Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

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.

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...

In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year's outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast.

Agile hard-hitting, symphonic - Australia has much to celebrate in its non-fiction writing. Geordie Williamson gathers the Best Australian Essays in his role as editor for a second year. Expect an enthralling mix of evocation and ideas, politics and culture.

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...

Collects together the stand-out riffs on politics, life, popular culture and a-funny-thing-happened-when of the last year. Included are the characteristic musings of John Clarke and Bryan Dawe; Marieke Hardy's adventures at Summit 2020; the Chaser at the Logies; and contributions from Chris Lille...

The Best Australian Poems reveal the impressive depth, diversity and boldness of this country's poetic talent. For the second year in a row, award-winning poet, critic and academic Sarah Holland-Batt selects Australia's finest poems, from both rising stars and well-known figures, presenting a daz...