Selected Sonnets from William Shakespeare by Shakespeare William
$12.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Methuen Shilling S.
The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of the gr ...Show more
Fabulous Beast by PATRICIA ACE
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Releases
"Rich and sensual, spare and poised, witty, elegiac...Ace's range is remarkable, and her writing resonates with a developed lyrical sensibility. The result is an engaging and wonderfully humane first collection of poems. Breathtaking." Jane McKie, winner of the 2011 Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize "These are ...Show more
Dog by Hegley John
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is a mongrel mix of prose, poem, cartoon strip, letter, and limerick. Musings upon his mum, his chum, his love, his love's loss, and salvation at the paws of his chum's mum's Welsh Border Collie. This collection of verse and drawings from the man dubbed "comedy's poet laureate" combines Hegley's sk ...Show more
Up the Line to Death by Brian Gardner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
An anthology of the poetry of World War I, this collection is more concerned with the War than with poetry, and as such it is a book with a theme. There are 72 poets represented here - including Wilfred Owen - of whom 21 died in action. Many of the poems have notes and introductions.
Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day by Methuen Publishing
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the classics to recent favourites, the anthology includes works by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Robert Burns, Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Yeats, Betjeman, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes, Wole Soyinka, Wendy Cope, Andrew Motion and many more, imaginatively arranged to be appropriate to the day and t ...Show more
Hunting of the Snark by Mervin Peake
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"The Hunting of the Snark" was first published in 1876, eleven years after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and four years after "Through the Looking-Glass." It is a master-piece of nonsense and is connected to "Through the Looking-Glass" by its use of vocabulary from the poem "Jabberwocky." "The Hunt ...Show more
Twenty Poems from William Wordsworth by Wordsworth William
$12.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Methuen Shilling S.
The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of the gr ...Show more
The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson
$28.95 AUD
Category: New Releases
Poetry. Robert Adamson has long been recognized as one of Australia's major poets, from his early writing as a poet maudit in Sydney through twenty books of verse and prose. In THE GOLDFINCHES OF BAGHDAD, he explores the landscape of the Hawkesbury River, sounding its waters and wildlife for psychologic ...Show more