Poetry & Plays

PRE-ORDER THE DEBUT COLLECTION FROM SPOKEN WORD POET DAN WHITLAM NOW! If you feel like you're running out of time, if you're grieving a relationship or worried you haven't yet...

Celebrate the genius, passion, and poetry of William Shakespeare with this beautifully bound deluxe edition, featuring his complete plays and poems in one timeless collector's volume. No writer has shaped...

Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his...

There isn't a timescale for how you should heal Your bad days are valid, your heartache is real But so is the day that your smile will return That fire...

The book titled Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-1992: Collected Poems, by the author Bruce Dawe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things....

The cleft of a ginkgo leaf recalls a lover's divided self; Greek gods and Persian poets give voice to euphoria and lamentation; and the artist must battle fiercely to bring...

Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire,...

A gift to bring joy and comfort to your days, from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild Hope Joy Chose You is a beautiful, colour-illustrated collection of...

THE COMPLETELY UPDATED COLLECTION WITH OVER 70 BRAND NEW POEMS, FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE AND WORDS TO LIVE BY 'Amazing . . . Donna's...

First published in 1911, and embellished with the graphically sophisticated woodcuts of Dufy, Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poems is a charming celebration of animals, birds, fish, insects, and the...

Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul. - Elias Khoury The book tugs at the...

With an introduction from two-times Miles Franklin Award-winning author Kim Scott, Black Life honours Aboriginal heritage through its rich traditions and poignant reflections. From award-winning playwright, author and activist Jack...

A vital and urgent exploration of identity, memory and survival - for fans of Safia Elhillo, Hasib Hourani and Ocean Vuong. after war is an unwavering exploration of brutality and...

This selection of 239 poems is supported by a critical introduction, very full explanatory notes, a bibliographical summary of Yeats's life, maps, a glossary of Irish names and places and...

The Bloomsbury Classic Series has established itself as the preeminent hardcover poetry and literary collection -- books to be cherished, savored, and given on special occasions.To this series we now...

Ben Jonson was one of the world's greatest literary minds. During the reign of James I his literary prestige was at its height, and, during his lifetime, Jonson's contemporary literary...

W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life and literary career, and his poetic style and vision. Aeneas...

**Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2026, Fiction Book Award** Before the Anthropocene, the air pulsed with birdsong. Now, a silence is falling. Ava spends her days at The Department, rebuilding lost...

John Mateer's previous poetry book Southern Barbarians traced the influence of the Portuguese empire in the Indian Ocean - it was shortlisted for the PM's Award for Poetry and the...

The Bee Hut brings together the poems Doroty Porter wrote in the last fi ve years of her life. By turns expansive and intimate, effusive and contemplative, these poems roam...

This collection of Dante Alighieri's "Canzoniere", translated for the first time in its entirety into English, charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which his "Vita Nova" and...

George Seferis (1900-1971) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. Truthful and magical, his poetry has captivated both Greek and foreign readers. Aptly described by Charlotte Du Cann...

A captivating debut poetry collection from the 2024 black&write! Fellowship winner. - you as, and in relation to, all things - at all times ma-li is the luminous debut poetry...

"Sze-Lorrain offers a ... vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a 'ruined elegance.' Through an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and memories from...

As Far as I Know is a wonderful new book of poems by Roger McGough, the nation's favourite poet Take comfort from this You have a book in your hand...

The book titled Australian Poetry Journal 2.2 Art by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems; it...

The book titled The Man from Snowy River by the author A. B. Paterson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An impressive and though-provoking collection from GRAMMY nominated artist and poet Courtney Marie Andrews. With the same vulnerability and timelessness as her debut collection Old Monarch , Love Is a...

During the early years of her literary career Dorothy Parker wrote more than 300 poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Many of these were collected...

The book titled Fifty Poems by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers...

Gwen Harwood has long been recognized as one of Australia's most distinguished poets, and the work collected in this volume won her a host of domestic poetry awards. Born in...

"I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive." - Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford Ovid's deliciously witty and...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating...

Rudyard Kipling's reputation as Britain's unofficial Poet Laureate has obscured the true nature of his achievement. Far from being an Establishment figure, he was a fiercely independent poet, opposed to...

A beautiful hardcover selection of Emily Dickinson's best-loved, most enduring poems. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Virtually unknown as a poet in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson is now recognized as...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to...

John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island and had a variety of occupations, including journalism, printing and teaching, before publishing Leaves Of Grass in 1855, which was highly praised...

De la Mare's capacity to both disturb and charm is demonstrated in a compilation of verse from earlier published volumes that chronologically arranges poems dating from 1906 to 1953.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers in the English language have wielded wit as a weapon quite like Oscar...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the skies above wartime Britain, a young RAF pilot composed what would become one of the most...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939–1945 stands as one of the most powerful and enduring collections of Second...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dj - chipped and worn with some loss price clipped. Binding slightly shaky -...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the sun-baked plains of colonial Australia to the thundering hooves of the steeplechase, the verse of Adam Lindsay Gordon captures a world of rugged beauty,...