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The Old Bulletin Book of Verse

The Old Bulletin Book of Verse

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Author: Various Contributorsbinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1975Condition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: Previous ownerThe Old Bulletin Book of Verse is a collection of poetry texts accompanied...
Chuckin' Rocks

Chuckin' Rocks

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Author: Frank Danielbinding: SoftbackPublished: Truthful Publication, 1999Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsChuckin' Rocks is a collection of Australian bush poetry and yarns by Frank...
With a Hawk's Quill

With a Hawk's Quill

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Author: James Picotbinding: HardbackPublished: Meanjin Press, 1953Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: SignedWith a Hawk's Quill is a first edition hardcover book by James Picot, published...
Separate Tables

Separate Tables

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Author: Terence Rattiganbinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1955Condition: book: Good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsSeparate Tables is a collection of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, set in the...
Creeve Roe

Creeve Roe

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Author: Victor Daleybinding: HardbackPublished: The Pinchgut Press, 1947Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Yellowed, markings: Previous ownerCreeve Roe is a collection of Victor Daley's radical and satiric verse,...
A Bone Flute

A Bone Flute

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Author: Philip Martinbinding: HardbackPublished: Australian National University Press, 1974Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: Signed with inscriptionA Bone Flute by Philip Martin is a hardcover book...
Australian Visions: Nature, Heritage, Creation, Life

Australian Visions: Nature, Heritage, Creation, Life

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Author: A.G. Simmons, James Eganbinding: SoftbackPublished: Judy Simmons Publications, 1983Condition: book: Very good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the intricate relationship between nature, heritage,...
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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Author: Franny Choi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's...
Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year

Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year

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Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every...
Toxicon & Arachne

Toxicon & Arachne

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Author: Joyelle McSweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is...
WOMXN: Sticks and Stones: Acrostics and Poems to Reclaim the Words that Have Hurt Us

WOMXN: Sticks and Stones: Acrostics and Poems to Reclaim the Words that Have Hurt Us

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Author: Lexy Wren-Sillevis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 "There are so many words, insults, labels and boxes for women to be packaged and packed off in. Often, but not...
Heide

Heide

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The Burning Cactus

The Burning Cactus

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All the Room

All the Room

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A Country Without Exiles

A Country Without Exiles

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The Mankind Thing

The Mankind Thing

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Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations

Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations

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Amnion

Amnion

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William Blake: The very best poems from one of the most important figures of the Romantic Age

William Blake: The very best poems from one of the most important figures of the Romantic Age

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Author: William Blake Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: An inspiring collection from the great Romantic and Lakeland poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: An inspiring collection from the great Romantic and Lakeland poet

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Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the...
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the First World War poets

Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the First World War poets

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Author: Rupert Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever...
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde

A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde

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Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most...
Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

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Author: Hollie McNish Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly...
We Play Here

We Play Here

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Author: Dawn Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the...
Enter the Water: An Observer Best Poetry Book of the Year

Enter the Water: An Observer Best Poetry Book of the Year

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AN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it...
Gub

Gub

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Author: Scott McKendry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry...
Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic

Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic

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Author: Tyler GacaFormat: Hardback, 142mm x 200mm, 520g, 240 pagesPublished: Running Press,U.S., United States, 2023From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium...
Gub

Gub

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Author: Scott McKendry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry...
Jane Austen: Poems both inspiring and witty from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'

Jane Austen: Poems both inspiring and witty from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'

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Author: n/a Jane Austen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known' Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including...
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a contemporary poet selects...
The The Complete Apparition

The The Complete Apparition

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Author: K. F. Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The Complete Apparition is an existential comedy. The Apparition is only there when perceived. Many who may evoke him, mostly...
The Book of Tree Poems

The Book of Tree Poems

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Author: Ana Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by...
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay

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Author: J. K. Rowling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Wizarding World journey continues The powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of...
Enter the Water: An Observer Best Poetry Book of the Year

Enter the Water: An Observer Best Poetry Book of the Year

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Author: Jack Wiltshire Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 AN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith 'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you...
Notes on Heartbreak: The Must-Read Book by Vogue's Dating Columnist

Notes on Heartbreak: The Must-Read Book by Vogue's Dating Columnist

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Author: Annie Lord Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality' DOLLY ALDERTON, author of EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE 'Annie Lord tells...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets

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Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and...
Sometimes I Never Suffered: Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize 2020

Sometimes I Never Suffered: Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize 2020

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Author: Shane McCrae Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2020 'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation,...
The Fat Black Woman's Poems: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

The Fat Black Woman's Poems: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Grace Nichols Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols's poems preach disquiet' OBSERVER 'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but...
No Art: Poems

No Art: Poems

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Author: Ben Lerner (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of...
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust

Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust

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A Glass Half Full

A Glass Half Full

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Through the Lover's Window: The Trials and Treasures of Love and Loving

Through the Lover's Window: The Trials and Treasures of Love and Loving

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The Magic Border

The Magic Border

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Author: Arlo Parks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 'An embrace of a book' Florence Welch 'Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly...
Birds

Birds

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Author: Judith Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 88 Judith Wright (1915-2000) was one of Australia's most celebrated poets and one of only two to be considered for the Nobel...
The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

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Author: Dante Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 712 Abandon all hope, you who enter here. A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 7

A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 7

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Author: SparkNotes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation...
The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 10

The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 10

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Author: SparkNotes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Merchant of Venice on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation...
Hojoki: A Buddhist Reflection on Solitude: Imperfection and Transcendence - Bilingual English and Japanese Texts with Free Online Audio Recordings

Hojoki: A Buddhist Reflection on Solitude: Imperfection and Transcendence - Bilingual English and Japanese Texts with Free Online Audio Recordings

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Author: Kamo no Chomei Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Discover the tranquil wisdom of Chomei's 13th-century masterpiece, Hojoki, as it unveils the beauty of imperfection and the serenity of...