 | Native Guard gift edition by Natasha Trethewey
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.73 Winner 2007 Pulitzer. Fine evocative work.
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 | Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.00 Winner 2008 Pulitzer & 2007 US National.
A classic collection from the wise and thought provoking Robert Haas.
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 | Urban Myths (Salt Modern Poets) by John Tranter
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $3.94 Winner of South Australian and New South Wales Premier Awards in Australia this is a wonderfully complex and sophisticated collection of new and old works from, possibly, Australia's leading contemporary poet.
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 | All Our Wonder Unavenged by Don Domanski
Buy new: $14.04 / Used from: $7.00 Winner 2007 Canadian Govenor Generals AWARD. Stunningly beautiful and delicate, a deeply moving vision about the intricacies of the everyday world. A spiritual and metaphysical journey.
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 | Tilt (Cape Poetry) by Jean Sprackland
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $7.24 Winner 2007 Costa Poetry Award. Spracklands describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped.
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 | A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $12.74 2008 Winner of the Scottish Sundial Book of the Year and Best Poetry Book. Written by Scotland's national poet, or Makar, Judge Rory Watson commented: ". . . 'the Universe goes from door to door begging for questions. It hates a sullen tongue' writes Edwin Morgan in A Book of Lives, and he more than rises to the challenge in this lively, deep, rambunctious and moving collection of poems. '
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 | Space Walk by Tom Sleigh
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.01 Kingsley Tuft Award 2008. Emotional and primal. A courageous collection that tackles the fact that America is a modern empire caught between state violence and the capacity for great love and hope. A book with space required for long walks in-between.
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 | Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery
Buy new: $30.06 / Used from: $4.15 Winner 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize. One of America's most controversial poets, John Ashbery adds to his amazing lexicon of over 50 years work with this typically off-balancing-putting collection. Too good to read at the ball game.
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 | Born to Slow Horses (Wesleyan Poetry) by Kamau Brathwaite
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $17.45 Winner of the 2006 Griffin International. Extraordinary range and manipulation of language.
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 | Present Company by W.S. Merwin
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $8.34 Winner of the 2006 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. Ephemeral moments observed with a surgeon poets eye.
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