Hourglass: Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 by Keiran Goddard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
'Beautiful and very funny' Brett Anderson'This book glows in the heart of the reader' Max Porter'This book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening' Len ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave 8 Copy Pack by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$215.92 AUD
Category: Poetry
8 x How Decent Folk Behave PB 9780733647666
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"I was tired of speed. I wanted to live tree time." So writes Sumana Roy at the start of How I Became a ...Show more
How Poetry Can Change Your Heart by Megan Falley; Andrea Gibson
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\HOW Ser.
Was poetry something you dreaded in school? Have you secretly scribbled it in the margins of notebooks? Has it changed your life? In this slim and accessible field guide, spoken word poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley invite readers to explore their relationships with verse and welcome more poetry, mo ...Show more
How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín
$21.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poetry compilation recounting a woman's journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Roisin's poetry book is a collection of her though ...Show more
How to Fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope by JAMES CREWS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This beautifully curated selection of 100 uplifting poems of gratitude by well-known and emerging poets invites gratefulness into daily life and includes opportunities for reflection and writing, topics for discussion, and reading group questions. More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidot ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic "Howl", which became the subject of an obscenity t ...Show more
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4 | Reading Level: very good
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
Human Looking by Andy Jackson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to ‘correct’. They range widely, finding figures to identif ...Show more
Hunger and Predation by pooja mittal biswas
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Eh? You want bodies, blood, sex, gore, damning gods, raw uppercuts?Why, yes. Pooja Mittal Biswas welcomes you into the ring of identity and the hunt for an honest and rapier self.Glove up.‘Confessional poetry can deteriorate into fetishism, in Biswas’s hands the first person narrative soars – detailed, ...Show more