Walk Back Over by Jeanine Leane
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. Native Australian Studies. Women's Studies. "Aboriginal women are the great gatherers of many things--food, of course, but also stories and inner strength. The women who raised me had vast reserves of inner strength, and to pass that on was a powerful act of activism. In particular, they taught ...Show more
Body of Work by Elena Gomez
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Category: Poetry
Poetry. Women's Studies. "I once wrote to a poetry advice column because I was afraid of my emotions and the havoc they wreaked on me. I called them 'a huge problem' but Diana Hamilton comforted me and wrote: 'Feeling pleasure is a legitimate way of developing as a person-writer ' We got a kitten and I ...Show more
About the Author Is Dead by Pascalle Burton
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Category: Poetry
Poetry. Art. Film. Music. "Paul Bowles said 'whatever one writes is in a sense autobiographical, of course. Not factually so, but poetically so.' The poems here connect with nerves in bodies, pixels on screens, letters in words and the air's water content. There are unwitting dialogues with texts gone b ...Show more
Birds: Poems by Judith Wright
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems are complemented by full-colour illustrations drawn from the National Librarys Pictures Collection, featuring the work of artists such as John Lewin, Lionel Lindsay, Lilian Medland, William T. Cooper and Betty Temple Watts.
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Postcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book, an anthem of desire against erasure. It demands that every body carried in its pages - bodies of language, land, suffering brothers, enemies and lovers - be touched and held. Here, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black and brown women are simulta ...Show more
How to Fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
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Category: Poetry
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfol ...Show more
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In my selection, which is roughly chronological ...Show more
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
In Flèche, Mary Jean Chan evokes the difficulties of reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Much like the fencer who must constantly read and respond to her opponent's tactics during a fencing bout, this debut collect ...Show more
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity, and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters make for a comp ...Show more
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which ...Show more
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Fa ...Show more