Carmina One: Versions from Horace by Andrew Rutherford
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
Andrew Rutherford thoroughly recasts Horace's Odes, Book One into the streets of contemporary Melbourne, drinking plonk among the 'yoof', dismissing as 'turd teflon' or 'idiot du jour' a rival in love. Here Horace's patron, Maecenas, becomes his mate, Mitch, and the dutifully reviled Cleopatra updates i ...Show more
Ghost Poetry by Robbie Coburn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
I saved the pieces of you when you fell apart Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence". Largely set within stark farmland and surreal, nightmarish dreams, Coburn's new collection of poems, Ghos ...Show more
Just Give Me the Pills - The Illustrated Edition by Koraly Dimitriadis; Rosie G. (Illustrator)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
Second Fleet Baby by Nadia Rhook
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
A poetry collection that explores the connections between mothering, healing, history and inheritance.Second Fleet Baby examines birth and motherhood, with a consciousness that spans centuries. This poetry draws on theenergies of 18th Century English convict women, including Rhook's own ancestors, to op ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
Love and F**k Poems: Anniversary Edition by Koraly Dimitriadis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
Initially a self-published zine, Love and F--k Poems is a bestseller for Australian poetry and continues to captivate and enthral with this ten-year anniversary edition. Sexually repressed, separated Greek Girl on a rampage. A trailblazing story told through poetry of culture, divorce, love and the madd ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
The Tour by PiO
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Poets
A chronicle of the early days of performance poetry, presented as a road trip in verse by one of its greatest practitioners.This book-length verse narrative is about a so-called ‘Dirty T-Shirt Tour’, on which a group of Australian poets travel to cities in the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s, ...Show more
Whisper Songs by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most. He also challenges the past to speak up by interrogating the archive, including documents from his own family history, highlighting forcefully the ways in which the person ...Show more
A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories - personal, familial and cultural - that form our identities and obsessions. A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or f ...Show more
Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt by Elena Gomez
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt is a Marxist-feminist epic poem — wait, no, it's historical — actually it's poems of the worker's body. It is none and all of these things. It is absurd or perhaps entirely sincere. Gomez's second book brings together a series of poems on the life of Bolshevik feminist ...Show more