Ten Poems for Difficult Times by Roger Housden
$36.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In his bestselling Ten Poems series, Roger Housden has shown an uncanny ability to choose and discuss poems that strike at the core of readers' concerns and needs. In this new volume, ten extraordinary poems, along with Housden's incisive essays, bring heartfelt insight and broad perspective both to our ...Show more
Spells: New and Selected Poems by FINCH, ANNIE
$58.50 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Annie Finch's Spells brings together her most memorable and striking poems written over forty years. Finch's uniquely mysterious voice moves through the book, revealing insights on the classic themes of love, spirituality, death, nature, and the patterns of time. A feminist and pagan, Finch writes poems ...Show more
Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku by Issa, Kobayashi
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the t ...Show more
Speaking of Siva : Little Black Classic by Akkamahādēvi
$7.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Little Black Classics
'To the utterly at-one with Sivathere's no dawn.' Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from ...Show more
Some Unquenchable Desire by BHARTRIHARI
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
An award-winning translator finds surprisingly modern themes in a selection of erotic and religious stanzas from one of classical India's most celebrated poets. Although few facts are known about his life, the Indian poet Bhartrihari leaps from the page as a remarkably recognizable individual. Amidst a ...Show more
Saved By a Poem by Kim Rosen
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Can someone really be saved by a poem? In Kim Rosen's book, the answer is a re-sounding "Yes!" Poetry, the most ancient form of prayer, is a necessary medicine for our times: a companion through difficulty; a guide when we are lost; a salve when we are wounded; and a conduit to an inner source of joy, f ...Show more
Sand & Foam by GIBRAN, KAHLIL
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
I AM FOREVER walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my foot-prints, And the wind will blow away the foam. But the sea and the shore will remain Forever. Once I filled my hand with mist. Then I opened it and lo, the mist was a worm. And I closed and opened my h ...Show more
Sappho: Poems & Fragments by SAPPHO
$35.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Greek poet Sappho was one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greatest women poets, but often as the greatest woman poet in ...Show more
Return of the Prophet by Hajjar Gibran
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Category: Poetry
This poetic book follows Gibran's heartbreaking, yet triumphant life story and how the wisdom received from the acclaimed work, "The Prophet," saved his life. The universal themes and advice in this text provide deeper insight into some of life's most enduring mysteries of the heart.Atria Books/Beyond W ...Show more
The Prophet (HB) by GIBRAN, KAHLIL
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Category: Poetry | Series: Capstone Classics
Part of the bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon, this collectible, hard-back edition of The Prophet provides an accessible and insightful introduction to this timeless spiritual work The Prophet is an inspirational book of 26 poetry fables written in English by Lebanese-Ame ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Poetry
First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and ...Show more