A Selection of the Best Poems from Australia's Literary Journals
Author: Peter Porter
The Best Australian Poetry 2005 celebrates the vibrancy and liveliness of poetry in Australia today. Guest Editor Peter Porter, celebrated as one of Australia's most brilliant poets, brings his vision and acumen to his s ... |
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Author: John Wilmot Rochester
John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II. One of the finest poets of the Restoration, patron to important playwrights, model for countless witty young ... |
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Author: Friedrich Holderlin
Despite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) is only now being fully appreciated as perhaps the first great modern of European poetry. Drawing on the mo ... |
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Author: Carolyn Wells
On a topographical map of Literature Nonsense would be represented by a small and sparsely settled country neglected by the average tourist but affording keen delight to the few enlightened travellers who sojourn withi ... |
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Author: Phil Brown
Phil Brown's new collection deals with a range of themes in a characteristically bemused and wry manner. At times these poems draw upon subversions of Zen at other times the poet is satirizing popular expectations includ ... |
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Author: Virgil
The city of Troy has been ransacked by conquering Greeks and lies in smouldering ruins. A warrior, Aeneas, manages to escape from the ashes. He will go on to change the history of the world ...The Aeneid tells the story ... |
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The Sequel to Staying Alive
Author: Neil Astley
Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has a ... |
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Author: John Tranter
This volume brings together a collection of 40 of the best Australian poems from the past year.It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted poetry related media & organisations.The Best Australian Poet ... |
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A Treasury of Poetry, Dreams and Visions
Author: John Matthews
The Celts have always loved words. They called their earliest bards 'Carpenters of Song' and 'People of Skill', and established a tradition which began with the intricate magical poems of Taliesin in the 6th century AD, ... |
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Author: Katherine Gallagher
In her new collection, Katherine Gallagher draws on a rich inheritance from her different worlds: Australia, Britain - particularly London - and France. Her subject matter ranges widely: travel, exile, returning, change, ... |
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Author: Patrick Kavanagh
The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh bu ... |
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Ecopoems
Author: Neil Astley
Earth Shattering lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary ca ... |
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Essays on Dante and Petrarch
Author: Pamela Williams
Dante and Petrarch are two of the world's greatest love poets who convey the story of their emotional, intellectual, and religious life in part through a story of human love. The focus here is not so much on the myriad s ... |
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Author: B J Buckley & Dawn Senior-Trask
A Wyoming Poet, a Montana Poet - Two women who understand the land and the opportunities it offers. Life in the West can be a challenge but the rewards - visual, visceral and spiritual - are hard to describe. B.J. Buckle ... |
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Author: Oxford World's Classics
The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia ... |
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On the Sanctity of Life and Death
Author: Daniel Berrigan
Seed Hope. Flower Peace. Decades after the end of the Vietnam War, and years since the start of the Iraq War, these words by Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Daniel Berrigan still resona ... |
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An Anthology and Reader
Author: Paul Allen Miller
This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy, allowing students to trace a coherent narrative of the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relationship to the changes that marked the ... |
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Author: Menahem H. Schmeltzer
Among the articles included in this Hebrew-English anthology are: . The Hebrew Manuscript as Source for the Study of History and Literature . A Fifteenth Century Hebrew Book List . Rashi's Commentary on the Pentateuch an ... |
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Essays on Culture and Literature
Author: Tanure Ojaide
Tanure Ojaide is an award-winning writer, both creative and academic. This collection of his essays and lectures from over the past decade, addresses issues of culture and literature from a personal African perspective. ... |
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Author: Deryn Rees-Jones
Modern Women Poets is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Jones's pioneering critical study, Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets. While its selections illuminate and illustrate her essays, Deryn Rees-J ... |
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