Australian Poetry
History Of The Day
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Pepper
At that old station on North Head
Inmates still tread the boards,
Or something does; equipment there records
The voices in the dormitories and wards,
Although it’s years abandoned. Undeleted,
What happened is embedded ... Buy or find out more →
By And Large
$21.95 – Paperback book / Brandl Schlesinger
More startling words and imagery from one of Australia's finest contemporary poets. Buy or find out more →
The Darwin Poems
$24.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
This exquisite collection of poetry, while loosely following Charles Darwin’s life, is more a ‘portrait’ in verse of his inner and family life. In 1836, a twenty-six year old Charles Darwin stopped at Wentworth Falls en ... Buy or find out more →
Fire Season
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
The poems in Fire Season are illuminated by the intensity of everyday experience, dwelling in situations of want or absence, or radiant in the aura of those legendary beings, the heroines and monsters of film and story a... Buy or find out more →
Better Than God
$29.99 – Paperback book / Picador
Peter Porter is one of the pre-eminent Australian poets of his generation and a major figure in the landscape of British poetry. The publication of Better Than God will coincide with his 80th birthday. He has received th... Buy or find out more →
60 Classic Australian Poems
$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr
This is a superb introduction to poetry from the nineteenth century to the present. With insight and insider knowledge, poet Geoff Page emphasises the contribution made by the notable generation of Australian poets who e... Buy or find out more →
The Striped World
$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her i... Buy or find out more →
Eighth Habitation
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Eighth Habitation takes its name from the Buddhist notion of purgatory, a mystic realm where the meaning of a human life is judged. The poems inhabit a range of landscapes and perspectives, in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thaila... Buy or find out more →
The Other Way Out
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
The Other Way Out opens with the white heat of the tropical north - with a sky so pressing it falls like glass to the ground - and closes with the carved hand of an ancient statue, proffering love and gladness and affirm... Buy or find out more →
Southern Edge
$24.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
In this collection of three long narrative poems, Temperton conjures up the highs and lows of the coastal environment to explore the effects of nature's 'Powerful forces at work' on human existence.
An impressive third c... Buy or find out more →
Young Rain
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
'The poems in Young Rain have an ease and lucidity that makes them seem almost casual, so that it is with a feeling of surprise that you realise you have been drawn into a conversation of the utmost gravity concerning th... Buy or find out more →
Dorothea Mackellar's My Country
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Dorothea Mackellar’s anthemic poem 'My Country' captured the heart of the Australian nation when it was first published in 1908, and the love affair has continued for a hundred years. To celebrate the poem’s centenary, P... Buy or find out more →
The Best Australian Poems 2007
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In The Best Australian Poems 2007, Peter Rose collects many of the outstanding poems of the previous year. Among the poets are some of the abiding luminaries of Australian poetry, along with some impressive if unfamiliar... Buy or find out more →
The Best Australian Poems 2008
$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
With Best Australian Poems 2008 Peter Rose invites you to
discover the most recent works of both Australia's renowned and
promising poets. A journey in itself, this
collection is also a fine introduction for those wishin... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Bird: New And Selected Poems
$27.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
The Golden Bird brings together the best of Adamson’s work from the last four decades, and many superb new poems. An accessible introduction to... Buy or find out more →
Telling A Hawk From A Handsaw
$29.95 – Paperback book / Carcanet
Chris Wallace-Crabbe writes with an alert curiosity about the world and the speculation it gives rise to. He celebrates household objects as well as the textures of the Australian landscape; European ancestors, both fami... Buy or find out more →
Satyrs And Songs Of An Upright Rabbit
$49.00 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
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View From Here
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Brandl Schlesinger
"As the titles of this and her four earlier collections indicate, Deb Westbury is very much a poet of the senses. In The View from Here, 20 years of observation and experience, love and loss, have been transformed into p... Buy or find out more →
Divine Comedy: Journeys Through A Regional Geography
$26.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, The Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books: Purgatorio: up close, Paradiso: rupture, and Inferno: leisure centre.
