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Special The by David Stavanger
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Award. Both fun and playful, Stavanger's poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.
Surface to Air by Jaya Savige
$24.95 AUD
Category: Textbooks | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006-2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut, latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti. While many ...Show more
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
The Orchard, Hardcover Grande, Lined, Elastic closure, 128 Pages by Paperblanks (Artist)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Journals | Series: Persian Poetry Ser.
This design is inspired by a 17th-century binding that originally housed the Bustan (known in English as the Orchard) by Persian poet Saadi. Written entirely in verse, the stories are rich in moral thought. The intricate botanical patterns of this design beautifully reflect the fruits of Saadi's wisdom. ...Show more
The Orchard, Persian Poetry, Hardcover, Ultra, Unlined, 144 Pages by Paperblanks (Artist)
$36.95 AUD
Category: Journals | Series: Persian Poetry Ser.
This design is inspired by a 17th-century binding that originally housed the Bustan (known in English as the Orchard) by Persian poet Saadi. Written entirely in verse, the stories are rich in moral thought. The intricate botanical patterns of this design beautifully reflect the fruits of Saadi's wisdom. ...Show more
The Works of Banjo Paterson by A.B. Paterson
$12.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson may fairly be regarded as Australia's national poet. 'Waltzing Matilda', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'The Man from the Snowy River' still strike a chord in the hearts of Australians wherever they may be, evoking, as they do, the rough life and values of the outback. The a ...Show more
Throat by Ellen van Neerven
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
not in Aus, matebad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn 'Throat' is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive ...Show more
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! - An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year by Fiona Waters
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Collections
A breathtaking anthology featuring an animal poem for every day of the year illustated by award-winning artist, Britta Teckentrup. This lavishly illustrated gift book treasury of 366 animal poems ranges from unforgettable classics to contemporary works from around the world, including poetry in translat ...Show more
To Practice the Rhythms by Yu Ouyang (Translator); Cai Shu
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Chinese Poetry Ser.
Three Yearsthe land, extending itself, makes one turn after another, spitting village after village, till it gives its cold light to the gaping grave.I, a blunt knife, hammered on an anvil have been hardened--for three years three years Till a miracle happens-- will I be able to return from it?Born in 1 ...Show more
Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets - from Sylvia Plath to Anne C ...Show more
Water Mirrors by Nicholas Powell
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Water Mirrors was inspired by Nicholas Powell's 'enchanting and disorientating' experience of moving to Finland. His poems circle intimacy, illusions, and the task of reconciling the many facets of experience. It is concerned with fluctuating perceptions, and with the relationship of language to meaning ...Show more
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Button Poetry Ser.
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate c ...Show more