36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
LVOE II by Atticus
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
In the highly anticipated follow-up to LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is inviting readers to take a deeper look behind the mask as he continues his powerful journey inward in search of love, peace, and acceptance.LVOE. Volume II is an expanded ...Show more
New and Selected Poems by Jennifer Clement
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Jennifer Clement studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and French Literature in Paris. Clement is the author of the memoir 'Widow Basquiat', which made the UK Booksellers' Choice list, and a novel 'A True Story Based on Lies', which was a finalist in the Orange Prize for Fic ...Show more
Essentials by David Whyte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'Great poems,' David Whyte has said, 'are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.' Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing the experience itself, whether that is in the daily shifts, the ever-turning seasons or the bigger cycle o ...Show more
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as w ...Show more
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told YouA book of bravado and introspection, of femi ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living ...Show more
The Essential Rumi Revised by Coleman Barks
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making th ...Show more
Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more
The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi by Daniel James Ladinsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Renowned for his poignant renderings of Hafiz's mystical texts, Daniel Ladinsky here captures the beauty, intimacy, and musicality of Jalaluddin Rumi, one of the world's most revered and widely read poets. Rumi was born in 1207 on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire. Fleeing from the invasion of the ...Show more
Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? : Little Black Classic by William Shakespeare
$4.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars.' This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin ...Show more
River Flow: New and Selected Poems (Revised) by David Whyte
$44.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
River Flow contains over one hundred poems selected from five previously published works, together with 23 new poems, including a tribute to an Ethiopian woman navigating her first escalator, a meditation of love and benediction for his young daughter, and a cycle of Irish poems that convey David's deep ...Show more