Feldspar by Brendan Ryan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Feldspar, the new collection of poetry from Brendan Ryan, is unflinching in its focus on rural landscapes, the treatment of farm animals and the humble lives of people often missing from poetry. There are odes to invigilators, truck drivers, a family member who took to walking, laments for dogs and the ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tong ...Show more
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Fa ...Show more
Small Town Soundtrack by Brendan Ryan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Small Town Soundtrackcontinues Brendan Ryan's exploration of place and belonging that resonate in country towns.From the lives of farmers, abattoir workers, and dog walkers to the history of aboriginal dispossession; from a tour of the communities of the Mt Noorat Football League in Victoria's isolated ...Show more
Travelling Through the Family by Brendan Ryan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Travelling Through the Family brings rural Australia to life through a clear-eyed and provocative vision of the way the land and our treatment of animals moulds the people who work with them. Family, its histories, inheritances and bonds form a powerful core to the collection. There are homages to fathe ...Show more
Cosi (Play) by Louis Nowra
$23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Current Theatre
Lewis arrives fresh from university to direct a play at a mental institution. Roy demands Cosi Fan Tutte. An affectionate look at madness and mayhem (3 acts, 5 men, 3 women).
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of O ...Show more
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Timeless Classics) by Emily Dickinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
Share in Dickinson's admiration of language, nature, and life and death, with The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson's finest poems. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to ...Show more
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'New York, summer 1954Criminal Courts BuildingA man is deadThe life of another is at stakeA guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and the prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. ...Show more