Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
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Category: Poetry
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Gargling with Jelly (Puffin Poetry) by Brian Patten
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Category: Poetry
Gargling with Jelly by Brian Patten, one of our best-loved poets. Hilarious, lyrical, outrageous and serious poems all rub shoulders in this collection. Naughty children with nasty habits, cartoon heroes that come to life, lonely caretakers, unhappy ghosts, fantastical creatures with crazy names, giants ...Show more
The Floor of Heaven by John Tranter
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Category: Poetry
Four interlinked long narrative poems by one of Australias foremost poets, John Tranter
First World War Poems by Andrew Motion
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Category: Poetry
The First World War produced some of the most haunting and memorable poetry of our age. In this compelling anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a generous s ...Show more
The Feather Room by Anis Mojgani
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Category: Poetry
Science, birds, Billy the Kid, and lots of feathers surround The Feather Room, Anis Mojgani's follow up to his Pushcart-nominated work, Over the Anvil We Stretch. In The Feather Room, Mojgani further explores storytelling in poetic form while traveling farther down the path of magic realism, endowing hi ...Show more
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella
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Category: Poetry
From well-known poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella comes a tete-a-tete that is powerful, thought provoking, challenging and unapologetic. Papertalk Green and Kinsella call into question what we think we know about our country, colonisation, land and identity. Each poem is part of a striki ...Show more
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose lightLike Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine' The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate ...Show more
English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology by Paul Negri
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Category: Poetry
This anthology presents over 170 poems by the major poets of the 19th century, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Edward FitzGerald, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, and many others. An introductio ...Show more
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Poetry
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such majo ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
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Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more