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  • Only Constants by Agnew, Sarah
    Sarah Agnew

    Only Constants

    One thing we can be sure of in life is that nothing will stay the same. But is that all we can count on? Featuring poems from an intense period of change, this collection explores what remains the same when everything is different.Author: Sarah...
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  • In Focus by Cook, Sue
    Sue Cook

    In Focus

    'A teacher, a traveller, an observer and a thinker, Sue Cook's lens is sharply focused, her words well measured. Join "the unravelling ribbon of road" that winds through suburbia and the outback, through ordinary lives and magnificent moments in nature. Cook's vivid poetic landscapes...
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  • Written in Sand by Fawcus, Antony
    Antony Fawcus

    Written in Sand

    Written in Sand embraces a wide range of poetic forms and subject matter. There is something here for everybody: humour, joy, hope, and occasional philosophy. Several of the poems reflect the close relationship between the author and his natural environmentAuthor: Antony FawcusISBN-10: 1760411027ISBN-13: 9781760411022Publisher:...
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  • Colouring In: The Four Seasons of Four Poets by Fielden, Amelia
    Amelia Fielden

    Colouring In: The Four Seasons of Four Poets

    This collection of linked tanka between two Australian and two American poets reminds us how exciting it is to colour outside the lines. Unexpected responses enliven the series as poets from different hemispheres move through the four seasons. For example, Fielden's final lines in...
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  • Salt and Petals by Milenkovic, James
    James Milenkovic

    Salt and Petals

    In his first collection of verse, poet James Milenkovic offers a fresh vision of the Australian landscape and its people, both ancient and modern. Under his pen, the land assumes a dreamy, ambiguous and almost enigmatic quality that sometimes thwarts and sometimes amazes its...
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  • The Long Way Home by Egan, John
    John Egan

    The Long Way Home

    'Another delightful collection of poems from John Egan. What graphic pictures he draws - one has a sense of actually being there. He is able to lead the reader into realms of imagination where the poem itself materialises into reality. I am always delighted...
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  • Hear the Pennies Dropping by Strawhan, Peter
    Peter Strawhan

    Hear the Pennies Dropping

    The second colourful, varied and often hard-hitting collection of new poems from the South Australian author of Palace of Dreams. Peter Strawhan was born at the 'Old Queen Vic' Maternity Hospital, Rosewater, in 1932. A bleak wartime childhood in a working-class western suburb followed....
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  • swimming underground by Nixon, Jenni
    Jenni Nixon

    swimming underground

    'Though its title suggests a dark netherworld, the poems in swimming underground offer striking glimpses into the past, present and possible future. Some movingly recall childhood trauma, others celebrate iconic Sydney places and people such as Cockatoo Island and Mr Eternity. There are pointed...
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  • Coal Dust on Roses: last days of a mining town by Utting, Susie
    Susie Utting

    Coal Dust on Roses: last days of a mining town

    An engrossing, detailed, moving account of a community dealing with crisis. The Australian landscape, the 1970s, and the sense of Australian character and culture are evocatively portrayed.' - Nigel Krauth 'I'm impressed with the wealth of experience and information re-created. Congratulations on such a...
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  • Wonderment by Eldridge, Brenda
    Brenda Eldridge

    Wonderment

    In his poem 'The Road Not Taken', Robert Frost writes of taking the road less travelled and this making all the difference. In 'Leisure', W.H. Davies writes, 'What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'. Both...
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  • The Tiger in the Vineyard by Robinson, Michael
    Michael Robinson

    The Tiger in the Vineyard

    The Tiger in the Vineyard is a collection shaped by wide personal experience of pressing social issues. The poems reflect a commitment to verse that is lucid, structured, accessible and vivid and draws on its tradition, and a deeply felt concern for the disadvantaged...
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  • Distance by O'Reilly, Nathanael
    Nathanael O'Reilly

    Distance

    'With its beer-drenched Blundstones, cricket balls retrieved from neighbour's backyards, misbehaving pastor's kids and crabs plucked from the Moyne river, O'Reilly's poetry collects and curates a series of vernacular objects and experiences that comprise life in Australia and beyond. From the streets of Ballarat...
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  • Being Martha's Friend by Mooney, Meg
    Meg Mooney

