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Book SynopsisArguably the most famous road in Wales, the A470 is 186 miles from shore to shore through the backbone of Wales, linking north to south. Peaceful and picturesque or slow and never-ending: the road out of here, the road home, the beginnings of devolution? Glorious national parks, bypasses, being stuck behind a certain lorry firm or worse, a caravan, the road to the Royal Welsh? From the seashore to slates, from nuclear power stations and fighter plane flypasts to forests and mountains: Bwlch yr Oerddrws, Pen Y Fan. On the road or on a journey, there's no need to take the A470 too literally. Be ydi'r A470 i chi - siwrne dawel trwy harddwch Cymru neu daith araf a diddiwedd? Ai hon yw'r ffordd i adael, neu'r ffordd adref, neu ddechrau datganoli? Parciau Cenedlaethol, ffyrdd osgoi, llusgo mynd tu ol i lori neu waeth fyth garafan, y ffordd i'r Sioe Frenhinol? Traethau, chwareli, pwerdai niwclear, awyrennau rhyfel, coedwigoedd, mynyddoedd, Bwlch yr Oerddrws, Pen y Fan? Taith ddiriaethol ar y tarmac neu daith o fath gwahanol? Does dim rhaid dehongli'r A470 yn llythrennol. 51 original poems, translated into and out of Welsh, to create an entirely bilingual poetry collection. Edited by and translated by Sian Northey and Ness Owen, with additional translations from Sion Aled, and the authors.

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Book SynopsisIn this anthology, we tread the common ground of not having. But our lives are very different and each of our voices spins a different tale. Read on, and you will discover (un)common worlds. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

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Book SynopsisA collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender identity, and sexuality.Creative activists have reacted to the 2016 Presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan have drawn on their profound knowledge of the poetry scene to put together an extraordinary list of poets taking a feminist stance against the new authority. What began as an informal collaboration of like-minded poets—to be released as a handbound chapbook—has grown into something far more substantial and ambitious: a fully fledged anthology of women’s resistance, with a portion of proceeds supporting Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights.Representing the complexity and diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, this collection unites powerful new writers, performers, and activists with established poets. Contributors include Denice Frohman, Elizabeth Acevedo, Sandra Beasley, Jericho Brown, Mahogany L. Browne, Danielle Chapman, Tyehimba Jess, Kimberly Johnson, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Maureen N. McLane, Joyce Peseroff, Mary Ruefle, Trish Salah, Patricia Smith, Anne Waldman, and Rachel Zucker.Trade ReviewPraise for Women of Resistance Cited by Autostraddle as one of the "Queer and Feminist Books to Read in 2018" "Here we have 49 women and men and queers and inter-sexuals throwing their everything at this moment in time when the patriarch is really shaking, and it looks like he’s about to tumble down. We’ve got this shiny new book. People are scared that nothing will be left after he falls except a bunch of poems. Pick up this glowing book as you’re crawling through the rubble, and poem by poem and page by page you’ll begin to know that you’ll be okay. You’re in there, and so are your friends. You won’t starve, you’re safe and strong thanks to all these proud, funny, violent, trembling words. Start memorizing. Cause the future is here and this stuff is true." — Eileen MylesTable of ContentsPart I: Kiss Me, Kate - Sandra Beasley Female - Kimberly Johnson The Children's Chorus - Jacqueline Jones LaMon Civil Rights - Jacqueline Jones LaMon The Ride Home - Jacqueline Jones LaMon Over Mate - Ruth Irupe Sanabria Image - James Allen Hall Wedding Dress - James Allen Hall Good & Evil Shoes - Jan Beatty Getting a UTI - Laura Theobald Untitled - Laura Theobald Rib - Hope Wabuke Skin II: Firebird - Hope Wabuke Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits - Rachel