Slack Tide by Sarah Day
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Slack tide is the turning point when a body of tidal water can seem uncertain as to whether it is coming in or going out. While surface water may be deceptively calm at this time, below the surface huge divergent forces are at work. In the title of Sarah Day's ninth collection the term suggests the twen ...Show more
Ordinary Time by Anthony Lawrence; Audrey Molloy
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A book length poem by Anthony Lawrence and Audrey Molloy
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
Gawimarra Gathering by Jeanine Leane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more
Parenting in Progress: Imperfect advice for the biggest role of your life by Mel Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A book of reassurance, advice and hilarious epic fails for parents and carers of primary-school-aged kids, from the co-host of The Juggling Act podcast and a diverse range of not-so-perfect (celebrity) mums, dads and carers, who have all made mistakes! Somewhere between the cosy depths of your uterus an ...Show more
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Andrew Motion
$29.99 AUD
$39.99 (25% off)
Category: Poetry
A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate.
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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
A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A Poem For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. These poems are funny, thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! Perfect for re ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infeste ...Show more
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or C ...Show more
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devasta ...Show more