    Being Martha's Friend

    'These poems about friendship and belonging - I've had them with me for just two weeks and yet I feel as much at home with them as with friends I've known all my life. Meg Mooney has the language to speak of silences and...
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  • Edge of Winter by Barber, Connie
    Connie Barber

    Edge of Winter

    'The Edge of Winter is a remarkable achievement by one of our oldest living poets. The poems reveal an inquisitive mind fascinated by the physical world, including particularly the ocean and the Merri Merri Creek, in Melbourne's north. Connie Barber interrogates herself and the...
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  • Sparrow: Poems of a Refugee by Broughton, Belinda
    Belinda Broughton

    Sparrow: Poems of a Refugee

    'Under a bright Australian sun, the fascinating tale of a European life comes to light. In a sequence of incisive poems, Belinda Broughton narrates the voice of Ervin Janek - Hungarian artist and poet, son of a nun and 'a certain Jewish man' -...
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  • City of Stars: An anthology of love poems for Frankston by Bradley, Avril
    Avril Bradley

    City of Stars: An anthology of love poems for Frankston

    'City of Stars is grounded in a vision of place, one always close to home, residing just outside the front door. It is full of the presence and seasons of the city of Frankston, Victoria, where 35,000 people live their daily lives. In this...
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  • Made in India: travels in poetry by Gibson, Jen
    Jen Gibson

    Made in India: travels in poetry

    'Enjoy a rewarding trip to India with Jen Gibson. In poems exotic yet familiar, women sweep, peaks rise, spider webs quiver with a footfall, birds call and children chant. But in evoking the full sweep of her Indian experience, we hear of greedy cities,...
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  • A Poem is a Parachute by Schaffner, Megan
    Megan Schaffner

    A Poem is a Parachute

    'Megan Schaffner knows how poetry works. She knows the way a strong poem can float you gently to somewhere you've never been before/ [where] with luck/ you'll land wrong side up/ exhilarated/ ready to explore a new country. This is precisely what Megan's poetry...
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  • old stone & between giants by Capes, Ashley
    Ashley Capes

    old stone & between giants

    Ashley Capes is a poet, novelist and teacher living in Victoria. He teaches Media and Music Production, and has played in a metal band. He has worked in an art gallery and music retail. Aside from reading and writing, Ashley loves volleyball and Studio...
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  • In this dusty rear-view mirror: 55 poems by Williams, Rodney
    Rodney Williams

    In this dusty rear-view mirror: 55 poems

    'In this dusty rear-view mirror: 55 poems is a travelogue of the soul - anchored by a unifying voice that is authentic, reassuring yet searching. In its scope it draws from a youth spent in the rolling hills (and sometimes dark valleys) of South...
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  • Life's Shadows by Gurney, Barbara
    Barbara Gurney

    Life's Shadows

    Life's Shadows continues the melancholy journey begun in Footprints of a Stranger. Barbara Gurney's poetry expresses others' hurt with a caring voice and a message of hope. Grieve with 'The Ticket Home', overcome fear with 'Conquering' and finally, 'Sing Loudly'.Author: Barbara GurneyISBN-10: 1740279409ISBN-13: 9781740279406Publisher:...
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  • Finding the Place by Collett, Margaret
    Margaret Collett

    Finding the Place

    Although the small town of Tillers Gap may seem out of the way, it is one reward for those who venture off the beaten track along the western foothills of the Blue Mountains. A visit to this secluded gem is well worthwhile. The Beladgery...
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  • My Shout by McPherson, Gordon
    Gordon McPherson

    My Shout

    My Shout is a collection of poems reaching back to the 1970s and extending almost to the present. The author's interest in, and obsession with, the use of words began at Elizabeth Vale Primary School, as an old Strathmorean among other Ten Pound Poms...
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  • All You Need Is Love by Fielden, Amelia
    Amelia Fielden

    All You Need Is Love

    Deceptively simple, the poems in All You Need Is Love touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, enlightenment and illusion, love and loneliness. This anthology of tanka reflects the full spectrum of what it means to love, whether...
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  • A Call To Listen by Keating, Colleen
    Colleen Keating

    A Call To Listen

    "A Call to Listen is an oasis for those of us who take too little time to stop and refresh our senses. It is a journey through landscapes both familiar and new, the beauty and the terror of the places we call home, the...
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  • Landscape of Dreams by Fensom, Margaret
    Margaret Fensom

