Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity.  Swimming Lessons is the first collection of poetry from one of the most beloved young actresses working today. It follows the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and coming to terms with the end of a romance. Through it all, Lili's trademark honesty, optimism, and unique perspective are evident in her first poetry collection.  Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, these beautiful poems are about growing up, falling down, and getting back up again. They capture what it feels like to be a young woman in today's image-obsessed world, and how to follow your heart even when the odds are stacked against you. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, the poems in Swimming Lessons reveal the depths of female experience, and are the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own.   ...Show more

The Mirror Hurlers by Ross Gillett

$25.00 AUD

Category: Poetry

In this powerful collection Ross Gillett covers a wide poetic landscape - traditional verse forms, carefully honed free verse, exploratory long sequences and a wealth of shorter poems. He covers an equally wide range of experience: family and childhood, love and jealousy, and quietly metaphysical encoun ters with the energies of land, sea, sky and weather. The sensibility revealed in these poems is visionary, warm, and often humorous. Here are the best poems produced in the last ten years by a writer committed to a poetry of intensity, complexity and clarity - a rare trio of qualities - based on a strong rhythmic life and an ability to go deep in search of the uniquely true image.Paul Croucher - It's as if "the branches of the earth werre holding us up" in this elemental poetry of such warmth and elegance that, in the end, one is simply blown away.Catherine de Saint Phalle - These are brave poems that take off into unknown spaces. So deftly phrased, they make the timeless intimate, and clouds, winds, beaches and rivers timeless.E. A. Gleeson - These are poems that take us to the limit. Gillett's poetry embraces the elements and our own frailty as we intersect with the world and each other. Whether set in a boy's bedroom or a blustery beach, this poetry allows us to be there, attuned to sounds and textures and the great movements of the human heart. ...Show more

Ariel (HB) by Sylvia Plath

$19.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th e same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades. ...Show more

Beowulf (Popular Penguin) by Michael Alexander

$12.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.

"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I nternational Association of University Professors of English   Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland. Through its blend of myth and history, Beowulf vividly evokes a twilight world in which men and supernatural forces live side by side. And it celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in a transient world.   For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ...Show more

The Poetry of Christina Rossetti by Christina Georgina Rossetti

$15.95 AUD

Category: Poetry

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

$29.99 AUD

Category: Poetry

A stunning new hardcover edition--linen with copper stamping--of one of the world's most beloved and popular spiritual classics, featuring a new foreword by Rupi Kaur, the multimillion-copy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers   "This book cracked my heart wide open. And I think it's going to do the same to yours." --Rupi Kaur, from the Foreword   In Kahlil Gibran's inspirational masterpiece--the most famous work of spiritual fiction of the twentieth century--a prophet named Almustafa is about to board a ship to travel back to his homeland after twelve years in exile when he's stopped by a group of people who ask him to share his wisdom before he leaves. In twenty-eight poetic essays, he does so, offering profound and timeless insights on many aspects of life, including love, pain, friendship, family, beauty, religion, joy, sorrow, and death.   An immediate success when it was first published in 1923, The Prophet is a modern classic, having been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than nine million copies in the United States alone. The message it imparts, of finding divinity through love, made it the bible of 1960s culture and continues to touch hearts and minds across generations and national borders. This edition is illustrated with twelve of Gibran's famous visionary paintings and features a foreword by Rupi Kaur. ...Show more

The Prophet - Artisan Hardcover by Kahlil Gibran; Rupi Kaur (Foreword by)

$24.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.

Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo k touches on subjects of universal concern, including love, friendship, passion, pain, religion and freedom. Thought-provoking, comforting and wise, the simple truths of The Prophet remain compelling and rewarding to this day. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. ...Show more

Banjo Paterson Complete Poems by Banjo Paterson

$14.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics

When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou rites such as 'A Bush Christening', 'The Man from Ironbark', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and the immortal 'The Man from Snowy River'. These well-known verses are joined here by his comic verse, his remarkable war poems, including 'We're All Australians Now', and lesser known works. ...Show more

Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

$19.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: Arkana Ser.

Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a lo ng-term girlfriend and a young daughter, who know nothing of what happened before. Yet when he runs into Jessica, neither of them can ignore the emotional ties that bind them together.With so many secrets to keep hidden, how long can Jessica and Matthew avoid the dark mistakes of their past imploding in the present? ...Show more

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date   William Shakespeare wrote some of the greatest poetry in all world literature, in compact sonnets bursting with beautiful ima gery and timeless insights about love, life, and human nature. This pocket edition makes available to those who love the words of the Immortal Bard all 154 of his exquisite sonnets   Shakespeare's Sonnets is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.     ...Show more

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

$22.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.

One of the most important and impactful works of spiritual fiction ever published in the English language, Kahlil Gibran's masterwork, The Prophet, is rooted in the author's experiences as a traveler and immigrant, providing inspiration to us all and particularly all those of us anxious in today's uncer tain world. A prophet, soon to return to his homeland after a decade of travel abroad, shares the lessons he's learned with the group of people who gather around to hear his wise words about love, pain, friendship, family, beauty, work, religion, passion, sorrow, money, and death. The Prophet has been translated into more than forty languages and is one of the bestselling books of all time. All deserve to partake of the wisdom of The Prophet, and for many these words are a life-changing experience. ...Show more

Poems of the Irish People (Leather Bound) by Various

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Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.

This volume celebrates the poetic heritage of the Emerald Isle, with more than 50 classic poems about Ireland's people, history, character and myths and legends. Its contributors include William Butler Yeats, William Allingham and other well-known Irish poets. The book is one of Barnes & Noble's 'Co llectible Editions' classics. Each one features authoritative text by the world's greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging. ...Show more