Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love by Jessica Urlichs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to scho ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
The Other Flesh by Robbie Coburn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Robbie Coburn grew up in Woodstock, Victoria on his family's farm. The Other Flesh, his second volume, contains many poems whose texture sings of being alone under the stars. Coburn's world shimmers with light as much as it burns with ferocity but these finely written poems are free from bitterness or a ...Show more
Memorial by Alice Oswald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its ...Show more
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
$37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A phenomenonally precocious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief five-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsce ...Show more
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Great Poets Series by Alfred Tennyson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die' 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all' His genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language o ...Show more
A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year by Liz Ison
$47.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
A beautifully packaged anthology of poems from around the world and throughout history, all especially selected for reading aloud, with one glorious poem for every day of the year. Everyone benefits from reading aloud, whether it's a bedtime story with Dad or Granny, an intimate moment with a loved one ...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
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
Poetry by Heart - A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Andrew Motion (Introduction)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, from Christ ...Show more
Dress Rehearsals by Madison Godfrey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body. My femininity is not a survival instinct, it is a song. In their brilliant new poetry collection, Madison Godfrey documents a decade of performing womanhood, from teenage fangirl to tender femme. ...Show more
Plot by Claudia Rankine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen.In this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they find themselves propelled into the cla ...Show more