The Flowers of Evil (Alma Classics) by Charles Baudelaire; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff -- but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake. When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decr ...Show more
Totem: Totem Poem plus 40 Love Poems by Luke Davies
$23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This is an exquisite collection of physical, sensual poems which confirms Davies reputation as one of Australia's foremost poets.
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
$15.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"The Hunting of the Snark" relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures, the Snark. In 1959 Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley and its mag ...Show more
Of Memory and Furniture by Bron Bateman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Of Memory and Furniture is described by Julienne van Loon as 'a deeply feminist project', and by David Brooks as 'bold, explicit and unapologetic'. This collection in four parts explores experiences of female embodiment, sexuality, and relationships with family, lovers and institutions. It is concerned ...Show more
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Wh ...Show more
Poems from the Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but rather humanityitself and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, ...Show more
Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
$42.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. The text is preceded b ...Show more
Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE* Violence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a long sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and se ...Show more
Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Barry Hill's tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, 2013, and described by John Kinsella as a 'masterpiece'; Grass Hut Work (2016), his excursion into Hiroshima and Japanese poetry, which Sam Hamill said was 'beautiful an ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
$31.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Odyssey is a poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed Odysseus has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemac ...Show more
An Open Book by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 1 Poetry
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ...Show more
Complete Poems Of Banjo Paterson by A B Paterson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Australia's most-loved bush poet, Banjo Paterson, is the writer who in many ways defined what it was to be Australian. When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'the Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. today Banjo Paterson is still one of A ...Show more