I Brought the War with Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line (HB) by Lindsey Hilsum
36.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
'Remarkable' ANDREW MOTION'Profoundly affecting' LARA PAWSON'Fantastic, beguiling and movingly profound' WILLIAM BOYDI was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.In nearly four decades as a journalist ...Show more
The Empty Grandstand by Lloyd Jones
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to watch rugby with his father. The experience was baptismal. From his new elevated perspective Jones believed he could see everything that mattered - a field of play that rolled out, green with promise, from suburban New Z ...Show more
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by O Tuama
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore | Series: Canons Ser.
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times
Secret Third Thing by Dan Hogan
20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Dan Hogan’s Secret Third Thing is a hyper-real comment on this hyper-real moment: it is suffused with internet culture and reflections on the lives we live, now, largely online. What characterises Hogan’s poetry is the way that, each time we come close to fully apprehending the impending collapse of capi ...Show more
Ten Poems about Libraries by LORRAINE MARINER
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Libraries are treasured places. We may remember visiting a local library in childhood to explore an early delight in reading. Or perhaps we have come to value them in later life, as a calm sanctuary where we can daydream among beloved books. A library is also a portal into countless worlds of knowledge, ...Show more
Refugia by Elfie Shiosaki
27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
‘in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...’Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beeliar (Swan River) and the NASA James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of science, this collection ...Show more
The Infant Vine by Isabella G. Mead
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Lyrical and narrative-driven, with playful and fantastical elements woven throughout, the poems in The Infant Vine reflect on how ordinary moments become charged with significance and strangeness when disaster strikes. Lyrical and narrative-driven, with playful and fantastical elements woven throughout, ...Show more
Tintinnabulum by Judith Beveridge
27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Judith Beveridge’s much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018 Judith Beveridge’s much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018.The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on anim ...Show more
Collected Poems: John Forbes by John Forbes
34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
"Collected Poems brings together all John Forbes's published poems, both in books and literary magazines. The volume includes a Foreword by Gig Ryan and an Introduction by Don Anderson.'At the time of his untimely death in 1998, at the age of 47, John Forbes was widely recognized as one of Australia's m ...Show more
Shadowboxing by Tony Birch
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
COMMENDED FOR THE 2011 KATE CHALLIS RAKA AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 QUEENSLAND PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS -- AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rend ...Show more
High Spirits by Paul Mitchell
27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Award-winning poet Paul Mitchell’s fourth collection is a tour-de-force. As always, he both questions and engages with matters of spirituality and religion in High Spirits, while scaling the heights and plumbing the depths of human experience. Through themes of mortality, addiction, pop culture, mystica ...Show more
The Diwan of Nawid by Mal McKimmie
25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Diwan of Nawid McKimmie, Mal $25.00 In stock ADD TO CART ADDING SUCCESS! ERROR Description Product Details Reviews 'The Diwan of Nawid is like nothing else in Australian poetry - a spiritual text of sublime beauty in which we follow the struggles, questio ...Show more