What I Read to the Dead by Marcel Weyland
29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Marcel Weyland's translation of poetry and prose by Polish Jewish poet Wadysaw Szlengel is a landmark in Australian publishing. It is essential in bringing to Australian readers a remarkable voice not only of witness, but also of passionate and committed cultural and spiritual resistance. Nazi persecuti ...Show more
Starry Night, Blurry Dreams by Henn Kim
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
who are you when you're alone Starry Night, Blurry Dreams is a collection of graphic poetry about loneliness, love and existing in our world. a heavy heart is hard to carry hold on When words aren't enough to describe our emotions, this book will offer comfort, joy and a friend in the dark. we al ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from across the world into a poem in ai ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kem (Editor)
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about real ...Show more
Arelhekenhe Angkentye: Women's Talk: Poems of Lyapirtneme from Arrernte Women in Central Australia by Akeyulerre Healing Centre
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
There is healing in this poetry.These are our words.From our country.Our lands. Our spirits.For all the troubles we face every day, we are a passionate people.When we hear these poems, we know, we are lovers of life.After selling out its first three print runs and having poems selected for Best of Austr ...Show more
Giving Thanks: Poems, Prayers, and Praise Songs of Thanksgiving by Pamela Dalton
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Gratitude is that most remarkable of human emotions, a celebration of joy at once exuberant and reflective. At once a personal meditation of what it means to be grateful as well as a generous, essential collection of more than fifty graces, poems and praise songs, spanning centuries, ranging across many ...Show more
Of Mice and Men (Playscript) by John Steinbeck
0.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when th ...Show more