The Empty Grandstand by Lloyd Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to watch rugby with his father. The experience was baptismal. From his new elevated perspective Jones believed he could see everything that mattered - a field of play that rolled out, green with promise, from suburban New Z ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for 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-infeste ...Show more
Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved characters in British literature. Lyrical, funny and moving, this is Dylan Thomas’s masterwork and a beloved Welsh classic. ‘It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and b ...Show more
In Memoriam: Thirty Poems of Bereavement
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful alternative to a sympathy card, this lovely collection of thirty poems comes complete with an envelope -a perfect gift for anyone who needs solace.
The Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eightee ...Show more
Discovery - Finding the Hidden Things I've Always Known by Margaret Randall
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Childhood impressions - teenage yearning - spiritual searching - life experiences. For some strange reason I've always had the instinct to write these things down in poetic form.It's only now, as an old lady, that I notice how often I've been asking questions. That, I think, is how the soul grows and di ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
$16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhyth ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the city of Lo ...Show more
Ten Poems about Sheds by JOHN GREENING
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Sheds have come a long way since the man-cave cliché. These days, a shed is a far more democratic place somewhere that symbolises the privacy and space that we all need. John Greening's wonderfully varied selection of poems explores sheds from every imaginable angle. The poems take us to a child's hidin ...Show more
Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson: A selection of old favourites by Newell Rex
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The "Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson" have always been, and still remain, firm favourites with most Australians. He was "a poet who captured characters, moments and events which are now part of our national consciousness...no one managed to tell stories which as much wit and humour as 'The Banjo'" Thi ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more