Ariel by Sylvia Plath
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett by Kate Lilley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Leading Australian literary figure, Dorothy Hewett is remembered and rediscovered in this very personal book of selected poetry. Compiled by Dorothy's daughter, the poet and literary scholar Kate Lilley, Selected Poems encapsulates Hewett's enduring themes of grief, loss, despair and memory.
Seamus Heaney - Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Love Poems by Dorothy Porter
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Dorothy Porter writes about love, sex, heartbreak and desire like no one else. Love Poemscollects her most powerful love poetry- portraits of longing and infatuation, of bliss, passion, uncertainty and devotion. It includes extracts from her award-winning and best-selling verse novels, as well as poems ...Show more
The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, pa ...Show more
Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humour earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America. This Penguin Classics edition ...Show more
Poems of the Night by Jorge Luis Borges
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. "Poems of the Night" is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly t ...Show more
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, "Endpoint", written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed ...Show more
Life in Verse: Journey through poetry by Alexis Kirschbaum Ed.
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This publication complements the landmark BBC series "My Life in Verse", making our official tie-in anthology available as a paperback. It includes poetry from Yeats, Tennyson, Blake, Larkin, E.E. Cummings, Don Paterson, Roald Dahl, Benjamin Zephaniah and many more. Within the anthology are poems chosen ...Show more
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across ...Show more