100 Ways to Fly by Michelle Taylor

$14.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

Some words are made of breath. Some words are made of stone. Listen, weigh them carefully, To make music for your poem. What better way to get away than with words! Escape to The Word Zoo, Great Balls of Poetry or A Pocket Full of Poems. In 100 Ways to Flyyou'll find a poem for every mood - poems to mak e you laugh, to scare or disgust you, to feel silly, brave or take you on an adventure. ...Show more

Love Is Strong As Death: Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly (HB) by Paul Kelly

$39.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 3 Biography

Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the famous and the little known, to speak to two of literature's great themes that have proven so powerful in his music- love and death - plus everything in between. Here are poems by Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, Tusiata Avia, Hera Lindsay Bird, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Constantine Cavafy, Alison Croggon, Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ali Cobby Eckermann, James Fenton, Thomas Hardy, Kevin Hart, Gwen Harwood, Seamus Heaney, Philip Hodgins, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Ono No Komachi, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Norman MacCaig, Paula Meehan, Czeslaw Milosz, Les Murray, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Ovid, Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Porter, Rumi, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Izumi Shikibu, Warsan Shire, Kenneth Slessor, Wislawa Szymborska, Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Ko Un, Walt Whitman, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats and many more. ...Show more

Faunaverse by ALEXANDER DUDLEY AND JANE SULLIVAN

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

Banjo Paterson's Poems of the Bush by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

$26.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

The poetry selected for this collection reveals Paterson's love and appreciation for the Australian bush and its people. It contains not only widely published and quoted poems such as 'On Kiley's Run' and 'Clancy of The Overflow', but also lesser known poems such as 'The Uplift' and 'The Wind's Message' . The colour plates of works by Australian artists subtly illustrate the images evoked by the poems. ...Show more

Dog Poems

$16.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

To Flush, My DogLoving friend, the gift of one,Who, her own true faith, hath run,Through thy lower nature;Be my benediction saidWith my hand upon thy head,Gentle fellow-creature ...-Elizabeth Barrett Browning Since prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boun dless inspiration.Dogs offer comfort and amusement to their owners; they provide solace when we're sad, entertaining antics when we're bored and affection every day. To poets in particular, these beloved creatures are the most bountiful muses, as they bark, yip, hunt, fetch, growl and slumber, reflecting back at us our most heartfelt tenderness and often rewarding us with unconditional love we scarcely deserve.Dog Poems offers a litter of verses in celebration of our most faithful companions by some of the greatest poets of all time. ...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 t poetry can become. It includes discussion of Wood's own experiences and identity as part of a broader conversation about who we are and why poetry matters. This is a welcome and fearless set of writings by Robert Wood: he's unafraid to talk about poetry and its centrality to his life and the many, varied communities within which he moves. These short essays are lively, vivid impressions of how poetry provides a way of understanding the world, politics and history. Sometimes aphoristic, sometimes humorous, they remind us of our expanding linguistic universe, and especially the rich language communities of Australia, including the Indigenous ones. These writings are part of a brilliant, younger generation's new uptake of poetry and poetics - a lot of readers will wish to live in their world. ...Show more

Hollow Earth by John Kinsella

$29.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

Fascinated by caves and digging holes since childhood, Manfred discovers a path through to another realm via a Neolithic copper mine at Mount Gabriel in Schull, Ireland. The world of Hollow Earth, while no Utopia, is a sophisticated civilisation. Its genderless inhabitants are respectful of their enviro nment, religious and cultural differences are accommodated without engendering hate or suspicion, and grain not missile silos are built. Yet Ari and Zest accompany Manfred back to the surface world. 'Come with me and see my world.'So begins an extraordinary adventure in which the three wander the Earth like Virgil's Aeneas, Ari and Zest seeking re-entry to their own world. The Hollow Earthers are shocked at the cruelty and lies of the surface world, the dieback spreading through the forests. Yet they are seduced by the world's temptations. Kinsella's parable draws on a rich tradition of Hollow Earth literature and science fiction including Bradshaw's The Goddess of Atavatabar(1892).With strange beauty, its alluring trajectory vividly captures our 21st century world in crisis. Like Manfred we are often blindly complicit in the earth's downfall. 'Happiness is under our feet.' sings the narrator in this passionate, layered and compelling new novel. 'Combining a twenty-first century sense of planetary peril with a 1970s funkadelic vibe, Hollow Earth reaches to the extremes of our collective breath, its alpha and omega ... This is a novel of exacting self-scrutiny which also manages to be outrageous fun' Nicholas Birns ...Show more

