Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Yeats Collected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. B. Yeats; Robert Mighall (Introduction by)
14.99 AUD
16.99 (11% off)
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Firebreaks: Poems by John Kinsella
30.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Known for a poetry both experimental, "activist" and lyrical that reinvents the pastoral, John Kinsella considers his and his family's life at Jam Tree Gully, in the Western Australian wheatbelt and his deeply felt ecological concerns in this new cycle of poems about place, landscape, home and absence. ...Show more
Collected Poems by Judith Wright
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A new edition of the Collected Poems of Judith Wright, one of Australia's best-loved poets This definitive collection represents the impressive poetic achievement of one of Australia's best loved and most highly respected poets.Judith Wright's Collected Poems comprises her work from 1942 to 1985 and is ...Show more
Clive James Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as 'Japanese Maple' (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news events upon their publication. His most ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Wit (plays, playscript) by Margaret Edson
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned specialist in the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with stage f ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
With a dazzling display of William Shakespeare's fondness for wit and wordplay, Much Ado About Nothing is a high-spirited comedy, edited with notes by R.A. Foakes, and an introduction by Janet Dillon. 'Some, Cupid kills with arrows, some, with traps'. Proud, vivacious Beatrice and a high-spirited rake B ...Show more
Leaves of Grass (Word Cloud Classics) by Walt Whitman
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Word Cloud Classics
"Leaves of Grass" is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent ...Show more
Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker
45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humour earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America. This Penguin Classics edition ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Referred to by superstitious actors as 'the Scottish play', William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragedy in which appalling earthly crimes have lasting supernatural repercussions. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by George Hunter with an introduction by Carol Rutter. 'By the pricking of my thumb ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A moving tragedy of political intrigue and family strife, William Shakespeare's King Lear is edited by George Hunter, with an introduction by Kiernan Ryan in Penguin Shakespeare. 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!' The ageing King Lear, tired of office, decides to split ...Show more