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Poetry
Brand: Princeton University Press
Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Greeks and Romans, his funny, sexy, gen..
18.50£
After Image, Mary Turley-McGrath's new collection, is grounded in contemplations of her natural surroundings and her meditations on the lake she visits often in all weathers for consolation, hope, and inspiration. Clearly aware of the darkness overs..
23.35£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
'Blurb' Contained within, Poetic words, some grim, of my recent experiences, during these times mysterious, of love and loyalty, and life's' great frailties, words of understanding, and observations on society, I share all this with you, humor, tear..
10.83£
Throughout the storms of the pandemic and other challenges, #1 bestselling poet Zaneta Varnado Johns wrote to capture her rainbow of intense emotions. In After the Rainbow, maturity oozes throughout the golden lyrics penned in her highly anticipated..
27.60£
Afterwards is a book about the things that come after trauma. It encompasses the different kinds of grief- primarily the loss of a friend to suicide, but also the loss of an important relationship, and dealing with some loss related to family. There..
20.10£
Kemi Alabi's transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and ordained fictions--those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. In..
18.86£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Agamemnon led a ten-year-long struggle at Troy only to return home and die a pathetic death at his wife's hands. Yet while Agamemnon's story exerts an outsize influence-rivalled by few epic personalities-on the poetic narratives of the Iliad and Ody..
25.38£
This is a fully illustrated Gaelic anthology of children's verse, featuring over 200 rhymes, verses and jingles together with three very different styles of illustration. ISBN: 9780861526888Publisher: AcairImprint: AcairPublished date: 26 Aug 2005DE..
20.00£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
'Bilston is a magician with words' - GuardianThe perfect, witty gift for Valentine's and beyond. Alexa, what is there to know about love? is a wonderful collection of poems by Brian Bilston, Twitter's 'unofficial poet laureate', in which he frets ov..
13.98£
Brand: Orion
Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed throug..
10.30£
Brand: Kessinger Publishing
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available ..
9.81£
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses. In haunted poems glinting with laughter, Saeed Jones explores..
18.58£
Written for anyone who has known the touch of a cold nose on their hand, the bark of a best friend, or the joy of a walk accompanied by a wagging tail, All Dogs Are Good pays tribute to the special bond we share with our canine companions. Filled wi..
20.32£
The newest collection from Cedar Sigo, All This Time, pays homage to artistic influences that have shaped his poetic practices. Lyrical and haunted, these poems call attention to the experience of living as an embodiment of art, reminding the reader..
14.77£
Brand: Deep Vellum Publishing
The poems in Jenei's collection Always Different: Poems of Memory grapple with childhood, memory, and time. The poet looks back forty years and imagines himself as a boy-the narrator of the poems-looking forward into the future. Thus the poems combi..
16.68£
Guy Craig's Amble takes place in a broad, rural valley setting, exploring small-town values, loves, and visions. Nature-focused, with sometimes mystical and philosophical qualities, these poems move through life's morning, afternoon, and evening. Bo..
19.55£
Brand: Carcanet Press
Winner of the Pigott Poetry Prize 2022 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021A Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year 2021 Martina Evans's eponymous Mules are shoes brought to her as an exotic gift by an American relation. They su..
17.40£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
A leading critic explains what makes American poetry-a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form-distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and illuminati..
12.59£
Brand: Granta Publications
'A brilliant and beautiful book which wrestles with the scope and ache of lineage, the origin and myth and making of ourselves' - Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions 'Unlike almost anything I've read - so alive it seems to squirm to the..
15.34£
Brand: Bodleian Library
'The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day …' Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' has been loved and admired throughout the centuries. First circulated to a select group of friends, it was rushed to official publication in 1751 in ..
23.81£
The voices of near-extinct animals create troubled echoes in Jaya Stenquist's debut collectionThe voices of near-extinct animals create troubled echoes in Jaya Stenquist's debut collection, Animal Afterlife. In fragmented reincarnations, these poems..
23.68£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she found was quite different, "another America" that she chroni..
16.27£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
In Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, a woman's body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its forms cascades into metaphors of longing and separation just as o..
13.96£
Brand: Beacon Press
From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty, and hope. Raquel Salas Rivera's star has been rising in the poetry world for yea..
18.52£