Poetry & Plays

Author: Banjo PatersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ure Smith, Sydney, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner'Poems Of Banjo Paterson' presents a vibrant collection of Australian bush poetry, capturing the spirit and...

Author: Justin KaplanBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerJustin Kaplan's Walt Whitman: A Life chronicles the extraordinary journey of one...

Author: Bill Beavan And Dorothea MackellarBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, 1978Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some silverfish damage on brown cloth, otherwise clean text. A Sunburnt Country is...

Author: K. J. Goesch And K. R. DuttonBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Sydney, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: French...

Author: Horace GregoryBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has wear, light staining and tear (notably one small hole in middle of spine...

Author: Charles And Mary LambBinding: HardbackPublished: Orbis Publishing, 1982Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markings'Tales From Shakespeare' presents a collection of classic...

Author: Rev. William Dodd, Ll.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1880Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerDodd's "Beauties Of Shakspeare" presents a...

Author: Louis H. ClarkBinding: HardbackPublished: The National Press Pty. Ltd., 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis 62-page volume presents a lyrical meditation on...

Author: William Shakespeare, George Macdonald (ed)Binding: HardbackPublished: Blackie & Son Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cloth cover has general wear, previous owner marks insideThe Warwick...

Author: Rudyard KiplingBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsBarrack Room Ballads presents a vivid collection of poems that chronicle the lives and experiences of British soldiers during...

Author: Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald (trans)Binding: HardbackPublished: A. & C. Black, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket damaged with wear, tear and price clippedOmar Khayyam's...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR A gorgeous, gift-worthy box set collecting yung pueblo's bestselling poetic trilogy on developing self-knowledge, healing old wounds, and cultivating harmonious relationships. For the first...

'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read ' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A Guardian Book of the Year Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new...

The ideal gift for all parents! A funny, pithy, and relatable collection of poems for all the dads and carers who can never seem to be right about anything. 'Memorable,...

Luminous, illuminating - lose yourself in the lives and stories of a woodland village in Sweden, at the quiet edge of a turning world Near the river Klar lven, snug...

' I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration ' PHILIP PULLMAN ' One of Britain's greatest writers ' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Alan Garner's world is unbearably beautiful and...

'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read ' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A Guardian Book of the Year Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new...

The poems in this collection were chosen by Paterson's grand-daughters, who have selected not only those that have proved most generally popular, but also their own particular favourites.

The ideal gift for all parents! A funny, pithy, and relatable collection of poems for all the dads and carers who can never seem to be right about anything. 'Memorable,...

Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, Leaves of Grass was controversial in its innovative free verse style and its embrace of hitherto unmentionable...

"The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry" is a fresh, vibrant and richly involving collection of poems and poetic fragments, accompanied by an enlightening apparatus of comment and digression in the...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by...

The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce...

One of the key poets of the Beat generation, Meltzer is very well-known and respected, and the author of more than 50 books of poetry and prose Unpretentious, highly accessible...

In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam),...

Andrew Motion's new collection offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how...

Our Times in Rhymes is a waspish, affectionate and very funny look at the state of our beloved nation. A parliament of fools, or a confederacy of dunces? Blethering celebrities...

This astonishing evocation in verse and pictures of whales, dolphins, the ocean, the earth, and the universe invites all readers to share in a celebration of the whale and be...

In T. S. Eliot's own words in 1922: "The leather bound notebook is one which I started in 1909 and in which I entered all my work of that time...

Author: A.B. PatersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson., 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Condition as shown...

Author: Henry Lawson; Selected By Walter Stone.Binding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsPoems of Henry Lawson, selected by Walter Stone and published by Lansdowne Press...

Author: Adam Lindsay GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsA collection of poems by the Australian bush poet...

Author: Samuel Beckett; Richard SeaverBinding: HardbackPublished: Grove Press, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSamuel Beckett’s I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On is a curated anthology that traces...

Author: John F. DanbyBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann , 1961Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsJohn F. Danby’s Approach to Poetry offers...

Author: The Author of "Charles Lowder"Binding: HardbackPublished: Allen & Co, 1890Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has general wear, previous owner markings inside first pageThe play is a...

Author: T. Inglis Moore; Douglas StewartBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerPoetry In Australia is a two-volume anthology that showcases the evolution...

Author: Willard R. EspyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hawthorne Books, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning alone spine and sticker remainder on front panel (see photo)This biographical work...

Author: Hermann StrobachBinding: HardbackPublished: Hinstorff Verlag Rostock, 1976Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: English - German text. Shanties is a compelling collection of sea songs that captures...

Author: C. J. Dennis, Alec H. ChisholmBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spineThis collection presents a...

Author: A.D. HopeBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has wear to edges that has worn jacket, light foxing on some...

Author: Gareth And Barbara Lloyd EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: J.M. Dent & Sons., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive literary reference work, "Everyman's...

Author: Banjo PatersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1984Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents the iconic bush poetry of Banjo Paterson, offering a vivid portrayal of Australian...

Author: Henry LawsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Weldon Publishing, 1991Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents the quintessential works of Henry Lawson, a foundational figure in Australian literature. As a...

Author: Kevin E. CollopyBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1951Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Splendid Hour is a poignant collection of poetry published by the Australian War...

Author: John CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography offers a profound examination of John Donne, one of England's most...