She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...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
Second World War Poems by Hugh Haughton (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Now in paperback, a powerful, wide-ranging anthology of international poetry from the 1939-45 conflict.The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...Show more
Song of Less by Joan Fleming
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Madrid, Spain 2019. The end of the UN Climate Change Conference--another moral failure on the part of those who could have made change. I go back to the labour union hall that all the activist groups have been using as a headquarters to help with the clean-up. There are only a few of us left. I take on ...Show more
Arabic Poems
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poetry is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition.Themes of love, nature, religion, and politics recur in works drawn from the pre-Islamic oral tradition to those anticipating the recent Arab Spring The Ar ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tong ...Show more
Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet--the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his ho ...Show more
Beautiful Chaos On Motherhood, Overwhelming Love and Finding Yourself 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
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion; Stephen Regan
$75.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolationElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature- a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of l ...Show more
Gawimarra Gathering by Jeanine Leane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more