French Love Poems by Tynan Kogane
$22.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve to the piercing lyricism of the Romantics and the dreamlike comp ...Show more
The Ink Dark Moon - Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan by Jane Hirshfield (Translator); Mariko Aratani (Translator); Izumi Shikibu; Ono no Komachi
$31.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.
Set Me on Fire - A Poem for Every Feeling by Ella Risbridger
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Set Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry- a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems for the moments when you really need to know that someone else has been there too. T ...Show more
Blood Feather: 'He writes with Proustian élan and Nabokovian delight' John Banville by Patrick McGuinness
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves. In Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an e ...Show more
Lakdhas Wikkramasinha by Lakdhas Wikkramasinha
$38.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Bold and original poetry from a leading figure of an underrepresented anglophone tradition. Lakdhas Wikkramasinha is one of the major Sri Lankan poets of the twentieth century. Fearlessly political, "powerful and angry" (as Michael Ondaatje calls him in his memoir Running in the Family), Wikkramasinha ...Show more
The Lives of the Heart: Poems by Jane Hirshfield
$32.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
A new volume of poems by the award-winning author of "October Palace" Praise for "The October Palace " "A radiant and passionate collection". -- "New York Times Book Review" "Hirshfield's verbal power lies in a stunning physicality and the seductively rich music that such physicality engenders...[She] w ...Show more
Women in Praise of the Sacred - 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women by Jane Hirshfield
$34.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
"Hirshfield's current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova."--Library Journal
I Love Information - Poems by Courtney Bush
$29.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
I Love Information, selected by Brian Teare as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a sophisticated and cerebral examination of knowledge, belief, and which begets which. Egret feathers. Pulverized chickpeas. A "faint but constant series of ovals and lines" that, remarkably, spell the name Pe ...Show more
House of Belonging by David Whyte
$32.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
David Whyte makes his home in the Pacific Northwest, where rain and changeable skies remind him of his other more distant homes : Yorkshire, Wales and Ireland. He travels extensively bringing his own and others' poetry to large audiences. He is one of the few poets to bring his insights to bear on organ ...Show more
Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy by JAMES CREWS
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (70,000 copies in print), James Crews' new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shiha ...Show more
Ledger - Poems by Jane Hirshfield
$32.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
A pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate--Some of the most important poetry in the world today (Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times Magazine). Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet ...Show more
All Souls - Poems by Saskia Hamilton
$31.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry' Jorie Graham 'Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind' Publisher's Weekly ...Show more