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Vendor: Kathryn Fry
Green Point Bearings
"The poems in Green Point Bearings traverse much wider geographic, historical and emotional territory that the collection's title might imply. They exhibit a consistent, coherent voice and sensibility which are alive to beauty, to the natural world, to art, and to the joys and...- $16.00
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Vendor: Betty McKenzie-Tubb
Word Fall
'Word Fall demonstrates Betty McKenzie-Tubb's love and mastery of language in very accessible poems written in various styles. The book also reveals the poet's wisdom, compassion and her wry, often self-deprecating sense of humour. The collection is arranged in three sections: Loss and Love,...- $14.00
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Vendor: Annette Herd
We Live, We Die
I read once that on its way to the moon Apollo 11 was only on course for about 3% of its journey. But land on the moon it did, as we all know. Live is not linear. It requires constant adjusting. Each one of...- $14.00
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Vendor: Kevin Densley
Orpheus in the Undershirt
"With Orpheus in the Undershirt, Kevin Densley has produced his best book yet: sharp but not cutting, tart but not cynical, the collection weaves lyric, barb and lament into a marvellous, prickly garment that soothes as it stimulates. Don't like small, evocative poems as...- $14.00
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Vendor: Daniel Neumann
A Castle in Spain
Daniel Neumann was born in England in 1951 of German-born parents, and has lived most of his life in Australia, in Canberra and then in Melbourne, where he works as a psychologist and as a musician. His poems respond to landscapes, texts, paintings, music,...- $20.00
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Vendor: Avril Bradley
A Needle Through the Camel's Eye: (mistakes in household management)
Avril Bradley emigrated from England to Australia in 1971. Her poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies since 2006. She was a performance poet in Poetry Idol at The Melbourne Writers' Festival (2007-2011). She received an honorary degree from The University of...- $15.00
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Vendor: John Carey
Duck Soup and Swansongs
'Witty, finely crafted, genuinely funny, Carey's poems surprise with their clever double takes on society's faults and foibles. At once erudite and bitingly topical, Carey has a keen eye for the humorous detail and the deeper resonances of global stupidity. Carey shows himself adept...- $17.00
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Vendor: Nance Cookson
Just for the Record: Collected Poems
Poems collected from All the Time Left, Laughing in the Street and The Question, the Answer - a smorgasbord of thoughts and ideas ranging from sardines, crayfish in pots, the Blarney stone, a Degas painting, blowflies and wild things to Cicero and the dustman,...- $17.00
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Vendor: Michele Fermanis-Winward
The Eucalypt Distillery
Michele Fermanis-Winward lives on the edge of bushland in the upper Blue Mountains of New South Wales, part of the World Heritage National Park. The trees and wildlife surrounding her home are a constant inspirationAuthor: Michele Fermanis-WinwardISBN-10: 1760414697ISBN-13: 9781760414696Publisher: Ginninderra PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2017Pages: 78Format:...- $15.00
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Vendor: Paul Williamson
Edge of Southern Bright
'Williamson's working life poems have a real strength, and as with so much of his work, it really soars when he is describing the natural environment and wildlife.' - Les WicksAuthor: Paul WilliamsonISBN-10: 1760414662ISBN-13: 9781760414665Publisher: Ginninderra PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2017Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 7.81h x...- $17.00
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Vendor: Hugh Crago
Wind Age, Wolf Age
The earliest poems I produced were fierce jabs at the many things that irritated me about the world in which I now lived. Some of them have survived in the section of this volume that I've called Aspirational Lifestyles. Others (Nacht und Nebel) were...- $17.00
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Vendor: Antony Fawcus
Gallimaufry
A gallimaufry is a medley of things, originally a culinary term for a stew. One could equally call it a hash, a potpourri or even a hotchpotch. Whichever term you choose, I hope you enjoy this particular recipe, finding it to your taste and...- $17.00
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Vendor: Antonia Hildebrand
War Stories: Poems for the Age of Fallibility
'These days many individual collections of poetry (and some anthologies as well) are presented in language which all too often, offers the particular experiences of the poets as if they were clues in a cryptic crossword. If we could only put those poetic hints...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jan Norman
Taking My Time
I have been writing poetry since I was a child, one who loved reading, including the poetry available for children at that time. As I grew older, my poetry writing became an outlet for a whole range of emotions and experiences, both good and...- $15.50
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Vendor: Janey Mac
Janey Mac Goes to War
War, as everyone will attest to, is horrific. Yet we continue to indulge in it under the guise of 'defence' or 'peace keeping' or whatever. And we continue to glorify the stupidity of war (there can be no other term to be applied to...- $16.00
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Vendor: David Harris
In a Subjunctive Mood
'Quizas, ' she said. 'Perhaps. It takes the subjunctive case.'A light-bulb moment - of course it does. It expresses something uncertain, imagined, unreal with words like possibly, maybe or 'once upon a time'. While some of the poems in this book were triggered by...- $14.50
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Vendor: Michael Robinson
The Music of the Streets
The Music of the Streets is Michael Robinson's second collection of poetry. His first, The Tiger in the Vineyard, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2015. Poems in this collection (or earlier drafts of them) have appeared in the following print and online journals:...- $20.00
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Vendor: Joe Dolce
On Murray's Run: Songs & Lyrics
'Renowned songwriter Joe Dolce has long outgrown the pop lyric and moved into a risky domain where recitative, comedy, folk and slapstick build shelters for themselves among social commentary and the poetry of lists. He has a foot, or feet, in diverse realms serious...- $24.00
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Vendor: Graeme Hetherington
At Large
