History Boys by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
William Wordsworth (Faber Nature Poets) by William Wordsworth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
The Pocket Rumi by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
The cry of the soul in love with God has never been more eloquently expressed than by the great Persian Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Readers have thrilled to his ecstatic songs of divine union for more than eight hundred years. Now, here is the collection of the best of Rumi's poetry reissue ...Show more
Communists Like Us by John Falzon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Communists Like Us is a simple love story, a little fiction told in a hundred poems, a hundred little places to live large, fragments of a story of love in a time of struggle. But then, when isn't it a time of struggle? And when is a story not about love? And when isn't love a fragmented but tender dial ...Show more
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In her extraordinary new poetry collection, the Poet Laureate of the United States boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
Poems: New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously ...Show more
The Sky Runs Right Through Us by Renee Pettitt-Schipp
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
'This deeply personal book is also an important historical record. Written from the heart and covering a period of time working on Christmas Island with asylum seekers until her return to Australia with an urgency to bear witness, Pettitt-Schipp's steady eye is levelled at a facade of Australian inclusi ...Show more
Earshot by Sam Morley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This debut collection from Sam Morley comprises poetry that is image-rich, probing and sublime. Committed to observation as a vehicle for discovery, Earshot is a book-length meditation deep in the mystery of the domestic sphere and the natural world. The poems are often profoundly personal while somehow ...Show more
Where Hope Comes From by Nikita Gill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Where Hope Comes From: poems for a broken world, Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill returns to her roots with her most personal collection yet. Sharing a number of poems that she wrote when the world went into lockdown, this collection will include the phenomenal Love in the Time of Coronavirus ...Show more
Rumi: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Jalal Al-Din Rumi
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us ...Show more
The Making of Poetry - Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
$54.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The Ancient Mariner and 'Kubla Khan', as well as Coleridge's un ...Show more
Empty Bottles Full of Stories by R. H. Sin; Robert M. Drake
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A joint poetry collection from the virally popular and bestselling poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake. What are you hiding behind your smile? If those empty bottles that line the walls of your room could speak, what tales would they spill? So much of your truth is buried beneath the lies you tell yourse ...Show more