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Poetry
Brand: Canongate Books
In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray - in his last work - offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this complete edition brings all three parts of Dante's epi..
18.99£
Brand: Random House
A heartwarming collection of short verse celebrating our beloved pets and the wonder of life Daniel Ladinsky is the internationally acclaimed poet known for his inspired, contemporary renderings of works by Hafiz, Rumi, St. Francis of Assisi, and p..
19.54£
Brand: Peter Lang
Die Vielfalt an Meinungen und Kontroversen, die Christa Wolf in der deutschsprachigen Literaturkritik hervorrief, ist auergewöhnlich - und überaus aufschlussreich, wie diese Analyse von Kritiken zu Wolfs belletristischem Werk aus Printmedien der DDR..
88.09£
Brand: Milkweed Editions
From Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood."What is learned? I'll return for my son; / at school, at three thirty-eight, bells will ring & run / days over years." Using unpredictabl..
16.16£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which Ne..
19.32£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
As the moon's gravity controls the waves at sea, so does de Luna grasp the intensifying emotions of power plus constraint. Submerging deeply in the darkness of pain, de Luna seeks to convey the experience of transitioning from a place of uncertainty..
15.31£
Brand: Faber & Faber
Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. In a collection with a taste for..
14.20£
Brand: Random House
A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club"No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Amer..
23.99£
Brand: Copper Canyon Press
Sexy, outspoken, and explosive, the terrorist of Soto's debut collection resists police violence with linguistic verve and radical honesty. This debut poetry collection demands the abolition of policing and human caging. In Diaries of a Terrorist, C..
17.20£
Brand: Columbia University Press
In Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye ..
22.74£
This suburban California coming of age navigates Trinidad's personal history in the shadow of Hollywood, against the dramas of the 1960s and '70s."Trinidad's pieces teach us how memory and history are forms of yearning, and about what can and cannot..
21.55£
Brand: Random House
From a groundbreaking Slovenian-Austrian poet comes an evocative, captivating collection on searching for home in a landscape burdened with violent history. At its core, Distant Transit is an ode to survival, building a monument to traditions and li..
17.65£
Opening a conversation with paintings and sculptures from the 16th Century to the present, this second collection by Nigel Hutchinson displays all his hallmark wit and insight. Artists as diverse and Brueghel (elder and younger), Lautrec, Paul Nash,..
13.77£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' Boston GlobeIn Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across th..
16.10£
Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
A beautiful book-length sonnet comprised of forty-nine poems, exploring life in all of its phases. Door to Door is a celebration of accident and grace in a world where wonder is too often supplanted by obligation. This collection of poems is split i..
17.51£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Each step we take, brings us closer to a moment in our life that may change it forever. Dreaming Missouri explores the nooks and crannies of a life; each moment filled with indelible, occasionally startling, events. Sometimes they happen to us. Some..
13.11£
Brand: Harvard University Press
Often considered China's greatest poet, Du Fu (712-770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the accumulated wisdom of the precedent cultural tradition would guarantee civilization's continued stability ..
60.21£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fenia..
33.76£
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and compelling poet of romantic tran..
18.97£
Brand: Steerforth Press
'The deepest mysteries of existence embodied in the most delicate and precise images. For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century' Philip Pullman, Guardian The first-ever English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward S..
18.17£
'I am the man who abandoned Alan Bennett under a bus shelter in Armley,' writes Jim Greenhalf in his new collection. It's partly an instruction manual for dummies on how to hack out a kind of contentment in spite of the times, even if you have an in..
11.64£
Brand: Random House
The title of Carl Dennis's new collection, Earthborn, helps to point the way to its two central concerns: how to find meaning, as creatures of the earth, in lives that are short and frail and destined to be forgotten; and how, as stewards of the ear..
20.59£
Brand: Princeton University Press
From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itselfEarthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure ..
19.96£
Brand: Carcanet Press
Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022 Awarded the Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022 Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2021 Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021 An Irish Times Best Poetry Books..
15.15£