A former lecturer in Greek, Roman and Ancient Near Eastern history and literature at the University of Tasmania, Graeme Hetherington has spent much of his adult life living at large in Europe and Turkey to be closer to the source of his subject matter....- $18.00
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Vendor: Raymond Evans
Half Century
'Raymond Evans's poetry sings with lyricism. His poems melt and explode with love, lust and clear-eyed honesty, revealing the beautiful and brutal undercurrents of a passionate life.' - Venero Armanno'This collection offers a powerful and touching insight into the interior life of a well-regarded...- $20.00
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Vendor: Helen Koukoutsis
Cicada Chimes
Cicada Chimes is set over a twenty-four-hour period covering several years in time lapse; it moves from a funeral service in Rookwood, to a honeymoon in Paris, to the morning markets in Serres, Greece, and a church service in Surry Hills. The twenty-four-hour time...- $16.00
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Vendor: Philip Radmall
Earthwork
Philip Radmall's poems have been published in many anthologies and literary magazines in Australia and the UK. The poems in this collection articulate our emotional incursions into the landscape around us; how we measure our experiences of change and growth, how we resist and...- $16.00
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Vendor: Zenda Vecchio
Diamonds in the Grass
I don't take photographs. Or paint. Instead I use words as my medium - my way of capturing what I see and turning it into something meaningful. My hope is that the reader too will be able to see what I have seen, feel...- $14.00
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Vendor: Thérèse Corfiatis
Absence of Clouds
Thérèse Corfiatis seeks out beauty and spirit in simple things: the curl of a wave, the flight of cockatoos 'yellow-flecked tails flashing / like airborne sunflowers' ('Black Cockatoos'). She searches for ancestral homeland and belonging - 'my dispossession torn away / a birthing wound...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jane Williams
Parts of the Main
"Jane Williams's Parts of the Main is her chemistry, abuzz in a murmuration of organic electrons that at once forms memory, then problems of translation - not solely of words, but in comprehending our modernity. These shape-shifting poems are an assignation of author to...- $17.00
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Vendor: John Egan
Crossing the Heads
'It is a gift to take time to notice, and another to bring one's observations into creative verse. John Egan does both with craft and conciseness. He peacefully explores his world in all its potential and limitations. It is this note of quiet, unruffled...- $19.00
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Vendor: Sue Carter
Kiss the Rushing Day Goodbye
Life is simple and I strongly believe the most worthwhile things in life are free. An emotional person with a passionate love for nature, a keen sense of adventure and a zest for life, living most of the time in a self-confessed dream world,...- $15.00
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Vendor: Luke Whitington
Only Fig & Prosciutto: New & Collected Poems
"These poems record a life lived sensuously and to the full in three countries: Italy, Ireland, and Australia. In an era when eros-charged descriptions of foreign feasts make best-selling travel books and TV programs, this book will find a large audience. But Luke Whitington...- $23.00
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Vendor: Greg Tome
Watching from the Shadows
'Greg Tome's poetry is always immediate and felt. His responses to the immediacy and intimacy of daily living are counterpoints to those poems in which he explores the pain of the human condition and, ultimately, indicate how the personal and the communal are inextricably...- $15.00
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Vendor: Sue Cartledge
Newtown Voices
Everyday life in Newtown in 1978 through the voices of locals and newcomers: violence, intimidation, corruption, bombings, wogs, dagos, Abos and Aussies, racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty, drugs and disco dancing. The personal and emotional lives of Tom and Harry, Jaroslav and Buzz echo the...- $17.00
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Vendor: Magdalena Ball
Unmaking Atoms
'Compassionate, poignant, otherworldly and profound: this thought-provoking, sometimes raw, collection is accessible contemporary poetry at its zenith of achievement.' - Mark Logie, author of the poetry collection On the Road to Infinity and the young adult thriller Deadfall 'Magdalena Ball has assembled a delicate...- $19.50
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Vendor: Cynthia Hallam
New Horizons
Cynthia Sidney Hallam grew up in Lismore in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales. Her poems, short stories and articles have appeared in magazines and anthologies. Her poems have been read on ABC radio and performed on stage. She now lives in...- $14.00
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Vendor: Ian McFarlane
Murunna Point Revisited: Essays, stories, poems
Murunna Point Revisited is a revised and expanded version of Evening at Murunna Point, first published in 2001, and seeks to take its essays, stories and poems into the digital age with renewed concerns for issues of social justice, literature and love, seen from...- $21.00
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Vendor: Adriana Wood
Sleeping on Trains
The concept for this book grew while I was commuting between Sydney and the NSW Central Coast, camera and journal close at hand. Misty reflections and images of the countryside, as in the cover photo, are like dream images in the labyrinthine mind, in...- $13.50
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Vendor: Maurice Whelan
Spirit Eyes
In 'Mount Cargill', a poem in Maurice Whelan's book Excalibur's Return, he described running up Mount Cargill in New Zealand with Richard O'Neill-Dean, to whom that volume was dedicated. Richard responded to Maurice's latest collection, Spirit Eyes, with a poem of his own, after...- $13.50
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Vendor: Jill Gloyne
Brushstrokes
Jill Gloyne lives on Kangaroo Island. Brushstrokes, her latest collection, includes many poems that have been previously published in a wide variety of journals and some that have won awards.Author: Jill GloyneISBN-10: 1760412783ISBN-13: 9781760412784Publisher: Ginninderra PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2017Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w...- $16.00
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Vendor: Brendan Doyle
The Wooden Gate
That week, we went to a kabuki show, stories of wandering souls in search of revenge, or lost love. On my last night in Tokyo my father comes in at a wooden gate, wet with rain... from 'The Wooden Gate' Author: Brendan DoyleISBN-10: 1760412686ISBN-13:...- $13.50
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Vendor: Kerry O'Regan
Who Is She Now?
