The Lights by Ben Lerner
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.
Naag Mountain by Manisha Anjali
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A remarkable debut collection by an Australian and New Zealand poet of Indo-Fijian background, the descendant of indentured labourers. Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, w ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
THE ANNOTATED ARCHY AND MEHITABEL by MARQUIS DON
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mark Twain. These free-verse poems, which first appeared in Marquis's New York newspaper columns, revolve around the escapades of Archy, the philosophical cockroach who was onc ...Show more
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman'This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy' Guardian'This is more than protest.It's a promise.'Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of t ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion; Stephen Regan
$75.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolationElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature- a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of l ...Show more
Earshot by Sam Morley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This debut collection from Sam Morley comprises poetry that is image-rich, probing and sublime. Committed to observation as a vehicle for discovery, Earshot is a book-length meditation deep in the mystery of the domestic sphere and the natural world. The poems are often profoundly personal while somehow ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Returning by Kirli Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Mate, you're standing on stolen land.'Returning is a stunning work – a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli’s journey of rediscovering self, Country and Connection. Kirli’s heartfelt experiences address large contemporary themes of decolonisation, self-determination, Identity, First Nations ...Show more
Anxious in a Sweet Store by Anna Jacobson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Anna Jacobson mixes up the fiercely serious with the whimsical in her second book of poems, exploring a daily life of navigating small rituals and routines along with anxiety, a crippling companion.Anxious in a Sweet Store is Anna Jacobson's second illustrated poetry collection where the 'sweet', whimsi ...Show more
Ekho by Roslyn Orlando
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From Greek mythology to the Amazon Echo smart speaker, Orlando restores the Ekh into a dynamic poetic voice. Ekho is a poem in three parts. Through poetic narrative, this work considers the 'echo' as a social and historical phenomenon. From Echo, the nymph of Greek mythology who's voice was stolen by th ...Show more