Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye
$14.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
"Nye's sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through."--Kirkus Reviews A moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us--f ...Show more
Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Primary Poetry
A beautiful retelling of one of the world's favourite poems, perfect for the youngest readers.Follow one brave little bird as it flies around the world, giving hope to people everywhere through its beautiful tune. Even a terrible storm can't dampen this little bird - like hope, it continues unabashed, n ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
How Poetry Can Change Your Heart by Megan Falley; Andrea Gibson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\HOW Ser.
Was poetry something you dreaded in school? Have you secretly scribbled it in the margins of notebooks? Has it changed your life? In this slim and accessible field guide, spoken word poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley invite readers to explore their relationships with verse and welcome more poetry, mo ...Show more
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse by Thomas C. Foster
$21.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles. No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree--a line of ...Show more
How to Write a Poem by Melissa Sweet, Kwame Alexander
$29.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times bestselling picture book How to Read a Book, Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander teams up with poet Deanna Nikaido and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet to celebrate the magic of discovering your very own poetry in the world around you. Begin ...Show more
I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip by Alicia Cook
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The reader's experience with this unique collection is lifted from the page as Cook has collaborated with a number of up and coming musicians to transform some of her poetry into song. Like her debut book, this one is divided into two parts. Modeled after a vinyl record this time, the collection is sepa ...Show more
I Needed a Viking - Poems by Alfa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths or of my needs. I chose wrong in the past....Beloved contemporary poet Alfa is back with a brand-new collection of more than 180 heartfelt poems on the theme of woman warriors and the masculine heroes they long f ...Show more
In Nearby Bushes by Kei Miller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet--the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is both possible to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by murder.
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly - Poems in English and Spanish by Juan Felipe Herrera; Karen Barbour (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, here are stirring poems that read like music. Awarded the Pura Belpr Honor for this book, Herrera writes in both Spanish and English about the joy and laughter and sometimes the confusion of growing up in an upside-down, jumbled-up world--between two cultures ...Show more
Leaves of Grass (Word Cloud Classics) by Walt Whitman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult Classic | Series: Word Cloud Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
"Leaves of Grass" is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent ...Show more