CONTRARY RHETORIC by KINSELLA JOHN
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Presenting a diverse collection of essays concerning place and poetic language, this remarkable study of cultural events and tradition travels from the city to the bush, with prospect and refuge of landscape in mind, and in focus. Examining subjects as diverse as the pastoral tradition, the flag, fores ...Show more
The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Alexandre Dumas, p re (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, incl ...Show more
The Saturday Portraits by Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of THE HATE RACE and FOREIGN SOIL. The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national new ...Show more
FAUST PART 1 by GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
I do not pretend to aught worth knowing, I do not pretend I could be a teacher To help or convert a fellow-creature. Then, too, I've neither lands nor gold, Nor the world's least pomp or honor hold- No dog would endure such a curst existence! Wherefore, from Magic I seek assistance, That many a secret p ...Show more
Goodbye Jamie Boyd by Elizabeth Fensham
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Anna and Jamie are inseparable, the brother-and-sister team who face the world, their family and school together. Their love for each other is bigger than anything else they know and stronger than any ordinary bond. It is Jamie who challenges Anna throughout her life, Jamie who drives her to do things a ...Show more
Consider Love by BOYNTON Sandra
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
From the sentimental to the soulful, this book explores, in absolutely no depth whatsoever (yet with a number of lively and perhaps profound illustrations), the many and curious modes of love. Also it rhymes. This lovely volume is a terrific gifty object (hey, have you ever tried to write book jacket c ...Show more
DOUBLE FALSHOOD OR THE DISTREST LOVERS A PLAY AS IT IS NOW ACTED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL IN COVENT-GARDEN WRITTEN ORIG by SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Ser.
Double Falshood was staged at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane at the end of 1727, and the following year Lewis Theobald (1688-1744) published the text, which was reprinted several times. Theobald was an energetic editor who translated Sophocles' Electra and Aristophanes' Plutus for performance in London ...Show more
Introduction to French Poetry by Stanley Appelbaum (Editor)
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Dover Dual Language French Ser.
An unusually useful survey of the development of French poetry, this book anthologizes works by France's finest and most influential poets -- 30 in all -- from the mid-fifteenth century to our own time. Included are such luminaries as Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, Joachim du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fo ...Show more
Rosemary Dobson Collected by Rosemary Dobson
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
The first full collection of the work of one of Australia's most prominent 20th-century poets. Since the publication of her first book in 1944, Rosemary Dobson has built a reputation as one of Australia's most important poets. This volume collects and celebrates the work of her long and distinguished ca ...Show more
Selected Poems by D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
'Softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Talking me back down the vista of years'From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others(1913) to the groundbreaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers(1923), the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and inspired later poets. ...Show more
Earth by Bob Brown
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Our connection to the Earth and the respect we hold for it has slowly been eroded by the unrelenting march of materialism. In this 500-word exploration of human beings and our relation to the planet, senator for Tasmania and leader of the Australian Greens Bob Brown shares his thoughts, as well as his p ...Show more
New and Selected Poems Chris Wallace by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
This book distils an adult lifetime into the intense magic of poetry. Wallace-Crabbe is a nature poet in the broadest possible sense: his poems, ranging widely in tone and subject-matter, seek above all to convey the richness and variety of our world, his sense that we are 'inserted headlong into life' ...Show more