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Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems

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Author: Lewis Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer 'Twas brillig, and the...
American Negro Poetry: An Anthology

American Negro Poetry: An Anthology

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Author: Arna Wendell Bontemps Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps...
99 Poems: New & Selected

99 Poems: New & Selected

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Author: Dana Gioia (University of Southern California) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Now in paperback, a major career retrospective by the California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia So much of...
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

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Author: Wilfred Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Wilfred Owen was the greatest poet of the First World War - his best work is collected here, published in a...
Hesiod and Theognis

Hesiod and Theognis

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Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...
The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things

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Author: Lucretius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel I

Whiskey Words & a Shovel I

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Originally released in 2015, this re-rerelease packs the same punch as the first version, but makes an even greater...
Love Looks Pretty on You

Love Looks Pretty on You

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Author: Lang Leav Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Filled with wisdom and encouragement, every single page is a testament to the power of words, and the impact...
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

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Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...
The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden

The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
Author: Richard Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 An anthology of some of the greatest poetry in the English language Poetry and music have been associated with...
Eclogues of Virgil

Eclogues of Virgil

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Author: Aelius Donatus Virgil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of The Odes of Horace and Gilgamesh The Eclogues of Virgil gave...
What is the Truth?: Collected Animal Poems Vol 2

What is the Truth?: Collected Animal Poems Vol 2

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Author: Ted Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Why is it The roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawn Wakes us so early? A warrior king is on fire! His...
The Essential Ginsberg

The Essential Ginsberg

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Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.' Bringing...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

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Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book

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Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing...
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

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Author: Philip Terry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for...
Time Will Tell

Time Will Tell

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Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This story is for you. This story is a piece of you. This story is about how you emerged, stronger, brighter,...
American Melancholy: Poems

American Melancholy: Poems

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things

Waka and Things, Waka as Things

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Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...
SMEAR: Poems for Girls

SMEAR: Poems for Girls

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Author: Greta Bellamacina Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 SMEAR: Poems For Girls presents a curated, all-female lineup of poets from different countries, and addresses issues of trauma,...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made...
Caribou

Caribou

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Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Charles Wright's truth - the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging - is at the heart...
Marvelous Things Overheard

Marvelous Things Overheard

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Author: Ange Mlinko Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 A vibrant and eclectic collection from a stunningly mature young poet The world--the time has come to say it, though the...
masquerade

masquerade

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Author: Cyrus Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Divided into three parts and illustrated by Parker, masquerade grapples with topics such as the never-ending search for acceptance,...
Child of the Moon

Child of the Moon

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Author: Jessica Semaan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 "In her debut collection, Semaan offers an upfront &moving glimpse into the true nature of healing: an imperfect, nonlinear...
The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin

The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin

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Author: Dinah Roe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then...
The World of the Ten Thousand Things : Poems 1980-1990

The World of the Ten Thousand Things : Poems 1980-1990

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Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 231 This important book--shot through with reflections on, explorations of, and hymns to both our natural and spiritual realms--features the three poetry...
Once in the West: Poems

Once in the West: Poems

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Author: Christian Wiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the...
District and Circle

District and Circle

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Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Seamus Heaney's new collection starts In an age of bare hands and cast iron and ends as The automatic lock /...
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

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Author: Christopher Reid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 I've rounded up a rowdy assembly Of my own Consequential Dogs As counterparts to Eliot's mogs. Mine are a rough and...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament

The Song of Kieu: A New Lament

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Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
Penguin's Poems for Weddings

Penguin's Poems for Weddings

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Author: Laura Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: William Yeats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 R.H. Sin's second volume continues the passion and vigor of his previous publication. His stanzas inspire strength through the...
The Rivered Earth: From the author of A SUITABLE BOY

The Rivered Earth: From the author of A SUITABLE BOY

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Author: Vikram Seth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth -...
There Once Was a Girl Who Created a World

There Once Was a Girl Who Created a World

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Author: Louis Cannizzaro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Self-published poet and painter Louis Cannizzaro invites you into a universe of playful and haunting poetry with There Once Was a...
How to Enjoy Poetry

How to Enjoy Poetry

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Author: Frank Skinner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever,...
Humble & Kind

Humble & Kind

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Author: Tim McGraw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 What if practical inspiration could be as simple as an eye-opening, heartfelt song? From Grammy-winning star performer, husband, and father, Tim...
Rising from the Plains

Rising from the Plains

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Author: John McPhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain,...
Love is Enough: Poetry Threaded with Love (with a Foreword by Florence Welch)

Love is Enough: Poetry Threaded with Love (with a Foreword by Florence Welch)

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Author: Andrea Zanatelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Drawing its inspiration from the past, Love is Enough references the decorative arts of a bygone era, and is a combination...
We Hope This Reaches You in Time

We Hope This Reaches You in Time

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Ideas, poetry, and prose from bestselling authors Samantha King Holmes & r.h. Sin.
The Poetry of Horses

The Poetry of Horses

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Author: Various Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to...
The Prophet

The Prophet

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Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A stunning new hardcover edition--linen with copper stamping-of one of the world's most beloved and popular spiritual classics, featuring a new...
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene

Songs of Mihyar the Damascene

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Author: Adonis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan...
The Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The verses have influenced artists from the Renaissance onwards, from Botticelli to Shelley and Tennyson, Andre Gide and Stravinsky. Composed...