Readings Recommends: Poetry
Australian Poetry Since 1788
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Nsw University Pr
A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poe... Buy or find out more →
Tomas Tranströmer: Selected Poems (Reissue)
$22.99 – Paperback book / Ecco Press
Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bonner Award for Poetry, Germany's Petrarch Prize, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Tomas Transtromer captures the mood of ... Buy or find out more →
Thirty Australian Poets
$27.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
‘The first strong poetic generation of twenty-first century Australia.’ – John Tranter
A NEW GENERATION, A LANDMARK ANTHOLOGY
Australian poetry has never looked so energetic and vital. Thirty Australian Poets celeb... Buy or find out more →
Interferon Psalms
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The new book of poetry from award-winning poet and novelist, Luke Davies. The ravaging effects of illness, the breakup of a relationship and the disturbing nature of relocation. These are the subjects under award-winning... Buy or find out more →
Illuminations (Translated By John Ashberry)
$34.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
John Ashbery's long-awaited, virtuosic translation of Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations is presented with the French text in parallel and a preface by its new translator. Given Rimbaud's own cavalier attitude toward his mos... Buy or find out more →
The Taste Of River Water
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Disarming, warm and always accessible, Cate Kennedy’s poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here: compassion, insight, lyrical precision, and the clear, minimalist eye tha... Buy or find out more →
And Then When The
$24.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
This is Dan Disney's first full-length collection of poetry. Issued from a hyper-illumined world of statues, rituals, and looming silhouettes, his poems have at their heart a pleasure at surprise. AND THEN WHEN THE is an... Buy or find out more →
Surface To Air
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006-2011, Is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut latecomers. it charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have... Buy or find out more →
New And Selected Poems
$26.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Gig Ryan’s poems have exerted an influence over two generations of writers and readers since the publication of her award-winning collection Division of Anger in 1981. An important figure in Australian poetry, her work i... Buy or find out more →
Knuckled
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
This is a first collection of poetry by award-winning young Sydney poet, poetry activist and editor Fiona Wright, and continues Giramondo’s policy of publishing new voices alongside those of established poets. The poems ... Buy or find out more →
Selected Poems Of Dorothy Hewett
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
In an act of intimacy matched with literary acuity, Kate Lilley presents a selection of her mother Dorothy Hewett’s poetry written over a sixty-year period.
Lilley draws out the passion and innovation in Hewett’s work,... Buy or find out more →
Southern Barbarians
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
The Portuguese traders who brought Europe to Japan in the sixteenth century were known as ‘southern barbarians’. In his new collection John Mateer offers a contemporary re-charting of the Portuguese Empire, the hemispher... Buy or find out more →
Amphora
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
The poems in amphora seize on the miraculous moments contained in life and language, interrogating them with scepticism, celebrating them with a comic sense of wonder. Their focus ranges from the magical exploits of sain... Buy or find out more →
Swallow
$21.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
The author offers a dramatic synergy between observation and feeling; literary vignettes, glasshouse musings, mythical characters and desire interweave within the haunting shadow of the swallow's migratory absence/presen... Buy or find out more →
Waltzing With Jack Dancer: A Slow Dance With Cancer
$29.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
'Geoff Goodfellow is one of those rare people who says what he thinks, usually with a few expletives added. When he learned he had cancer, he told the disease what he thought of it and, like a boxer, prepared himself for... Buy or find out more →
This Floating World
$24.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
This Floating World is presented in two parts. The first is a selection of four ‘overture’ poems that steady the reader and set the scene for the book’s title poem, a songline through the island of Ireland. The reader is... Buy or find out more →
Note On The Door And Other Poems About Family Life
$15.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
A beautiful collection of poems about family.
