{"product_id":"secondhand-poetry-bargain-book-box-sp2855","title":"Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2855","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2855\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003ePoetry 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eChildren 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eHeinrich 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ethe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ehome 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003emilk 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLunch 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThomas 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSelected 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMeditations 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSignal 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWolf 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFox 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLeaves 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eForest 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.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDrones 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48970902241499,"sku":"SP2855","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2855_21a1e764-2cb9-4e13-9208-b3b10e1fecf2.jpg?v=1783935413","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-poetry-bargain-book-box-sp2855","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}