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Brand: Little Brown and Company
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / fr..
15.71£
Brand: Milkweed Editions
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves-from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón."I have always been too sensitiv..
26.28£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'The best modern prose translation of The Iliad' Robin Lane Fox, The TimesThe first of the world's great tragedies, The Iliad centres on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. In a series of dra..
13.56£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' GuardianOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, t..
14.92£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation.The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the ..
23.43£
Raymond Carver said of The Incognito Lounge, Denis Johnson's third and most widely acclaimed book of verse: The subject matter is harrowingly convincing, is nothing less than a close examination of the darker side of human conduct. Why do we act thi..
20.53£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Why are we here? What is our purpose? Is there a higher power and can we connect with it? These eternal questions have been posed throughout the ages. Various views and opinions towards the answers have formed clusters of believers who then forge se..
10.96£
Brand: Everyman Chess
The language of flowers is as old as language itself. In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple emotions, ideas, or states of mind: love, hope, despair, fidelity, solitude, beauty, mortality. Over time these associations e..
13.98£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to..
10.12£
A deeply emotional collection of poems that highlights the filly behind the legend of The Licorice Daughter, Ruffian. With tender care, Lifshin takes her readers through the too-short life of a racing wonder. Beginning before Ruffian's birth, this c..
23.82£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
The Life of Harishchandra, Raghavanka's thirteenth-century masterpiece, is the first poetic rendering of one of ancient India's most enduring legends. When his commitment to truth is tested by a powerful sage, King Harishchandra suffers utter depriv..
36.38£
Brand: Square Fish
Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the ..
23.67£
Brand: Random House
ISBN: 9781619022775Publisher: Penguin Random House GroupImprint: Counterpoint PressPublished date: 14 Jan 2014Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 64Weight: 91gHeight: 209mmWidth: 139mmSpine width: 8mm..
18.16£
ISBN: 9781935904373Publisher: Write Bloody PublishingImprint: Write Bloody PublishingPublished date: 29 Jul 2011DEWEY: 813.6DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 113Weight: 166gHeight: 216mmWidth: 144mmSpine width: 8mm..
19.40£
Brand: Orion
We all keep secrets. Even from ourselves.'A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY'Elegant, sinister, stylish' CHRIS WHITAKER'Grips from start to finish' HARRIET TYCE* * * * *YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE MAID..
12.42£
Brand: Saraband
Donald S. Murray is widely recognised for his empathy and remarkable ability to convey emotion with restraint and poignancy. In this short collection of poems written during lockdown at his Shetland home, Murray explores the changing geography of th..
11.40£
Brand: Olympia Publishers
This heartfelt collection of poems explores how it's possible to look back at alternative timelines and reflect on them. ISBN: 9781800744141Publisher: Olympia PublishersImprint: Olympia PublishersPublished date: 31 Mar 2022DEWEY: 821.92DEWEY edition..
11.86£
Brand: Princeton University Press
From an "uncommonly fluent" and "rewarding" poet (The Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray?The New World, Anthony Carelli's new collection of poems, is an American travelogue that unfolds in a series..
19.67£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness a..
29.01£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered i..
26.43£
Brand: Cornell University Press
In The Paradise Notebooks, Richard J. Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact.Over the course of twenty-one pairs of short essays, ..
32.82£
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
A study of the wealth of meanings that 'Persia' - real or imagined - held for Victorian poetry Takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to a significant strand in the 'Oriental' texture of Victorian poetry Contributes to a growing body of researc..
28.46£
Brand: Y Lolfa
A collection of poems embodying the thoughts and views of David Lewis, native of Pontypridd and a contemplative man who lived at the end of the 19th century and turn of the 20th century. The poems comprise keen comments and personal experience of so..
14.06£
"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of hug..
23.77£