An Open Book by David Malouf

$29.95 AUD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 1 Poetry

This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ful, revisiting and reimagining some of the key themes that have resonated with readers over his impressive career. Like the 'small comfort of light . . . as night comes on', Malouf's new poems hold close the precious and tender. Only a few of these poems have ever been published, so most of the collection will be completely new to readers everywhere. An Open Bookwill be the literary gift of the Christmas and summer of 2018. ...Show more

Anatomize by Natasha Dennerstein

$20.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

"In ANATOMIZE, Natasha Dennerstein is the poet as sensual anatomist, delineating the corporeal realm with a kind of spiritual fervor. What we are, we are, she splendidly affirms, from our heads down to our toes. Reciting the saga of her own encounters with mortality, with beginnings and endings, with al l that flesh entails, she declares with a Whitmanesque lyricism the song of herself – her individual take on our common humanity." — DAVID EGGLETON editor, Landfall Journal ...Show more

And Sugar Crashes

$30.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Artemis in Echo Park by Eloise Klein Healy

$19.80 AUD

Category: Poetry

The mythical amazon goddess is at home in the freeway environment in this sophisticated West Coast poet's work.

Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms - Justin Chin by Justin Chin

$27.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

As a performance artist, ustin Chin has created eight full-length solo performance works and several shorter works, which have been presented nationally and abroad. Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms is a collection of these performance art texts, along with documents and scripts, that represent Ch in's work from 1993-2001 Whether playing native, tourist, or other, Chin questions our--as well as his own--assumptions, prejudices, and consumption of cultural beings and commodities. These works explore themes of sexuality, of Asian and of queer bodies, hybrid forms of culture, belonging, and the loss, recovery, and reconstruction of te home, homeland, and history. These works are by turns cooly ironic, or bratty and comic, or poignant and mournful, or unbelievably borderline psychotic. ...Show more

Auden: Poems by W.H. Auden

$17.95 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One of Engl ish poetry's great 20th century masters, Poems: Auden is the short collection of an exemplary champion of human wisdom in its encounter with the mysteries of experience. ...Show more

Auguries of Innocence by Patti Smith

$29.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

This new collection of verse from one of "rock's original poets" (New York Times) effectively transmits the effect and aura, as well as the innocence, that make Smith a rock star.

Australian Love Poems: 2nd Edition by Mark Tredinnick

$28.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

This second edition was originally published as Australian Love Poems 2013. It contains an updated forward has changes to the original cover.

Author & Melody by Chalise van Wyngaardt

$20.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

It does not take long for Author and Melody to become inseparable, but as soon as they do, Time warns them to turn back while they can. Will they heed Time's warnings, or walk on with Wind, hand in hand, down a path that could ensure their own tragedies? Part fable, part poetry anthology, part script, Chalise van Wyngaardt's Author & Melody takes us by the wrist through what it means to love, what it means to shatter into a million pieces, and what iut means to keep on trusting. ...Show more

BIG NUMBERS NEW & SELECTED POEMS by PI O

$35.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

An urban poet. A poet of cafes and coffee shops. A poet of time and space. A poetry of language. A poetry of form and commitment. Visual poems, sound poems, number poems, work poems, love poems, Greek poems, poems about culture (and cultures).

Barbed Wire Kisses by Yvette Stubbs

$20.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

Beast Language by Toby Davidson

$24.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

While a poet in love with language slept on the beach, his shadow went for a long swim in the ocean, breathing water as only shadows can; on returning and before reattachment it shook itself dry. The poet woke to the memories of his shadow's journey and the paradox of retching seawater while laughing wi th gusto in abundant air. Then he crafted-and crafted-one of the most delightfully original debut collections of poetry published in Australia in recent years. This is it. - Mal McKimmie Toby Davidson beguiles with his imaginative abundance and evolved ability to strike the right note to set each poem in his debut book resonating. Davidson's work is playful, yet also ennobled by a profound sense of what it means to survive in these chaotic modern times. An elegiac poet of the road, of human possibility and triumph and rigorously attentive to every word, he never lets the dust settle; Beast Language has swank, flair, enormous breadth, and some of the most zestful verbal structures I have read in a long time. A real treasure. - Judith Beveridge Toby Davidson's Beast Language is a remarkable first book of poetry. With each reading, there are new revelations. Like Blake's 'Mental Traveller' the narrator of this book pays fierce attention to the human 'beast' and listens to the language of the political climate, all done with insistent though complex music. A wondrous achievement, a book to boost the spirit with a lyrical alertness and visionary pitch that is thrilling to read. - Robert Adamson ...Show more