Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races. Revolutionary in style and ...Show more
Spells of a Voodoo Doll by Assotto Saint
$23.10 AUD
Category: Poetry
A fierce, spellbinding collection of the poetry, lyrics, essays, and performance texts of Assotto Saint--one of the most important voices in the rnaissance of black gay writing. Saint, aka Yves Francois Lubin, was the editor of two seminal anthologies: 1991 lambda Literary Award Winner The Road Before U ...Show more
Spelter to Pewter by Javant Biarujia
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
I have written elsewhere that we need the transformative power of art, any art, in order for life to be endurable. (This is not original; Nietzsche more or less said the same.) In ‘being, its own reward’, I say that ‘I have no power of observation, and mere description (mimetic simile) leaves me cold’, ...Show more
Straight James/ Gay James by James Franco
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Category: Poetry
Straight James / Gay James, actor James Franco's new chapbook of poems, explores the facets of his public and private personas. Straight James / Gay James is a poetic bildungsroman-raw, candid, and uninhibited. James Franco writes about life as an actor, sexuality, questions of identity, gender, family, ...Show more
Such A Sweet Singing: Poetry To Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn (edited by)
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Category: Poetry
A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the people who read them. Here is poetry for those no longer being spoken to but speaking, no longer being looked at but looking, from the contemporary voices of Fiona Benson and Jane Yeh to the evocative imagery of Christina Rossetti, Anna ...Show more
Sufi: Her Story by Jonathan Wallis
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Category: Poetry
This collection of poetry reads like a meditation. It is an ode to the author’s cat, Sufi who adopted her family and shared her house with these devoted human guardians and other felines. With Wallis’s elegant illustrations and words guiding us through the wonders of this most exceptional Siamese cat, ...Show more
Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals by Merlinda Bobis
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Category: Poetry
I, to, can love you in my dialect, you know, punctuated with cicadas and their eternal afternoons - To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls once burst the moon/ with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain-- To do all these in peac ...Show more
Super Model Minority by Chris Tse
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE'S SO MASC - by looking to a future where 'it's enough to look up at a sky blushing r ...Show more
Switch - Switch by Isobel Williams
$38.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari Carmina, published to acclaim in 2021, finally surrendered to her. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, l ...Show more
Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ari ...Show more
Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
For readers of Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey) and Cheryl Strayed, a book small enough to carry with you, with messages big enough to stay with you, from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time. Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family, and forgiveness wi ...Show more