Collected Poems by Judith Wright
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Category: Poetry
A new edition of the Collected Poems of Judith Wright, one of Australia's best-loved poets This definitive collection represents the impressive poetic achievement of one of Australia's best loved and most highly respected poets.Judith Wright's Collected Poems comprises her work from 1942 to 1985 and is ...Show more
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
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Category: Poetry
One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. "Collected Poems" brings together not only all his books--"The North Ship," "The Less Deceived," "The Whitsun Weddings," and "High Windows-"-but also hi ...Show more
Collected Poems by John Betjeman
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Category: Poetry
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on SloughTo get it ready for the plough.The cabbages are coming now;The earth exhales.--from "Slough" When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's "Collected Poems "first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a stea ...Show more
A Child's Introduction to Poetry by Michael Driscoll
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Category: Poetry
Read all about different kinds of poetry, including nursery rhymes, nonsense verse, haikus, ballads, sonnets, free verse and more! Meet famous poets from throughout history including Homer, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Hilaire Belloc, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Octavio Paz ...Show more
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
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Category: Poetry
National Book Award Winner "Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. " Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African Ameri ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry
There was an old person of Ischia, whose conduct grew friskier and friskier;He danced hornpipes and jigs, and ate thousands of figs, That lively old person of Ischia.Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense, originally published in 1845, is an exuberant collection of nonsense limericks, illustrated throughout w ...Show more
The Book of Complete Nonsense (Vintage Classics)
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Category: Poetry
Come bathe in stew, and dine on meals of eels or worms or jellied gnats, See shoes and ships and sealing wax and fuzzy bears and owls and cats, Depart for the Land where the Bong Tree grows or the Land of Bumbley Boo Find sky in your pie and teatrays in the sky and a place where mice say moo. But be war ...Show more
The Billy that Died with its Boots On and Other Australian Verse by Stephen Whiteside
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Category: Poetry
'Twas the billy that died with its boots on, a billy you couldn't replace. It lay on the ground, where it couldn't be found, 'cause the track was so hard to retrace.' With galloping rhythm and snappy rhyme, Stephen Whiteside's read-aloud poems portray the Australian outdoors, sporting life and animals, ...Show more
Big Book of Verse For Aussie Kids by HAYNES Jim (ed)
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Category: Poetry
The most comprehensive, authoritative and definitive book of poetry ever published in Australia for children. The famous rub shoulders with schoolyard rhymes, alphabets and nonsense verse. Over 600 of the best verses for children in the English language have been especially chosen, with emphasis on Aust ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2014 by Geoff Page
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Category: Poetry
'From London, some ten years ago, Clive James opined that we are living in "a golden age of Australian poetry." The quality of work between these covers suggests that Clive might still be right.' -Geoff Page In The Best Australian Poems 2014, award-winning poet Geoff Page compiles an anthology that ...Show more