Zucker And Still I Speak of It - Rachel Zucker Part II: January, after El Niño - Ryka Aoki 13 - Aracelis Girmay To the Husband - Aracelis Girmay Elegy with a White Shirt - Cynthia Dewi Oka Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion - Joyce Peseroff A Woman and Her Job - Elizabeth Clark Wessel That's Where You Disappear - Monika Zobel Of the Swan - Jericho Brown The Legend of Big and Fine - Jericho Brown Ladies Weekend in Brooklyn - Danielle Chapman To the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job - Elizabeth Acevedo dowry - Safia Elhillo zihour - Safia Elhillo after - Safia Elhillo Part III: If 2017 was a Poem Title - Mahogany L. Browne Heritage - Kaveh Akbar Poem for Suheir Hammad - Trish Salah Ode to the Pantsuit - Lauren Alleyne Madame X-- - Lauren Alleyne Matriot Acts - Anne Waldman Am Ha'aretz - Rosebud Ben Oni Stanzas for the Resistance - Todd Hearon The March - Achy Obejas Meanwhile - Maureen McLane Heidenröslein - Maureen McLane Hagar in the Wilderness - Tyehimba Jess To the breasts when it's over-- - Ellen Hagen To the woman on St. Nicholas Avenue whose thigh was a wilderness blooming-- - Ellen Hagen Kiss of the Sun - Mary Ruefle Lucky Ladies Sestina - Jill McDonough Accident, Mass. Ave - Jill McDonough

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Book SynopsisA compelling landmark anthology by two of the world's leading scholars of Arabic literature, it will become the key reference text of our age. With translated extracts of works by famous and lesser known but equally significant authors, it will appeal to those with an interest in world literatures and in Arab culture and history.Trade Review'Desert Songs of the Night is a wonderful introduction to fifteen centuries of a literature still largely unknown in the West, without which much of our civilizations would not have developed as they have, from the rediscovery of Aristotle by Arab commentators to the lyric poetry of Europe, from the magical world of the Arabian Nights to the modern revolutionary poets of Palestine. Absolutely essential reading for our troubled times.' Alberto Manguel; 'At a time when the world obsesses over violence and bloodletting in the Arab world, this remarkable anthology, which spans 1,500 years of Arab literary genius, is a stark reminder that there exists an untold story we keep missing about the region.' Hanan al-Shaykh; 'An arresting collection ... Dipping into this enchanting anthology one is struck by the sheer variety of voices that have emerged from the Arab world ... Hopefully, Desert Songs of the Night should inspire more English-speakers to study this wonderful language and render afresh its magnificent literary heritage.' Daily Telegraph, 4 Stars; 'This is a beautiful-looking book and inside the romance and beauty continue ... a valuable volume' Sunday HeraldTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Pre-Islamic Period (Jahiliyya) The Mu'allaqat Ode of Imru al-Qais Ode of Labid Ka'b Bin Zuhair, Su'ad is gone al-Aswad Bin Yafur, Ode from the Mufaddaliyat al-Khansa, Lament for My Brother al-Tirrimah, In the Heart of the Desert Jamil, Oh, That Youth's Flower Anew Might Lift its Head Katari of Mazin, To His Own Soul 'Umar Ibn Abi Rabi'ah, Blame Me No More, O Comrades! Part II: The Islamic Age The Holy Qur'an The Opening Surah XIX: Mary Surah LIX: Exile Surah LXXXIX: The Dawn Hadith, Selected Sayings Shaybani's Siyar, The Islamic Law of Nations Part III: The Ummayad Dynasty al-Akhtal, Youth Departed but Often I Enjoyed It al-Farazdaq, Let all weep for al-Hajjaj Jarir, al-Farazdaq Visited the Folk of Hijaz Abd al-Hamid al-Katib, The Art of Secretaryship Ibn al-Muqaffa, The Rabbit and the Elephant Ibn Ishaq, The Prophet's Mission Bashshar Ibn Burd, Will No Emissary Be Found Part IV: The Abbasid Dynasty Rabia al-Adawiya, O My Joy and My Desire and My Refuge Abu Nuwas Four Things Thou Scolder of Grape and Me The Great Offence Hurry, for the Beergardens are Blooming Abu'l Atahiya Vanity: To Harun al-Rashid Surely Shall Fate Disjoint the Proudest Nose Virtue Cast an Eye at Me Coming al-Jahiz, The Book of Proof: Concerning Asceticism Abu Tammam, In Praise of the Caliph Mu'tasim al-Buhturi, Bodies