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 the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry and innumerable other awards. A previous collection for Picador, Max Is Missing, won the Forward Prize for best collection.
Peter Porter
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 →
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 →
Afterburner
$28.00 – Paperback book / Picador
Peter Porter, along with Les Murray, is the leading English language poet of the southern hemisphere. He's won the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, holds several honorary doctorates and is one of the most eminent and disti... Buy or find out more →
Max Is Missing
$23.00 – Paperback book / Picador
'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
An expat... Buy or find out more →
The Age Book of the Year Winners 2009
Down To The Crossroads: On The Trail Of The 2008 US Presidential Election
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The surprise hit of last December was The Battle for Bennelong, Margot Saville’s on-the-road, campaign trail account of the nail-biting 2007 federal election. This year, Crikey correspondent Guy Rundle gives us the play-... Buy or find out more →
Things We Didn't See Coming
$24.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.
The ensuing journey spans decades and off... 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 →
The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2009 Poetry
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
True Thoughts
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Salt Publishing
True Thoughts follows the success of Pam Brown’s last major collection Dear Deliria published in late 2002 and awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004.
This new work collects twenty-three poems written bet... Buy or find out more →