The Fat Black Woman's Poems - Virago 50th Anniversary Edition by Grace Nichols
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politi ...Show more
Ten Poems about Art by GEOFF DYER
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Category: Poetry
Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer's remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes. We find ourselves ...Show more
You Do You by Sam Morley
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Category: Poetry
Meditations on parenthood, memory, death, the natural world, the fluctuations of pop culture, and the suburban grind with aplomb in a keen observational styleSam Morley's second collection comprises poetry that is image-rich, fusing the sublime with the common. Always committed to observation as a chann ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
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Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy
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Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy She is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He an accountant, dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. She attempts to ...Show more
Public. Open. Space. by Kate Larsen
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Category: Poetry
Positioned at the intersection of poetic and digital culture, this collection explores the sense of placelessness increasingly resonant for all of us who live and working in the digital realm. Public. Open. Space. is a collection of poetry inspired by spaces, places and situations that are controlled an ...Show more
Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas
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Category: Poetry
Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved characters in British literature. Lyrical, funny and moving, this is Dylan Thomas’s masterwork and a beloved Welsh classic. ‘It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and b ...Show more
I Think of You by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Poetry
Living what the philosophers call a good life is not always easy. If there is a single human quality that most of us value above others it is kindness. Love and kindness are at the heart of this new collection by Alexander McCall Smith. In each of these poems the author explores and celebrates, life, lo ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
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Category: Poetry
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems (PB) by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry | Series: Threebies Ser.
Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing t ...Show more
The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara M Saleh
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Category: Poetry
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh.The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat is a dazzling collection that examines and represents the complexity of Arab-Australian Muslim women's identities, as well as exploring gender a ...Show more