Poetry & Plays

Thomas Hardy remains one of the best loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his popularity from the elegiac tone of much of his best verse and the universality...

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 first ever collection of poems by the acclaimed author of the Aubrey/Maturin series of Napoleonic naval adventures. As we have stood with Jack and Stephen on the deck of...

In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land,...

Leading Australian literary figure, Dorothy Hewett is remembered and rediscovered in this very personal book of selected poetry. Compiled by Dorothy's daughter, the poet and literary scholar Kate Lilley, Selected...

Peter Skrzynecki is a poet and fiction writer of Polish-Ukrainian descent. His poems are largely poems of reflection and observation, but in the course of their 'meditations' on experience they...

A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities,...

The book titled New and Selected Poems by the author Kevin Hart (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Monash University, Victoria, Australia). This is a secondhand book. Please contact...

This collection of James McAuley's poetry was first published in 1971, and has been updated to include all of his poems published since then, in chronological order. McAuley is the...

The book titled Cap and Bells: Poetry of Francis Webb by the author Francis Webb. 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.

This is an anthology of English verse. Poems are ordered by date of composition rather than in monolithic slabs devoted to individual poets. It also includes a high proportion of...

In this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly...

"One could live a complete life based on the wondrous words of Rumi. But add images and story, and you have more than enough for a lifetime, an overabundance...an excess...

The second installment in the Healing Verses series from poet r.h. Sin introduces Serenity's Song , a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey of...

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...

This book employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental problems contribute to the common youth and society as a whole. We all are broken and broken...

Shakespeare's Sonnets of 1609 are as thrilling and persuasive today as they were when they were first published: perhaps no collection of verses before or since has captured the imagination...

The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents...

Only edition in print On 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria Crowther in a desperate bid to...

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: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis evocative work, Click Go The Shears: An Australian Ballad, captures the rugged spirit...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection of verse presents the profound artistry of one of English literature's most revered figures. It chronicles...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, soft leather boundThis comprehensive collection, The Complete Poetical Works Of Thomas Campbell, presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pencil underlining'Saundarya-Lahari: The Ocean Of Beauty presents a profound journey into the heart of Hindu devotional poetry and tantric philosophy....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: one tear on jacketThis engaging volume presents a heartfelt homage to C. J. Dennis's...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsPickering's Salute To The Sentimental Bloke presents a vibrant reinterpretation of C. J. Dennis's beloved verse, bringing new life to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping journey through the rugged landscapes and intimate lives of Australia, this collection captures the voice of a nation in...

Edition: 3rd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Hinges starting. Clean text. This scholarly work presents a profound collection of...

A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG. At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Through these fragments,...

A collection of poetry exploring themes of masculinity, love, grief and connection, this is the trade debut from Instagram phenomenon Lucas Jones. For fans of yung pueblo, Hussain Manawer and...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY 'It is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in...

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how...

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...

Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry...

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...

I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsJohn Masefield's The Collected Poems presents a comprehensive treasury of verse from the esteemed Poet Laureate. This volume chronicles a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThe Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley presents a comprehensive collection of the influential Romantic poet's lyrical masterpieces. This volume chronicles Shelley's...

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...