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
The Lights by Ben Lerner
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.
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
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
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
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
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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
Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? : Little Black Classic by William Shakespeare
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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
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
A Foul Wind by Justin Clemens
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
A Foul Wind is a nautical term. Its a wind that blows you off-course and into misadventure. With a nod to Restoration drama and contemporary philosophy, this new collection of poems by Justin Clemens is a tour-de-force of morality, politics, and love.
Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion; Stephen Regan
$75.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolationElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature- a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of l ...Show more