Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001
W G Sebald
Penguin, PB, 9780141044866
Across the Land and the Water brings together poems from throughout W. G. Sebald's life as well as additional works found after his death. Arranged chronologically, from his student days in the 1960s to the longer narratives he worked on in the 1980s, these poems are suffused by the themes which dominated Sebald's books. Here you will find subtle vignettes on ... More/Buy
As Far as I Know
Roger McGough
Penguin, HB, 9780670921744
Take comfort from this. You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have married. Roger McGough is a poet at once directly accessible and a master of the art of surprise, in which the everyday wold is refreshingly and, at times, darkly ... More/Buy
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray
Les Murray
Black Inc, HB, 9781863955843
From his life's work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this collection is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. It is a treasure trove of ... More/Buy
The Best Australian Poems 2012
John Tranter (ed)
Black Inc, PB, 9781863955812
'I was struck ... by just how many poems depended on the ancient devices of the storyteller ... Many have a lyrical or meditative feel, but most have a story to tell, captured in a brief glimpse of the meaning of life, or a dramatic climax.'-John Tranter. In this impressive anthology John Tranter weaves many threads into a portrait of Australian ... More/Buy
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Billy Collins, David Allen Sibley (eds)
Columbia University Press, PB, 9780231150873
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and ... More/Buy
Don't Start Me Talking: Lyrics 1984 - 20112
Paul Kelly
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781743311196
Spanning 20 years of song-writing, a fully updated collection of all the lyrics from Australia's greatest singer/songwriter, Paul ... More/Buy
Life Saving: Why We Need Poetry - Introductions to Great Poets
Josephine Hart
Virago, HB, 9781844088713
Josephine Hart, author of the bestselling novel DAMAGE, had what she called 'a long love affair' with poetry. It was an affair that started as a child growing up in Ireland 'where life was language before it was anything else' and lasted until her untimely death at the age of sixty-nine in 2011. As a teenager, she found the poetry of ... More/Buy
The Rivered Earth
Vikram Seth
Penguin, PB, 9780141047591
Drawing on a range of personal experience and literary influences, and mixing translation and original creation, The Rivered Earth consists of four libretti written to accompany music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer and a musician. Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven Elements', ... More/Buy
Self Translation
Ouyang Yu
Transit Lounge, PB, 9781921924279
Poems first written in Chinese but now presented in both Chinese and English, Self Translation is arguably Ouyang Yu's most lyrical and resonant collection of poetry to date. The verse inhabits China and Australia in spirit and the natural world in both nations. Mellow and beautiful, yet questioning of the author's own experience of moving between cultures, these are poems that ... More/Buy
A Thousand Mornings: Poems
Mary Oliver
Penguin US, HB, 9781594204777
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Mary Oliver, returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting the reader to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings contained in the smallest of ... More/Buy
The World Last Night
MTC Cronin
UQP, PB, 9780702249518
the end of the world never changes - the last words from The Worlds Last Night, with no dot at the end. Yet the world of the end changes with every printed or erased line. There are no borders of inherited pain between the verses of this book, even when its sharp edge can let blood from your lines of life, ... More/Buy