Subhuman Redneck Poems
ISBN: 9780374525385 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly detailed, and fiercely honest, these poems both surprise and expose the human in all of us. 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... |
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73,01 zł |
Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse
ISBN: 9780374526764 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize. I never learned the old top ropes, Why this is Valparaiso Or: I'm in Singapore and know my way about When German-Australian sailor Friedrich "Fredy" Boettcher is shanghaied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I,... A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize. I never learned the old... |
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98,77 zł |
Learning Human: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780374527235 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 poems written since 1965, presented here in roughly chronological order, and including a dozen poems published for the first time in this book. Murray has distinguished between what he calls the "Narrowspeak" of ordinary affairs, of money and social position, of interest and calculation, and the "Wholespeak" of life in its fullness,... 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 Engli... |
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90,18 zł |
Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems
ISBN: 9780393327052 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One of Australia's most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light." Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Highly Recommended Poetry Books of 2003"
"One of Australia's most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light." Edward Hirsch, Washington Po...
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85,89 zł |
The New Arcadia: Poems
ISBN: 9780393329070 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Astonishingly fecund and inventive. The New Arcadia revitalizes pastoral traditions, but more in the mode of lamentation than celebration. Like Frost s New Hampshire and Vermont, Kinsella s Western Australia is eroded, a last act salted with the ruins of our age, and yet yielding permanent poems. Harold Bloom"
Astonishingly fecund and inventive. The New Arcadia revitalizes pastoral traditions, but more in the mode of lamentation than celebration. Like Frost ...
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85,89 zł |
More Or Less Than
ISBN: 9780907562474 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. is Australian poet MTC Cronin's tenth book and her second British collection. A compositional tour de force, the sequence consists of one hundred poems, the line-count arcing from a single line in poem 1 to fifty lines in poem 50, and thence back down to a single line in poem 100. Like many forms, self-imposed or otherwise, Ms Cronin uses this apparently restrictive structure to support a wonderfully original unfolding of verse. Ms Cronin's work has been attracting enormous interest in both Britain and North America, and this volume will reinforce her burgeoning reputation.
is Australian poet MTC Cronin's tenth book and her second British collection. A compositional tour de force, the sequence consists of one hundred poem...
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85,89 zł |
The Ash Range
ISBN: 9780907562696 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949 and lives in Brisbane. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry in Australia, as well as a volume of cultural history "Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939" (2001). "The Ash Range," originally published by Picador Australia in Sydney in 1987, won the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award that year, and is a major milestone in the author's career. The book is a long work that mixes prose, poetry, reportage and illustrations - somewhat in the manner of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson" - to narrate a history...
Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949 and lives in Brisbane. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry in Australia, as well as a volume ...
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107,36 zł |
Eyes in Times of War
ISBN: 9781844712878 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of poems depicts an individual's perceptions and passions in times of war, and bears witness to the conflicts in the Middle East, 'the clash' between the West and Islam, and the ways in which a person's ideals, passions and language are affected by violent political and religious conflicts.
This collection of poems depicts an individual's perceptions and passions in times of war, and bears witness to the conflicts in the Middle East, 'the...
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72,80 zł |
Hell and After: Four Early English Language Poets of Australia
ISBN: 9781857547856 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to four Australian poets, this collection encapsulates a colorful country's literary and social coming of age.
An introduction to four Australian poets, this collection encapsulates a colorful country's literary and social coming of age.
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53,08 zł |
Nameless Earth
ISBN: 9781857548389 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking as its subject the natural world and the arbitrary aspects of human life, this collection includes concrete poems, rhymed lyrics and epigrams, discursive philosophical discourse, and free-verse poetry. Formally diverse and endlessly inventive, the poems neverthelessgrow out of vivid and genuine emotional responses to the world."
Taking as its subject the natural world and the arbitrary aspects of human life, this collection includes concrete poems, rhymed lyrics and epigrams, ...
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53,08 zł |
Star Waka: Poems by Robert Sullivan
ISBN: 9781869402136 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of 100 poems by a Maori writer shows a variety of subject and tone but is unified by recurring motifs and a persistent Maori perspective.
This collection of 100 poems by a Maori writer shows a variety of subject and tone but is unified by recurring motifs and a persistent Maori perspecti...
