Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin by Sergei Esenin
59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
"If you want to know how Russians feel about their country, read the poetry of Sergei Esenin. "The 'old plank bridge' spans not only eras but centuries; not only one Russia with another, but Russia with the rest of the world."So writes acclaimed author and translator Roger Pulvers about this collection ...Show more
How to Read a Japanese Poem by Steven D. Carter
49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times t ...Show more
Reaching Light: Selected Poems by Robert Adamson
39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Poetry. Edited and introduced by Devin Johnston, REACHING LIGHT selects from five decades of work by one of Australia's finest poets. Readers of Robert Adamson's books will have understood that this distinguished man of letters and major poet is one of the most significant gifts that Australia can offer ...Show more
Poems 1962-2012 - Louise Glück by Louise Gluck
49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
The collected poems of the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. Sh ...Show more
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to whoever has ears and eyes . . .' Zadie Smith's first time writing for the sta ...Show more
In a Time of Distance And Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith; Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
'In a Time of Distance', the poem from which the collection take its title, was written at the start of the global pandemic which struck at the start of 2020, here the author reminds us of what is important in life and to focus on love, friendship and family. And it is this approach to life that makes t ...Show more
Harbour by Kate Llewellyn
19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Art is always like this Mysterious as light. Quiet and insightful, raw in its simplicity, Kate Llewellyn's latest book examines a life well lived, dipping in and out of memory to tell a tale of small moments and the wisdom of growing old. The poem 'Harbour' touches on what is lost and gained in growin ...Show more
Kind Fire by Barry Hill
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Since 1990, with Penguin's publication of Raft, Barry Hill has been acclaimed for his poetry. His Ghosting William Buckley (Heinemann 1993), which won his first Premier's Award, was described by Overland's Barrett Reid as a 'major work'. David Malouf wrote that The Inland Sea (Penguin 2001) was 'a mixtu ...Show more
Hotel Almighty by Sarah J. Sloat
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of pages from Misery by Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and possibility in elliptical, enigmatic poems. Here, "joy would crawl over broken glass, if that was the way." H ...Show more
Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze: Selected poems 1983-2011 by Geoff Goodfellow
29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Geoff Goodfellow has performed his poetry to prisoners and primary-school children, in tiny pubs and at international literary festivals. Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze showcases Geoff's personal favourites, poems that audiences have requested time and again. 'People's poet Geoff Goodfellow ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Fiftieth anniversary edition of this ambitious, shapeshifting, mythical work. This anniversary edition with a new foreword by Marina Warner celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970), which marked a pivotal moment in Ted Hughes's writing career. Growing out of an invitation by ...Show more
Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t ...Show more