Earth Hour by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon, David Malouf’s first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers. Earth Hour comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of “silence, following talk” ...Show more
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
Stepping Stones: Interview with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Seamus Heaney is widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, "Stepping Stones" retraces the poet's steps from winning the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature to his post-Nobel life.
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Reading Level: very good
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.
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make ...Show more
Akhenaten by Dorothy Porter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
Akhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history - archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign, but enough remains to tell a remarkable story of incest, heresy, androgyny and a massive cult of personality. Like Albert Camus' celebrated Caligula, Doro ...Show more
W H Auden - Collected Shorter Poems 1927-57 by W H Auden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Reading Level: good
W.H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume should be essential reading for anyone seriously inte ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses by Mr A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit
These books were originally published in 1914 as a 'pocket editions for the trenches', designed for soldiers to slip into their back pockets and carry with them through their war days. Probably purchased by wives, girlfriends and mothers, they were a little piece of Australia to relish amongst the horro ...Show more
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems by T. S. Eliot; Christopher Ricks (Editor); Jim McCue (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This critical edition of T. S. Eliot's Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains t ...Show more
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II - Practical Cats and Further Verses by T. S. Eliot
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This critical edition establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors. As well as the masterpieces, it contains the poems of Eliot's youth which were rediscovered only decades later, others that circulated privately during his lifetime, and love poems ...Show more
Search Party: Collected Poems William Matthews by Plumley Stanley et al
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry/Aust Lit