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Vendor: Homer
The Iliad of Homer: Pope Edition
When Helen is taken away by the Trojans, a mighty Greek king gathers the various city states for war against the city of Troy to try and get Helen back. What the Greeks don't realize is that Helen, while being captured, has fallen in...- $32.09
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Vendor: M. a. Ralph T. H. Griffith
The Rámáyan of Válmíki
The Rámáyan is one of the first and most important Hindu epic poems telling the story of the hero Rama as he is exiled from his home because of his father's second wife. He then wanders the forests for over a decade and marries...- $41.43
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Vendor: Homer
The Odyssey
After the brutal war with the Trojans and the mourning of the death of Achilles, the heroic king Ulysses sets course for home but in the process insults the god Poseidon. The angry god causes Ulysses and his crew to wander the sea for...- $26.08
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Vendor: Lönnrot
The Kalevala
Complied by the various sources of Finland's national mythology, the Kalevala outlines the creation myths of the world and typical stories of heroes of old including romance, lust and conquest. The stories that are told here are a national icon for the people of...- $34.99
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Vendor: Virgil
The Aeneid
This epic poem focuses on the heroic Aeneas as he flees from the Trojan disaster and makes his way to what is to become the mighty Roman empire. He travels all over the lands of the Greco-Roman myths including going to the dreaded underworld...- $27.99
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Vendor: Michael Trussler
Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah
In Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah, Michael Trussler engages with the beauty and violence manifested in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The poems here blur online reality with Zen Buddhism (relating the Japanese female anthropomorph Hatsune Miku to Basho), and explore...- $18.00
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Vendor: Dane Swan
Love and Other Failed Religions
"There is no messiah here." The most popular religion on Earth was founded by a Jewish man who traveled the Roman Empire. He allegedly challenged religious leaders, while preaching the importance of love. He was persecuted in his time, but eventually, his preachings flourished....- $17.00
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Vendor: Martin Christmas
Random Adventures
'In Random Adventures, Martin Christmas brings an acute and sympathetic observer's eye to visual details in a scene. This is not unexpected given his keen skills as a photographer. The familiar is frequently conjured for the reader in a surprising way, offering an understanding...- $15.50
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Vendor: John Watson
Theatricals
The idea of retelling theatre stories began with a second-hand copy of Donald Sinden's Theatrical Anecdotes. Other anthologies, biographies and histories followed. Widening circles of biblio-graphies soon spread out into earlier anthologies and accounts, from practitioners within the theatre - Oxberry, Bunn, Wilkinson, Macready...- $19.00
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Vendor: Raymond Evans
The Merry Dance: Poems of Memory and Imagination
'Each of these fifty-seven offerings is a tone poem that condenses intensely personal impressions into gems of language, accessible and inviting, surpassing the writer's previous, engrossing collection. The volume flows: The language is so vivid, the imagery so palpable, that the individual pieces spring...- $19.00
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Vendor: Greg Tome
Tilting at Time
'Tilting at Time offers a vivacious yet emphatic rendering of the minutiae of Australian life. At once humorous and reflective, Greg muses on the human condition and its relationship to the specific places and temporal spaces we find ourselves in. In the very first...- $15.50
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Vendor: Andrew Drake
D&M Between 2 Men
D&M Between 2 Men began its life in January 2018 when Andrew contacted Martin who was hospitalised after a fall, and the question popped in his mind, 'As men, why don't we talk about the moments we are struggling?' He suggested writing a co-operative...- $13.50
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Vendor: Melinda Jane
Nature's Nuptials
Traverse landscapes, ride in a race, cut skylines and paste metaphors on your lips. Melinda Jane's poetical words are as refreshing as a steaming cup. Sip, hold, taste, read these verses in this debut book Nature's Nuptials. And may the earth suspend you in...- $11.00
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Vendor: Elaine Barker
See My Feathered Fingers
'Elaine Barker analyses the natural world, the home and places beyond; not with the eye of the detached onlooker but compassionately inhabiting the minds of fellow travellers, from the tough tattooed man to the accident victim, from a baby in a shawl to a...- $14.00
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Vendor: Deb Stewart
The White Line of Language
'It is poetically satisfying when gutsy is elegant and outspoken is gentle, when the snake nerve writhes with realisation so that wonder is reborn accompanied by the music of new knowledge, by the rewards of a past paid for and a future fortified. The...- $17.50
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Vendor: James Finlay
Spitting Ink
"James Finlay spits a vomitous wreck of black ink at social injustice, conspicuous consumption and inhuman violence. But there's tenderness too - the achingly poignant loss of a young child: 'Not all fires catch / and some rise up as embers in the night...- $12.50
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Vendor: Suzanne Edgar
Catching the Light
