Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embody ...Show more
Changing with the Tides by Shelby Leigh
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
TikTok poet Shelby Leigh presents a moving and inspirational collection of poetry about growing up and embracing all the beauty life has to offer. The perfect gift for fans of Rupi Kaur, Connor Franta, and Cleo Wade. Shelby Leigh breaks up her poignant and reflective poetry collection into two themes: t ...Show more
Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why by Samantha King Holmes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why, Samantha King Holmes's second solo poetry collection following her bestselling Born to Love, Cursed to Feel, is a mirror that reflects our honest truths. Holmes's poems are like little stories, hooking readers while navigating issues like body image, family relationships, l ...Show more
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (On the Pulse of Morning and His Day ...Show more
The Frogs : Little Black Classic by Aristophanes
$4.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax!Now listen, you musical twerps,I don't give a damn for your burps!' A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of ...Show more
Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Reading Level: very good
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Nature Poets | Reading Level: General Adult
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
The Bacchae and Other Plays - Ion; Women of Troy; Helen; The Bacchae by Euripides
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volumecontains: Ion, Bacchae, Helen, Women of Troy Penguin Classics. Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary
Wait Till I'm Dead - Poems Uncollected by Allen Ginsberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 AM Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications ...Show more
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 by Charles Bukowski
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.
Seamus Heaney: New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Reading Level: near fine
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...Show more
The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William
$6.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deepl ...Show more