Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t ...Show more
COLLECTED POEMS: EDWARD THOMAS by THOMAS EDWARD
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recognised as one of the great English poets of the 20th century. Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a 'war poet', he was rather a poet who died tragically ...Show more
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick by Meredith Courtney Sina
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Category: Poetry
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an e ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Poetry | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
Henry Lawson Poems by Henry Lawson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
First published in 1979, this edition includes 30 new selections, including highly significant poems addressed to his lost love, Hannah Thorburn, and some for young children.
Kenneth Slessor Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
One of Australia's finest poets, Kenneth Slessor would be outstanding in any company. His brilliance of technique gives an impression of unconscious mastery in poems that are always arresting in conception and illuminating in image. Slessor was born in 1901 in Orange, New South Wales. He was educated in ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Poetry | Series: Arkana Ser.
Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a lo ...Show more
Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | 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
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to 'The Electric, 1960', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled lik ...Show more
Poems of the Irish People (Leather Bound) by Various
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Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
This volume celebrates the poetic heritage of the Emerald Isle, with more than 50 classic poems about Ireland's people, history, character and myths and legends. Its contributors include William Butler Yeats, William Allingham and other well-known Irish poets. The book is one of Barnes & Noble's 'Co ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
One of the most important and impactful works of spiritual fiction ever published in the English language, Kahlil Gibran's masterwork, The Prophet, is rooted in the author's experiences as a traveler and immigrant, providing inspiration to us all and particularly all those of us anxious in today's uncer ...Show more