The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara M Saleh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh.The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat is a dazzling collection that examines and represents the complexity of Arab-Australian Muslim women's identities, as well as exploring gender a ...Show more
The Ink Dark Moon by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and conduct love affairs according to their desires. Education and refinement were so highly valued that the cou ...Show more
The Lights by Ben Lerner
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.
The Magpie Wing by Max Easton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Helen, Walt and Duncan are looking for ways to entertain themselves in the sprawl of Sydney’s western suburbs. Walt, scrappy and idealistic, wants to prove a point, and turns to petty vandalism. His friend Duncan sticks to his fledgling football career, and sexual encounters in strange houses. Walt’s si ...Show more
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried ...Show more
The Tour by PiO
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
A chronicle of the early days of performance poetry, presented as a road trip in verse by one of its greatest practitioners.This book-length verse narrative is about a so-called ‘Dirty T-Shirt Tour’, on which a group of Australian poets travel to cities in the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s, ...Show more
Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in. Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lo ...Show more
What You Want by Maureen N. McLane
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'McLane is a Romantic poet out of time' Ange Mlinko 'Passionate, erudite, sensuous . . . McLane probes the minutest currents of human feeling' Sarah Howe'My favourite living poet . . . [her work] bristles with life, feeling, argument' Parul Seghal The witty, searching new collection by National Book Awa ...Show more
Whisper Songs by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most. He also challenges the past to speak up by interrogating the archive, including documents from his own family history, highlighting forcefully the ways in which the person ...Show more
as good a woman as ever broke bread by Alex McInnis
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This debut collection of poetry explores the threads and gaps in family and national story — both oral and archival — to connect multiple generations of migration, separation, adoption, secrecy and reunion. The poems connect seemingly distant times and places — from slave plantations in North America, t ...Show more
e.e cummings: Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings
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Category: Poetry
"Among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets," according to Jenny Penberthy in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, E. E. Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A Cummings poem is spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically place ...Show more