General Books : Poetry

Kevin Ireland's words pop like seaweed pods, whether he is:
honouring friendships - making sourdough bread - grinning at the weather gods - wondering why he slept in - marvelling at the miracle of a shower - giving advice to writers - analysing chance remarks and philosophical paradoxes - celebrating the benefits of a failing memory - circumnavigating childhood, ageing and death ... or just having fun, which he does refreshingly often.
Shape of the Heart sparkles with poems that take us from brain to heart, sometimes detouring to unexpected places (such as the belly button), but most often in a direct and delightful line.

ISBN: 9780995132962
Publication date: 24/04/2020
Price: $24.99
Author: Ireland, Kevin
Format: Paperback

The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells - from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures and descents into the underworld.
The cast of characters includes members of the poet's family alongside heroes from myth and literature, such as Orpheus, Scheherazade and Frankenstein's Creature. And crowding in upon these, at all times, a multitude of non-human protagonists: sun and stars, wind and water, mud and sand, body fluids, decaying matter, chemicals organic and inorganic, and a great many fishes and birds and beasts.
Sinking Lessons is the first collection of poetry from Philip Armstrong, winner of the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.

ISBN: 9781988592411
Publication date: 31/07/2020
Price: $27.50
Author: Armstrong, Philip
Format: Paperback

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems

Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published.

In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated a collection of rare and never- before-seen material-poems from obscure, hard-to-find magazines, as well as from libraries and private collections all over the country. In doing so, Debritto has captured the essence of Bukowski's inimitable poetic style-tough and hilarious but ringing with humanity. Storm for the Living and the Dead is a gift for any devotee of the Dirty Old Man of American letters.

ISBN: 9780062656520
Publication date: 21/01/2019
Price: $29.99
Author: Bukowski, Charles
Format: Trade Paperback

Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth-century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

'In my selection, which is roughly chronological to shadow her progress, I have tried to walk through the landscape of Sylvia Plath's poetry as though for the first time, fifty years older than I was when she died. In doing so I have experienced afresh the almost physical excitement I felt when I first read this bold, brilliant, brave poet who changed the world of poetry for us all.' - Carol Ann Duffy

ISBN: 9780571348510
Publication date: 07/03/2019
Price: $27.99
Author: Plath, Sylvia
Format: Paperback