Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mr Jack has been nimble and he's been quick, searching through the history of nursery rhymes and he's found out all kind of plum tales, just like little Jack Horner. He's unearthed the answers to some very curious questions...Who were Mary Quite Contrary and Georgie Porgie? How could "Hey Diddle Diddle" ...Show more
Non-Essential Work by Omar Sakr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost ArabsIn this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection The Lost Arabs, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep into his loves and losses to create a riveting literary experience. Asking questions of timeliness and tim ...Show more
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
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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
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Pocket Edition) by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions
Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century. This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works. Featuring insights about nature, love, life, death a ...Show more
Guwayu, for all times: A Collection of First Nations poems by Leane Jeanine (Ed)
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Category: Poetry
Guwayu, for all times is the highly anticipated and electric collection of First Nations poetry commissioned by Red Room Poetry. This collection extends the ancient and continuing cultural practice of weaving to words. In Guwayu, for all times, the page becomes the vessel — the crafted object that carri ...Show more
Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel. Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy," and American haiku.HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTHbefore we all go to HeavenVISIONS OF AMERICAAll that hitchhikinAll that railroadinAll th ...Show more
Bloom by Beau Taplin
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Category: Poetry
This is your renewal. This is your regrowth ... You may come into this softly or bristling with thorns, beneath the light of the sun or the moon and the stars, so long as you always remember it is never too late to return to the root of your heart and begin again.Broken hearts, false starts, new beginni ...Show more
The Future Keepers by Nandi Chinna
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Category: Poetry
They navigate the poet's own embodied experiences of change and succession - of family, community and place. From the research scientists, gardeners, birds and plants of Kings Park, to the activism and ecosystems of the Beeliar Wetlands, to the poet's own inherited landscapes, these poems evoke mutualit ...Show more