Readings Recommends: Poetry
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... More »
Oxford Book Of American Poetry
$62.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume, featuring the work of more than ... More »
Making Of A Sonnet A Norton Anthology
$47.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
This illuminating anthology of five and a half centuries of the sonnet follows the form through its various moments and makers. The editors, poets themselves, pay particular attention to the way in which the sonnet thriv... More »
Book Of Longing
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. The Book of Longing is his eagerly awaited new collection... More »
The Kingsbury Tales
$24.95 (Paperback book / Brandl Schlesinger )
The Kingsbury Tales' explores and depicts poetic characters in a similar way that Geoffrey Chaucer did hundreds of years ago in 'The Canterbury Tales'. Chinese Australian poet Ouyang Yu's 'Kingsbury Tales are the poems o... More »