of Water Like Horses Ibn Qutayba, Extracts from Uyun al-Akhbar Ibn al-Rumi The Chess Champion The Compromise He Defends Himself al-Tabari, The Battle of Badr al-Hallaj, Three Qasidas al-Razi, The Repelling of Grief al-Farabi, The City and the Household al-Mutanabbi Parting Has Just Taught Our Eyelids Separation Shame Kept My Tears Away Couplet How Glows Mine Heart Naught Kills the Noble like Forgiveness My Songs Gave Eyes to the Blind, Ears to the Deaf An Induction Here is the Final Stretch Abu Firas al-Hamdani Thy Fiercest Foe is One Thou Dost Not Fight Grief Amasses, Patience Scatters al-Tawhidi, Arabs and Non-Arabs al-Kalabadhi,The Sufi Doctrine of Vision al-Hamadhani, The Assembly of Qazmin al-Ma'arri From the Diwan From the Lazumiyat 'Tis Said That Spirits Remove by Transmigration In the Casket of the Hours Thou Art Diseased in Understanding and Religion Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Concerning the Temporal Origin of the Soul Epistle of the Soul On Prophecy al-Hariri, The Assembly of Damascus al-Ghazzali The Beginning of Guidance The First Duty of Brotherhood Ibn Rushd (Averroes) The Law Makes Philosophic Studies Obligatory Ibn Tufayl Hayy Admires the Work of the Creator Playing with Fire Ibn Arabi The Wisdom of Virtue in the Word of Luqman Whoso Knoweth Himself - Selections from Tarjuman al-Ashwaq Ibnu'l Farid The Meeting Lo, From Behind the Veil Mysterious Ibn Khallikan, Ja'far and al-Rashid Part V: al-Andalus - Arab Spain 195 Ibn Hazm Of Fidelity Of Betrayal Anxiety Twice Times Then is Now Ibn Zaydun, Poem to Wallada al-Mutamid, The Moon, The Stars, and a King Abu'l Hasan Ali ibn Hisn, The Pigeon Abus Salt, The Incense Burner Ibn al-Faras, Moon of Beauty Ibn Said, The Guardians Ibn Maimon (Moses Maimonides), Guide for the Perplexed Solomon ibn Gabirol, The Ethics of Solomon Gabirol Part VI: The Age of Depression Ibn Battuta, Across North Africa Ibn Khaldun Three Extracts from Muqaddimah A Sign of Royal Authority The Romance of Antar Antar Summoned From Mecca To Rescue Shas 'Abla's Treasure Restored The Arabian Nights The Story of the Envier and the Envied Men in the Judgment of their Wives Adventure of the Caliph Haroon al-Rusheed Part VII: al-Nahda - Renaissance of Arabic Literature Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, The Virtues of the Arabs Ahmad Shawqi From Act I of Majnun Layla The Feast of Time An Andalusian Exile Hafiz Ibrahim, Elegy to Mustafa Kamil Khalil Mutran, The Arab Awakening Ilya Abu Madi Envoi Life and Love Gibran Kahlil Gibran The Poet From a Speech by Khalil the Heretic Ameen Rihani Light 302 Supplication: A Prayer Mikhail Naimy A New Year Comrade! Taha Hussein An Egyptian Childhood From The Stream of Days Abbas al-Aqqad, Drinking Song May Ziadah, Rejoice Mahmud Taymur, The Fare Tewfiq al-Hakim, Song of Death Part VIII: Modern Arabic Literature Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi I Weep for Love To the Tyrant Naguib Mahfouz, An Unnerving Sound Khalil Hawi, The Bridge 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, Apology for a Short Speech Salah 'Abd al-Sabur, The Tatars Attacked Mahmoud Darwish Pride and Fury Promises from the Storm Adonis, Iram the Many-Columned Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, A City Without Rain Yusuf al-Khal, The Deserted Well Muhammad al-Fayturi, Sorrow of the Black City Nazik al-Mala'ika Who Am I? Five Hymns to Pain Mona Fayad, Whisper Salma al-Khadra al-Jayyusi Without Roots In the Casbah Fudwa Tuqan A Prayer to the New Year In the Flux Mai Sayigh, Departure Nizar Qabbani Bread, Hashish and Moonlight Poems May Rihani, The Wedding of My City Antoine Raad, A Poet's Treasure Henri Zoghaib, This Is The Now Notes About the Authors Acknowledgements About the Editors

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Book Synopsis20 notecards with envelopes featuring artwork from The Book of Cat Poems illustrated by Sarah Maycock. Features the feline friends inspired by the poems of John Keats, Margaret Atwood and Oscar Wilde among others, alongside short quotations from the works on the back. Beautifully packaged in a presentation box. The cards are blank inside for your personal message.

