How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
How to Make a Basket by Jazz Money
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award. the end of the world was marked with beautiful light we should have known Simmering with protest and boundless love, Jazz Money's David Unaipon Award-winning collection, how to make a basket, examines the tensio ...Show more
Howl: A Graphic Novel by Allen Ginsberg
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, and broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic "Howl", originally written as a performance piece, became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first p ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic "Howl", which became the subject of an obscenity t ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more
Hull by Xandria Phillips
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
WINNER OF THE JUDITH A. MARKOWITZ AWARD 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER In this debut collection by African American poet Xandria Phillips, HULL explores emotional impacts of colonialism and racism on the Black queer body and the present-day emotional impacts of enslavement in urban, rural, and inte ...Show more
Human Looking by Andy Jackson
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to ‘correct’. They range widely, finding figures to identif ...Show more
Humid Pitch by Cheryl Clarke
$17.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"This is a long-telling song, telling of us as we once were. Some device. Some history. Some mystery. Some misery. Some form needing to be form."
Hustling Verse - An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry by Amber Dawn (Editor); Justin Ducharme (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the expressive nuance and beauty of poetry. In a variety of forms ranging from lyrics to list poems to found poetry to ...Show more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vmc Designer Collection
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. In this first volume ...Show more
I Love Poetry by Michael Farrell
$24.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
In I Love Poetry Michael Farrell continues to affirm poetry as a mode of thinking. His poems aspire to both memorability and meaning, and to invoke new Australian realities - 'the rhyme's a moral that becomes a fence; a fallen-down fence is a joy forever.' The tone is playful and ironic, more under the ...Show more
I Must be Living Twice - New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014 by Eileen Myles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favourites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of nineteen books including Chelsea Girls.Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. At once intimate and open-he ...Show more