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Poetry
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded his highly-praised translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, including more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination of pro..
22.26£
Brand: AampC Black
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Shakespeare's much-quoted sonnets are some of the most beautiful and moving poems in English literature. Dealing with love, beauty and the effects of time, they speak to us as directly now as they spoke to E..
16.26£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
'Brave and beautiful.' Stylist Magazine'Social media's answer to Carol Ann Duffy' Sunday Times STYLE'Divine.' Cecelia AhernShe Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, t..
13.00£
A freezing cold winter day, a disemboweled 250-pound hog hangs over a vat of hot water in the farmyard. The carcass will be scalded and scraped clean. A few neighbors have come to help and the women are already cleaning the chitterlings that will en..
20.90£
A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. Nature isn't dying it's simply revising its target audience In Shifting Baseline Syndrome , Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions: will the Anthro..
19.45£
Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of..
16.25£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonn..
14.55£
Silent Nights is a collection of poetry written every year during the Christmas time. For over four decades, Bruce Clark has written an annual Christmas poem by way of a gift for family, friends, and associates. The poems were of varying styles and ..
18.80£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Silhouettes is a collection of reflective and personal poetry covering three decades. As the title indicates, the poems provide some information about an author who is otherwise a private man, although he has a high public profile in South Africa. ..
10.83£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 CE. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, and describes a memorable scene. The verse is lig..
27.31£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents ..
11.89£
Winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize ISBN: 9781606354445Publisher: The Kent State University PressImprint: Kent State University PressPublished date: 30 Aug 2022DEWEY: 811.6DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishSales rank: 24312Number of pa..
22.18£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
This powerful and moving collection of sixty poems written chronologically over a period of one year when the author was 60 provides an illuminating and observational reflection of day-to-day life in a mixture of lighter and more serious works. The ..
11.11£
Brand: Copper Canyon Press
An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible. Smoking the B..
17.15£
Topaz Winters' third poetry collection spans three countries & three generations. In a far-reaching & deftly woven series of ars poeticas, Winters questions the boundary between the things we inherit & those we owe. Topaz arrives at the grave of the..
20.98£
A poetry collection pulling from the author's personal narrative to take the reader on a journey through family, mental health, grief, pop culture, body image, queer identity, love, joy, memory, myth, and magic. The collection follows a trajectory o..
20.27£
Paris Review Staff Pick A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness-how to be ..
20.67£
Brand: Faber & Faber
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZEIn this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromisin..
14.40£
Brand: Beacon Press
Gayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, offers two books in one with this volume of poetry. Jones renders the saga of Palmares, a foundational tale in the annals of colonial..
26.45£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil's last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction. Amid the flight and re-enslavement of the inhabit..
17.85£
"I will consider a slice of pizza," opens Phillips's poem "Jubilate Civitas." "For rare among pleasures in Gotham, it is both / exquisite and blessedly cheap." Thus, as throughout this collection, he celebrates a simple pleasure that "in a time of d..
25.89£
ISBN: 9781913378004Publisher: Eglantyne BooksImprint: European SchoolbooksPublished date: 24 Jan 2022Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 70Weight: 152gHeight: 138mmWidth: 216mmSpine width: 15mm..
14.05£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Sometimes you feel numb - numb to whatever it is going on in your life. You're not necessarily sad or mad, but you aren't happy either. You feel that if you slip away and attempt to feel something, it will all get better. But it doesn't, it never do..
12.19£
Brand: Olympia Publishers
Soul Winds is a collection written by Dan Rosenhagan who hopes to help people connect with their inner selves. An exploration into spirituality, enlightenment and the liberating journey to find one's Chi, and ultimately your higher self. ISBN: 97818..
17.27£