Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2855

Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2855

Poetry books spanning from Whitman's original Leaves of Grass to Mosab Abu Toha's Forest of Noise, taking in Pushkin, two Frank O'Hara collections, Yves Bonnefoy, Dylan Thomas, three Rupi Kaur bestsellers, and a strong selection of Australian voices. A wide-ranging box with as much contemporary energy as classical depth.

1. Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain — ed. Michael Horovitz — The landmark 1969 Penguin anthology documenting the British counterculture poetry scene — performance poetry, the Liverpool Poets, the Beat-influenced underground — a vivid snapshot of a moment when poetry took to the stage and the streets.
2. Heinrich Heine: Selected Works — tr. Helen M. Mustard; poetry tr. Max Knight — A generous selection from Germany's greatest lyric poet, whose love songs and satirical verse combined Romantic intensity with an ironic wit that anticipates everything that came after him.
3. The Penguin Book of Australian Verse — The essential introduction to a national poetic tradition that is stranger, funnier, more melancholic, and more varied than most readers expect.
4. The Faber Book of Children's Verse — compiled by Janet Adam Smith — Janet Adam Smith's beloved Faber anthology, which has introduced generations of children to real poetry by treating them as intelligent readers capable of appreciating it.
5. the sun and her flowers — Rupi Kaur — Kaur's second collection, exploring loss, love, trauma, and growth through her signature unadorned free verse — a global bestseller that has brought poetry to millions of new readers.
6. home body — Rupi Kaur — Kaur's third collection, turning inward to explore the self, mental health, and the difficult work of knowing and accepting who you are — quiet, intimate, and characteristically direct.
7. milk and honey — Rupi Kaur — The debut collection that made Kaur a phenomenon — four chapters on surviving, loving, breaking, and healing, written with a clarity and emotional immediacy that resonated worldwide.
8. Lunch Poems — Frank O'Hara (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, No. 19) — One of the defining collections of the New York School, written on lunch breaks from O'Hara's job at MoMA — casual, urban, brilliant, and alive in ways that changed what American poetry was allowed to be.
9. The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems — Pushkin, tr. D.M. Thomas — D.M. Thomas's translations of Pushkin's major poems, including the great narrative poem about St Petersburg's founding and its human cost — an essential introduction to the poet at the centre of Russian literary culture.
10. A Nature Poem: Summer — Tim Cockburn — A lyric sequence responding to the landscape and light of summer, part of Cockburn's illustrated series of nature poems through the seasons — contemplative, grounded, and beautifully produced.
11. The Curved Planks — Yves Bonnefoy, tr. Hoyt Rogers — A bilingual edition of Bonnefoy's late collection, with a foreword by Richard Howard — meditative, luminous poems from one of France's most celebrated twentieth-century poets, exploring presence, absence, and the consolations of art.
12. Thomas Blackburn: Selected Poems — Thomas Blackburn — A selection from a British poet whose confessional, psychologically intense work drew on Jungian thought and personal crisis — underrated and well worth rediscovering.
13. Selected Poems — Dylan Thomas — A Penguin selection from one of the twentieth century's most sonically commanding poets, whose rich, bardic language made him one of the most celebrated literary figures of his era.
14. Meditations in an Emergency — Frank O'Hara — O'Hara's 1957 collection, which established many of the qualities that would make him iconic — the conversational address, the New York street-level observation, the sudden emotional depth — essential alongside Lunch Poems.
15. Signal Flare — Anthony Lawrence — A collection from one of Australia's most technically accomplished poets, whose work fuses vivid natural imagery with formal intelligence and emotional precision.
16. To Love and to Be Loved — A poetry collection exploring the many textures of love — romantic, familial, spiritual — in verse that aims for emotional directness and lyric accessibility.
17. Wolf Notes — Judith Beveridge — A collection from one of Australia's finest poets, whose precise and luminous verse draws on natural observation and a quietly transformative sense of the sacred in everyday life.
18. Fox Petition — Jennifer Maiden — A Giramondo collection continuing Maiden's signature mode of political dialogue and lyric sequence, featuring the recurring characters and geopolitical engagements that have made her one of the most distinctive and searching voices in Australian literature.
19. The Hazards — Sarah Holland-Batt — Sarah Holland-Batt's acclaimed second collection — formally brilliant and emotionally forceful, exploring grief and loss with a precision that has made her one of the most significant Australian poets of her generation.
20. Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition — Walt Whitman — The first edition of Whitman's revolutionary collection, which invented a new American voice and a new kind of poetry — free verse, democratic, embodied, and rapturous.
21. Forest of Noise — Mosab Abu Toha — Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha's second collection, written from inside Gaza and its diaspora — urgent, devastating, and luminously human, praised by Ocean Vuong as "powerful, capacious and profound."
22. Drones and Phantoms — Jennifer Maiden — A second Maiden collection in this box, in her unmistakable mode — long political dialogues and lyric sequences that engage contemporary history with a formal intelligence and moral seriousness found nowhere else in Australian poetry.