The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tong ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Norton Critical Editions
It is accompanied by "A Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare's controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid's Metamorphoses, George Gascoigne's "Supposes," and "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Mor ...Show more
PERFORMING THE GOAT by BREALEY DARREN
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
This book holds a very interesting group of plays. They seem to hit their targets very precisely, as the settings do not have a locale-specific context. FERGUS' ENVY invites us to the eccentric Lord Florien Thurst's mansion where a week-long birthday party is in full swing for his pet dog, Fergus. THE S ...Show more
You Do You by Sam Morley
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
Meditations on parenthood, memory, death, the natural world, the fluctuations of pop culture, and the suburban grind with aplomb in a keen observational styleSam Morley's second collection comprises poetry that is image-rich, fusing the sublime with the common. Always committed to observation as a chann ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebration ...Show more
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, Amanda Gorman's remarkable new collection reveals an energizing ...Show more
Women of Troy by Euripides
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...Show more
DOUBLE FALSEHOOD OR DISTRESSED LOVERS by SHAKESPEARE
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
This vintage book contains Lewis Theobald's early eighteenth-century play "Double Falsehood". It is widely believed to be an adaptation of a lost play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher called "Cardenio". Theobald also maintains that this version was based on manuscripts of another unnamed play wr ...Show more
Words for All Occasions by Michelle O'Regan
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Whether you are making a speech, or writing a card, or simply wishing to have a more interesting line of chat, look no further than 'Words For All Occasions'. Its a comprehensive array of words, phrases, poems and quotes that cover weddings, friendships, anniversaries
ATLAS by VANDENBERG KATRINA
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
"A first book of remarkable talent and depth." --PATTIANN ROGERS Like Atlas holding up the world, this collection elevates human history--acknowledging and transforming patterns of all kinds through careful attention. In Atlas, Katrina Vandenberg captures the way events reverberate and repeat across tim ...Show more
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Burracombe Village Ser.
Originally commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD is an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside village of Llareggub. We learn of the inhabitants' dreams and desires, their loves and regrets. We meet Captain Cat ...Show more
CAMERA OBSCURA by LOMER KATHRYN
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Light and shadow, love and loss, the extraordinary and the everyday are captured through the lens of this evocative new collection of fiction. Camera Obscura moves through Greece, Italy and France, across to Japan and into the Australian suburbs, as its characters take journeys into themselves and away ...Show more