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Book cover for Les A. Murray: Fredy Neptune

Fredy Neptune : A Novel in Verse

Les A. Murray
Paperback - $37.95

A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize. Less capstan, less climbing,
more re-stowing cargo.
Whic ...

Book cover for Les A. Murray: Learning Human

Learning Human : Selected Poems

Les A. Murray
Paperback - $33.95

A bighearted selection from the inimitable Australian poet's diverse ten-book body of work
Les Murray is one of the great poets of the English language, past, present, and future. "Learning Human contains the poems he considers his best: 137 poem ...

Book cover for Les A. Murray: Subhuman Redneck Poems

Subhuman Redneck Poems

Les A. Murray
Paperback - $26.95

Winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English
Joseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: "He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives." In these darkly funny and deeply observant "Subhuman Redneck Poems," fa ...

Book cover for David Musgrave: On Reflection

On Reflection

David Musgrave
Paperback - $27.95



Book cover for James Samuel Norcliffe: Villon in Millerton

Villon in Millerton

James Samuel Norcliffe
Paperback - $30.95

Three sequences of verse come together in this poetry collection that ranges in tone from meditative to satirical. The title sequence imagines the 14th-century French poet Franç ois Villon stranded in the isolated and semideserted coal-mining to ...

Book cover for Mark OFlynn: What Can Be Proven

What Can Be Proven

Mark OFlynn
Paperback - $27.95



Book cover for Nana Ollerenshaw: The Way Back

The Way Back : Beyond Suburbia

Nana Ollerenshaw
Paperback - $25.95

From the underbelly of the world, poems of a nurse, a trekker and a traveller. "Nana's poetry is perceptive of human nature, the land she has come to love, its shores and its wildlife. Her poems say 'take a closer look, adopt a sharper angle' - an an ...

Book cover for Andrew Barton Paterson: Saltbush Bill, J.P. and Other Verses

Saltbush Bill, J.P. and Other Verses

Andrew Barton Paterson
Paperback - $30.95

And Saltbush Bill, grown old and grey, And worn with want of sleep, Received the news in camp one day Behind the travelling sheep.

Book cover for Mark Pirie: Gallery

Gallery : A Selection

Mark Pirie
Paperback - $35.95

With the publication of "Shoot" in 1999, Pirie established himself as one of the most promising of the younger New Zealand poets. "Gallery" brings together the best of Pirie's early work from his first five books published in New Zealand.

Book cover for Peter Porter: The Best Australian Poetry

The Best Australian Poetry

Peter Porter
Paperback - $56.95



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