This collection of poetry by Lorraine Marwood focuses on family: holidays, siblings, school life, relatives and play. Whether she is describing the joys of a holiday at the b... Buy or find out more →
Wild Bees
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison... 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 →
A Life In Poetry: Nicholas Lyon Gresson
$24.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
This volume brings together the poetry of Nicholas Lyon Gresson covering fifty-five years of writing. The poems start with the writings of a sixteen year old boy in the 1950s, and they emerge through the decades of life ... Buy or find out more →
Gil Scott-Heron Is On Parole
$19.95 – Paperback book / Picaro Press
Maxine is a West Indian-Australian writer and poetry slam champion. Her collection of poems Gil Scott Heron is on Parole charts new linguistic and cultural territory for Australian poetry and introduces a brave new voice... Buy or find out more →
In Balfour Street: 14 Poems From The 1970s
$14.99 – Paperback book /
Back in the early 1970s, a time that saw the height of the Cold War come and pass, the flooding of Lake Pedder, and the creation of the world’s first Greens party on a little island just south of mainland Australia, a yo... Buy or find out more →
Collected Poems
$32.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Francis Webb (1925–1973) grew up in North Sydney with his paternal grandparents, who encouraged his love of music, books and the sea. In 1942, during his final year of secondary school, his writing first appeared in the ... Buy or find out more →
The Waste Land (Facsimile and Transcript)
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Faber
When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. T... Buy or find out more →
Cow
$24.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
Cow leaps and fl ies into imaginative realms carrying mythology and language. Cow creates the universe, the galaxies and travels through the sky as a herd of stars. Cow writes love poetry and ponders lost histories. Susa... Buy or find out more →
Nebuchadnezzar
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Pepper
Shelton Lea is a natural poet of the streets. His Fitzroy or Redfern or Oxford St are as native as the bush is to Lawson and the balladists. The inhabitants of his places arise in their oppression like heroes. He can tou... Buy or find out more →
Gossip And The Wine
$24.95 – Paperback book / John Leonard
The Gossip and the Wine offers poems that range from buoyant to ironic and sombre. Many of them are occasioned by biblical moments, which they read afresh. These include the remarkable sequence, 'Rounding a Year', which ... Buy or find out more →
New Letters To A Young Poet
$36.95 – Paperback book / Blood Moon
In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem - the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilk... Buy or find out more →
The Best American Poetry 2010
$21.95 – Paperback book / Scribner
AMY GERSTLER’S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected here represent the weal... Buy or find out more →
Lines For Birds Poems And Paintings
$59.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
They follow flight paths and habitats of birds, from the Victorian Mallee to the forests of South East Asia, to Japan and the South of France. Sometimes, as the painter says, its almost as if I am looking at the earth wi... Buy or find out more →
Ashes In The Air
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Alizadeh finds grace, wit and fire in this latest volume of poetry which explores themes such as fatherhood and migration. It ranges from the Tehran of Alizadeh’s childhood to the Australian coast of his teenage years. F... Buy or find out more →
Morning Knowledge
$27.95 – Paperback book / University Of Notre Dame Press
Kevin Hart is not only one of Australia’s most important poets but a major figure in world poetry. He is a visionary writer who has taken his bearings as much from English Romanticism and European Modernism as from the B... Buy or find out more →
100 Australian Poems Of Love And Loss
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Poetry, we are often told these days, is obsolete. Yet there are two situations in particular that awaken the dormant yearning for ‘memorable speech', as one popular definition of poetry describes it. One is a wedding an... Buy or find out more →
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems In Translation
$42.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
The dazzling variety of Anglo-Saxon poetry brought to life by an all-star cast of contemporary poets in an authoritative bilingual edition.
Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from he... Buy or find out more →
Penguin's Poems For Love
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
PASSIONATELY? SECRETLY? INCURABLY? HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
Here are poems to take you on a journey from the thunderbolt 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deepl... Buy or find out more →
Pirate Rain
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Pirate Rain explores arbitrary power, as delivered by piratical, natural and human forces. Greed and ambition cause disasters in the poems, in complex sequences – featuring Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the ... Buy or find out more →
Nox
$42.95 – Hardcover book / New Directions
Anne Carson’s haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years — a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out “book in a box.”
Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade b... Buy or find out more →
A Local Habitation: Poems And Homilies
$39.95 – Hardcover book /
This delightful book contains 53 poems and 62 homilies composed over the last decade by Peter Steele SJ, professor emeritus of English at The University of Melbourne and long term scholar-in-residence at Newman College. ... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Struggle
$23.95 – Paperback book / Alma Books
Notorious as a novelist, Michel Houellebecq was first known in France as a poet. In many ways it is through poetry that he found his novelist’s voice.
The Art of Struggle is a collection of prose and verse pieces which... Buy or find out more →
The Word: Two Hundred Years Of Polish Poetry
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Brandl Schlesinger
The Polish nation despite, or perhaps because of, its turbulent history has always held poetry and the making of poetry in very high esteem. On occasions it was the poets who took on the mantle of its spiritual and patri... Buy or find out more →
Here
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
A new book of poems by Wislawa Szymborska is a rare and exciting event. When "Here" was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-w... Buy or find out more →
Love Poems
$27.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Your face sleeps
illuminated
in the early morning
warmth
of my slack arm
Dorothy Porter writes about love, sex, heartbreak and desire like ... Buy or find out more →
The Rest On The Flight: Selected Poems
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
'In my house his Collected Poems is to be found, not on the poetry shelves (between Pope and Pushkin), but on the kitchen sideboard. His is a voice I value and honour. I need its nourishment daily.' - Martin Amis
Satiris... Buy or find out more →
Human Chain
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Faber
A new collection of poems from Nobel Prize winning writer, Seamus Heaney.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently... Buy or find out more →
Sand
$27.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Memoir, meditation and myth from two of Australia's bes known writers.
Whenever I'm asked where I come from and what experiences have shaped the way I write, I think of sand. I come from sand. I am an envoy from the Sand... Buy or find out more →
How A Moth Becomes A Boat
$16.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers
How a Moth Becomes a Boat, a brand new collection of Rowe's short tales is moving its way along my shelf to the space strictly reserved for old favourites.’ — Brad Dunn, Three Thousand
‘Josephine Rowe has mastered th... Buy or find out more →
Taller When Prone
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacul... Buy or find out more →