Vaxine Beneba Clarke Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Poet in Residence, University of Melbourne. Author of Foreign Soil, How Decent Folk Behave, The Hate Race, Carrying The World, The Patchwork Bike etc. She/Her

Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Also, wasn’t Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland actually a pedophile? 👀
Paperback, 2015
$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Also, wasn’t Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland actually a pedophile? 👀
Paperback, 2010
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How Decent Folk Behave
Maxine Beneba Clarke
I'm giving a keynote at the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English @VATE_English Middle Years Conference this year. 🎇Registration includes a copy of my poetry book How Decent Folk Behave. Hope to see some of you English-teaching folks there. https://t.co/0Us8wm3yu7
Paperback, 2023
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Odd that while they were editing Dahl's books they didn't take the op to make Charlie from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' Black, like Roald Dahl originally wrote him to be before his agent intervened. I bet they workshopped doing it though.
Paperback, 2007
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Ishmael Reed
Finally took the kids to see Hamilton tonight. Extraordinary theatre. Our tickets 2 years ago were thwarted by a lockdown. Have also just ordered Ishmael Reed’s play ‘The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda’, which I’ll be reading to the kids over several dinner times.
Paperback, 2020
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Metamorphosis
Kafka
Someone needs to write this non-fiction account: a modern day ‘social media age’ update on Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
Paperback, 2020
$10.97$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
While I have everyone here, read My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, it’s great.🤷🏾♀️
Paperback, 2019
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Whitman: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
Walt Whitman
English teachers! Here's great new poetry resource. It accompanies Paul Kelly's anthology of his fave poems Love as Strong as Death, but can be used alone. Includes PK performing some poems as songs & me reading poems by Warsan Shire, Gwen Harwood, Walt Whitman & me. Link below.
Hardcover, 1994
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Albion
Mike Bartlett
@A_Kabaker Albion by Mike Bartlett at The Seymour Centre (on for another week). It’s actually absolutely brilliant, tree-sex and all. 🤷🏾♀️
Paperback, 2018
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
Warsan Shire
English teachers! Here's great new poetry resource. It accompanies Paul Kelly's anthology of his fave poems Love as Strong as Death, but can be used alone. Includes PK performing some poems as songs & me reading poems by Warsan Shire, Gwen Harwood, Walt Whitman & me. Link below.
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book