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The Nation's Favourite Poems of Desire
Yearning, anticipation, excitement, passion fulfilled...'The Nation's Favourite Poems of Desire' brings together 100 poems exploring the nature of love and longing. Poets throughout history have sought to express the nature...
The Poetical Works Of Matthew Arnold
$20.00 AUD
Author: Matthew ArnoldBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1945Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents the complete poetic output of a seminal Victorian literary...
A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems
$50.00 AUD
Author: Randolph StowBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded green cloth. Light foxing...
Selected Poems And Prose
$40.00 AUD
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins; Elizabeth Magil (illustrator)Binding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2012Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGerard Manley Hopkins's "Selected Poems & Prose" presents a profound collection from...
Collected Poems 1934-1952
$25.00 AUD
Author: Dylan ThomasBinding: HardbackPublished: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1957Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markings"Collected Poems 1934-1952" presents a comprehensive...
Bush Songs, Ballads, and Other Verse
$15.00 AUD
Author: Douglas Stewart And Nancy KeesingBinding: HardbackPublished: The Discovery Press, Penrith, 1968Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis collection, "Bush...
The Poems Of Robert Burns
$30.00 AUD
Author: Robert Burns; ed. J. Logie Robertson Binding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, London, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Blue cloth in good...
Poems Of Banjo Paterson
$15.00 AUD
Author: Banjo PatersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ure Smith, Sydney, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner'Poems Of Banjo Paterson' presents a vibrant collection of Australian bush poetry, capturing the spirit and...
Walt Whitman: A Life
$20.00 AUD
Author: Justin KaplanBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerJustin Kaplan's Walt Whitman: A Life chronicles the extraordinary journey of one...
A Sunburnt Country
$15.00 AUD
Author: Bill Beavan And Dorothea MackellarBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, 1978Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some silverfish damage on brown cloth, otherwise clean text. A Sunburnt Country is...
The Poets' World
$15.00 AUD
Author: James ReevesBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1965Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: No dust jacket, previous owner name inside, light foxing to edges of some pagesThis insightful volume,...
Poèmes De France: An Anthology Of French Verse
$25.00 AUD
Author: K. J. Goesch And K. R. DuttonBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Sydney, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: French...
The Poems Of Catullus
$40.00 AUD
Author: Horace GregoryBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has wear, light staining and tear (notably one small hole in middle of spine...
Singer of the Bush: Complete Works 1885 - 1900 & Song of The Pen: Complete Works 1901 - 1941 (Two-Volume Set)
$30.00 AUD
Author: A.B. Banjo PatersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor bumping on spine and corners. This...
The Beauties Of Shakspeare
$30.00 AUD
Author: Rev. William Dodd, Ll.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1880Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerDodd's "Beauties Of Shakspeare" presents a...
Sings The Lone Curlew: Poems
$20.00 AUD
Author: Louis H. ClarkBinding: HardbackPublished: The National Press Pty. Ltd., 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis 62-page volume presents a lyrical meditation on...
Barrack Room Ballads
$15.00 AUD
Author: Rudyard KiplingBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsBarrack Room Ballads presents a vivid collection of poems that chronicle the lives and experiences of British soldiers during...
The Collected Poems Of Wilfred Owen
$30.00 AUD
Author: Wilfred OwenBinding: PaperbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover has some general wear and crease front bottom...
Omar Khayyam
$20.00 AUD
Author: Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald (trans)Binding: HardbackPublished: A. & C. Black, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket damaged with wear, tear and price clippedOmar Khayyam's...
The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Ten-Volume Set)
$70.00 AUD
Author: The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson 10 Volume Set Alfred Lord TennysonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1886Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Fair blue cloths with some discolouration. Bumping...
The Inward Trilogy: yung pueblo Box Set
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR A gorgeous, gift-worthy box set collecting yung pueblo's bestselling poetic trilogy on developing self-knowledge, healing old wounds, and cultivating harmonious relationships. For the first...
The Span Of A Small Forever: Poems
With echoes of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman's journey through disability,...
He's So MASC
In How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. He's...
Romance or the End: Poems
"This book takes me right back to the Carnage Years yours, too sacrificed to love. If only I, you, had possessed Elaine Kahn's wisdom and wit. These poems are lacerating,...
The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
"No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass." -- Atlantic Monthly The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials , Robert Hass is one of the most revered...
Best Loved Poems Little Brown
This collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English-language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to...
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...
Nomadic
'This afternoon while looking for my watchI found a love letter from your mistress.In 1947 while searching for his lost goata Bedouin boy found the Dead Sea Scrolls.'The poems in...
The Best Australian Poems 2013
This engaging collection presents the outstanding Australian poems of the last year - a fascinating array of voices and styles, subjects and moods. This engaging collection presents the outstanding Australian...
The Best Australian Poetry 2003
The Best Australian Poetry 2003 is the first in a series of anthologies that will be produced annually by UQP to showcase the very best in contemporary Australian poetry. Each...
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the face of...
Graffiti Lane: A Poetry Collection
Graffiti Lane looks at life through an unfiltered lens. With unflinching honesty, Kelly Van Nelson offers an intensely personal perspective on the grittiness of urban living in an eclectic mix...
Leaves of Grass
Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, Leaves of Grass was controversial in its innovative free verse style and its embrace of hitherto unmentionable...
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the face of...
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...
The Butterfly Effect
The butterfly effect is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one...
Enthusiasts Field Guide to Poetry
"The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry" is a fresh, vibrant and richly involving collection of poems and poetic fragments, accompanied by an enlightening apparatus of comment and digression in the...
Ghost of Myself
From the internationally revered Australian poet John Kinsella comes this exceptional new collection that traces the ghosts of this country's violent and destructive history through the marks left on the...
Collected Poems: 1953-1993
$10.00 AUD
The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal...
The Honeymoon Stage
Debut collection by ayoung poet whose simple, funny and deceptively nave poems engage with the virtualrealities of the internet. The Honeymoon Stage is a collection ofpoems written for friends on...
Our Times in Rhymes: Being a Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age
Our Times in Rhymes is a waspish, affectionate and very funny look at the state of our beloved nation. A parliament of fools, or a confederacy of dunces? Blethering celebrities...
The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Vol. 3: Maud in Memoriam; The
$12.00 AUD
Excerpt from The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Vol. 3: Maud in Memoriam; The Princess; Enoch Arden Part II., section IV., had already been published in 1837 in The Tribute;...
Typewriter Music
A Malouf modern classic released in paperback for the first time. Typewriter Music begins with a memory of new love - with 'grace unasked for, urgencies that boom under the...
The Wild Reciter: Poetry and Popular Culture in Australia 1890-2020
How Australian poetry has evolved throughout time Just over a century ago poetry was all the rage in Australia. Newspapers and magazines published it, entertainers and elocutionists performed it on...