Gibran considered The Prophet his greatest achievement. He said: "I think I've never been without The Prophet since I first conceived it in Mount Lebanon. It seems to have been a part of me....I kept the manuscript four years before I delivered it over to my publisher because I wanted to be sure, I wanted to be very sure, that every word of it was the very best I had to offer."

First published in the Bulletin in the nineties, Paterson's verse has enjoyed enduring success throughout Australian literary history. Paterson had an intimate knowledge of life in the outback: he knew bushmen and he knew horses. His boundary riders and shearers, his buckjumpers and station hands, are real characters—the first realistic portraits of Australians in the bush at work and play to appear in verse. Many of the characters he created have so imprinted themselves on the public imagination that they have become part of Australian folklore.

La mort, l'amour, la vie", telle aurait pu être la devise de celle qui adorait la poésie d'Éluard. D'autant que la mort, contrairement à la plupart des poètes qui ne font que l'effleurer, Alicia Gallienne l'a tutoyée en son adolescence, jusqu'à l'affronter l'année de ses vingt ans, au petit matin du 24 décembre 1990. Ses poèmes sont ceux d'une irradiante jeune fille de dix-sept, dix-huit et dix-neuf ans, d'une jeune femme secrète qui aura vécu intensément un destin de comète.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 13".

Depois de anos afastado da Poesia, Carpinejar retorna ao gênero que o revelou. Em Todas as Mulheres, o autor se coloca no próprio enterro e, da perspectiva do morto, disseca seus relacionamentos e recorda as mulheres de sua vida.