Poems from a Green and Blue Planet by Sabrina Mahfouz

$32.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

A stunning collection of new and classic poems from around the world celebrating the diversity of life on our green and blue planet, to be shared with all the family. With new poems from Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Kate Tempest, Hollie McNish and Sabrina Mahfouz. Dive into this book and be swept away on a journey around our green and blue planet, from the peak of the snowiest mountaintop to the bottom of the deepest, bluest ocean. Meet the birds circling its skies and the beasts prowling its plains; meet the people toiling in its fields and forests, and those living at the top of city tower blocks... Explore all the worlds that make up our world, and hear the voices, past and present, that sing out from it. From haikus to sonnets, from rap to the Romantics, this joyous collection celebrates life in all corners of our beautiful planet. ...Show more

Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word by David Stavanger; Anne-Marie Te Whiu

$29.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audi ence. Solid Air showcases the work of more than 100 performance poets - combining elements of slam, hip-hop and experimental performance poetry - to deliver an unforgettable reading experience that is both literary and loud. Poems capture themes of modern culture, identity and resistance. Contributors include- Ali Cobby Eckermann, Hera Lindsay Bird, Claire G. Taika Waititi, Courtney Barnett, Michelle Law, Hannah Gadsby, Luka Lesson and many, many more. ...Show more

Sun Music: New and Selected Poems by Judith Beveridge

$26.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

WINNER PM'S 2019 POETRY PRIZE Judith Beveridge is one of Australia most acclaimedpoets, taught in high schools and universities, winner of the NSW and VictorianPremiers' Awards, a highly regarded critic, editor and teacher of poetry SunMusic is a definitive edition of her best-knownand most important p oems Sun Music collectsBeveridge's best poems published over a thirty-year period, from 1987 to 2017. Shehas selected the poems from her award-winning collections, The Domesticity of Giraffes, Accidental Grace, Wolf Notes and Storm and Honey, and included 33 newpoems which build on and enhance her previous work. Beveridge is an exactingpoet, precise and controlled, and her formal discipline gives added intensityto her expression of emotion. The combination of clarity and dramatic force,involving a supple use of language which registers the ebb and flow of feeling,makes her poetry immediately appealing and accessible. As she notes in herintroduction to this collection, 'My writing can be kaleidoscopic, oftenbaroque, but I hope also grounded and focused...I am drawn to poetry that hasrich texture, and by this, I mean poetry that is distinctly metaphorical,detailed, musically complex, but also clear.' ...Show more

Apparently by Joanne Burns

$19.95 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 ams in the form of prose poems or microfictions; 'dial', the longest section, acknowledges the bewildering sense of daily time and the dizzying spectacle of social and worldly matters contained within. Finally, from a more restful or relaxed vantage, 'the random couch' presents a number of drifting poems, written while the poet was lounging on the sofa. Joanne Burns is Australia's pre-eminent satirical poet, and her poems are remarkable for their verve and humour and word-play, and the way in which their linguistic resonances suddenly confound your expectations.Her most recent poetry collections published by Giramondo are amphoraand brush, which won the 2016 NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Her work has been taught in high schools, and produced for radio, television, performance and theatre ...Show more

Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice' its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search f or truce and ceasefire. In 100 poems, our most cherished poets of the Great War speak alongside those from other conflicts and cultures, so that we hear some of the lesser-heard voices of war, including wives, families, those left behind. These poems of war and peace memorialise the horror and the tragedy of conflict. At the same time, in armistice, they become a record of renewal and a testimony to hope. ...Show more