W. B. Yeats selected by Seamus Heaney by W.B. Yeats
$23.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the ...Show more
Uncle Vanya by A.P. Chekhov
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Student Editions
Set on a remote farm in the Ukraine, "Uncle Vanya" is the story of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere and a flirtation that brings disaster. This is a comprehensively annotated edition for students of Chekhov's first masterpiece, in the definitive translation by award-winning playwright Michae ...Show more
To My Country by Ben Lawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry, helpless and broken-hearted as he watched the ...Show more
Throat by Ellen van Neerven
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
not in Aus, matebad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn 'Throat' is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Referred to by superstitious actors as 'the Scottish play', William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragedy in which appalling earthly crimes have lasting supernatural repercussions. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by George Hunter with an introduction by Carol Rutter. 'By the pricking of my thumb ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
Berlin by Joanna Murray-Smith
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
A spine-tingling romantic thriller Charlotte is a Berliner through and through. Tom is a foreigner, travelling around Europe. After meeting in a bar, sparks fly between them and she invites him to spend the night at her place. As they navigate the ritual of seduction, their desire gives way to secrets t ...Show more
Human Looking by Andy Jackson
$25.00 AUD
Category: New Poetry & Verse
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
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more
Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull--now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, and Annette Bening At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of dr ...Show more
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem by Amanda Gorman
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Category: New Poetry & Verse
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. "Stunning" CNN "Dynamic" NPR "Deeply rousing and uplifting" Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to delive ...Show more
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: very good
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.