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	The Best Australian Poetry 2005 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 selection of the finest forty poems published in Australian literary magazines in the preceding year. With revealing comments from the poets, The Best Australian Poetry 2005 is an exhilarating addition to a series that has quickly established itself as the first word on what's new and remarkable in contemporary Australian poetry.This year's poets include Bruce Dawe, Peter Goldsworthy, Clive James, Les Murray, Dorothy Porter, as well as some exciting new voices. Author: Peter Porter Publisher: University of Queensland Press ISBN: 9780702235184 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $24.95 Online Price: $21.83
	The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of 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 rakes in Restoration comedies, he lived a full but short life, dying in 1680 (with a dramatic deathbed renunciation of his atheism) at the age of 33. This edition of Rochester's poetry is annotated and introduced by David M. Vieth. Rochester had many admirers: Graham Greene wrote Lord Rochester's Monkey Daniel Defoe quoted him often Tennyson recited his poems Voltaire admired Rochester's satire for energy and fire Goethe could quote Rochester in English, and Hazlitt said that his verses cut and sparkle like diamonds and his contempt for everything that others repsect almost amounts to sublimity. Author: John Wilmot Rochester, David M. Vieth Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300097139 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $54.95 Online Price: $48.08
	Hymns and Fragments 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 most recent scholarship, this annotated translation conveys the radical idiom and vision that continue to make him a contemporary. Richard Sieburth includes almost all Holderlin's late peoms in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity. Professor Sieburth's critical introduction discusses the poet's career, assesses his role as a link between classicism and romanticism, and explores Holderlin's ongoing importance to modern poetics and philosophy. Annotations explicate the individual poems, a number of which are translated into English for the first time. Author: Friedrich Holderlin, Richard Sieburth Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton ISBN: 9780691014128 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $50.95 Online Price: $44.58
	A Nonsense Anthology 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 within its borders. Author: Carolyn Wells Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC ISBN: 9781426434990 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $51.95 Online Price: $45.46
	An Accident in the Evening 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 including those associated with the Second Coming and the likely role of Jesus. There are also moving poems dealing with those for whom society has little sympathy: the elderly, the unemployed, old Diggers. As well, there are deft sketches of encounters with figures such as a timber-worker, a truckie and the socially smug. A number of sharply defined memories of Brown's Hong Kong childhood are also notable, especially the portrayal in Mr Lai. This is an engaging collection. - Bruce Dawe These finely-crafted, quirky poems range from evocations of a lost childhood in Hong Kong, through musings about Ernest Hemingway and the watching of contemporary TV, to reflections about waiting for a pizza and feeling sympathy for a solitary, suffering woman on the sidewalk in cosmopolitan, trendy New Farm in inner city Brisbane.Funny, bitter, cool and derelict, An Accident in The Evening is an idiosyncratic and engaging collection of poetry that is fresh and wonderfully liberating. - Ross Fitzgerald Littered with deftly evoked, 'real' people Phil Brown's unpretentious style offers a smorgasbord . from poems that are sensual evocations of Hong Kong to a poem about bodies buried in a suburban backyard. His self-effacing wit provokes an immediate response: at times I laughed aloud and you can't ask for more than that. - Carol Davidson Author: Phil Brown Publisher: Interactive Publications ISBN: 9781876819095 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $22.00 Online Price: $19.25
	The Aeneid 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 of an epic seven year journey that sees Aeneas cross stormy seas, become entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Carthage, visit the world of the dead - all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods - and finally reach Italy, where he will fulfil his destiny: to found the Roman people. A sweeping epic of arms and heroism, dispossession and defeat, and a searching portrait of a man caught between love, duty and fate, The Aeneid brings to life a whole human world of passion, nobility and courage. This is the much-anticipated new version of Virgil's epic poem from the translator of the Odyssey and the Iliad. With this stunning modern verse translation Robert Fagles reintroduces the Aeneid to a whole new generation, and completes the classical triptych at the heart of Western civilization. It retains all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, as well as its powerful blend of poetry and myth. With an illuminating introduction to Virgil's world from noted scholar Bernard Knox, this new Aeneid gives a vibrant, contemporary voice to the literary achievement of the ancient world. Author: Virgil, Robert Fagles Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 9780713999686 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $59.95 Online Price: $52.46
