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Book Cover: The Solitudes
By Gongora Luis de

An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time

An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time

Published: 03/10/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780143106388
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Spunyarn: Sea Poetry and Prose
By John Masefield

'I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sky and sea'

'I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sky and sea'

Published: 29/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141191607
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Stung With Love: Poems and Fragments
By Sappho

'Go, girls, pursue the violet Muses' brightGifts and the plangent lyre, lover of hymns'

'Go, girls, pursue the violet Muses' brightGifts and the plangent lyre, lover of hymns'

Published: 07/09/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140455571
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Virgil's Aeneid
Published: 20/07/1997
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140446272
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Georgics
Published: 01/04/1983
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140444148
RRP: $17.95
Book Cover: The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam
By Omar Khayyam

Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one of its most accomplished masters with his touching meditations on the transience of human life and...

Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his...

Published: 01/03/1982
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140443844
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Romance of Tristan
By Beroul

One of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul's French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, and the king's Irish wife Yseut, who fall passionately in love after mistakenly drinking a potion. Their illicit romance remains secret for many years, but the relentless...

One of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul's French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of Tristan...

Published: 01/08/1978
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140442304
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Piers the Ploughman
By William Langland

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Published: 31/12/1963
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140440874
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798,1799,1805,1850)
By William Wordsworth

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the...

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme...

Published: 11/10/1995
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140433692
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Complete English Poems
By George Herbert
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery drawn from musical structures, the natural world and domestic activity to explore a mosaic of Biblical themes...
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the...
Published: 02/07/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140424553
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Complete Poems: Jonson
By Ben Jonson

One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose poetry combined classical ideals with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and colloquial language. The Complete Poems contains all the volumes of poetry Jonson published in his lifetime - including Epigrams, The Forest and Underwoods - alongside a wide variety of his other...

One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose poetry combined classical ideals with a vigorous interest in contemporary...

Published: 01/10/1981
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140422771
RRP: $28.00
Book Cover:  Selected Poems
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works— Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha —as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.

Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works— Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha —as well as his...

Published: 04/07/1988
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140390643
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Moving World
By Michael Heald

In The Moving World , the immediacy of Michael Heald's poems rises from the practice of exploring the experience of experience itself.  These are poems which shed many familiar poetic devices (the richness of metaphor, the play of language) to explore the singular moment of presence in deliberately conscious beings.

In The Moving World , the immediacy of Michael Heald's poems rises from the practice of exploring the experience of experience itself.  These are poems which shed many familiar poetic devices (the...

Published: 24/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921888069
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Taste of River Water
By Cate Kennedy

The Taste of River Water
New and selected poems by Cate Kennedy


The Taste of River Water
New and selected poems by Cate Kennedy


Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844003
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Two Poets
By Andrew Lansdown & Kevin Gillam

Two Poets contains exciting new collections by leading Western Australian poets, Andrew Lansdown and Kevin Gillam, with an introduction by poet and critic Lisa Gorton.  Both Lansdown and Gillam have distinctive voices but share a strong sense of place, and concern with craft.  In ther introduction, poet and critic Lisa Gorton describes their approaches to style:

Two Poets contains exciting new collections by leading Western Australian poets, Andrew Lansdown and Kevin Gillam, with an introduction by poet and critic Lisa Gorton.  Both Lansdown and Gillam...

Published: 24/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921696602
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Love Poems
By Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter writes about love, sex, heartbreak and desire like no one else. Love Poems collects her most powerful love poetry: portraits of longing and infatuation, of bliss, passion, uncertainty and devotion. It includes extracts from her award-winning and best-selling verse novels, as well as poems and lyrics spanning her whole career.

Dorothy Porter writes about love, sex, heartbreak and desire like no one else. Love Poems collects her most powerful love poetry: portraits of longing and infatuation, of bliss, passion, uncertainty and...

Published: 27/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863954921
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover: The Bee Hut
By Dorothy Porter

The Bee Hut brings together the poems Doroty Porter wrote in the last fi ve years of her life. By turns expansive and intimate, effusive and contemplative, these poems roam widely - into history and to sacred places both mythic and personal. Porter's writing glows and shimmers with passionate curiosity and exuberant love of life.

The Bee Hut brings together the poems Doroty Porter wrote in the last fi ve years of her life. By turns expansive and intimate, effusive and contemplative, these poems roam widely - into history and to...

Published: 31/08/2009
Format:
ISBN: 9781863954464
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Golden Bird: New and Selected Poems
By Robert Adamson
 

The Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes that have shaped his remarkable body of work.

'Robert Adamson is one of Australia's national treasures.' John Ashbery...

 

The Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction...

Published: 29/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863952873
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  Saved by a Poem: the Transformative Power of Words
By Kim Rosen

In these times of global and personal uncertainty, why turn to poetry? In Saved by a Poem, Kim Rosen reveals how a poem can be a companion through difficulty-acting as a guide when we are lost; a salve when we are wounded; and a conduit to insight, freedom, and joy.

In these times of global and personal uncertainty, why turn to poetry? In Saved by a Poem, Kim Rosen reveals how a poem can be a companion through difficulty-acting as a guide when we are lost; a salve...

Published: 04/01/2010
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9781401921460
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Villain
By Justin Clemens

VILLAIN  is a new collection by Justin Clemens. Invoking the spirit of celebrated French poet, vagabond and thief Francois Villon – some of whose ballads are translated here – these poems range from the violent and obscene to the lyrical and sublime, sometimes within a single verse.

VILLAIN  is a new collection by Justin Clemens. Invoking the spirit of celebrated French poet, vagabond and thief Francois Villon – some of whose ballads are translated here – these poems...

Published: 05/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780980517958
RRP: $19.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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