Catching the Light is Suzanne Edgar's fourth collection of poetry. In it, this 'intelligent, inventive and gifted poet continues her daring discoveries and explorations' (Les Murray) of both the light and the darker sides of life. When reviewing The Love Procession (2012), the late...- $16.00
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Vendor: Carolyn Masel
Moorings
Moorings brings together Masel's best work from the last forty years. Jagged and dramatic, these mostly free-verse lyrics direct their taut, plain-speaking voices toward discovery and, sometimes, wisdom. The poems are organised in sections - Returns, Exile, Moorings - suggesting a general move backwards...- $14.00
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Vendor: John Watson
Gosse Bluff and His Circle
From the meteor crater in Australia's north-west to the fashionable Galleria in Rowe Street, Sydney, Gosse steps out in mid-century. Sydney, in an era before computers, is relatively innocent. Circular Quay still dips its encrusted planking into the harbour; the coffee shops are just...- $14.00
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Vendor: Doug Gregory
A Long Way from Essex
'This is a comprehensive range of everyday, close to the bone poems by Doug Gregory, with sensitivity to other people's difficult lives. They are insightful and compelling. His poetry is universal; it is out there, commenting most effectively on life's foibles as well as...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jill Gloyne
Out of the Ashes
'The verse novel genre is ideal for poet and fiction writer Jill Gloyne to convey the rapidly changing life of Jim McFarlane. Through a series of tragedies his old self is shed like the bark of the trees around him revealing a new mask...- $16.00
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Vendor: Richard Bell
Such Sweet Sorrow
'With this moving free verse arising from his sustained encounter with his wife's cancer, Richard Bell lays bare the intimate reality of loss, from its dark foreshadowing in her fatal diagnosis through the rigors of her treatment to the persistence of her presence even...- $13.00
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Vendor: Rosalee Kiely
Creature
'What Rosalee Kiely has garnered from American poets - Cohen, Rich - is pure gain. But what this poet gives of herself in Creature is more surprising - movement among landscapes, life as encounters and discovery, a voice rapid and flexible. Answers that are...- $14.00
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Vendor: Colleen Moyne
Time Like Coins
"Colleen and I have known each other for many years, in many guises, from school colleagues to collaborators in organising a writing group, and always as friends who share a love of the written word. Her love of writing is evident in this poetry...- $14.50
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Vendor: Nance Cookson
How Sweet the Blackbird Sings
A very enjoyable new collection of delightfully quirky but exhilaratingly thought-provoking short poems from this popular and versatile writer, who lives on the New South Wales south coast.Author: Nance CooksonISBN-10: 1760416509ISBN-13: 9781760416508Publisher: Ginninderra PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2018Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.08d- $8.50
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Vendor: Antony Fawcus
Brindled Words
Gerard Manley Hopkins gave thanks 'for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow'. These poems were all written on a small farm near the coast of South Australia, a place of couple-colour skies and brinded cows. They draw inspiration from shifting shades, both in...- $16.50
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Vendor: Jocelyn Munro
Pine Cones & Rhubarb & Little Hissy Kisses
The poems herein are, by turn, responses to situations, time or place, sometimes a dream, an artwork, social mores and humour. Poetry is a concise way of making note of my response to such stimuli. I hope that you get great pleasure from the...- $15.00
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Vendor: Tim Train
Hangover Music
This bartop burlesquer of a book holds forth like the boozehound it is on everything from beards to chooks to Germaine Greer to Bob Ellis in a bikini, rum babas and flower fondling. Drunkenly lurching from haiku to triolet, the Burns meter to back-alley...- $16.00
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Vendor: Bill Jenkins
We Carry the Cave
Bill Jenkins, who spent his childhood in a small fishing in the north of Scotland, believes that the every day life of human beings is fascinating and he continues as a poetic explorer to search for gems in his own experience, the experience of...- $14.50
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Vendor: Virgilio Goncalves
Stings in Tails
Virgilio Goncalves has a nomadic bent. He blames his parents. Both Portuguese, they migrated to South Africa, where Virgilio was born. Thirty years ago, he and his family emigrated to Australia. He lives with his wife, Lesley, in Aldinga Beach. Their two sons, Kyle...- $16.50
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Vendor: Mark Willing
Homeland
The latest collection by Mark Willing, a writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He has had two poetry books and one chapbook published by Ginninderra Press. He is currently working on a verse novel.Author: Mark WillingISBN-10: 1760416290ISBN-13: 9781760416294Publisher: Ginninderra PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2018Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight:...- $14.50
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Vendor: Tony Steven Williams
Sun and Moon, Light and Dark
Tony Steven Williams, a Canberra poet, describes his maiden poetry collection Sun and Moon, Light and Dark as 'not unlike our journey through life, where we constantly steer through the contrasting dimensions of sun and moon, bitterness and sweetness, feast and famine, steepness and...- $14.50
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Vendor: John Passant
Whose broken is this?