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Book SynopsisSome sixty beautiful poems to celebrate the wonder of birds, and connect us back to nature. For all birdwatchers and all lovers of nature.

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Book SynopsisThe Craft is an indispensable guide to both the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of poetic craft in the 21st century, and essential writing-desk companion for poets at all stages. The book covers practical techniques – the nuts of bolts of putting poems together, mastering poetic forms such as sonnets, sestinas, prose poems and golden shovels, how to choose titles for your poems and the art of long sequences. It also explores the idea of ‘craft’ itself - knowing how pentameters dance is important, but by no way is it the only dimension of ‘craft’ that the poet starting out today has to consider. What about sound and the skills involved in performing your work? What about truth and fabrication, and the ethics of using real life in your work? What about the politics of the word ‘craft’ itself? With essays on poetry from Moniza Alvi, Dean Atta, Liz Berry, Caroline Bird, Malika Booker, Debjani Chatterjee, Jane Commane, Rishi Dastidar, Carrie Etter, Will Harris, Tania Hershman, Peter Kahn, Gregory Leadbetter, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Roy McFarlane, Harry Man, Claire Pollard, Peter Raynard, Roger Robinson, Jacqueline Saphra, Joelle Taylor, Marvin Thompson, Julia Webb, and Antosh Wojcik.

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Book SynopsisA beautiful poetry book by June Crebbin exploring the themes of wildlife, the seasons and life's simple pleasures.Gold/Band 9 fiction offers developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.Text type: A poetry bookA map of the places the poems explore on pages 22 and 23 provide recapping opportunities.Curriculum links: Literacy: Shape poetry and calligrams; Science: Plants and animals in the local environment.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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Book SynopsisSri Lanka has thrilled the foreign imagination as a land of infinite possibility. Portuguese, Dutch and British colonisers envisioned an island of gems and pearls, a stopping-point on the Silk Road; tourists today are sold a vision of golden beaches and swaying palm trees, delicious food and smiling locals. This favours the south of the island over the north rebuilt piecemeal after the end of the civil war in 2009, and erases a history of war crimes, illicit assassination of activists and journalists, subjugation of minorities, and a legacy of governmental corruption that has now led the country into economic and social crisis. This first ever anthology of Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry – many exiles refuse to identify as “Sri Lankan” – features over a hundred poets writing in English, or translated from Tamil and Sinhala. It brings to light a long-neglected national literature, and reshapes our understanding of migrational poetics and the poetics of atrocity. Poets long out of print appear beside exciting new talents; works written in the country