This collection of whimsical poems tells what it was like to be the ninth child in a poor Irish Catholic family in the Queensland of the 1950s. It presents vignettes of the child's attempts to make sense of the world she encounters through the...- $15.00
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Vendor: Robin Sinclair
Now and Then
Robin Sinclair lives in the Adelaide Hills, a region not unlike the north-west coast of Tasmania where she grew up. Her haiku, poems and paintings record what she observes and loves. In the second half of this book, she has used her imagination to...- $14.50
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Vendor: Elizabeth Goodsir
Blue Pollen Beautiful
"Whimsy and from the heart, Libby Goodsir's words reflect what is to be human and to be a mother. Madeleine's images perfectly counterpoint Libby's words, adding a thousand new dimensions to the meditation. What a gift!" - Chris Gallagher "A collection of 'images and...- $13.50
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Vendor: Dominic Kirwan
Put a Smile On That Face
'Eerily reminiscent of the late poet Stan Rice, Kirwan's words can almost be read as a sarcastic spiritual confession. A ruthlessly honest exploration of the human psyche, on one hand it seems a self-help book for the fabricated dishonesty of society, on the other...- $16.50
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Vendor: Kristin Martin
Paint the Sky
'Capturing life's seasons - birth to death and everything in between - and juxtaposing this with the earth's seasons and the rhythms of insomnia, Kristin Martin uncovers what it means to be alive and connected to our world. Full of humour, warmth and heart,...- $15.00
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Veranda Man
Nicola Knox was brought up in country Victoria and her work has always been influenced by the landscapes of childhood, despite living since marrying in Sydney, that most urban of cities. She worked as a journalist and in public relations, with a bypass to...- $13.50
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Vendor: Carolyn Cordon
Tense & Still
'I have known Carolyn Cordon for many years and I'm proud to call her my friend. I have read her stories and watched as her poetry developed. Her poetry journey began in pain and self-examination, yet has continued to grow into joyous maturity. Tense...- $14.00
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Vendor: Thérèse Corfiatis
House of Dreams: Selected Poems
The poems selected in this book - taken from Thérèse Corfiatis's four published books, and a Pocket Poet - convey striking images of landscape, childhood, travel and place. Some of the poems have a mystical element. Colour, light and sound weave together the threads...- $15.00
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Vendor: Adrian Lane
Face to Face
In this sensitive, fresh and varied collection, Adrian Lane celebrates God's wonderful creation, from the Mediterranean summers of Montenegro to the Arctic blues of Greenland and northern Norway. Yet he is simultaneously frankly alert to the horrors, jealousies and brokenness of this world, exploring...- $15.00
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Vendor: Adèle Ogier Jones
Beyond the Blackbird Field
The poems in this collection were written in Pristina and Prizren (Kosovo), and in Dubrovnik - each with their rich stories and heritage. The title represents a new era for the Balkan region, beyond the historical conflict of Kosovo's 'Blackbird Field', so poems are...- $15.00
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Vendor: John Passant
Songs for the Band Unformed
'It's rare to receive a collection of poems that explore the possibility of rhymes in their form. These poems wear their rhymes lightly, and with grace, as they make their way through moods and movements, through the passions and anxieties of contemporary life.' -...- $15.00
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Vendor: Russell Erwin
Maps of Small Countries
Memoir and celebration, meditation and exploration, sketches and simple vignette, these are some of the varied fields through which Russell Erwin takes his readers in this latest collection, which bears the hallmarks of his earlier work - an attention to the physical, sensual world,...- $16.00
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Mirror: New & selected poems
Bill Cotter's poems and stories have appeared in literary journals and magazines throughout Australia. He has won a number of literary awards, including the International Library of Poetry competition, the Maryborough Golden Wattle Festival poetry competition and the Melbourne Shakespeare Society's sonnet competition. His...- $16.50
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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.