'Passant's words are marching songs. They speak for the dispossessed, across Terra Nullius, out of the factories, through wars and generations, to the ruins of Aleppo. Their rhythm is that of resistance, against the state, against prejudice, but for our common humanity. While at...- $16.50
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Vendor: Elizabeth Lane
I Am Not An Island
We are all connected, our lives are framed by relationships we form and we are forever affected by the ripples they create. We feel for others and they feel for us, these are the ties that bind us and the roots that ground us....- $15.00
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Vendor: Stephen Smithyman
Snapshot in the Dark
This is a first collection from Stephen Smithyman, whose poetry has won a number of awards and been published in magazines such as Australian Poetry Journal and Cordite. It covers the years 1976 to 2012 and a wide range of subjects, including growing up...- $15.00
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Vendor: Tim Metcalf
The Underwritten Plain
Set at an abandoned bore-hole in South's Australia's Nullarbor plain, this epic poem in four parts, sparse as the plain itself, offers its vast and solitudinous explanation of Australia.Tim Metcalf is an award-winning poet who has for many years worked around Australia as a...- $15.00
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Vendor: Jennifer Sinclair
Heavenly Seduction: & other poems
Jennifer Sinclair's first published poetry collection takes the reader from the first flush of seduction to the sensuality of blissful encounters with 'the other', through the pain of betrayal and separation, to redemption and the awakening of loving compassion; the tipping point that leads...- $17.00
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Vendor: Kay Hefferan
Small Observations
Spending time in nature and with grandchildren, we are able to observe the smaller things in life - the opportunity to observe nature, enjoy holidays and watch little people enjoy their surroundings. Recording those observations as poems provides memories for children and opens the...- $13.50
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Vendor: Mark D'Arbon
Veranda People
For me, poetry is observational and emerges from personal experience. This book contains a selection of poems that I have written over the years - a kind of distillation of things I have seen that have moved me, interspersed with poems that I simply...- $17.00
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Vendor: Sandra Renew
The Orlando Files: Poems of Dissent and Social Commentary for Performance
I want my poetry to say something about the state of our world, this catastrophic social and environmental situation we are bringing on ourselves. So my work is social critique and revolves around dissent, contradiction, dissonance; and I write about gender, violence, war, refugees...- $15.00
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Vendor: John Egan
The Tower
'There is a seamlessness about these poems; the stitching doesn't show. Egan brings the full range of poetic techniques to his work, but they are largely invisible in the context of the whole. There were many times I had to pause while reading...often mid-poem,...- $19.00
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Vendor: Amelia Fielden
These Purple Years
A long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society,...- $28.00
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Vendor: James Milenkovic
Eternity or Equivalent
Relationships with people, places, objects and the self are at the heart of poet James Milenkovic's latest collection, Eternity or Equivalent. Through fragmented moments and more studied reflections, these poems give glimpses into 'the intricacies and circulatory entanglements we share'. As in his earlier...- $18.50
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Vendor: Charles Freyberg
Dining at the Edge
'Charles Freyberg entices us into a midnight world where passion brings both rapture and peril. Like Kenneth Slessor, Dorothy Hewitt and Michael Dransfield, he portrays the creative denizens of Kings Cross after dark with lyrical poems mourning the devastation wrought by addiction, plague and...- $17.00
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Vendor: Pam Cole
Candied Honey
'Some poets have the ability to capture a mood, a feeling, a happening in a few well-chosen words. Pam Cole has been touching my soul for more years than I can remember. She is an astute observer of her surroundings and the people who...- $17.00
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Vendor: Malcolm McFarlane
The Water Cart
'The Water Cart is a sophisticated and poetic tale of transcendence above contaminated and misguided perceptions of our differences, to a place where Australian hearts beat closely together; the landscape is harsh, yet humanity is connected. Through the simple beauty of a verse novel,...- $17.50