converse with poetry from the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Poems in traditional and in open forms, concrete poems, spoken word poems, and experimental post-lyric hybrids of poetry and prose, appear with an introduction explaining Sri Lanka’s history. There are poems here about love, art, nature – and others exploring critical events: the Marxist JVP insurrections of the 1970s and 80s, the 2004 tsunami and its aftermath, recent bombings linked with the demonisation of Muslim communities. The civil war between the government and the separatist Tamil Tigers is a haunting and continual presence. A poetry of witness challenges those who would erase, rather than enquire into, the country’s troubled past. This anthology affirms the imperative to remember, whether this relates to folk practices suppressed by colonisers, or more recent events erased from the record by Sinhalese nationalists. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.Table of ContentsE = written in English S = translated from Sinhala T = translated from Tamil 19 Introduction Aazhiyaal (b. 1968) T 37 Unheeded Sights 38 Manamperis Bashana Abeywardane (b. 1972) S 39 The Window of the Present Packiyanathan Ahilan (b. 1970) T 40 Days of the Bunker III 41 A Poem about Your Village and My Village 43 Corpse No. 182 43 Corpse No. 183. Newborn No. 02 Alari (b. 1976) T 44 When Someone Is Killed 44 A Lifeless Sea 45 The Sun Wanders, Searching for Shade Liyanage Amarakeerthi (b. 1968) S 47 Once Upon a Foreign Country 49 Will We Find the Strings of the Veena? 52 A Poem’s Plea Premini Amerasinghe (b. 1933) E 52 The Matrimonial Column 53 A Rustic Scene Indran Amirthanayagam (b. 1960) E 54 The Death Tree 55 Not Much Art Anar (b. 1974) T 58 Killing a Woman 58 Woman 59 Zulaikha Jean Arasanayagam (1931–2019) E 60 The Wasp 61 The Poet 62 A Country at War 63 Ancestors Parvathi Solomons Arasanayagam (b. 1964) E 67 Identity 68 A Familiar Terrain 68 Human Driftwood Thiagarajah Arasanayagam (b. 1934) E 69 Kappal Matha – Kayts Ki. Pi. Aravindan (1953–2015) T 72 Look at the Sky 73 Directions 74 The Night Approaches Upekala Athukorala (b. 1986) S 74 Snaggle tooth 75 Some Yashodaras 76 Crazy Woman Avvai (b. 1965) T 77 The Homecoming 78 The Return Thilakaratha Kuruvita Bandara (b. 1941) S 80 The Gods Alarmed, Descend to Earth 80 A Child’s Pestering Ruwan Bandujeeva (b. 1983) S 81 Earthworms 82 A Tree to its Flowers 82 A Joy – A Bliss 82 What Answers from the Common Crows? Briyanthy (b. 1985) T 83 Sorrow Created and Sorrows Relieved S. Bose (1975–2007) T 85 My life in Books 86 from The Veenai 86 Now Suresh Canagarajah (b. 1957) E 87 Lavannya’s Twilight Bike Ride Cheliyan (1960–2018) T 88 Those Who Enter the Pit 89 Untitled 89 Merciless Ones 90 On a Rainy Day Cheran (b. 1960) T 91 I Could Forget All This [1983] 92 My Land [1981] 94 Nandikadal [2009] 94 Grave Song Rienzi Crusz (1925–2017) E 96 Song of the Immigrant 97 Leaving – Michael-style 98 The Elephant Who Would Be a Poet A.P. David (b. 1964) E 99 Fishermen Megan Dhakshini (b. 1983) E 100 In Lockdown 101 21 Wimal Dissanayake (b. 1939) S 101 Anuradhapura 102 Strange Flowering 103 Homecoming 103 Anjali Dushyanthan (b. 1964) T 104 They Do Not Know Patrick