Poetry & Plays

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA garden has long been humanity's most potent symbol of the sacred, and The Faithful Garden: An Ecumenical Florilegium gathers that rich tradition into...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in the English literary canon resonate with the same breathtaking intensity as John Donne's — a poet who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the depths of grief to the heights of gratitude, Someone Cares: The Collected Poems of Helen Steiner Rice presents a sweeping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the pen of Australia's most beloved bush poet comes a whimsical menagerie of creatures left behind when Noah set sail —...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: worn spineFew figures loom as large in the Australian literary imagination as Bill, the rough-hewn...

In her fourth collection of poetry, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams revisits many of her favorite themes and subjects. These lyric poems explore the natural world, the environment, and the condition of women....

Hummadruz brings together Hilary-Llewellyn-Williams' first two books, the long-absent The Tree Calendar (1987) and Book of Shadows (1990). The former includes her reputation-makingtitle sequence reflecting on the Celtic calendar, in...

The culmination of Jeni Couzyn's Selected Poems, Life by Drowning, was a new body of powerful, mystical poetry, including A Time To Be Born and The Coming of the Angel....

The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires.' One of Shakespeare's darkest and...

Set in clear, easy-to-read type, this budget, slim, lightweight volume is a favourite study text with students. It also features a glossary of obsolete words and words which vary from...

A widely revered collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet, publishing in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also...

One spring day, 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. The inn keeper offers a free dinner, on their return, to the person...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets have shaped the English literary imagination as profoundly as William Wordsworth, and this volume...

Edition: No. 116 0f 390 copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedFrom one of England's most celebrated Georgian poets comes...

Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the twentieth century's most formidable literary critics turns his unflinching gaze upon the English poetic tradition...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.At the crossroads of modernism and tradition, New Bearings in English Poetry stands as one...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary forms carry the raw, narrative power of the traditional ballad — and The Oxford Book of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA titan of Australian verse, Robert D. FitzGerald spent four decades crafting a body of work that stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom one of Australia's most distinguished voices of the twentieth century comes Moonlight Acre, a collection of poetry that cements...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew books have crossed the boundaries of culture, faith, and time with the quiet, enduring power of The Prophet — a slim...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the deep spiritual heart of Australia's ancient landscape comes Altjeringa and Other Aboriginal Poems, a profound collection that channels the voices,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew playwrights have shaped the Western dramatic tradition as profoundly as Sophocles, and G. H. Gellie's Sophocles: A Reading...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTo mark a hundred years of one of Australia's most distinguished girls' schools, A Century of Fintona...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew cultural transplantations have proven as resilient and richly textured as the Irish presence in Australia, and The Wearing of the Green...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when a poet of singular wit joins forces with one of Britain's most beloved illustrators to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew writers have captured the soul of rural England with such raw...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers in the English language have weaponised language with the precision and pleasure of Oscar Wilde, and The Wit of Oscar Wilde presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSweeping across the sun-scorched plains, misty coastlines, and ancient red earth of the continent, Australian Visions: Nature, Heritage,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched high country of the Australian Alps thunders one of the most legendary poems ever to emerge from...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: **DUTCH TEXT ONLY**Few artists of the Dutch Golden Age married the visual and the verbal with such devotion as Joannes Luiken (1649–1712),...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: light foxing on boardsFew works in the Western literary canon have so boldly and brilliantly codified the art of seduction as Ovid's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedBefore Elton John became a global phenomenon, there was a quiet, visionary poet crafting the words that would define...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards: fair with some marks and specks; slight discolouration...

The book titled One Siren or Another by the author Andrea Sherwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original A Penguin Classic This vigorous translation of...

The only available edition of Stephen Spender's autobiography. A classic of gay literature

In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber-prize winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection...

Against the backdrop of Isla Negra - the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pacific...

It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodJohn Fowles — celebrated author of The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus — reveals an altogether different creative dimension in Poems, a rare...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor seventeen summers, two Queensland cane-cutters have made their annual pilgrimage to Melbourne, bringing with them the intoxicating promise of freedom, romance, and a...