	Being Alive 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 assembled this equally lively companion anthology for all those readers who've wanted more poems that touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit. Being Alive is about being human: about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and wonder. Staying Alive didn't just reach a broader readership, it introduced thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, giving them an international gathering of poems of great personal force, poems with emotional power, intellectual edge and playful wit. It also brought many readers back to poetry, people who hadn't read poetry for years because it hadn't held their interest. Now Being Alive gives readers an even wider selection of vivid, brilliantly diverse contemporary poetry from around the world. If readers were surprised by Staying Alive, the publishers were even more staggered by the postbag they received in response. People from all walks of life wrote to express their thanks and appreciation, saying how much Staying Alive had helped or stimulated them and fired up their interest in poetry. They hadn't just bought one copy, they'd bought many copies to give to friends and family as presents. They also wanted to tell editor Neil Astley about other poems which had been important to them in their own lives, and Being Alive includes many powerful poems suggested by readers. Staying Alive has so far sold 75,000 copies. Being Alive is eagerly awaited by thousands of readers throughout Britain and Ireland. Author: Neil Astley Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN: 9781852246754 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $34.95 Online Price: $30.58
	The Best Australian Poetry 2007 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 Poetry celebrates the vibrancy and force of contemporary poetry in Australia.Guest editor John Tranter, a critically acclaimed poet in his own right, has put together a rich selection of powerful poems - elegant meditations, rapid sketches, and social commentaries - written by both emerging talents and established poets.Broad in the variety of poets and poetic styles, this superb volume is as surprising in its diversity as it is pleasurable to read. Author: John Tranter Publisher: University of Queensland Press ISBN: 9780702236075 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $24.95 Online Price: $21.83
	The Book of Celtic Verse 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, continued in the rich Medieval works of Dafydd ap Gwilym and Rhys Goch, and in the 19th century work by Gerald Manley Hopkins, and can be found in the of 20th century work of writers such as R.J. Stewart, Robin Williamson and Catherine Fisher as well as a legion of other Celtic song-smiths, who have carried the torch of verse-craft and vision into our own time. John Matthews has chosen the finest works by these writers, and has translated many of the oldest for this volume. His selection reflects aspects of the Celtic tradition which are unique to these people: a love of nature, of history, and of the rich heritage of myth, legend, magic and spirituality which is among the finest in the world. We are the music-makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. Author: John Matthews Publisher: Watkins Publishing ISBN: 9781905857128 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $29.95 Online Price: $26.21
	Circus Apprentice 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, nature, war, family, illness, love, loss, death and childhood experiences, always rooted in a passionate sense of discovery and attention to place. She juxtaposes a mix of colloquial and more formal verse-styles to evoke immediacy and feeling with impressive clarity and freshness of voice. Lyrical and politically-tuned, her poems range between moments of deep feeling and satire, laced with an often wry humour veering towards the surreal. Many of the poems take the traveller as theme - 'traveller' in the widest sense, linking Gallagher's personal experience to the universal and showing the juxtapositions and layers to be discovered behind the seemingly familiar as well as the unknown. She has a great fascination with the natural world, its vibrancy and colour - expressed in moments of wonder and unease, as in her poems on environmental themes and in the eclectic sequence, After Kandinsky with which the collection concludes. Her reflections on people draw in the multifariousness of everyday experience with wit, irony and elegance. Circus-Apprentice is an engaging, distinctive collection notable for its variety and seriousness, its adventurousness with word and image, and its sometimes understated, but sharply telling, content. Gallagher's poems combine candour and tenderness, humour and dark moments to tremendous effect. Author: Katherine Gallagher Publisher: Arc Publications ISBN: 9781904614029 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $29.95 Online Price: $26.21
	Collected Poems 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 burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully independent country, both politically and culturally. Moving beyond Irish verse's preoccupation with history, national politics and identity, he turned to the land and scenery of his native Inniskeen, portraying the closely-observed minutiae of everyday rural and urban life in an uninhibited, groundbreaking style. Lucid, various, direct and engaging, Kavanagh's poems have a unique place in the canon and a unique accessibility. This major new edition is the culmination of many years of work by Antoinette Quinn in creating authoritative texts for Kavanagh's poetry - from his early works such as Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his masterpiece, the epic The Great Hunger', allowing us to see the development of Kavanagh's genius as never before. Author: Patrick Kavanagh, Antoinette Quinn Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 9780141186931 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $26.95 Online Price: $23.58