Fernando (1931–82) E 106 The Fire Dance 107 Aeneas and Dido 108 Ballad of a River Sandra Fernando (———) E 109 … and in the middle 110 Setting the Table for Dinner 112 Shirt Ru Freeman (b. 1967) E 113 Erasure 114 Loose Change 114 In Your Hour of Need, God Buddhadasa Galappathy (b. 1947) S 116 I Am Not Sita 117 Alms for King Vessantara Kapila M. Gamage (———) S 118 Teriyum Kokila 119 Prayers to Konesvaran V.V. Ganeshananthan (b. 1980) E 121 the faithful scholar dreams of being exact 121 from The Five-year Tongue Twisters Yasmine Gooneratne (b. 1935) E 123 Horoscope 124 Peredeniya Landscape 124 The Brave Man Who Keeps Snakes as His Pets Sunil Govinnage (b. 1950) E 126 The City of Light 126 My English Verse 127 On Becoming an Intellectual Amali Gunasekera (b. 1971) E 128 How to Watch a Solar Eclipse in a Bowl of Water 129 from Beloved 130 Peace Dayasena Gunasinghe (1936–96) S 131 The Blue of My Eyes Siri Gunasinghe (1925–2017) S 133 A Memorial 134 The Water Buffalo 135 Renunciation Yvonne Gunawardena (1926–2022) E 138 Homecoming 138 Ancestral Voices 139 Thoughts on a Train Journey 140 Letter to England Romesh Gunesekera (b. 1954) E 141 The Big Wave 142 Circled by Circe Rohitha Gunetilleke (b. 1954) E 144 Eventually 145 Cowboys Aparna Halpé (———) E 146 Poson 147 5.45 at St George Ashley Halpé (1933–2016) E 149 the tale of Divnuhamy 150 all our Aprils 151 The Second Reading Tashyana Handy (b. 1998) E 152 C189 Lal Hegoda (b. 1947) S 154 I’m a Man Because You Are a River 155 Bhikku at the Ferry Ajith C. Herath (b. 1967) S 156 Last Station 157 from Seven Dreams Vipuli Hettiarachchi (b. 1968) S 160 We Are Women 161 Balachandran 161 ‘Iron Lady’ Eric Illayapparachchi (b. 1954) S 163 The Bomb at the Rooftop Restaurant 164 Against Colombo Faheema Jahan (b. 1973) T 165 The Sea’s Waters 166 After Catastrophe V.I.S. Jayapalan (b. 1944) T 167 One Night in Frankfurt 168 Hope 169 Blue 169 from Song of the Defeated Ramya Jegatheesan (b. 1993) E 172 from The Ariel Collection, Or, Colonise my tongue and laugh at the irony A. Jesurasa (b. 1946) T 174 Under New Shoes 175 In Memory of the Nameless 176 Afterwards 176 Yet, Time Remains Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe (b. 1971) E 178 Food for My Daughter 179 On Waiting with a Friend Getting His Heart Tested Madri Kalugala (b. 1990) E 180 Last night I dreamed your horse had died 181 Sundowning Karunakaran (b. 1963) T 182 Along That Very Road 183 Burning Nests 184 The Warrior Who Could Not Part from His Shadow U. Karunatilake (———) E 185 Letter from Boralanda 186 Hometown Timran Keerthi (b. 1980) S 187 The Forgotten Book George Keyt (1901–93) E 189 Kandyan Village Parakrama Kodituwakku (b. 1943) S 195 Court Inquiry of a Revolutionary. 196 An Unfinished Lesson 197 Little Brother Senerath Gonsal Korala (———) S 199 The Song of a New Shawl Sita Kulatunga (1930s–2014) E 200 Pitu padam namamaham (I worship at the feet of my father) 201 Why Neetha Kunaratnam (b. 1976) E 202 The Afterlife 203 Poppy 204 Beeline Latha (b. 1968) T 205 from Untitled Sundra Lawrence (b. 1975) T 208 Gold 208 Rassam Mahakavi (1927–71) T 209 Ahalikai 212 from Birth 213 from Excellence Sunanada Mahendra (b. 1938) S 215 The Mountain Imaad Majeed (b. 