1953 by Geoff Page
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
A moment in time, an Australian country town and characters to remember, all brought to life in engaging verse. 1953 is a unique verse narrative composed of monologues and verse portraits. Together, these build towards the story of an Australian town, Eurandangee, and its people on a particular summer's ...Show more
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
$26.95 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Student Editions
'The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful [is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption' Guardian 'Simon Nye's witty translation updates and relocates the play suitably close to contemporary England. Fo is that rare thing, a far-left playwright with a popular, comic touch. And ...Show more
Gay and Lesbian, Then and Now - Australian Stories from a Social Revolution by Robert Reynolds; Shirleene Robinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
'These are our stories. All of us live in them.' -Anton Enus, SBS News This is the story of a peaceful revolution. Drawing on in-depth interviews, it tells the intimate life stories of thirteen gay and lesbian Australians, ranging in age from twenties to eighties. From the underground beats of 1950s ...Show more
Shavings by BAINES
$51.50 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
Shavings is a collection of short short stories, carefully selected for use by junior secondary students. This unique anthology contains a range of inspiring, emotive and quirky stories that can be easily read, discussed and written about within a lesson. They are a wonderful resource for teachers and s ...Show more
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Into the jaw of Death Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred' As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age. The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years of his literary careerand show the wide variety of poetic ...Show more
Kindred (PB) by Kirli Saunders
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
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
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Fa ...Show more
Rondo by WALLACE-CRABBE
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
Chris Wallace-Crabbe's Rondo harvests a decade's worth of new writing by one of Australia's foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt Australia's current position in an rapidly changing world. The poet asks for fresh meanings from Gallipoli and Scotland, from physics and from "Art's porous ...Show more
Wimmera by Homer Rieth
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
Replacing the battles of heroes and gods with the struggle of mortal humans with time and space, 'Wimmera' re-invents the epic. 'Wimmera' is the history of a region and seedbed of a vision where 'the bunyip indeed lays down with the manticore.' There is nothing like it anywhere.
Old Growth by John Kinsella
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
In this luminous book of new stories, John Kinsella drops us seamlessly into the worlds of men, women and children at pivotal moments in their lives. In the title story, a husband who has lost his wife plans to destroy the old-growth bush she loved and escape to the city, with alarming consequences. Els ...Show more
Australian Stories for the Soul by Duncan
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
Over 75 upbeat, humorous or thought-provoking short stories on topics like experiencing God in daily life, hope and perseverance, family life, marriage, friendship and prayer. All-Australian contributors include Tim Costello, Margaret Court, Betty Cuthbert, Ken Duncan, Gordon Moyes and Kel Richards.
Metamorphoses: Play by Mary Zimmerman
$33.95 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
This play is based on Ovid's 15-volume work of transformation myths. Positioned in and around a large pool on the stage, the characters enact Zimmerman's adaptations of Ovid's tales, juxtaposing the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image. The tone of the drama likewise echoes the themes ...Show more