Through Old Eyes: Poems by Uncle Wes Marne by Wes Marne
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
Through Old Eyes is a collection of poems by respected Bigambul Elder, Uncle Wes Marne. The book commemorates his 100th birthday on 25 April 2022. The poems in this collection explore the author's aboriginality, his country, culture, family, life and the affects of colonialism.
Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
A resplendent life in sonnets from the author ofFour-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood by Gwen Harwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
A must-have collection from one of Australia's finest poets'The outstanding Australian poet of the twentieth century' -Peter Porter O could one write as one makes lovewhen all is given and nothing kept,then language might put by at lastits coy elisions and ineptwithdrawals, yield, and yielding castaside ...Show more
Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM*The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered in ' ...Show more
Homecoming: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Elfie Shiosaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2023 by Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays | Series: Best of Australian Poems Ser.
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2022 - 1 August 2023, the series, now in its third ...Show more
The Strangest Place: New and Selected Poems by Stephen Edgar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
"The strangest place, this world of fact and figment we astonishingly find ourselves inhabiting, is the territory that Stephen Edgar's poetry has been probing and framing for over four decades now, looking out on the evanescent representations of light and inwards on the mind and “the gyre of its own co ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A magical escapist fantasy centered around the disruption of social order, The Tempest is one of Shak ...Show more
TAKE CARE: Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Eunice Andrada
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the mag ...Show more
Slide by Mark Pajak
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
The first collection from award-winning poet Mark Pajak'Fresh, urgent, alive... genius.' Patience AgbabiThis assured and arresting first collection moves deftly and with purpose into private, hidden places - a locked shed, the dark of a battery farm, a murky riverbed, a late-night bar - to show, unflinc ...Show more