The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages ...Show more
African Poetry - Tradition and Landscape by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Verse to Inspire Ser.
African poetry is unique in its complexity, both because of its linguistic diversity and the devastating impact of colonialism and slavery. From the traditional oral poets to the vast outpouring of writing generated throughout the Atlantic slave trade, beautifully lyrical and haunting works are reproduc ...Show more
Ten Poems about Wildlife by PASCALE PETIT
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Category: Poetry
Hedgehogs and hares, dragonflies and deer... This mini anthology is a celebration of the wild creatures that flutter, slither, swim or stride through the British countryside. The strange language of bats and the exhilaration of wild ponies running free are brought vividly to life, while the sinuous body ...Show more
Ten Poems on the Telephone by SARAH JACKSON
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Category: Poetry
These days we can be on the phone almost anywhere. On the hoof, perhaps, but phone calls are no less important for that. Edited by Sarah Jackson, this intriguing new anthology explores the emotional warp and weft of the telephone call from the wrong number that brings us ear-to-ear with a stranger to th ...Show more
Ten Poems about Work by JONATHAN EDWARDS
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We may not love our jobs, but when we can't go to work we find that we miss them. This mini-anthology reflects on our working lives in all their glorious variety with a delightful mix of nostalgia, celebration and humour. There are commutes by car and bike, and a poem in which driving to work in New Yor ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2023 by Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best of Australian Poems Ser.
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2022 - 1 August 2023, the series, now in its third ...Show more
Ten Poems about Families by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry
Where would we be without families, to lift us up and love us, to make us who we are? This anthology celebrates all of the humour and warmth, the strength and joy, that families bring us. We meet a doting grandfather who makes a car out of sand for his granddaughter on the beach, spend time at a ghostly ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
Eleven Poems about Football by CONOR O'CALLAGHAN
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Category: Poetry
Football has accrued its fair share of sound-bites and foot-in-mouth moments. The poems in this anthology strike an altogether more subtle note and take us to the very heart of why a seemingly straightforward team sport arouses such passion and commands such lifelong devotion. There's a poem capturing t ...Show more
Ten Poems about Tea by Dahl, Sophie, Perry, Jill, Mariner, Lorraine, Hardy, Thomas, Shapcott, Jo, Boland, Eavan, Agard, John
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Ten Poems about Tea has a fabulous introduction by Sophie Dahl (PG with milk, no sugar) and was the brilliant idea of Picador poet Lorraine Mariner, who also works as a librarian in the Poetry Library at London's South Bank Centre. She has helped choose the poems, advised us along the way and agreed wit ...Show more
mark the dawn by Jazz Money
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A dazzling and impressive follow-up to Money's highly acclaimed debut, how to make a basket. We gather marks. Our bodies, our stories, our histories and our world are made of an infinite amount of visible and invisible moments. We make marks to record, to remember, to honour, to protest. We mark time, f ...Show more
Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, "Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in "Penguin Classics". In "Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosm ...Show more