The poe... Buy or find out more →
El Dorado
$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador
'There is a serial child killer stalking the streets of Melbourne. He kills his victims gently and places a gold mark on their head. The mark of El Dorado. He doesn't kill because he hates children, but because he loves ... Buy or find out more →
The Penguin Anthology Of Australian Poetry
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Penguin Books
Wide in scope and bold in ambition, this exciting anthology covers the range of Australian poetic achievement, from early colonial verse through to contemporary work, with a strong recognition of Indigenous voices. This ... Buy or find out more →
Big Numbers: New And Selected Poems
$36.95 – Paperback book / Collective Effort
an urban poet. a poet of cafes and coffee shops. a poet of time and space. a poetry of language. a poetry of form and commitment. visual poems, sound poems, number poems, work poems, love poems, greek poems, poems about ... Buy or find out more →
Balcony
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
The Balcony is a stunning collection by one of Australia's quiet masters of poetry, David brooks. The Balcony is a volume of one hundred love poems in the tradition of Pablo Neruda's The Captain's Verses or Jacques Préve... Buy or find out more →
Australian Popular Songbook
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Alan Wearne's new collection is made up of three parts, 'The Australian Popular Songbook', a suite of poems inspired by popular songs from the 1880s through to the 1980s; 'The Metropolitan Poems', a group of stories in v... Buy or find out more →
A Raider's Guide
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Michael Farrell's new collection is 'a raid on the inarticulate', but not as T.S. Eliot intended - it liberates energies which exist within language, though they may not easily be spoken, or spoken about. The poems are c... Buy or find out more →
White Clay
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
A complex awareness of family life is at the heart of Lucy Dougan's new collection. Its narrative interweavings lead us from the world of books and romance into motherhood and its immersion in the world of children, then... Buy or find out more →
The Universe Looks Down
$26.95 – Paperback book / Brandl Schlesinger
The verse novel The Universe Looks Down was written over a period of thirteen years. It is a quest narrative, but a tale in which there can be no one hero. Instead, a handful of protagonists are seen, engaged in interloc... Buy or find out more →
100 Australian Poems You Need To Know
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Frustrated by the perception that Australian poetry is dry, inaccessible and focused only on the country’s landscape, acclaimed poet Jamie Grant decided to form his own collection. One that properly encompassed the livel... Buy or find out more →
Wolf Notes Second Edition
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Beveridge's poetry is remarkable for its attentiveness to the humble rituals of life. It discovers richness and grace in the smallest, the poorest, the most awkward of the most transient of beings. Buy or find out more →
Akhenaten
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Akhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history - archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign, but enough remains to tell a remarkable story of incest, heresy, andro... Buy or find out more →
Shades Of The Sublime And Beautiful
$24.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
The new collection by acclaimed local poet John Kinsella contemplates the aesthetic and the transcendent, examining both the natural and the artificial. From the soothing aesthetics of shape and form through to what cons... Buy or find out more →
Revolving Days: Selected Poems
$26.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
From the groundbreaking Bicycle and Other Poems to the best-selling Typewriter Music, Revolving Days is a resplendent, up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with ... Buy or find out more →
Press Release
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Press Release, is a sequence set in the Mallee district of Victoria during the end of World War II. A meditation on ambition, patience and waste, it explores the history of settlement through elegy, dramatic monologue, t... Buy or find out more →
By The Balls
$34.95 – Paperback book / Random Century
FOREWORD BY SEPP BLATTER Football veteran Les Murray is the face and voice of soccer broadcasting in Australia and is one of our nation's most influential people in sport. In this tell-all memoir Les tells of his humble ... Buy or find out more →
Selected Poems
$27.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
This is the first port of call for anyone wanting to experience the poetry of Les Murray. Completely up to date, it contains Murray's finest work (excluding Fredy Neptune), selected by the poet himself. This beautifully ... Buy or find out more →
Collected Poems
$45.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Les Murray's Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This volume includes all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from his verse-novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book the Ilex Tree (1965) to Poems... Buy or find out more →
Illustrated History Of Diaries
$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
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Two Kinds Of Silence
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
In Two Kinds of Silence Kathryn Lomer explores natural as well as inner landscapes, and turns her full focus of attention to things somatic, linguistic, tidal, seasonal, geographical, even floral, roving from kitchen to ... Buy or find out more →
What A Piece Of Work
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
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Reading The River: Selected Poems
$27.95 – Paperback book / Bloodaxe
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Biplane Houses
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since 2002's Poems the Size of Photographs. In it we find Murray at his near-miraculous best. The collection exhibits both Murray's unfailing grace as a writer and his abili... Buy or find out more →
Blistered Days
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
A new collection of poetry from one of Australia's finest writers.
"[Lily Brett's poems] are something quite amazing... Intensely wrought, artistically, yet pure and direct and real and life-size." (Ted Hughes on The Aus... Buy or find out more →
Fredy Neptune
$32.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Fredy Neptune is a verse novel, a classic of Australian writing that has been praised around the world. This stylish new edition contains a new afterword by Les Murray, 'How Fredy and I wrote Fredy Neptune'.
