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Bindi by Kirli Saunders; Dub Leffler (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award Age range 8 to 12 New year new class new teachers Mr Milburn Mrs Szonyi (Zur-Knee) new shoes and shirts same old bottles green and gold... Meet 11-year-old Bindi. She's not really into maths but LOVES art class and playing hockey. Her absolute FAVOURITE thin ...Show more
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku (Popular Penguin) by David Bader
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of (respectively) three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to 100 Great Books. From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally within ...Show more
Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in ...Show more
History & the Poet Essays on Australian Poetry by Robert Wood
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
History & the Poet is a series of essays on contemporary Australian poetry. In language clear and precise, Robert Wood poses philosophical and ideological questions that matter for poetry now. History & the Poet offers an entry point to a rich and complex world, and is a compelling vision of wha ...Show more
Oyster Mountain - Poems by Jalal El-Kadali by Jalal El-Kadali
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Follow the science into a panic room whose walls are the fear of death. It has a window you duck down beneath, the fibro rattling like an n-dimensional membrane as thin glass shatters to ornament your back like that of a stegosaurus. But you will survive as those brainless dragons did for aye-and look, ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw ...Show more
To My Country by Ben Lawson; Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
On January 10, Ben touched the hearts of Australians with the reading of his poem To My Country in response to the Australian bushfires. This gorgeous 4 colour book combines Ben's heartfelt words with stunning illustrations by Bruce Whatley.
Where Hope Comes From by Nikita Gill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Where Hope Comes From: poems for a broken world, Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill returns to her roots with her most personal collection yet. Sharing a number of poems that she wrote when the world went into lockdown, this collection will include the phenomenal Love in the Time of Coronavirus ...Show more
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall- what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Pe ...Show more
Apparently by Joanne Burns
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems collected in apparently appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real. Where does a poem come from? Over four sections this question is considered. The first section gathers poems spring-boarding from the clues and solutions to crossword puzzles; the second recounts unsettling dre ...Show more
Australia's Beating Heart - An Anthology of Classic Bush Poetry by Australian Geographic (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Australia’s Beating Heart is celebration of our wide brown land, and the people and stories that landscape shapes. This luxe anthology features 70 iconic bush poems hand-selected by Australian champion bush poets Melanie Hall and Susan Carcary, illustrated beautifully by landscape photographs from the A ...Show more
Banjo Paterson Complete Poems by Banjo Paterson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics
When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou ...Show more
