Literary studies: poetry & poets

The Best Australian Poetry 2005

By Peter Porter

The Best Australian Poetry 2005 celebrates the vibrancy and liveliness of poetry in Australia today. Guest Editor Peter Porter, celebrated as one of Australia's most brilliant poets, brings his vision and acumen to his selection of the finest forty poems published in Australian literary magazines in the preceding year. With revealing comments from the poets, The Best Australian Poetry 2005 is an exhilarating...

Published: 08/08/2005

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702235184

RRP: $24.95

Extraction of Arrows

By Kathryn Lomer

Extraction of Arrows is Kathryn Lomer's first collection of poetry. Divided into three parts, the poems represent a journey, beginning with travelling days in Ireland and Spain and with glances back to childhood in rural Tasmania; to the barbed ecstasy of sexual awakening and the heart's disappointment; to the unmapped journey into birth and motherhood; arriving finally at relationship's harmony and...

Published: 01/09/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702233715

RRP: $24.95

Michael Dransfield: a Retrospective

By John Kinsella

Published: 06/05/2002

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702232985

RRP: $24.95

My Lover's Back

By Mtc Cronin

Who hasn't written a love poem? Boys and girls write them on paper scraps passed among friends. They are written in diaries, never to be shared, and on pages never sent but read again and again by the one who wrote them. Love is what we write both before and after everything else. Our letters are love poems. Our TV soaps, our films and our songs are love poems. When MTC Cronin writes of love it is...

Published: 18/01/2002

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702232848

RRP: $24.95

Attuned to Alien Moonlight: the Poetry of Bruce Dawe

By Dennis Haskell

Published: 01/07/2002

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702232381

RRP: $30.00

Gotterdammerung Cafe

By Andrew Taylor

From the start, Andrew Taylor's poetry has been involved in both the domestic and the wider world of travel – physical, emotional and spiritual. The poems in this new collection, whether set in an Australian garden, or on the beach, or in Europe or North America, continue that exploration. They journey from a playful inventory of small personal accessories to probings of the nature of God, the...

Published: 16/01/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702232121

RRP: $24.95

John Bray Collected Poems: 1962-1991

By John Bray

This collection celebrates the pleasures and preoccupations of a poet whose imagination was sparked by languages old and new. Here are classical rhymes, dexterous adaptations of ancient Greek epigrams as well as translations of French and German poems. Inventive and playful, ironic and humane, Bray's own work is 'a poetry of our time', covering more than thirty years of writing.

Published: 06/03/2000

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702231711

RRP: $28.00

Harbour

By Dimitris Tsaloumas

Published: 02/11/1998

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780702230813

RRP: $30.00

The Harbour

By Dimitris Tsaloumas

From haiku to elegy, these poems move from the Greek Islands to suburban Australia and on to the timeless plains of the imagination. When the brilliant and haunting sequence poem Six Improvisations on the River was first published in England in 1995, it was described as 'weaving into the fabric of history a place for the artist as visionary.'

Published: 07/07/1999

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702230943

RRP: $24.95

The Moment Made Marvellous: Three Decades of Uqp Poetry

By Tom Shapcott

Published: 01/12/1998

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780702230653

RRP: $30.00

Little Eva At Moonlight Creek

By R M W Dixon

Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems , the sequel to The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song >, features a selection of traditional songs by Aboriginal language groups from the Gulf of Carpentaria, the Kimberley Region, Arnhem Land and Central Australia – all presented in bi-lingual text.

Published: 06/06/1994

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702226069

RRP: $24.95

Selected Poems: 1971-1993

By Laurie Duggan

Published: 05/08/1996

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702226243

RRP: $28.00

The Barge

By Dimitris Tsaloumas

Published: 01/04/1993

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702224652

RRP: $24.95

Poems 1970-1992: Fay Zwicky

By Fay Zwicky

Published: 03/05/1993

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702224669

RRP: $28.00

Love Poems & Other Revolutionary Actions

By Bobbi Sykes

Published: 05/09/1988

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702221736

RRP: $19.95

Jennifer Rankin: Collected Poems

By Judith Rodriguez

Published: 20/06/1990

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780702222887

RRP: $28.00

The Penguin Book of American Verse

By Geoffrey Moore

Penguin brings you the finest short verse by the greatest writers

A classic anthology of American poetry, from the colonial beginnings in the seventeenth century right through to the twentieth century. From Anne Bradstreet to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from William Carlos Williams to Walt Whitman, from Emily Dickenson to Ai, this collection ranges widely across the American poetic spectrum.

Penguin brings you the finest short verse by the greatest writers

A classic anthology of American poetry, from the colonial beginnings in the seventeenth century right through to the twentieth century...

Published: 06/10/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241955444

RRP: $24.95

The Mersey Sound

By Adrian Henri

'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, The Mersey Sound was conceived and first published in 1967. An anthology which features Roger McGough's...

Published: 01/10/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141189260

RRP: $22.95

Selected Poems PMC

By Patrick Kavanagh

One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Partrick Kavanagh (1904-67) released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. Instead his poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focuses on closely observed images of rural life, where 'ordinary things wear lovely wings'. This selection ranges from Kavanagh's early poems such...

Published: 22/05/2000

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141183480

RRP: $24.95

Selected Poems: Hannah

By Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah's first book was greeted with amazement. The Poetry Review declared, 'Shall I put it in capitals? SOPHIE HANNAH IS A GENIUS.' Each subsequent collection has been formally more inventive, thematically more complex, yet each has met with a similar welcome, and she has become that rare thing, an acclaimed and bestselling poet. Published for the first time in Penguin, this volume includes...

Published: 03/07/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141026077

RRP: $24.95