	Earth Shattering 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 catastrophe)or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air, felling trees and forests), there are poems here to alert and alarm anyone willing to read or listen. Other poems celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink. Earth Shattering's words of warning include contributions from many great writers of the past as well as leading contemporary poets from around the world, ranging from Wordsworth, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy, Rilke and Charlotte Mew to Wendell Berry, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin and Gary Snyder. This is the first anthology to show the full range of ecopoetry, from the wilderness poetry of ancient China to 21st-century native American poetry, with postcolonial and feminist perspectives represented by writers such as Derek Walcott, Ernesto Cardinal,Oodgeroo and Susan Griffin. Ecopoetry goes beyond traditional nature poetry to take on distinctly contemporary issues, recognising the interdependence of all life on earth, the wildness and otherness of nature, and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature. The poems dramatise the dangers and poverty of a modern world perilously cut off from nature and ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power. As the world's politicians and corporations orchestrate our headlong rush towards Eco- Armageddon, poetry may seem like a hopeless gesture. But its power is in the detail, in the force of each individual poem, in every poem's effect on every reader. And anyone whose resolve is stirred will strengthen the collective call for change. Author: Neil Astley Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN: 9781852247744 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $29.95 Online Price: $26.21
	Through Human Love to God 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 symbolic values and associations of Beatrice and Laura but rather both on the attitudes of these two poets to sexual desire in order to throw some light on the character of their human love and on the status and value they give to human love in the context of their Christian lives.For all the stark contrasts between them, Dante and Petrarch have been often compared, for they write in a common literary, classical, and Christian tradition. The comparison generally leads to the conclusion that Dante describes his human love experience as positive and constructive whilst Petrarch's experience of love is negative and destructive. My intention here is not to polarize their views in this way, but rather to identify the different yet positive and highly original value both poets attribute to human love.More than fifty years ago, Etienne Gilson claimed that Peter Abelard turned to loving God in the way that Heloise had loved him, with the disinterestedness which she claimed in loving him and which she accused him of never understanding in loving her. It is the general argument of this study that Dante and Petrarch, as well as leaving their original mark on the treatment of love in literature, have insights into religion, personal to them, which can be likewise characterized by examining their attitude to human love and the story of their personal loves. There are many more aspects to their Catholicism than are examined in these essays. The discussion here is of that part of their faith which grows out of, is coloured by, or at least can be explored, through their human loving. Author: Pamela Williams Publisher: TROUBADOR PUBLISHING ISBN: 9781905886401 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $45.95 Online Price: $40.21
	Moonhorses & the Red Bull 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. Buckley and Dawn Senior-Trask have woven words into a verbal tapestry that gives the reader a deeply complete and vibrantly luminous measure of what it is to immerse oneself in this life. Each of these poets reminds us, through her precise and thoughtful work, of the importance of the western place and of its inherent fragility. The empty sky, the open space and the strong individuals, human or animal, fill their spare and beautiful poems. -Jane Elkington Wohl, Beasts in Snow These Poets share a keen observation of their respective landscapes-a sort of patient accumulation of deep experience that used to be the purview of shamans, as close to a natural sacrament as you could hope for. Taste and your eyes are opened. -Gary David, Tierra Zia and A Log of Deadwood It's been many years since I've seen the love of nature and the nature of love so lovingly interwined in a music of such natural luminosity. -Jerry McGuire, Director, Creative Writing, University of South Western Louisiana/Lafayette B.J. Buckley has driven more miles across and around the west than any poet alive, and she has the keen eye and intellect to mesh her experience and her emotional vision. Her love of the natural world and its belongings is finely honed and wise, and her poems live in same world they come from. The words are to believe, and to believe in. -Kent Nelson, Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still Author: B J Buckley & Dawn Senior-Trask Publisher: Pronghorn Press ISBN: 9781932636192 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $30.95 Online Price: $27.08
	The Eclogues and Georgics 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 with contemporary history. To his Greek model - the Idylls of Theocritus - he added a strong element of Italian realism: places and people, real or disguised, and contemporary events are introduced. The Eclogues display all Virgil's art and charm and are among his most delightful achievements. Between approximately 39 and 29 BC, years of civil strife between Antony, and Octavian, Virgil was engaged upon the Georgics. Part agricultural manual, full of observations of animals and nature, they deal with the farmer's life and give it powerful allegorical meaning. These four books contain some of Virgil's finest descriptive writing and are generally held to be his greatest and most entertaining work, and C. Day Lewis's lyrical translations are classics in their own right. Author: Oxford World's Classics, Virgil Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780192837684 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $25.95 Online Price: $22.71
	Prayer for the Morning Headlines 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 resonate. Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death pairs select Berrigan poems with luminous photographs of cemetery statuary by Adrianna Amari. In this beautiful collection, the evocative images combine to form a meditation on the profound impact of the loss of any life, and bear witness to lasting grief, memory, and love. As noted historian Howard Zinn states in his eloquent introduction, ...it was in Baltimore that Adrianna Amari took her extraordinary photographs of sculptures scattered through the city. It is all there, as in Berrigan's poems- life and death, the prayer that comes with commitment, the hope that comes with resistance, the visions of a world where peace and justice prevail. At times tranquil, at times dramatic, the words and images in Prayer for the Morning Headlines always implore readers to love one another and fight war no more. Author: Daniel Berrigan, Adrianna Amari Publisher: Apprentice House ISBN: 9781934074169 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $58.95 Online Price: $51.58
