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What The Land Had To Say

What The Land Had To Say

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Author: Reese NorthBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yarnspinners Press Collective with Deluge Publishing, 2023Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Number 110 of 120 copiesThis contemporary...
Fields Of Wonder

Fields Of Wonder

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Author: Rod MckuenBinding: HardbackPublished: W.H. Allen, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis collection of poetry, Fields Of Wonder, presents a lyrical journey through the landscapes of...
Clancy Of The Overflow

Clancy Of The Overflow

$20.00 AUD
Author: A.B. Paterson; Robert IngpenBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, Adelaide, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBanjo Paterson's iconic poem, Clancy Of The Overflow, transports readers to the vast, untamed landscapes...
The Man From Ironbark & Other Verse From A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson

The Man From Ironbark & Other Verse From A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson

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Author: Geoffrey GrahamBinding: PaperbackPublished: Geoffrey Graham, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Possibly inscribed by the author. This collection presents a vibrant...
Mainly Modern: An Anthology Of Verse Selected By John And Dorothy Cobner

Mainly Modern: An Anthology Of Verse Selected By John And Dorothy Cobner

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Author: John And Dorothy CobnerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Rigby, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn edges. Clean text. Mainly Modern: An Anthology Of...
Modern Drama From Communist China

Modern Drama From Communist China

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Author: Walter J. Meserve & Ruth I. MeserveBinding: HardbackPublished: New York University Press, 1970Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Minimal lib markings. Clean text....
The Winter's Tale: Oxford School Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale: Oxford School Shakespeare

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Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. In this edition...
Shakespeare Survey 74: Shakespeare and Education

Shakespeare Survey 74: Shakespeare and Education

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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of...
"The Winter's Tale"

"The Winter's Tale"

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The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This...
The Nation's Favourite Poems of Desire

The Nation's Favourite Poems of Desire

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Yearning, anticipation, excitement, passion fulfilled...'The Nation's Favourite Poems of Desire' brings together 100 poems exploring the nature of love and longing. Poets throughout history have sought to express the nature...
The Poems Of Robert Burns

The Poems Of Robert Burns

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Author: Robert Burns; ed. J. Logie Robertson Binding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, London, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Blue cloth in good...
Walt Whitman: A Life

Walt Whitman: A Life

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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...
Faust: With Eighteen Lithographs By Eugène Delacroix

Faust: With Eighteen Lithographs By Eugène Delacroix

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Author: Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheBinding: PaperbackPublished: Paddington, 1977Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, previous owner name insideThis monumental work of German...
The Poems Of Catullus

The Poems Of Catullus

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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...
Sings The Lone Curlew: Poems

Sings The Lone Curlew: Poems

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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...
The Warwick Shakespeare: Richard III

The Warwick Shakespeare: Richard III

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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...
Form And Meaning In Drama

Form And Meaning In Drama

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Author: H. D. F. KittoBinding: PaperbackPublished: University Paperbacks, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover has general wear, previous owner name inside'Form...
The Collected Poems Of Wilfred Owen

The Collected Poems Of Wilfred Owen

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Author: Wilfred OwenBinding: PaperbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover has some general wear and crease front bottom...
In the Footsteps of Du Fu

In the Footsteps of Du Fu

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'Superb... Beautifully written and thoroughly researched' - Guardian A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of...
My Father's Tools

My Father's Tools

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These poems take the author on a journey through the turbulence of Balkan history, migration to Australia, life in working-class Fitzroy in the 1960s, and beyond this to confrontations with...
He's So MASC

He's So MASC

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In How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. He's...
The Wickedest

The Wickedest

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'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...
Things My Children Think I'm Wrong About: The ideal gift for parents

Things My Children Think I'm Wrong About: The ideal gift for parents

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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,...
Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado about Nothing

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Much Ado about Nothing has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which famous actors, from the...
Theoretical Spectroscopy of Transition Metal and Rare Earth Ions: From

Theoretical Spectroscopy of Transition Metal and Rare Earth Ions: From

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This book describes in detail the main concepts of theoretical spectroscopy of transition metal and rare-earth ions. It shows how the energy levels of different electron configurations are formed and...
Best Loved Poems Little Brown

Best Loved Poems Little Brown

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This collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English-language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to...
Powsels and Thrums

Powsels and Thrums

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' 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...
The Wickedest

The Wickedest

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'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...
Press Release

Press Release

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At the heart of Lisa Gorton's first collection of poems is a sequence set in the Mallee district of Victoria in the last years of World War II. A meditation...
The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale

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'The Winter's Tale', one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually,...
Things My Children Think I'm Wrong About: The ideal gift for parents

Things My Children Think I'm Wrong About: The ideal gift for parents

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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,...
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the face of...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and

How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and

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Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest-a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing...
Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

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For this updated edition, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra, demonstrating how the theatrical design...
The Poetical Works

The Poetical Works

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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it...
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare

The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth...
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2

Henry IV Parts 1 & 2

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In 'Henry IV, Part 1', the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by...
Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook

Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
The Cinder Path

The Cinder Path

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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...
if this is the end

if this is the end

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A fearless and honest exploration of queer First Nations identity, and a vibrant celebration of imperfection and personal growth, if this is the end is a stunning exploration of what...
Our Times in Rhymes: Being a Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age

Our Times in Rhymes: Being a Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age

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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...
Passion

Passion

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'we are the ones we have been waiting for' These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders...
Coal

Coal

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.' Impassioned...