    Landscape of Dreams

    Born in London, Margaret Fensom migrated to Adelaide by steamship in 1947 as a small child. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide in 1967 and with a Masters in Creative Writing in 1999. She lives in Norwood and...
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  • Saving Ginia by Forbes, Tracey-Anne
    Tracey-Anne Forbes

    Saving Ginia

    Who would you choose: your lover or your sister? This is the dilemma Jen confronts in this intriguing verse novel, which lyrically and unpredictably interweaves storytelling and poetry. 'Saving Ginia tests and extends the boundaries of the novel in verse in ways that are...
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  • A Season and a Time by Whelan, Maurice
    Maurice Whelan

    A Season and a Time

    A Season and a Time has poems that are snapshots and poems that read like short stories. They scan Ireland's green fields and Australia's ochre earth. Inspiration comes from a snowdrop, a telephone call, a broken musical instrument, a night spent in sub-zero temperatures...
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  • The Fortune Bird by Brooks, Diana Bell
    Diana Bell Brooks

    The Fortune Bird

    The Fortune Bird, the author's first book of poetry, is a collection of personal lyrics notable for their emotional maturity and their sparkling images. Reading these poems will take you around the world and into a deep well of feeling.Ron PrettyAuthor: Diana Bell BrooksISBN-10:...
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  • If God is a Poet by Barton, Ron
    Ron Barton

    If God is a Poet

    In this diverse collection of poems, Ron Barton explores the various aspects of his world that make him who he is. Regardless of the seriousness of tone, which is often tongue-in-cheek, each poem contains some element of his life - whether it be a...
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  • Extravagance by Wilkie, Irene
    Irene Wilkie

    Extravagance

    Extravagance is Irene Wilkie's second collection. Throughout, she demonstrates a delight in the natural world and its inhabitants. At the same time, she treats, often with a wry humour, the more serious aspects of growing older, loss and environmental concerns. There is strong enquiry...
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  • Urban Transparencies by Willing, Mark
    Mark Willing

    Urban Transparencies

    See, in the places of our lives, in the lands of our childhood, in the rooms with strange laughter and conversation; how we look back upon those simpler days with their self-styled skills and their innocent reward. See through the chaos of these present...
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  • The sound of red by Saunders, Brenda
    Brenda Saunders

    The sound of red

    Brenda Saunders is an artist and writer of Aboriginal and British descent. She has read in several poetry events with the Sydney Writers' Festival and is a member of DiVerse poets, who present their ekphrastic poetry at public art exhibitions in Sydney. Brenda was...
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  • Footprints of a Stranger by Gurney, Barbara
    Barbara Gurney

    Footprints of a Stranger

    Footprints of a Stranger is a collection of emotions - tiptoeing between the experiences of the author and the sentiments of others. Barbara Gurney's poetry passionately explores attitudes, observes nature and reminisces. Nature compels us to take heed - 'stand up, bring the world...
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  • Persuading Plato by Petrescu, Ioana
    Ioana Petrescu

    Persuading Plato

    'In Petrescu's poem, Afternoon at Buon Giorno's, Poetry with a capital P, elegantly sitting drinking lemon, lime and bitters, remarks that her interest now is in the lyrical stance of the ordinary. To which her interlocutor, Mephistopheles, replies, Bullshit. Should Poetry sell her soul...
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  • Thread Me a Button by Aquilina, Jude
    Jude Aquilina

    Thread Me a Button

    'Everyone has a button story, but plunging into this collection of button poems is full of surprises; amazing fictions lie scattered amongst poignant memories and the everyday made strange. Far from being buttoned-up, these poems reveal life in all its guises: familiar, heartbreaking, erotic,...
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  • Waiting for the Southerly by McCreery, Susan
    Susan McCreery

    Waiting for the Southerly

    'This first book is packed with clear-eyed veracity, offers a shining resilience, personal insight and shared comfort...we are enjoined, a chorus.' - Les Wicks Few poets express the meeting of nature and emotion as tenderly as Susan McCreery. Her poems open with images of...
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  • From the Edge of the Pacific by Jones, Adèle Ogiér
    Adèle Ogiér Jones

    From the Edge of the Pacific

    'Another collection of experiences and imaginings from the watchful eye of the poet who gave us Afghanistan - waiting for the bus. Here, the poet weaves and gifts us with yet another salusalu (garland) of memories of and a passion for people struggling to...
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  • Alone at the Window: haiku & senryu by Johnson, Judith E. P.
    Judith E. P. Johnson

