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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman; Oprah Winfrey (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a ...Show more
The Open by Lucy Van
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Introduction by Merlinda Bobis. All doors are open in Lucy Van's poetry. Ingress and egress are multiple, even coincident. We've just touched what's here, or are about to touch it, when apprehension is quickly uns ...Show more
Slowlier by Ella O'Keefe
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Says O’Keefe about her collection: 'Held under an incorrect adverb, the slowness of this book is expressed as intransigent buffering and refusal of optimisation. The book is shaped by a stubborn commitment to inclusive imprecision which seeks companionship with error and with the grit and offcuts we col ...Show more
Invitation to the Voyage by Charles Baudelaire; Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
$40.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\French List Ser.
"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language," said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems--dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical, elsewhere--draw us in with their descriptive and perceptu ...Show more
Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous: New Poems by Mark Anthony Cayanan
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"His is either a well-oiled universe or a chaos huddled together…he's a mannish character, unanimal, counterfeit, scurrilous."Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous is a work of wild erudition and rococo elaboration, a collection of poems that loosely channels the dynamic of desire and inhibition in Thomas M ...Show more
Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in ...Show more
ELEMENTARY MORALITY by QUENEAU RAYMOND
$37.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was born at Le Havre in 1903, where he was educated before studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Between 1924 and 1929 Queneau was active in the surrealist movement and composed its manifesto, "Permettez!". Queneau collaborated with a number of Nouvelle Vague film directors, most ...Show more
A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories - personal, familial and cultural - that form our identities and obsessions. A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or f ...Show more
The Book by Stéphane Mallarme
$33.50 AUD
Category: Poetry
The French poet St phane Mallarme (1842-98) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." A colossal influence on literature from Huysmans to Ashbery, art from M ...Show more
Slam Your Poetry - Write a Revolution by Miles Merrill; Narcisa Nozzica
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Miles Merrill, spoken word artist and founder of Australian Poetry Slam, and award winning teacher Narcisa Nozica will take you from to spoken word superstar in no time. With tips from legends of the Australian poetry slam scene, 'Slam Your Poetry' privides step by step instructions and excercises tha ...Show more
Where Hope Comes From by Nikita Gill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Where Hope Comes From: poems for a broken world, Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill returns to her roots with her most personal collection yet. Sharing a number of poems that she wrote when the world went into lockdown, this collection will include the phenomenal Love in the Time of Coronavirus ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry : 100 Women on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden
$19.99 AUD
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