Coastal Poetry: From Yarra Bay to Watson's Bay by CUMMINGS / HATHORN
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
Local writers Libby Hathorn and Elizabeth Cummings were unusually busy during Covid, exploring the coastal wonders of some of the eastern coastline of Sydney. They responded in poetry to time spent at beaches and on boardwalks from Yarra Bay to Watson's Bay; and Coastal Poetry with its artful photograph ...Show more
Ten Poems for a Wedding by KATHRYN BEVIS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
A wedding isn't a wedding without a poem. The enduring quality of great poetry seems to promise that all will be well for a couple on the threshold of marriage. You'll be dazzled by the brilliance and beauty of this selection, which offers everything from heartfelt blessings to reflections on the rich r ...Show more
Reflections - Anthology 2023 by Adrienne McClymont (Editor); Catherine Briggs (Editor)
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Category: Poetry and Plays
A collection of poetry of several poets, all members of the local group Lane Cove Poets.
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy (Editor)
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or C ...Show more
Fourteen Festive Sonnets by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Each of these sonnets is an exquisite gift in itself. From Anne Stevenson's lonely house waiting for snow (and an absent lover) to May Sarton's celebration of the quiet company of a Christmas tree, James Nash's selection of poems invites us to reflect on the chilly beauty of winter and the lovely blaze ...Show more
Ten Poems about Hats by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Coco Chanel declared a hat to be essential when lunching with people one didn't know very well. These days such pretensions may seem old hat but we still set store by this quintessentially personal item of clothing. In these pages we encounter hats of all shapes and sizes. There's a grandfather's belove ...Show more
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author. Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobe ...Show more
Ten Poems for Autumn
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Category: Poetry and Plays
"Autumn can be so many things. There are some years when summer seems to pack up her bags and disappear in the space of just a few days. Other times there’s a delicious lingering of warmth so that autumn seems to be merely a softer, more gentle version of what has gone before: “The trees glittered with ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
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Category: Poetry and 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
Ten Poems for Winter by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Winter seems to divide opinion more than any other season; we love it or we definitely don't! The poems in this mini-anthology are guaranteed to delight readers of every persuasion; we encounter muddy walks, ice-skating, cosy fires, chilblains and even a snow pudding. There's also a Skype meeting betwee ...Show more
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart
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Category: Poetry and Plays
As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensaryWhen we're grieving, when we're broken-hearted, and when we find ourselves struggling to understand the things we're feeling, we long for the connection poetry can provide. To find the right poem at that crucia ...Show more
Ten Poems about Swimming by SAMANTHA WYNNE-RHYDDERCH
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Category: Poetry and Plays
There's something at once elemental and child-like about moving through water whether we paddle like a dog or can manage an elegant crawl. These delightful poems explore the many joys of swimming in pools, rivers and oceans. We travel all the way from a child learning to swim at home on a piano stool to ...Show more