    Alone at the Window: haiku & senryu

    'The haiku in Alone at the Window resonate with warmth, wit and wisdom. The poet's tender observations and clear imagery create an unfolding of meaning as the reader reflects on each poem. These moments of celebration are imbued with a sense of wonder and...
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  • Spirit Level by Willing, Mark
    Mark Willing

    Spirit Level

    Mark Willing lives in Melbourne, where he works as a teacher. His poetry has been published in magazines and journals including Verandah, Small Packages, Five Bells, Centoria and Blue Dog. This is his first collection.Author: Mark WillingISBN-10: 174027704XISBN-13: 9781740277044Publisher: Ginninderra PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2016Pages: 78Format:...
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  • Excalibur's Return by Whelan, Maurice
    Maurice Whelan

    Excalibur's Return

    "If stillness can be tasted, precious memories will return, such as poetry once learned by heart, which in Maurice Whelan's case told of King Arthur receiving his sword Excalibur from the maiden in the lake. If silence can be heard, a poetry in life...
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  • Clouds Go Down To Heaven by Sinclair, Robin
    Robin Sinclair

    Clouds Go Down To Heaven

    Robin Sinclair lives in the Adelaide Hills, where she paints, writes, walks, gardens and observes. She has a husband who makes puppets, a son who has adventures and writes about it, another who writes verse novels, and a daughter who composes music and teaches...
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  • Washday Pockets by Kernot, Sharon
    Sharon Kernot

    Washday Pockets

    Washday Pockets is a collection of poems that will delight any reader. Written in an accessible language, domestic relationships are examined in all their grittiness. It is an honest disclosure of domestic life where sorrow, loss and separation are interwoven with love, humour and...
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  • To Be Eaten By Mice by Mathison, Robyn
    Robyn Mathison

    To Be Eaten By Mice

    "Robyn Mathison casts a curious and compassionate eye over the natural world and all its inhabitants. Her sense of wonder gives equal measure to cats, hens, historical figures and family members. The poems engage with provocative questions: Where will memory be when my body...
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  • Man Moon Earth by Chakravarti, Prithvindra
    Prithvindra Chakravarti

    Man Moon Earth

    This collection covers periods in Prithvindra Chakravarti's life and the reflections and insights he gained into the life of the village-dwelling peasants, artisans and entertainers in West Bengal, where he was born; and in his later periods in Kolkata, Chicago, Papua New Guinea, China...
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  • The Lilac Bow by Whelan, Maurice
    Maurice Whelan

    The Lilac Bow

    The Lilac Bow is the first book of poetry by the author of the collections Excalibur's Return, A Season and a Time and, most recently, Spirit Eyes. Maurice Whelan is also the author of the acclaimed novel Boat People.Author: Maurice WhelanISBN-10: 1740275578ISBN-13: 9781740275576Publisher: Ginninderra...
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  • Just a Moment by Mallick, Stephen
    Stephen Mallick

    Just a Moment

    Stephen Mallick is a Tasmanian poet and artist. The poems of Just a Moment explore times past, events and memories of childhood and adolescence, the natural world, and the child's insights into a family in pain. The poems have a rich lyricism, employing subtle...
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  • Luscious Glass Cage by Raschke, Jessica
    Jessica Raschke

    Luscious Glass Cage

    Jessica Raschke uses words as shards, reflecting fragmented emotional states. Her poems in this collection, Luscious Glass Cage, glisten with confidence as they ricochet between the abstract and the deeply felt. But feelings are seen as capable of deception and, like reflections in a...
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  • Sleeping Alone by Thorley, Michael
    Michael Thorley

    Sleeping Alone

    Variety is the word that probably best summarises this collection: variety of form and feeling, subject matter and mood. Using poetic forms and styles from free verse to the sonnet, from the Japanese tanka to the French triolet, the poems touch the larger issues...
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  • The Light Breaks Open: Tales of a different dreaming by Tiffen, Sarah
    Sarah Tiffen

    The Light Breaks Open: Tales of a different dreaming

    Sarah Tiffen's third book of poetry is full of the sensual imagery and textured observations for which she is becoming known. The sense of place and people resonates in these stories of life and love, connection to land, the struggle to survive, to belong,...
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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.

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