Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
Songs of Innocence and Experienceis one of the best-loved poetry collections of all time, an innovative and groundbreaking experiment in which Blake intertwined text and image to dazzling effect. The volume, published sometimes as two separate collections, juxtaposes the innocent world of childhood with ...Show more
Lemons in the Chicken Wire by Alison Whittaker
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Category: Poetry
From a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling with stunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, Lemons in the Chicken Wire delivers a collage of work that reflects rural identity through a rich medley of techniques an ...Show more
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy by NEIL ASTLEY
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Category: Poetry
"Staying Alive", "Being Alive" and "Being Human" have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. Each anthology in the Staying Alive trilogy has 500 poems to touch the heart, stir the mind and fire t ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Weddings by Laura Barber (ed.)
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Category: Poetry
Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremo ...Show more
Empirical by Lisa Gorton
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Category: Poetry
The third poetry collection by Lisa Gorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literary awards for both poetry and fiction. Lisa Gorton began writing Empirical when the Victorian Government of the time threatened to cut an eight-lane motorway through the heart of Royal Park i ...Show more
Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal ...Show more
How to Enjoy Poetry by Frank Skinner
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Category: Poetry | Series: Little Ways to Live a Big Life Ser.
'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'. I referred them to Doctor Who's Tardis.'Frank ...Show more
Everything, All At Once by Various
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Category: Poetry
Identity – who are you? Who or what do you identify with? What does that even mean? In a world that likes to paint us as black or white we’re often searching for an opportunity to fit in.This anthology features 30 of Australia’s best writers under 30 exploring the theme identity – searching for unique p ...Show more
The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill
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Category: Poetry
Let her be a little less human, a little more divine Give her heart armour so it doesn't break as easily as mine One girl's wild journey of strength, beauty and growth as she discovers who she really is. Lyrical wonder, spiritual revelation and revolution meet with epic mythical landscapes in this deepl ...Show more
Pam Ayres on Animals by Pam Ayres
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Category: Poetry
A beautiful collection from much-loved poet Pam Ayres, compiling her best verse dedicated to animals, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon. 'Oh WHY must you bark at the postman?Why must you batter my ears?I know it seems rumBut the postman has comeEvery morning for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.' From her very fir ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry by Anthony Holden; Ben Holden
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Category: Poetry
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to toda ...Show more