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Walk Like a Cow: A Memoir by Brendan Ryan
$25.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Australian poet Brendan Ryan speaks about his life in this memoir of "the child, the youth and the young man finding his footing amidst the mysteries of cows and the ruthless cycles of the farm, the dry-eyed melancholy of the milking-shed and the mercy of the weather. Here also are the puzzles of existe ...Show more
Musings from the Inner Duck by Michael Leunig (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
Musings From the Inner Duck, Michael Leunig's poignantly hilarious new cartoon collection, ranges from Curly Flat to the global positioning sausage, accompanied by the direction-finding duck.This collection of 138 cartoons tilts towards the whimsical, the wise and the sublimely misaligned; it's less hea ...Show more
Odd Fellows by Richard Walter (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
A collection of poems reflecting the authors response to the natural and cultural history of South Western Victoria, including some social comment and memories of growing up in 1940s and 1950s in country Victoria. The book contains seven black and white linocuts and pen and ink sketches by the author. ...Show more
Small Acts of Purpose by E. A. Gleeson
$25.00 AUD
Category: POETRY
In her third collection from Interactive Press, E. A. Gleeson casts her poetic eye as far afield as Belfast or as close to home as her own mortality. In an assured but always personal voice, she addresses the everyday, the exotic and even the taboo with immersive detail, challenging the reader to reflec ...Show more
Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more
Love Is Strong As Death: Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly (HB) by Paul Kelly
$39.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
Kindred by Kirli Saunders
$24.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
This is the breaking, the shattering, the smattering of every limit ever accepted or imposed... Kindred, Kirli Saunders debut poetry collection, is a pleasure to lose yourself in. Kirli has a keen eye for observation, humour and big themes that surround Love/Connection/Loss in an engaging style, complem ...Show more
Libation by Earl Livings
$20.00 AUD
Category: POETRY
'If there is one word that unites this collection, it is longing - which edges into poems that reconcile science and spiritual paganism, reassess the isolation of childhood and even those that celebrate the natural world. This yearning for a bone-deep knowing is perfectly suited to Livings's measured ly ...Show more
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry by Cassandra Atherton; Paul Hetherington
$39.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years. The Anthology of ...Show more
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood--a New York Times Notable Book SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell's * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire Read Lockwood's memoir, Priestdaddy, named one of The New York ...Show more