Ten Poems for a Wedding by KATHRYN BEVIS
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Category: Poetry
A wedding isn't a wedding without a poem. The enduring quality of great poetry seems to promise that all will be well for a couple on the threshold of marriage. You'll be dazzled by the brilliance and beauty of this selection, which offers everything from heartfelt blessings to reflections on the rich r ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Holocaust Island (First Nations Classics) by Graeme Dixon, Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Category: Poetry
Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice - from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights - and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.Holocaust Island was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989. Graeme Dixon' ...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
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
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
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 Poetry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Category: Poetry
An accessible guide to the most important poems ever written - from the Epic of Gilgamesh to An Arundel Tomb - and the poets behind them Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them. The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry
An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in t ...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
Kuracca - Us Mob Writing First Nation Voices by Kerry Reed-Gilbert; Barrina South; Brenda Gifford; Belinda Nelson-McDowell (Artist); Yvette Henry Holt (Foreword by); Lisa Fuller; Joyce Graham; Samantha Faulkner (Editor); Samia Goudie; Elaine Patricia Lomas; Odette Fuller; Jessika Spencer; Marissa McDowell (Compiled by, Preface by)
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Category: Poetry
Powerful and palpable, Kuracca honours the work of a cultural powerhouse and matriarch in style. The book showcases the strengths and fresh and exciting writing of a tightly bonded group. This is healing.- Ellen van NeervenThrough Kuracca eleven First Nation writers offer a Us Mob Writers literature cam ...Show more