Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation's most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. In her first time as editor, award-winning author Anna Goldsworthy chooses brilliant pieces that provoke, unveil, engage and enlighten, and get to the heart of what's really happening in Aus...

From his life’s work, spanning more than four decades, Australia’s greatest poet, Les Murray, selected these 100 poems to be remembered as his personal best. Including classics such as ‘The Broad Bean Sermon’, ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ and ‘The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever’, this collec...

Porter's poems are short, powerful, beautiful and sometimes brutal. Each poem is a protrait, a sensation, a short story, a joke, or a reflection in itself -- Back cover.

Tom is an Australian abroad. Charlotte, a Berliner through and through. After meeting in a bar, sparks fly between them and she invites him to spend the night at her place. As they navigate the ritual of seduction, their desire gives way to secrets that cannot be ignored and questions neither of ...

Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf - and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world - there is a radical new verse interpretation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements never be...

Jane Gibian's poetry is remarkable for its clarity of perception and its sensitivity to the details and rhythms of life - whether in nature or in social routines. The poetry's engagement is first and foremost with the natural environment, and with the contrast between the human engagement - with ...

"Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk on a rhythm for their linesand the novelists who put their characters on a path. [This volume] rounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1300s to the modern day, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the...

Discover trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radical new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth. Like many of us, award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by news of apocalyptic-scale climate change and a coming sixth extinction. She did n...