	Latin Erotic Elegy 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 collapse of the Roman republic, and the founding of the empire. The book begins with a detailed and wide-ranging introduction, looking at major figures, the evolution of the form, and the Roman context, with particular focus on the changing relations between the sexes. The texts that follow range from the earliest manifestations of erotic elegy, in Catullus, through Tibullus, Sulpicia (Rome's only female elegist), Propertius and Ovid. An accessible commentary explores the historical background, issues of language and style, and the relation of each piece to its author's larger body of work. The volume closes with an anthology of critical essays representative of the main trends in scholarship these both illuminate the genre's most salient features and help the student understand its modern reception. This is the first comprehensive elegiac anthology for several decades it will be an invaluable resource for all those studying elegiac poetry, as well as being important for courses on Augustan culture, and gender in the ancient world. Author: Paul Allen Miller Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9780415243728 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $92.95 Online Price: $81.33
	Studies In Jewish Bibliography and Medieval Hebrew Poetry 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 and on the Five Scrolls (Venice, 1538) . One Hundred Years of the Genizah Discovery and Research in the United States . Building a Great Judaica Library - At What Price? . The Liturgy of the Rothschild Mahzor . Two Philosophical Passages in the Liturgical Poetry of Rabbi Isaac Ibn Giat . The New Jewish Theological Seminary Library Prof. Menahem Schmelzer is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Hebrew Literature and Jewish Bibliography at The Jewish Theological Seminary. He has been a full-time member of the JTS faculty since 1961, and served as Librarian from 1964 to 1987. In addition to writing numerous articles and reviews for scholarly journals, Prof. Schmelzer was Associate Division Editor of the Modern Jewish Scholarship section of Encyclopaedia Judaica. He has lectured at the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1992, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1999, he was the recipient of an honorary degree from the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. He was appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Senior Scholar at the Kluge Center in the Library of Congress for a four-month period in 2004. Author: Menahem H. Schmeltzer Publisher: Jewish Theological Seminary of America ISBN: 9789654560436 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $78.95 Online Price: $69.08
	Ordering the African Imagination 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. The focus of this book is African culture and its imaginative productions in the arts, especially in literature. The author also examines the direction of African culture and its artistic creations in a global age. The titles of the essays and lectures are: the challenges of the African writer today African culture and the New World Order nativity and the creative process: the Niger Delta in my poetry African culture today divine mentoring in poetry and its performance self, myth and historical consciousness: an African writer's reflection Nigerian literature in the 21st century: what direction? whose English?: the African writer and the language issue countering terror in the literary world: the example of activism and anxieties and hopes: recent African poetry.Tanure Ojaide's awards include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988, 1997), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), and the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Award (1988, 1994, and 2003). He is also the recipient of the 2006 UNC Charlotte's First Citizens Bank Scholar Medal Award for his writing and academic accomplishments, and is a Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa. He taught for many years at the University of Maiduguri, and is currently Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches African/Pan-African literature and art. Author: Tanure Ojaide Publisher: MALTHOUSE PUBLISHING ISBN: 9789780232047 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $69.95 Online Price: $61.21
	Modern Women Poets 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-Jones's superb anthology works in its own right as the best possible introduction to a whole century of poetry by women. The anthology draws together the work of women poets from Britain, Ireland and America as one version of a history of women's poetic writing, while not isolating women's writing from its intersection with the work of male contemporaries. Tracing an arc from Charlotte Mew to Stevie Smith, from Sylvia Plath to the writing emerging from the Women's Movement, and to the more recent work of Medbh McGuckian, Jo Shapcott and Carol Ann Duffy, the anthology draws together the work of women poets from Britain, Ireland and America as one version of a history of women's poetic writing. It shows important connections between the work of women poets and shows how - throughout past 100 years - they have developed strategies for engaging with a male-dominated tradition. Modern Women Poets allows the reader to trace women's negotiations with one another's work, as well as to reflect more generally on the politics of women's engagement with history, nature, politics, motherhood, science, religion, the body, sexuality, identity, death, love, and poetry itself. Author: Deryn Rees-Jones Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN: 9781852246785 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $31.95 Online Price: $27.96

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