by Timothy Pepper
Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to "A Californian Hymn to Homer" draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways of looking at texts, both within the Homeric ...
ISBN: 9780674036055
Binding: Paperback Book
by Jack Gilbert
Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
ISBN: 9780307269683
Binding: Hardback Book
The Best Australian Poems 2012
by John Tranter
In The Best Australian Poems 2012, the illustrious poet John Tranter selects the most exceptional Australian poetry of the past year. Tranter casts a discerning eye over the "fragments of dream-work" that reside in poems to create a collection of ...
ISBN: 9781863955812
Binding: Paperback Book
A Journey in Time
by John Michael Finn
A former veteran of the Vietnam War uses poetry and prose to recount his impressions of the war. (Poetry)
ISBN: 9780759612914
Binding: Paperback Book
Rosemary Dobson - Collected Poems
by Rosemary Dobson
The first full collection of the work of one of Australia's most prominent 20th-century poets. Since the publication of her first book in 1944, Rosemary Dobson has built a reputation as one of Australia's most important poets. This volume ...
ISBN: 9780702239113
Binding: Paperback Book
Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos
by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard
This anthology is composed of revised translations selected from five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Keeley and Sherrard during the 1960s and '70s. Poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English ...
ISBN: 9780691013824
Binding: Paperback Book
The Secret History of Australia's Favourite Song
by Dennis O'Keeffe
Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by our most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as our most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, violence and a triangular ...
ISBN: 9781742377063
Binding: Paperback Book
by Geri Ahearn
Life's Poetic Journey is about a journey of memories through life from one poet's eyes, heart, and soul. I took life's experiences, and wrote about them as I lived them, from childhood to adult. Every poem is a painting, each poem a different ...
ISBN: 9780759613522
Binding: Hardback Book
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria v. 7
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Biographia Literaria" has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature. Into this volume poured 20 years of speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about the ...
ISBN: 9780691018614
Binding: Paperback Book
Honeybee Poems and Paintings
by Douglas Florian
The buzz is big for Douglas Florian's new poetry collection about the unBEElieveably unique lives of honeybees--and the vital role they play in our ecosystem.Come inside the honeycomb--a busy, buzzy, bee-filled home--and learn about the ...
ISBN: 9781442426528
Binding: Hardback Book
Poetry
by Anis I. Milad
A collection of poetry inspired by the mystery of the East and the excitementof the West. (Poetry)
ISBN: 9780759618367
Binding: Paperback Book
A Translation of "the Pennants", and Anthology Compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn SA'ID
by A.J. Arberry
Seven hundred and fifty years ago, this anthology of small masterpieces of renowned Moorish poets was compiled by Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi, a native of Southern Spain. Its full title was The Pennants of the Champions and the Standards of the ...
ISBN: 9780700714292
Binding: Paperback Book
by Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin's first collection since "The Road to Inver" in 2004, "Love's Bonfire" sets poems about early life and marriage beside up-to-the minute and minutely registered perceptions of post-settlement Ireland. At the book's centre are delicately ...
ISBN: 9780571271535
Binding: Hardback Book
Poems
by Aaron Baker
In this prize-winning collection, a debut poet evokes his childhood as the son of missionaries in Papua New Guinea. <br>Mission Work is an arresting collection of poems based on Aaron Baker's experiences as a child of missionaries living among ...
ISBN: 9780618982677
Binding: Paperback Book
Poems
by Miranda Field
From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda ...
ISBN: 9780618189304
Binding: Paperback Book
by Ben Okri
Ben Okri is a prolific Booker-Prize winning novelist and essayist, but has published only two collections of poetry. The first was "An African Elegy" and the second was "Mental Fight". Both were highly regarded. Thus a third collection is a ...
ISBN: 9781846043307
Binding: Hardback Book