Fredy Neptun... Buy or find out more →
Not Finding Wittgenstein
$24.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
The poems in Not Finding Wittgenstein feature Peter Henry Lepus, British-born, but of Creole origins, and moreover, a rabbit. 'Provoked into trying to use his mind', Peter Henry searches the world for philosophers, conve... Buy or find out more →
Selected Poems
$22.99 – Paperback book / Angus & Robertson
One of Australia’s finest poets, Kenneth Slessor would be outstanding in any company. His brilliance of technique gives an impression of unconscious mastery in poems that are always arresting in conception and illuminati... Buy or find out more →
Totem
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Intimate lyrical grace sustained on an orchestral scale. Alive
with heat and sex.
Totem confirms Luke Davies' position as one of our most
important contemporary poets. An ecstatic hymn to love and life,
grandly dense, h... Buy or find out more →
Lines Of Life
$23.95 – Paperback book / Faber
This wonderful collection explores a range of female poets from the sixteenth century to the present day and celebrates what it is like to be a woman, from declarations of wifely appreciation to rueful reflections on the... Buy or find out more →
Typewriter Music
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Univ Queensland Pr
I came to David Malouf ’s poetry though his novels. After reading An Imaginary Life as a very young man I jumped on my bike and headed for the local library determined to take home every book I could find, because that... Buy or find out more →
Modewarre
$24.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
What is home? What is identity? These poems set out on the winding paths of memory and aspiration in search of how these questions might be answered. Their context is local and universal, their voices restless and insist... Buy or find out more →
Book Of My Enemy
$22.00 – Paperback book / Picador
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Afterimages
$22.00 – Paperback book / D&S
The Age Poetry Book of the Year - 2002
Australian poet Kevin Hart said of Robert Gray: 'No-one has seen this country as sharply, or with as much tenderness, as he has done'.
Widely acclaimed by both critics and the gener... Buy or find out more →
Crete
$22.00 – Paperback book / Hyland House
Dorothy Porter's follows triumphantly on from the international success of her award-winning verse novel, The Monkey's Mask. This is a collection that confirms Dorothy Porter's standing as one of Australia's most origina... Buy or find out more →
The Monkey's Mask
$22.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
The Monkey's Mask is a totally unique experience. It’s poetry. It's a crime thriller. It's where high art meets low life, passion meets betrayal, and poetry faces profanity on the streets of a harsh modern city. Dorothy ... Buy or find out more →
Skinned by Light: Selected Poems
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Selected poems of award-winning poet and novelist Anthony Lawrence. Buy or find out more →
The Goldfinches Of Baghdad
$25.95 – Paperback book / Flood Editions
The Goldfinches of Baghdad teems with cockatoos, kookaburras, lyrebirds, dollarbirds, and a host of waders from Adamson's native region. At once real presences and sly emissaries of the poetic imagination, these birds pe... Buy or find out more →
Im Not Racist But
$37.95 – Paperback book / Salt Publishing
I’m not racist, but … is a collection of social observations, thoughts and conversations the author has had over 15 years travelling Australia and the world; as a tourist, as a writer, as an academic, and always as a pro... Buy or find out more →
Banjo Patersons Bush Ballads
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
There was a movement at the station, for the word had passed
around
That the colt from old Regret had got away
'The Man From
Snowy River'
Banjo Paterson is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular bal... Buy or find out more →
Banjo Patterson's Poems Of The Bush
$19.95 – Hardcover book / New Holland Pub
The poetry selected for this collection reveals Paterson's love and appreciation for the Australian bush and its people. It contains not only widely published and quoted poems such as 'On Kiley's Run' and 'Clancy of The ... Buy or find out more →
Selected Poetry And Prose
$27.45 – Paperback book / Halstead
The best and most characteristic of a lifetime's work has been skilfully drawn together by David Brooks, Hope's most experienced editor. There are items published here for the first time, alongside others already familia... Buy or find out more →
Heroic Money
$21.95 – Paperback book / Brandl Schlesinger
A new collection of poetry from Gig Ryan. Gig is poetry editor for The Age and also writes songs for her band Driving Past. Buy or find out more →
Banjo Paterson Collected Verse
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written wit... Buy or find out more →
Henry Lawson Poems
$29.95 – Unknown / Unknown
First published in 1979, this edition includes 30 new selections, including highly significant poems addressed to his lost love, Hannah Thorburn, and some for young children. Buy or find out more →
Portrait In Skin
$16.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
What lifts the cadences of ordinary talk to something we recognise as poetry? These poems are always balancing on the edge of this question.
Portrait in Skin is a developing self-portrait, charting an encounter with canc... Buy or find out more →
Learning Human: Selected Poems
$22.00 – Paperback book / Duffy & Snellgrove
This edition replaces Duffy & Snellgrove's New Selected Poems by Les Murray published in 1998.
Learning Human: Selected Poems has been brought up to date and expanded, and contains almost twice as many poems (200) as... Buy or find out more →