A selection of poetry by Australian poet Gwen Harwood."Gwen Harwood is one of the finest poets in this country".
Poetry
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Author:HARWOOD, GwenSummary: - Author:Hutchman, LaurenceSummary:
"Laurence Hutchman's poetry is a witness to the world around him, to the patterns of families, nations, and landscape. He hears Mozart in the supermarket, and Nelligan breaking into song. While there's a refreshingly outward-looking...
- Author:Cogswell, FredSummary:
The poems in this selection were written and published between 1954 and 1977, except for two poems which have never appeared in book form before. Fred Cogswell writes crystalline poems. A Cogswell poem is the result of concentration;...
- Author:Aridjis, HomeroSummary:
An exciting new collection of poems by "one of the Spanish-speaking world's greatest living writers" (LA Review of Books). Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of...
- Author:Collette, Jean Yves, Gay, MichelSummary:
Voici réunis Dispositions, La Locomotive et Joker, parus au milieu des années 1980, sous le pseudonyme de Claude Raymond, et depuis longtemps introuvables. S’y ajoute un inédit : Sensations. Si ces textes nous font « constater...
- Author:Bradley, GavinSummary:
This poignant debut by Gavin Bradley explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a previously held sense of self, or a home and the people left behind. The main narrative describes the deterioration of...
- Author:Hausner, BeatrizSummary:
No other Canadian writer is as thoroughly conversant with the fertile tradition of surrealism as Beatriz Hausner. She bestows the imaginative energy and erotic power behind this abundantly creative way of seeing on every poem in Sew Him...
- Author:Habib, RafeySummary:
"These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds...
- Author:Henderson, BrianSummary:
Nominated for the CAA Award for Poetry [Canadian Authors Association]
A renowned poet lets language ride its own musically-malleable syntax into unfamiliar regions of consciousness.
Brian Henderson has established himself...
- Author:Kreuter, AaronSummary:
A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. Nature isn't dying it's simply revising its target audience In Shifting Baseline Syndrome , Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions:...
- Author:Currie, RobertSummary:
Robert Currie's Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems uses the vernacular of ordinary working people to tell stories and sing songs of small-town prairie life. Like Alden Nowlan, or more recently, Billy Collins, this poet constructs...
- Author:Nelligan, Émile, Di Saverio, MarcSummary:
A legend of 19th century French Canadian poetry, Émile Nelligan was only 16 when he fell under the influence of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and began writing taut, confidently surrealistic poems, shot through self-lacerating melancholy....
- Author:Kearney, DouglasSummary:
A new collection of poetry by Douglas Kearney.
- Author:Chafe, AidanSummary:
Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop. In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe recounts his Catholic upbringing in a household...
- Author:Young, PatriciaSummary:
The poems in this collection originated as a response to Elmore Leonard's "Ten Rules of Writing" and metamorphosed into poetic responses to quotations and epigraphs on a variety of subjects.
- Author:Anderson, Laurie HalseSummary:
A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for,...
- Author:Parisien, DominikSummary:
Ask, Can we for a moment make of beauty / the measure of our pain? and I will answer. To be ill is to be a body bursting with strangers. A curiosity. A narrative to interpret. Dominik Parisien's debut collection is a poignant...
- Author:Madden, EdSummary:
Selected by Afaa Weaver as the third annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Signals is the first book-length collection from Ed Madden. Deeply rooted in the recognizable landscapes and legacies of the American South,...
- Author:Wicker, MarcusSummary:
"Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless-Wicker's mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman. You have to read these poems." -Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and...
- Author:Lanthier, KateriSummary:
Siren, Kateri Lanthier’s astonishing second book, calls us to attention. In her search for what she calls “compelling melancholy,” Lanthier’s new poems not only draw on the ghazal's history as love poetry but remind readers of the...
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