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Michael Brennan
Giramondo Publishing, PB, 9781920882891
Michael Brennan's third collection of poetry tunes into the feedback loops of consciousness in these fluid modern times. It develops the surrealism of his earlier poetry with an anarchic openness to experience underwritten by anxiety, dysfunction and the endless hunger for community. Set in a radically changed but recognizable Australia, one that has evolved through the collapse of the West and ... More/Buy
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected by John Stammers
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Faber, PB, 9780571230686
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was ... More/Buy
John Donne: Selected by Paul Muldoon
John Donne
Faber, PB, 9780571230891
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited ... More/Buy
Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets for 60 Years
Carol Ann Duffy (ed)
Faber, PB, 9780571277056
To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the of the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign. Celebrated writers as Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Wendy Cope, Geoffrey Hill, Jackie Kay, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Don ... More/Buy
Looking Out from Bashan: The Republic of Og
Mark Reid
Fremantle Press, PB, 9781921888830
Og is the last survivor of the giant races of the Old Testament, doomed to conquest by God's chosen people on their way to the Promised Land. Og is not only the king of the last of his people but, as a giant amongst ordinary sized humans, he also represents the monster within. An exciting new collection of poems linked by ... More/Buy
Love's Bonfire
Tom Paulin
Faber, HB, 9780571271535
Tom Paulin's first collection since The Road to Inver in 2004, Love's Bonfire sets poems about early life and marriage beside up-to-the minute and minutely registered perceptions of post-settlement Ireland. At the book's centre are delicately inward versions of the contemporary Palestinian poet Walid Khazendar, which resonate with the proximity of other lives, other exiles and destinies, as of an autobiography ... More/Buy
Open Sesame
Michael Farrell
Giramondo Publishing, PB, 9781920882846
Michael Farrell is well known for his ability to break language and action into their component gestures, freeing the emotion locked up in them, and very often their comic or magical aspects too, as the title of his new poetry collection suggests. Open Sesame includes sonnets derived from the TV drama 'The Billâ', a sestina featuring JFK set in a laundrette, ... More/Buy
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected by fiona Sampson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Faber, PB, 9780571259472
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ... More/Buy
Selected Poems
Don Paterson
Faber, HB, 9780571281787
Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. God's Gift Women took the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997, Landing Light won it again ... More/Buy
Travelling Through The Family
Brendan Ryan
Hunter Publishers, PB, 9780980863956
Travelling Through the Family bring rural Australia to life through a clear-eyed and provocative vision of the way the land and our treatment of animals moulds the people who work with them. Family, its histories, inheritances and bonds form a powerful core to the collection. There are homages to fathers and daughters as well as self-portraits where the influence of a ... More/Buy