Poetry & Plays

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis collection presents the evocative verse of a foundational Australian poet, capturing the raw beauty and untamed spirit of the...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Light foxing on book block....

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA darkly comic Australian novel, The Professor chronicles the life of an aging, self-important academic whose...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text. Set in mid-twentieth-century Australia, Eden House...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: pencil and pen marks on pages This collection presents the profound poetic achievements of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Long tear at back of jacket. Repaired.A landmark of Australian bush poetry, The Man...

Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Protected by plastic jacket sleeve. Light foxing on first few pages...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA haunting work of Australian bush poetry, Jack's Last Muster showcases the raw, melancholic voice of Barcroft Boake, one of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Only slightly faded on spine. Pages crisp and white.A landmark collection of nineteenth-century Australian poetry, Leaves from Australian...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark collection of nineteenth-century Australian verse, The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall gathers the complete lyrical output of one...

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsComplete Tales & Poems presents the chilling and profound works of a master of the macabre. This collection chronicles...

Edition: 4th impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsMonty Blandford's Philosopher's Scrap Book presents a compelling collection of philosophical insights, offering readers a unique journey through...

Edition: First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: British Empire issue, with the publisher's label affixed to...

Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Vol II - spine damage. Internally sound. A collection of Augustan...

'Beautiful and uplifting' Davina McCall 'So inspiring, so heartfelt ... the way Donna writes is beyond beautiful.' Lisa Snowdon Uplifting inspiration from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I Wish...

Lemn Sissay's first poetry collection was written aged eighteen and hand-sold to miners on the picket lines of Warrington. Since then his poems have been sculpted in iron and built...

The Poetry Exchange is an award-winning podcast and project that celebrates the role poetry plays in people's lives. In their first anthology, Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer draw on ten...

who are you when you're alone Starry Night, Blurry Dreams is a collection of graphic poetry about loneliness, love and existing in our world. a heavy heart is hard to...

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...

'Like Pam Ayres on acid' LEMN SISSAY 'Energising, fearless and joyful' SARA PASCOE 'Hollie has such a wonderful voice. Warm, relatable, smart and funny' SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 'Funny, so smart and...

From poet Kate Fox comes a book for everyone who knew the famous silhouette of the tree that stood at Sycamore Gap. For those who took shelter, saw its branches...

The book titled Australian Verse: an Illustrated Treasury Chosen by Beatrice Davis: An by the author Beatrice Davis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

In 2011, Sarah Kay performed her poem "B" at the TED conference in Long Beach, California to standing ovations. Now the video of that performance has been forwarded to mothers...

The book titled Beastly Tales from Here and There by the author Vikram Seth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Bell-birds and Other Verses by the author Henry Kendall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The beauty and meaning behind his poetry and prose has meant that Shakespeare's work has lived on throughout history long after his death. We still fall in love and become...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis collection presents the unparalleled genius of Edgar Allan Poe, a master of the macabre and architect of the detective story. It...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive collection presents the unparalleled literary genius of Oscar Wilde, gathering his most celebrated plays, poems, and prose. It showcases his...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe comic opera The Yeomen Of The Guard; Or, The Merryman And His Maid presents a captivating narrative set within...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small stain on book block. This comprehensive biography, Rudyard Kipling, chronicles the extraordinary life and literary contributions of...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Inscriptions on fep, otherwise content...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: front piece missing from dust jacket cover, chipping otherwise around jacketThis anthology, A Book Of Australian Verse, compiles a rich...

Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2024 'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography illuminates the multifaceted life and enduring legacy of George Bernard Shaw, one of the twentieth century's most...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Chipping along top of jacket, faded spineThis poetic drama, The Cocktail Party, presents a biting social...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents the enduring poetic legacy of John Dryden, a pivotal figure in English literature....

In the first comprehensive study of Cleanness and its medieval contexts, Elizabeth B. Keiser shows how this fourteenth-century religious poem legitimates erotic pleasure as natural apart from procreative justification and...

Condition remarks:Book: Poor Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerThis scholarly edition presents William Shakespeare's beloved comedy, Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will, offering a comprehensive resource for students...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThirty Years With G.B.S. chronicles an intimate, decades-long association with the towering literary figure, George Bernard Shaw. This compelling memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerSelected Verse Of C.J. Dennis presents a delightful collection from the beloved Australian poet, C.J. Dennis....

Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, E. E. Cummings, together with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the...

The wonder of birds has charmed and inspired poets down the centuries and across the globe. From Shakespeare's 'feathr'd king' to Ted Hughes 'butterfly lightness', of swifts, this is a...

Like Emily Wilson's celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aeneid -the first collaborative translation of the poem in English-is rendered in an unrhymed iambic pentameter that engages modern readers while...

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life. The first great adventure story in the Western canon, the Odyssey is a...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsGravedigger's Funeral presents a compelling theatrical work that scrutinizes the solemn rituals surrounding...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis satirical epic, Charles Charming's Challenges On The Pathway To The Throne: A Royal Poem In Rhyming Couplets...