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94,27 zł |
Palaver Lava Queen
ISBN: 9781869403263 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Auckland is vividly evoked in this sequence of poems capturing the historical, cultural, and geographical character of the city. Originality, affection, and skill create this impression of the layers of Auckland, from its Polynesian roots and volcanic landscape to its Sky Tower and passion for business. The people and voices of the poems bring to life ancient myths and literary traditions and expertly describe the geology, history, culture, and weather of this unique city.
Auckland is vividly evoked in this sequence of poems capturing the historical, cultural, and geographical character of the city. Originality, affectio...
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90,42 zł |
The Red Tram
ISBN: 9781869403300 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers comes this poetry collection that encompasses moving memories of childhood and ruminations on horses and cows, Auckland, and even the author's own legs. These satirical poems take weapons from the writers of the past and skewer politicians of the present, and reflect on a range of international writers, including Allen Curnow, Janet Frame, and Denis Glover. With sometimes biting and often humorous poems that reference both classical Latin poets and contemporary concerns, this collection breathes with an incomparable sense of energy, speed, and...
From one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers comes this poetry collection that encompasses moving memories of childhood and ruminations on horses...
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79,75 zł |
Red Leaves
ISBN: 9781869403461 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the emotional core of this fourth book of poems by New Zealand poet Diana Bridge are the devastating deaths of her mother and brother in a single year. This sense of loss is eased by themes carried forward from her previous books vivid images culled from her travels in China and India appear in poems about being a writer and the importance of homecoming.
" At the emotional core of this fourth book of poems by New Zealand poet Diana Bridge are the devastating deaths of her mother and brother in a single y...
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69,08 zł |
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty: New Poems
ISBN: 9781869403492 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical ideas withzest, energy, wit, and humor. A unique volume featuring remembered and misremembered song lyrics from John Lennon, Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams, and Courtney Love, among others, it alsoincludes fragments from philosophers and poets of the sublime, especially William Wordsworth and John Ruskin, and from religious texts such as the Bible and the Tao-Te Ching. Through glimpses of imperfection, Wedde...
This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical...
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90,42 zł |
Fast Talker
ISBN: 9781869403607 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dynamic poetry collection combines punchy political and social awareness with tender observations of everyday life. Embracing a wide variety of subjects, these poems constantly shift in tone and rhythm, ranging from hard-hitting "rants" on the South Pacific, the media, big business, war, and capitalism to gentle lyricisms on love, travel, and the landscapes that the author calls home. Part showman patter, part incantation, part prophetic diatribe, these writings display an energetic and witty style that masterfully merges forceful images with inventive language.
This dynamic poetry collection combines punchy political and social awareness with tender observations of everyday life. Embracing a wide variety of s...
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79,75 zł |
Brief Lives
ISBN: 9781869403638 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bold and original, this collection is a genre-busting sequence of poetry and prose that confronts the place where mortality meets creativity. Using discontinuous narrative and alphabetical order, the author constructs a series of vignettes mixing biography, autobiography, arcane snippets of information, and meditations on life as performance. Written with great lucidity, this strange and captivating dictionary of fragments offers funny, thoughtful, and moving reflections on life, art, and the unknown.
Bold and original, this collection is a genre-busting sequence of poetry and prose that confronts the place where mortality meets creativity. Using di...
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95,75 zł |
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance [With 2 CDs]
ISBN: 9781869403676 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 2-CD set of classsic New Zealand poets reading their own work includes pieces from James Baxter, Allen Curnow, Janet Frame, and Denis Glover.Accompanied by a book of text that reproduces the poems exactly as they are read, brief biographies and bibliographies of each poet are also provided."
This 2-CD set of classsic New Zealand poets reading their own work includes pieces from James Baxter, Allen Curnow, Janet Frame, and Denis Glover.Acco...
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181,09 zł |
The Black River
ISBN: 9781869403850 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The black river of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C. K. Stead. Written within the last 18 months, these poignant poems vividly explore the poet s feeling of frailty following a stroke, which temporarily impaired his ability to read or write, and the subsequent excitement of recovery."
The black river of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C. K. Stead. Written within the last 18 mon...
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69,08 zł |
Incognito
ISBN: 9781869403928 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging collection of poetry, split into six sections and written in an intimate and affectionate tone, is wonderfully diverse. The lyrical poems address issues that run the gamut from family, friends, and domestic situations; to children s perception of the world; the seashore;and political situations based on the author s experienceas a United Nations worker in the former Yugoslavia.Winner, NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry 2008"
This engaging collection of poetry, split into six sections and written in an intimate and affectionate tone, is wonderfully diverse. The lyrical poem...
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79,75 zł |