The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Jeanette Winterson This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man ...Show more
Of Love and Desire by Louis de Bernières; Donald Sammut (Illustrator)
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Category: Poetry and Drama
Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Berni res, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms - from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Berni res? first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality ...Show more
Parramatta Girls and Eyes to the Floor - Play by Alana Valentine
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
The inmates of The Girls Training School, Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the great untold stories of making good in tough times. PARRAMATTA GIRLS: Based on the testimony of dozens of GTS old-girls and this vibrant play is a joyous and ha ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land". Other volumes in this series, includ ...Show more
On Love by Press Worth
12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Thoroughly explores this timeless subject. Provides help and guidance to the lover lost for words and reassurance to the lover who feels no one has ever suffered as he or she does. Presents an ideal literary keepsake for those who treasure all aspects of romantic writing.
The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: PLAYS
In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp. Now after a half-century separation, the filming of a TV documentary forces them to relive the past. Woven into their fifty years of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their 'uncommon bond' (2 acts, 2 w ...Show more
T S Eliot - Selected Poems by T S Eliot
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Faber Poetry
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. Other volumes in this series: Auden, Bet ...Show more
The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats by W. B. Yeats
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described ...Show more
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
The Removalists by David Williamson
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Plays
A young policeman's first day on duty becomes a violent initiation into the nastier aspects of law enforcement (2 acts, 4 men, 2 women).
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her li ...Show more
Waltzing the Wilarra by David Milroy
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
It's 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, White and Black manage to form their own club. Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, Charlie, Elsa and Fay meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomp ...Show more