Poetry & Plays

An illustrated anthology of poetry celebrating life in England's capital. 'Earth hath not anything to show more fair' said Wordsworth of London in 1802. Hundreds of years on, the same...

The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent...

Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing...

In The Gutenberg Elegies, nationally renowned critic Sven Birkerts powerfully argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace...

A must-have book for all parents, this illustrated collection of tender, funny, radically honest poems about parenthood, based on a series of popular Instagram posts, is the perfect baby shower...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsIn this foundational and historically significant collection, celebrated literary visionary Rex Ingamells delivers Selected Poems, a definitive showcase of his...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA compelling collection from one of mid-twentieth-century Britain's most emotionally raw and psychologically intense poets, Selected...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsIn this heartwarming and historically rich posthumous anthology, legendary Australian bush poet "John O'Brien" delivers The...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of nineteenth-century Russian drama, A Month in the Country presents a masterfully observed comedy of manners set on...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA stirring work of nautical adventure and seafaring drama, The Taking of the Gry chronicles a tense and gripping tale set against...

Modewarre is the indigenous Wathaurong word for musk duck. Through this icon of land and water, Patricia Sykes explores various histories - her own, her forebears, the wider histories of...

Brooks' second poetry collection gathers together some of his best work from the last two decades. It features in particular the kind of spare, existential lyrics, written about the coastal...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA stellar collection for young readers, Spaceways: An Anthology of Space Poetry brings together...

A mock epic poem in heroic couplets. Modelled on structures of classical epics such as Homer's LLiad, Virgil's Aeneid and Miltons Paradise Lost, yet set in the contemporary world of...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: SignedA fascinating literary curiosity from the height of the British political scene, Selected Poems by Mary Wilson—wife of former Prime Minister...

Edition: 644/750Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA rare and poignant literary artifact, Songs of a Goliard offers a singular glimpse into the creative output associated...

Best known for the explicit sensuality of his novels, D.H. Lawrence was also a prolific poet who took his inspiration from the major emotional crises of his life. This selection...

Selected Poems draws on Jenny Joseph's first four collections of poetry, The Unlooked-for Season (1960), Rose in the Afternoon (1974), The Thinking Heart (1978) and Beyond Descartes (1983). The poems...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerIn this luminous and masterfully crafted mid-century collection, acclaimed award-winning poet Rosemary Dobson delivers Child with a Cockatoo and Other...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsIn this powerful and historically significant mid-century anthology, celebrated Hungarian-Australian author David Martin delivers Poems of David Martin: 1938-1958, a...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA beloved classic of Australian cartooning, The Second Leunig: A Dusty Little Swag presents...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA charming collection of children's poetry, I Rhyme My Time: A Selection of Poems for Young People presents a vibrant...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA charming collection of light verse and comic poetry, The Bendigo Track: And Other Jingles presents the witty and warmhearted...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582 and later went to London, where he became an actor and playwright with the Lord Chamberlain's Men,...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerOne of the foundational works of Western literature, The Illustrated Odyssey presents Homer's timeless epic in E. V. Rieu's celebrated prose translation...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA charming work of children's literature criticism and cultural commentary, Mother Goose Abroad presents Nicholas Tucker's engaging examination of nursery...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA warmly illustrated Australian picture book, Outback Christmas presents a uniquely sun-drenched retelling of the nativity story, transplanting the timeless...

Moving between places and cultures, Comfort Food explores identity, sovereignty and the restless quest for love. Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen...

A roof is a roof as long as it's over your head even the sky will do if it is above you. Beginning with a joyful and terrifying image of...

Thanks are due to the editors of the following publications where most of these poems were first published: Active/Reactive, the Age Monthly Review, the Bulletin, Cargo, Fine Line, Meanjin, Otis...

The book titled Hell by the author Dante Alighieri. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A selection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. A member of the gifted and heroic generation of poets which includes Czeslaw...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark anthology of English Romantic literature, Romantic Poetry and Prose presents a sweeping...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA beautifully curated anthology, Come Hither stands as one of the most significant and magically haunting collections of poetry ever...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA definitive gathering of verse from one of the most distinctive and fervent voices of the interwar period. Herbert Edward Palmer’s Collected...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsIn this arresting debut collection, Australian-born poet Keith Harrison charts an evocative psychological landscape through verses that navigate...

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