Taking Risks by Judith McDaniel
$29.25 AUD
Category: Poetry
Here is an extraordinary volume of poetry by this author, teacher and activist. The vivid and lyrical prose transports the reader through the landscapes of the most daunting territory - the human heart.
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth by Adrienne Rich
$17.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A new volume from Adrienne Rich, "Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth" is one of her most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme", in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel", in the voices from past and present in "Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to ...Show more
Ten Tongues: Poetry By Reginald Harris by Reginald Harris
$28.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Filled with variations in mood and voice that are "palpable, logical, and exciting" (Elizabeth Alexander, Antibellum Dream Book), Ten Tongues is Reginald Harris's debut book of poetry. Compelling and musically rich, his verses dance across the lines of race and sexuality to sing of family, identity, phy ...Show more
The Agonist by Shastra Deo
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In its wildness, originality and vitality, this collection announces a distinctive new poetic voice. Like the agonist that binds to a receptor to start a chemical response, these poems conduct experiments with the poetics of attachment, spark and charge. Found poetries adjoin explorations of the limits ...Show more
The Air Year by Caroline Bird
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020) The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird's speakers exist in a state of unrest, trapped in a liminal place between take-off and landin ...Show more
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky an ...Show more
The Beauty Of The Husband by Anne Carson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 "tangos" of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power.
The Bee Hut: Poems 2001-2008 by Dorothy Porter; Andrea Goldsmith (Foreword by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Bee Hutbrings together the poems Doroty Porter wrote in the last fi ve years of her life. By turns expansive and intimate, effusive and contemplative, these poems roam widely - into history and to sacred places both mythic and personal. Porter's writing glows and shimmers with passionate curiosity a ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter by Dorothy Porter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's true originals, renowned for her passionate, punchy poetry and verse novels. This collection, the best of her life's work as selected by her partner Andrea Goldsmith, presents the many facets of Porter, from her break-out verse novel The Monkey's Mask to her posthum ...Show more
The Best of It : New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Kay Ryan, named the Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry 2010, is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. She was appointed the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. Salon has compared her poems to "Faberg eggs, tiny, in ...Show more
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'I loved every word' - Malorie Blackman 'Atta's bold verse novel calls to its readers to find their own blazing, performative inner truth' - Guardian A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his wings as a drag artist, The Black Flamingo. A bold story ...Show more
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic' Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contempor ...Show more