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Vendor: David Atkinson
The Ablation of Time
'The Ablation of Time is a delight. An astonishing variety of birds flit among the pages, and the rural countryside is never far from view. David Atkinson has the rare ability to capture in words those significant moments that make us pause and think.'...- $15.50
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Vendor: Jill Gower
Winkle Pickers & Brothel Creepers
'Jill Gower's poems take us on journeys - back into her own past; into foreign countries; into the natural world of the bush and her garden which she so obviously loves and into the lives of others. Jill can recount a memory, evoke sympathy...- $17.50
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Vendor: Lyn McCredden
Wanting Only
There are so many words for wanting: longing, yearning, lusting, lacking, craving, desiring, aspiring, dreaming, hungering... To want is to be human, to experience both the agony and the exquisite anticipatory movement towards what is beyond present reality. So, wanting is both spiritual and...- $15.50
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Poetry Books
Poetry books are a collection of literary works that focus on the art and expression of the written word through verse. They have been an integral part of human history, with evidence of poetic writings dating back to ancient civilizations.
Poetry books encompass a wide range of themes, styles, and forms, reflecting the diverse perspectives, emotions, and experiences of poets throughout different eras. From love to nature, politics to spirituality, poetry explores various subjects and serves as a medium to convey thoughts and feelings in a unique and creative way. The structure and format of poetry books can vary greatly. Some collections consist of individual poems written by a single author, while others may contain the works of multiple poets compiled together. They can be organized by themes, chronology, or even by different poetic styles and movements.
Poetry books are not only a source of artistic enjoyment, but they also offer insights into different cultures, periods, and social issues. They provide a medium for self-reflection, introspection, and contemplation. Many readers find solace, inspiration, and a deep connection with the emotions and experiences expressed in poetic verses. The popularity of poetry books has endured throughout history, transcending cultural and linguistic boundaries. From ancient epics like "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, to classic works like Shakespeare's sonnets, to contemporary collections like Rupi Kaur's "Milk and Honey," poetry has always remained relevant and influential.
Whether you are a poetry enthusiast, a lover of literature, or someone interested in exploring emotions, ideas, and the beauty of language, poetry books offer an immersive experience that can touch hearts, provoke thoughts, and inspire change.
Popular Poetry Books
Poetry books have always captivated readers with their rhythmic verses, vivid imagery, and poignant emotion. They have the power to transport us to different worlds, evoke deep feelings, and make us see ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Within the vast world of poetry, there are several notable and popular books that have left an indelible mark on literature and continue to enchant readers to this day. Let us explore some of these beloved poetry collections.
1. "Milk and Honey"
2. "The Sun and Her Flowers"
3. "Milk and Vine"
4. "Magnetic Poetry: Original Kit"
5. "The Classic Hundred Poems"
These popular poetry books represent just a fraction of the vast and diverse offerings within the genre. Whether you seek to be moved, inspired, entertained, or enlightened, there is a poetry collection out there waiting to captivate your imagination, stir your emotions, and leave a lasting impression on your literary journey.
Popular Poetry Books Authors
The world of poetry has produced numerous celebrated authors whose words continue to captivate and resonate with readers across generations. From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces, these poets have left an indelible mark on the literary landscape.
1. William Shakespeare
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Robert Frost
4. Maya Angelou
5. Langston Hughes.
6. Rumi
These authors represent just a fraction of the exceptionally talented poets whose works have left a lasting impact on the world of literature. Through their poetry books, they invite readers to explore the depth of human emotion, question societal norms, and find solace in the beauty of language.
Whether you are an admirer of classic poetry or a novice looking to explore this enchanting genre, White Rain Book House welcomes you with open arms. Step into this haven of literary delights, and allow the words of renowned poets, beautifully encapsulated in their poetry books, to transport you to a world of emotions and imagination.

