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Poetry
2017 Reprint of 1921 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Published in 1921, the collection includes poems such as "A Widow's Lament in Springtime", "The Great Figure", "Complaint", and "..
7.72£
Brand: University of Georgia Press
In her debut poetry collection, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith takes inspiration from Oklahoma Black history. In the wake of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Jim Waters makes the difficult decision to leave behind his lover, Beatrice Vernadene Chapel, who ..
22.40£
The 'space' of John Kelly's second collection of poems is, to begin with, the marvellous unknown that fascinates his younger self. But it's also very much an earthly realm - the place where daily life occurs, the small territories each of us claims ..
15.21£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
A mixture of Morgan's science fiction poems and concrete poems. There's the famous encounter between humans and aliens in 'The First Men on Mercury', early digital tongue-twisting in 'The Computer's First Christmas Card' and the effects of teleporta..
9.40£
Brand: Sarabande Books
"Must-Read Poetry: October 2019" by Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions "Best Books of 2019," Book Riot This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time, space, a..
13.64£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'To the utterly at-one with Sivathere's no dawn.'Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range ..
5.92£
Spectrum is a compilation of short stories, essays, poems, both fiction and nonfiction created by the Royal Palm Beach Writers. This writing group was established in 2004 to give support to local aspiring authors. It consists of a diverse set of pub..
16.77£
Brand: Scholastic Corporation
This 'Spooky' themed anthology of poems is written by various authors. The anthologies in this series are updated and revised versions of previously published titles, each with several brand new poems in them. There's an anthology for every place a..
10.24£
Brand: Seagull Books
The first English translation of a major work of postwar German poetry. Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 writers' group, which sought to renew German-language literature after World War II. From a wide-rangi..
19.99£
States of Happiness, Suzanne Batty's second full-length collection, begins with an extended sequence written in memory of her twin sister. This explores their relationship from shared birth to her twin's early death from Friedreich's ataxia, a rare ..
13.80£
Brand: Everyman Chess
Legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has won eight Tonys, eight Grammys, six Olivier Awards, an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize. His brilliant songs and lyrics of genius have entertained us for more than half a century and hi..
15.31£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Stepping Stones, as its title suggests, leads the reader on a haphazard and unpredictable route across a landscape of different topics and themes and emotions through its 60 poems. A quarter of these, which emerged from the first lockdown in 2020, r..
11.97£
Christopher Meredith's new poetry collection Still, uses the title word as a fulcrum to balance various paradoxical concerns: stillness & motion, memory & forgetting, sanity & madness, survival & extinction. Lively and thought-provoking, this is a b..
13.73£
Here are the stories of boys, mere children, waiting in the square to be hired by a rich farmer who comes and squeezes young muscles before making his choice. Here is talk of hard borders and heartache; the harsh life of the mill workers; the dark s..
16.24£
Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self "don't write elegies/anymore," Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these..
20.34£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
STUDIES IN SMOKE is not fiction. The shared event is actual and the resonance real. So is this. This poetry remains faithful to traditional form. It is true to life and to living simply while thinking too much. It is true to the cycle of uneasy, nev..
17.14£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria..
12.02£
Brand: Batsford Books
A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the people who read them.Here is poetry for those no longer being spoken to but speaking, no longer being looked at but looking, from the contemporary voices of Fiona Benson and Jane Yeh..
17.12£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Bullhe Shah's work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded as a master of mystical Sufi poetry. His verses, famous for their vivid style and outspoken denunciation of artificial religious..
21.14£
Sugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the aftermath of sexual trauma on the female body, divorc..
22.16£
Brand: Milkweed Editions
FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS AWARDMeditative and richly written, this collection of poems by Kathy Fagan takes the sycamore as its inspiration-and delivers precise, luminous insights on lost love, nature, and the process of recovery."It is the se..
18.38£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Introduced by Ali Smith, the title of this group of poems about people is taken from Morgan's poem 'Pelagius', the theologian who is a kind of alter ego. Morgan has the ability to enter into so many lives: the blind hunchback of 'In the Snack-bar', ..
9.51£
Tuckahoe is a small community in the Hill Country of east Tennessee. A land which was settled in the early 1800s and where the values of honesty, friendship, and religion have persisted in spite of the changes of time. In his book, Mr. Cate tells th..
24.51£
Brand: OUP Oxford
'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories,..
16.90£