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Heart Lines
HEART LINES presents Australian Instagram sensation Gemma Troy's poetry, one gorgeous verse at a time. Ever since she was a child out fossicking for gold with her dad and camping...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion and vigor of his first two installments. His stanzas inspire strength through the raw,...
The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
Internationally renowned spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy combines ancient wisdom with modern insights into what it means to be a seeker in the twentieth century. Sri Chinmoy believes that we are...
Mayor's Juvenal (two volume slipcased set)
This final edition of Mayor's Juvenal, issued here in two hardback volumes (available separately or as a slip-cased set), should be an essential part of all professional Latinists' reference libraries....
Iconic Animals of Australia: With a Voice to Release Your Giant
A fabulous pictorial Australiana gift-book on Australia's animals and with unique motivational voice and life-principle that can help release and empower a depth in self-discovery. Showcasing 24 Iconic Australian animals,...
Selected Poems
A substantial selection of Tennyson's poetry, edited according to the principles of the Penguin English Poets series. This volume concentrates on the period characterized by Maud(1855) and In Memoriam (1850).
Early Poems and Juvenilia
A new treasury of early verse. Philip Larkin was one of the most admired and loved English poets of the twentieth century. His Collected Poems has become essential reading on...
Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems
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Treasury of 44 poems evokes stirring images of British character and attitudes at the height of the Empire. "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever," "If-," "The White Man's Burden," "The Female of...
Mercies: Selected Poems
The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton When Anne...
The Odyssey
Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature's...
The Pocket Mirror
The book titled The Pocket Mirror by the author Janet Frame. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Collected Poems of Herbert Read
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The book titled Collected Poems of Herbert Read by the author Herbert Read. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Melting into the Foreground
The book titled Melting into the Foreground by the author Roger McGough. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Secondhand Poetry & Plays Bargain Book Box (21 Books) SP2476
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Secondhand Poetry & Plays Bargain Book Box (21 Books) This box contains a curated selection of 20th-century verse and classic drama. The assortment heavily features vintage editions from the Penguin...
Everything You'll Ever Need (You Can Find Within Yourself)
Everything You'll Ever Need You Can Find Within Yourself is a powerful and heartfelt book by Charlotte Freeman. As a non-fiction work, it falls under the categories of Assertiveness, Motivation...
Blood Relations
The poems in this collection are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. The reader is shown the pain, the...
Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living
A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...
The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years....
Transformatrix
'They call me Jax, though my real name's Eva The whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious diva No.1 on the guest list, top of the charts When...
Wire Dancing
Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and private share the same tightrope. The...
The River in the Sky
Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was...
Omeros
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Omeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott. With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros...
Sharing Water By the River: Poems of the Feast
Sharing Water by the River is a new series of poems by Uniting Church minister Denham Grierson who knows from his pastoral and teaching ministry the significance of metaphor, ambiguity...
The Wickedest
'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read ' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A Guardian Book of the Year Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new...
The Aeneid
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The book titled The Aeneid by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Of Mutability
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a...
Selected Poems
Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational...
The Green Hollow
In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still...
Selected Poems of Mick Imlah
Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of...
Days That We Couldn't Rehearse
In his fifth book, Bakowski continues to explore the substrata of ordinary life in poems of crystalline beauty. His poems are tightly controlled lyrical explorations.
Rejoicing: New and Collected Poems
"Rejoicing" is a magnificent, celebratory gathering of Stanley Moss' poetry from six decades. He is one of America's finest poets and this collection demonstrates why. Marilyn Hacker wrote of his...
New Selected Poems 1966-1987
'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich,...
The Hotel Oneira
Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether...
Out There
Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus,...
Nonsense
Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who...
Selected Poems 1956-1993
Gunter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to...
The Price of Everything
This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, while 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical...
The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe
The comprehensive collection of poetry by the world-renowned writer Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best...
Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless
A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest ' SARAH MILLICAN 'Hollie McNish's words always sweep...
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora . When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil's last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the...
The Rivered Earth
THE RIVERED EARTH contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working...
Hell
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Lay down all hope, you that go in by me . . . Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes,...
Letters to a Young Poet
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Over the course of six years,...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural...
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets Songs of Innocence and Experience is one of the best-loved poetry collections of all time, an...
Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004
The most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life....
Blossoms of Friendship
The theme developed in this book is that friendship is a seed to be nurtured to form a precious bloom. The volume combines poems with floral decoration and quotations from...