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Vanishing Point by Felicity Plunkett
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Vanishing Point opens with a surreal vision of creativity and mourning and returns to the flakes of desire, memory and dreams. By turns witty, vulnerable and passionate, Vanishing Point traces the currents of the imagination and the erotic ...Show more
W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats; Seamus Heaney (selection by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. ...Show more
Walking With Camels: The story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Leni Shilton offers us a woman's exploration of loss and survival in the unforgiving and beautiful landscape of central Australia. Bertha Strehlow, overshadowed by her anthropologist husband's achievements, was a woman of integrity and a brilliant observer and connector of people in settings such as the ...Show more
Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
A selection of some of the classic poems considered a major achievement in twentieth century modernist poetry. Includes the masterpieces "The Wasteland," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Portrait of a Lady." By Thomas Stearns Eliot - a poet, dramatist and literary critic who received the Nobel ...Show more
Water Mirrors by Nicholas Powell
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Water Mirrors was inspired by Nicholas Powell's 'enchanting and disorientating' experience of moving to Finland. His poems circle intimacy, illusions, and the task of reconciling the many facets of experience. It is concerned with fluctuating perceptions, and with the relationship of language to meaning ...Show more
Why Do We Have To Go To School? by John Foster
Category: Fiction | Series: Poetry Parade S.
Featuring poems from favourite poets such as Allan Ahlberg, Jack Ousbey, and Paul Cookson, as well as specially-written new poems, this is a collection of school poems selected by the best-selling anthologist John Foster.
Wildlife of Berlin by Philip Neilsen
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
"Neilsen's intelligent, searching, and relentlessly contemporary poems in Wildlife of Berlin reveal a poet whose chief interest is transforming and challenging the way we see our human position in a world under ecological and ideological threat. At once philosophical and conversational, deadly serious a ...Show more
William Blake by Peter Butter (Editor); William Blake
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman Poetry Ser.
This paperback contains a selection from the full range of Blake's poetry, illustrating his original and prophetic vision.
William Cowper: Selected Poems by Bruce Michael (Ed)
Category: Education | Series: Everyman Poetry Ser.
A selection of the work of the English poet, William Cowper.
Yellow Moving Van by Ron Koertge
Category: Poetry | Series: Pitt Poetry Ser.
Ron Koertge's Yellow Moving Van is a collection of relaxed and buoyant and sometimes very funny poems that address Desi & Lucy with the same courtesy as Walt Whitman. The author celebrates his roots in the Mid-West and a few pages later stops off in Transylvania. These poems like to sometimes embrac ...Show more
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
Category: Poetry | Series: Button Poetry Ser.
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate c ...Show more
Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip; Setaey Adamu Boateng (Other)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert--the only extant public document related to the massacre of these ...Show more