Australian & Oceanian

Smoke & Mirrors is the third book from internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Bitter Sweet Love and Dirty Pretty Things - a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's latest book takes the reader on an...

Just as the moonflower dares to stand and blossom, growing bright and free in the shadows of the night, may these gentle pages inspire you to bloom, bursting with poetry, in the most unexpected of moments.From celebrated Australian artist Tess Guinery...

Playing with Matches is the ultimate collector's edition by internationally best-selling poet, Michael Faudet. A beautiful hardcover gift book that has been personally curated by the author featuring a compilation of the best work from his five published...

Bitter Sweet Love is the much-anticipated second collection of internationally best-selling poet Michael Faudet, author of Dirty Pretty Things, a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's whimsical and often erotic writing...

Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the characters, the motifs and the moments that set his...

An elegant hardcover collector's edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal annotations interspersed throughout. Also included are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979378836Author Emelihter KihlengFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint KahuaomanoaPublisher KahuaomanoaWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645545531Author Luna SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Thought Process PublishingPublisher Thought Process PublishingWeight(grams)...

Janet Frame (1924-2004) was one of New Zealand's foremost modern writers, best-known for her prizewinning novels and for the three-volume autobiography later adapted by Jane Campion into her film "An Angel at My Table". Janet Frame called poetry 'the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646881409Author Geoff SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Geoff Smith InkPublisher Geoff Smith InkWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322376Author Sudesh MishraFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 200g

From Unincorporated Territory [hacha] is the first book of native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez's ongoing series about his homeland, the Western Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam). Perez weaves avant-garde, eco-poetic, indigenous, documentary,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994623720Author Becca LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Becca LeePublisher Becca LeeWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm

Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and...

Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants. As John Kinsella writes in his introduction, 'she looked inwards into...

With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction to the shape of an avalanche as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648936732Author Dominique HecqFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 140g

Departing from Virgil’s Eclogues, The Pastoraclasm is an urgent environmental address to humans, nature and vegetable gardens. During pandemic lockdowns, poet John Kinsella realised that he would have to garden not because he enjoys it but because his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449493295Author Lang LeavFormat PaperbackImprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888228737Author Hayley Ann SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Proverse Hong KongPublisher Proverse Hong KongWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

Confessions of Her is a tale of survival depicting how one young woman found love in herself, rather than searching for it in the arms of another. This autobiographical collection of poetry and prose takes the reader on a journey of love and loss,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925417425Author Jessica BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Vine Leaves PressPublisher Vine Leaves PressWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742589701Author Leni ShiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint UWAPPublisher UWA PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648286998Author Linda BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Linda Ruth BrooksPublisher Linda Ruth BrooksWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648298519Author Linda BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Linda Ruth BrooksPublisher Linda Ruth BrooksWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925780833Author Alex SkovronFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Puncher & WattmannPublisher Puncher & WattmannWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742589756Author Lisa BellearFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint UWAPPublisher UWA PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742589770Author Michael AikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint UWAPPublisher UWA PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742589763Author Kit KelenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint UWAPPublisher UWA PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

Bill Manhire, by trade a medievalist and by vocation a poet,has - like those writers who invented and developed English poetry - helped to make something charged and original out of his landscapes (including Antarctica) and his language. He was New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646815503Author Gareth EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Gareth EganPublisher Gareth EganWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535414Author Les MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Extasie is a compelling book of love poems with its lyrical roots deep in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the rural traditions of the nineteenth. Among New Zealand poet John Gallas's spirit guides are John Clare and, in particular, Wyatt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482624Author Chloe HonumFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925780666Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Puncher and WattmannPublisher Puncher and WattmannWeight(grams) 720g

When Peter Porter died in 2010 his reputation as one of the greatest Australian poets had long been settled. Chorale at the Crossing gathers together the work Porter completed after the publication of his widely-praised final collection Better than God,...

Acclaimed Instagram poet F.D. Soul (@featherdownsoul) debuts a new poetry collection,telling her own invigorating, unapologetic narrative of love, loss, and adversity. Soul's words pulse, they are alive on the page, attesting to the significance of...

Fast Talking PI reflects the poet's focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections,...

Jack Kerouac meets Arthur Rimbaud for the millennial generation. A debut poetry collection from LA-based Australian writer, singer, songwriter Cody Simpson who has penned hit songs and toured worldwide for the majority of his young life.Conjuring vivid...