Poetry & Plays

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. 'These words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary.' - Giovanna Fletcher Motherhood...

Jericho Brown's daring poetry collection The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad...

In the long-awaited follow-up to his bestselling collection, The Truth of You , poet Iain Thomas explores the unseen forces that shape our inner experience. A collection of over 200...

The poems within Oaths contain a promise made to oneself for a better future. Read with all the hope you can muster. A stunning and emotional follow-up to 2022's Serenity...

From poet Courtney Peppernell comes the story of a very long winter, a month of dark and unforgiving Sundays, that will make you question your strength and the purpose of...

Self-Love for Small Town Girls is an exciting offering from beloved bestselling author Lang Leav. A collection of stunning poetry and prose that seeks to define the loaded question of...

This story is for you. This story is a piece of you. This story is about how you emerged, stronger, brighter, and more beautiful than the moment you fell. Time...

Poetry and prose to encourage us to grow. Watering the Soul is a timeless reminder that everyone needs time, love, and forgiveness. From bestselling poet Courtney Peppernell comes a new...

Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur...

What are you hiding behind your smile? If those empty bottles that line the walls of your room could speak, what tales would they spill? So much of your truth...

This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a...

The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and emotion. Documenting unhealthy relationships and why the heart ends...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective...

Offers a general introduction to Shakespeare's play, the text of the play itself, a series of essays on "Othello" written by scholars, and an audio CD of various performers, including...

Engaging everywhere with questions of violence and loss, erasure and extinction, The Hazards inhabits unsettling terrain, unafraid to veer straight into turbulence. Malice swarms through me in a surge. I...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still...

Beautifully designed clothbound edition of this brilliant translation Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in...

Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek, known to his friends as "Mattie", began writing poetry and short stories at the age of three. Some of his poetry explores the uncensored reality of...

'Ruthlessly unguarded, surgically self-parodic and infinitely funny ... An indispensable book about friendship and intimacy; I alternately laughed and shivered as I turned the pages' GuardianFrom the prolific poet, activist...

Some good things must come to an end, for new things to begin. Poet Alicia Cook explores this grievous emotion in her latest and final mixtape collection, The Music Was...

Sometimes, beneath the weight of the world, we find ourselves drowning. Let this collection of poetry breathe life back into your lungs and remind you of everything that you've already...

In Her Light is breakout poet Christi Steyn's second collection of poetry, exploring the all-encompassing journey back to the truest version of the self. Christi Steyn has made a name...

From poet Courtney Peppernell comes the story of a very long winter, a month of dark and unforgiving Sundays, that will make you question your strength and the purpose of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThe scholarly work The Late Augustans by Donald Davie chronicles a pivotal era in English poetry, analyzing the...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: blue tape on edges of jackets protective layer, small coffee stain on top of block that...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Usual aging - lightly faded on spine but otherwise fine. Pages bright and clean.This sweeping literary biography chronicles...

Replacing the battles of heroes and gods with the struggle of mortal humans with time and space, Wimmera reinvents the epic poem. All the classical elements are there but they...

Chaos is not pretty. It's like feeling a hundred things. Hearing a hundred voices, and somewhere in the riot we tend to lose ourselves. And as we depart reality we...

Edition: -Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: See description. Outrider: Poems 1956–1962 [ Macdonald, 1962 - Fair, DJ, clipped with wear and...

There s never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works were published to the...

Impractical, technophobic, shy and a nervous traveller, James Harpur suspected he had the perfect qualities for not going to Australia when the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize gave him the chance...

In this inspiring book of divine discovery, poet and seeker Arundhathi Subramaniam gives us a glimpse into the lives of four self-contained, unapologetic female spiritual travelers. "Among the finest pieces...

On Reflection: Moments, Flight and Nothing New attempts to grapple with the complexities of our present moment. Personal and imagined stories appear as fragments of everyday scenes forming a narrative...

The book titled Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English by the author Francis Turner Palgrave. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

A rich collection of poetry that celebrates the beauty and symbolism of flowers. This exquisite book is a revised and updated edition of a classic collection which contains over 50...

A collection of calming, relaxing, positive poems to help with anxiety and stress. Keep this collection handy for a moment of relaxation whenever you need it. With poems about pets,...

Bestselling author and Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs returns with a new collection of beautifully observed poems about the ever-evolving journey of motherhood - the hard, the magic and the fleeting....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA classic of Australian comic verse, How M'Dougall Topped the Score presents one of the most beloved and humorous tales in...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Usual wear and tear, slight chipping on edges of jacket, otherwise finneA masterful collection of short fiction, Actions...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable , ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Ex-library copy with...

What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsAn epic narrative poem of sweeping ambition, Western Star chronicles the earliest chapters of American settlement through the eyes of those who...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA sharp and darkly comic work of American satire, Carnal Knowledge chronicles the lives of two college roommates —...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: small tear on bottom right of jacket, otherwise fine. A landmark collection of Australian...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark collection of Australian verse, Poems of Henry Lawson: Volume Two presents the continued poetic output of one of Australia's...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of Australian literary heritage, Poems of Henry Lawson presents the collected verse of one of the nation's most beloved...