta 164: Last Notes
Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans, Wiam El-Tamami, Tabitha Lasley, Adele Rosenfeld (tr....
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And...
Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic
Author: Tyler GacaFormat: Hardback, 142mm x 200mm, 520g, 240 pagesPublished: Running Press,U.S., United States, 2023From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium...
Gub
Author: Scott McKendry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry...
Powsels and Thrums
' I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration ' PHILIP PULLMAN ' One of Britain's greatest writers ' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Alan Garner's world is unbearably beautiful and...
Natural Burial Ground
'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' Max PorterIn his beautiful, evocative new collection, Natural Burial Ground, Will Burns explores his deep...
Clarity & Connection
Author: yung pueblo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds...
Granta 160: Conflict
Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's...
Where the Outback Drovers Ride: Stories, poems and yarns from the Bush
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Judith Wright Collected Poems
This definitive collection represents the impressive poetic achievement of one of Australia's most highly respected and valued poets. Judith Wright's Collected Poems is comprised of her work from 1942 to...
An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse
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Throat
Irreverent and courageous, Throat is a fierce cry that fights to be heard. This is van Neerven's most powerful work yet. not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and
Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest-a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing...
I Wish I Knew: The uplifting Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Donna Ashworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND FROM THE AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE 'A little corner of calm within life's storm - wonderful.'...
Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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My Country: Australian Poetry & Short Stories Two Hundred Years
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Author: Ken RolheiserBinding: HardbackPublisher: Sydney, Auckland, London, New York. Lansdowne Press, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight bumping...
All Souls: Poems
A TLS , SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023 'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of...
New and Collected Hell: A Poem
Award winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' ( New York Journal of Books ), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante...
Faust: Pt.1
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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
Two beloved and esteemed poets have collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art. Intended for all those who love...