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    A Girl with a Book and Other Plays by Nick Wood

    $29.95 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    A Girl with a Book is an honest response to the story of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban. This play has been produced in Germany and the United Kingdom and raises serious questions about the West's complex relationship and attitudes towards the Muslim world. Other plays in this wide-rangin g collection for young people concern refugees, friendship, loss, and courage. ...Show more

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    All along You Were Blooming - Thoughts for Boundless Living by Morgan Harper Nichols

    $29.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. All Along You Were Blooming is the ultimate love letter from the pen of popular Instagram poet Morgan Harper Nichols to your mind, to your heart, to your soul, and to your body. Morgan Harper Nichols delivers a striking collection of illustrated poetry and prose, inviting you to "stumble into the sunlight" and delight in the wild and boundless grace you've been given. There is a purpose in every season, and no matter how you want to race through this day or run away from this place, rest assured that you are invited to live fully--right here, right now. Light will always find you, and even when the sun sets and you sit awaiting the dawn, know you are still blooming in the way you were meant to. And in each small moment, whether in the light or the dark, you can make room for becoming, for breathing, for stumbling, and for simply being--for there is Grace, today and every day.   ...Show more

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    Ariel (HB) by Sylvia Plath

    $19.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.

    The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th e same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades. ...Show more

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    Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter (Editor)

    $39.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    365 classic poems celebrating friendship, love, and constancy. Some of the most beautiful poems ever written give us insight into the important things in life: the joys of companionship, encouragement, consolation, humor, and love. Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year features works by John Boswel l, Robert Burns, John Keats, Norman MacCaig, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amy Lowell, Elizabeth Jennings, and many more. From Emily Bronte's "Love and Friendship" and Stevie Smith's "Pleasures of Friendship" to D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" and Rudyard Kipling's " The Cat that Walked by Himself," this wonderful collection is just right for dipping into every single day--and the perfect gift for friends, family, and partners. ...Show more

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    Heart Lines by Gemma Troy

    $14.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    Gemma Troy spent her childhood hunting for gold with her father, camping in fern gullies, and collecting keepsakes from the outdoors. Pebbles, nests, shells, seed pods, plants, bones, feathers - if it's beautiful, portable, and can be spared by the earth, Gemma takes it home as a reminder of nature 's beauty. In Heart Lines, Gemma reflects on themes of love and pain, femininity and joy, and matches each delicate poem with one of her foraged treasures. ...Show more

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    How to Put on a Community Play by Sarah Burton

    $29.95 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    An essential sourcebook for putting on a community play. Appeals to local community groups, youth theaters, students, and amateur players wanting to stage a play, and enables members of the public with no prior knowledge to learn how to put on a community theater show.

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    Injury Time by Clive James

    $19.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a similar mood. Keen to capture and cherish moments of beauty and love; thinking about how best to live in his remaining days; and casting his mind forward to when he will be gone and how he might be remembered. A series of intimate poems reveals family as one of life's true treasures. The poet captures tender childhood memories of his mother, has his spirits lifted by the wonderful vision of his granddaughter in graceful acrobatic movement, and addresses the haunting loss of his father in World War Two. He writes beautifully of his early years in Australia, where he began and where he hopes to 'reach the end'. James also reflects on the wisdom and consolation to be found in art, music and literature, which have become even more precious to him in his later years.The poems in this deeply moving, inspirational and wholly unsentimental book are even more accomplished than those that came before. Injury Time shows Clive James the poet in the form of his life. ...Show more

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    Kyoto Momiji Tanka by Andrew Lansdown

    $26.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    Kyoto Momiji Tanka is a stunning collection of poems and photographs celebrating the ancient capital of Japan, Kyoto, during autumn, when the maples (momiji) vividly colour the natural, cultural and emotional terrains of the Japanese.The photographs and poems (written in a traditional Japanese form know n as tanka) introduce the reader to a fascinating world of Shinto brides, tanuki, spirit foxes, geisha, shakuhachi players and, of course, autumn maples. ...Show more

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    Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

    $22.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions

    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date   William Shakespeare wrote some of the greatest poetry in all world literature, in compact sonnets bursting with beautiful ima gery and timeless insights about love, life, and human nature. This pocket edition makes available to those who love the words of the Immortal Bard all 154 of his exquisite sonnets   Shakespeare's Sonnets is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.     ...Show more

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    The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

    $8.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)

    A classic collection From the exquisite lyric ""To Helen,"" to the immortal masterpieces ""Annabel Lee," "The Bells, "" and ""The Raven," The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe" demonstrates the author's gift for the form.

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    The Dark Poet by Kathryn Gossow

    $18.95 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    Some people are so broken they can only cut us. With poetic dexterity, Aurealis Award finalist Kathryn Gossow interweaves eight short stories of longing and alienation featuring outcasts and the misunderstood. From a homeless storyteller to a gardening soothsayer, to a copy editor who owns a pair of stu bborn chickens, readers will come face to face with the humanity of people easily judged by a rigid society. At the heart of these stories is the Dark Poet, a charismatic and broken man leaving a trail of debris as he drifts in and out of people's lives. ...Show more

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    The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James (Editor)

    $34.99 AUD

    Category: Poetry & Plays

    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 when all the riflemen of a regiment fire one shot after another in a wave of continuous sound: it is a reminder that the regiment’s collective power relies on the individual, and vice versa.In this book, James has chosen a succession of English poems, exploding in sequence from Chaucer to the present day; they tell the story of someone writing something wonderful, and someone else coming along, reading it, and feeling impelled to write something even more wonderful. After a lifetime, these are the poems James found so good that he remembered them despite himself. In offering them to you, the main purpose of this book is to provide ammunition that will satisfy your urge to discover, learn and declaim verse.As well as his selection of poems, James offers a commentary on each: whether this is a biographical, historical or critical introduction to the poem, or a more personal anecdote about the role a particular poem has played in James’s life, these mini essays provide the joy of James’s enthusiasm and the benefit of his knowledge. Full of the flashing fires of poems you will not be able to forget, this book will ignite your passion and leave you with a contagious crackle rattling in your ears. ...Show more

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