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Poetry
Brand: Pan Macmillan
The Works 4 contains poems about everything and is divided into twenty-six alphabetical sections featuring poems about:A the ark and other creatures, B boys' stuff, C celebrations and festivals, D dinosaurs, dragons and dodos, E elements, seasons an..
13.50£
Brand: Harvard University Press
Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Parijatapaharaṇamu, which he based on a popular millennium-old tale, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, w..
35.19£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's Theogoney (c. 725 BCE) is a powerful creation myth: an epic, bloody tale of dark forces, sex and violence, tracing the histor..
12.40£
Brand: Harvard University Press
What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric-the older Romantic model and the moder..
45.74£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
This new book, The Witch in the Word Machine, is a collection that underpins Jenni Fagan's entire approach to words. Her spell poems are portraits of people, lovers and cities: Paris, New York, Edinburgh, Detroit, LA, and San Francisco. The excerpts..
13.87£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. These women were theris, the senior ones, among ordained Buddhist women, and they bore that epithet because of..
33.90£
Brand: Milkweed Editions
A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father. With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Frui..
18.05£
Shortlisted for the 2022 Palestine Book Awards"Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha's accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty."-The New York TimesIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under..
16.94£
Brand: Carcanet Press
Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022 An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021 A White Review Book of the Year 2021 Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around,' he write..
15.34£
Brand: OUP Oxford
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy-the first for nearly thirty years. The edition presents the poetry in a new way by giving the texts of Hardy'..
113.59£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
"When the blowing winds advocate to die… Hope and the light refuse to be shy…" Using every wound as a prop, every word as a weapon and her own life as a role model, Naziha Mahmood is fundamentally the subject of her own work. She is every person str..
15.06£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Saleena Landers has put together this amazing poetry book, Time x Time, which is a collection of thoughts that are inspired by true life events and encounters that she has experienced. Saleena has been using writing as a form of therapy since the ag..
14.86£
Brand: Harvard University Press
I have almost finished my longbook, Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good..
37.47£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Being a doctor is a privilege; it is also very demanding and can be stressful, and to be able to look after others, we need to look after ourselves. We offer you this little book of poetry, Tools of the Trade, as a friend to provide inspiration, com..
11.38£
Laynie Browne's latest poetry collection, Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists playfully employs the list poem and delivers poems which evade genre and subvert the quotidian material of daily life. These poems consider elegy, absence and bewild..
20.02£
Ukweli is the Swahili word for truth. This book meets this moment in America as a healing truth to overcome the trauma of slavery and the decades of violence that followed it. The personal accounts and insights from forty-five writers and poets will..
34.63£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Questa pubblicazione e' una raccolta bilingue di poesie del Tempo del Sogno (Dreamtime), originariamente scritte in italiano da Lino Concas e accompagnate dalla traduzione inglese di John Gatt-Rutter. Le poesie esprimono il fascino e l'identificazio..
18.05£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
"This collection of poems should not be read by anyone who does not have a robust sense of humour! No offence is intended: I take the mickey out of everyone, including myself. (I pull everyone's leg, especially the girls'. )" Robert Gentleman (aka "..
13.16£
Brand: Random House
Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder's best work, written during his most productive and important years. Many of these have been published in magazines or as..
21.77£
Martin Hayes' third Smokestack collection is a hymn to the invisible workers everywhere who hold up the sky - specifically the couriers and support staff who have been working 15-hours a day to distribute PPE and test kits up and down the UK. Undern..
12.59£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Here you will find a veritable garden of verse, with variety extraordinaire. These poems are sometimes serious, at other times silly. Some are profound while others are a bit perverse. But the glory of this volume, the 24 Sonnets after Shakespeare, ..
17.69£
Brand: Carcanet Press
A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2021 Recommendation An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021 Virga is the third book of poems by Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo, following on from his acclaimed collections Spirit Brides (2006) and Gumiguru (2014). ..
15.30£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.The poems themselves tell the story of his undying love for Beatrice, ..
15.62£
This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends wi..
23.52£