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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the heart of early twentieth-century Australia emerges the voice of Frank Wilmot — better known by his pen name...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodStep into a single, luminous day in the life of Scotland's most beloved poet — Robert Burns — as May Byron's charming biographical portrait brings the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as picturedIn the vast and sun-scorched landscape of Australia, a nation's soul is forged not in boardrooms or parliaments, but around campfires,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War carry the raw, anguished power of...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew works have endured the passage of centuries with the commanding force of Beowulf, the oldest surviving epic poem in the Old...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew works in the Western canon have commanded the awe and reverence of Dante Alighieri's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1923, The Prophet stands as one of the most luminous and enduring works of spiritual literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodFew voices from the Victorian era capture the full spectrum of human experience — from riotous comedy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedThere is a moment in every season — a heron poised above still water, frost tracing the edge of a fallen leaf, moonlight dissolving...

'This is some of the best English prose of our time' SPECTATOR 'A feast for mind and soul' ISABELLA TREE 'A marvellous and revelatory guide to our native bird-life' DAILY...

Under Milk Wood shows a day in the life of a small seaside town called Llareggub. We meet the inhabitants while still asleep, having wild dreams. We follow them as...

A cast of 'Indic-heritage poets' meets to perform poems and discuss the future of poetry. indiom engages eclectic, often Rabelaisian styles on subjects as various as the Indian poet Nissim...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sunburnt plains of the Australian bush comes Along the Western Road: Bush Stories and Ballads, a rich...

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...

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...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent decades between 1790 and 1830, a revolution in human feeling and imagination swept through English letters, producing some of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedFew writers have made absurdity so timelessly delightful as Edward Lear, the Victorian master of comic verse...

'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA Galaxy of Poems Old and New, chosen by E.W. Parker, M.C., is a carefully...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingFew names in the history of human civilization carry the weight and wonder of William Shakespeare's, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare places the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. From one of the twentieth century's most distinctive literary voices comes Marching Soldier, a long...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew nations have been so profoundly shaped by the crucible of war as Australia, and The Australian Experience of War: Illustrated Stories & Verse presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of sacred art and devotional verse stands The True Vine, a profoundly moving collection that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the dusty crossroads where hardship meets hope, Henry Lawson's The Romance of the Swag captures the restless spirit of...