1991) E 216 arma christi 217 ‘keppetipola mawatha’ Sharanya Manivannan (b. 1985) E 219 The Mothers 220 River Arji Manuelpillai (b. 1981) E 221 credit card 221 after the Sri Lankan bombing that kills 360 (after the 20-year war that killed significantly more) 222 after being called a paki Mishal Mazin (b. 1994) E 223 Rajagiriya 224 Té Kadé Ciara Mandulee Mendis (b. 1991) E 226 The Dancing Woman at Embekke 227 SWOT Analysis on Marriage Tyrrell Mendis (1934–2021) E 228 Pivot 228 Spring Morning Carl Muller (1935–2019) E 229 Deiyyo Saakki! 233 Que sera, sera R. Murugaiyan (1935–2009) T 234 Variations 236 Toil 236 Aboard a Van Neelaavanan (1931–75) T 238 Sleep 239 Murungaikaai 240 Faster, Faster Nilanthan (b. 1970) T 241 End of an Age 2 241 Kanji Song 1 242 The Mother of Two Martyrs 243 Pina Koorai S. Niroshini (b. 1984) E 244 Neruda’s Last Word(s) 245 Period Party / 246 Girl, Ceylon M.A. Nuhman (b. 1944) T 249 from Saluting Heroic Vietnam from the Corners of Our Little Village 250 Last Evening, This Morning 252 Buddha Murdered Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) E 253 Letters & Other Worlds 255 The Cinnamon Peeler 257 House on a Red Cliff S. Pathmanathan (b. 1939) T 258 See Through 259 A Thorn in My Flesh Vihanga Perera (b. 1984) E 260 The Playwright 261 The Memory of Fragrance Kasro Ponnuthurai (b. 1995) T 262 Amir’s Lover S. Porawagamage (b. 1993) E 265 My Kinda Name 266 The Wings 266 The First Name Pramil (1939–97) T 268 The Desert 268 (your) Name 269 The Great Wind Tamer Shirani Rajapakse (b. 1967) E 269 Unwanted 270 Chant of a Million Women S. Rajasingham (b. 1927) T 272 Lizards T. Ramalingam (1933–2008) T 273 The Future Anne Ranasinghe (1925–2016) E 275 Judgement 276 At What Dark Point 278 July 1983 Ariyawansa Ranaweera (b. 1942) S 279 Today’s Lion 280 The Giraffe 281 Paintings at Gothami Vihara 282 The Intersection Eva Ranaweera (1924–2010) E 283 In the Street of the Pearl Tree Chalani Ranwala (b. 1991) E 284 The in-betweeners A.M. Rashmy (b. 1974) T 285 from Songs in a Time of Confinement Sahanika Ratnayake (b. 1989) E 287 from Murmur 288 from Case Study #1: Vocabulary Lesson 289 Case Study #3: Chariot Vidyan Ravinthiran (b. 1984) E 290 Uncanny Valley 291 Ceylon 291 The Annupoorunyamal Monica Ruwanpathirana (1947–2004) S 293 My Grief 293 Wife Lamenting 294 from Your Friend She Is Woman Pubudu Sachithanandan (b. 1980) E 295 Anthem: The war is over Minoli Salgado (b. 1960s) E 297 Blood Witness 298 Telegraph A. Sankari (b. 1948) T 299 Living and Dying 300 In Their Eyes Dipti Saravanamuttu (b. 1960) E 301 Among the Icons 302 Landscape Art 304 Line Drawing 305 Flying North in Winter Peter Scharen (———) E 306 Landscape 306 Winter Lines 307 Transitory Mahagama Sekera (1929–76) S 308 The Moon and New York City. 309 No. 16 309 No. 24 310 See Yourself in My Poetry Selvi (1960–91) T 311 Summertime 312 Raman, like Raavanan 312 Within Me G.B. Senanayake (1913–85) S 314 Philosophers and Pundits Dishani Senaratne (b. 1986) E 316 Dreams 316 Lament Gamini Seneviratne (———) E 317 Tune for Ariel 319 Nangi 319 Arjuna Malinda Seneviratne (b. 1965) E 320 Nangi 321 Oil-bullets 321 Mitsi Seni Seneviratne (b. 1951) E 322 Dear Mum 323 Opus Tesselatum 324 Slave Lodge, Cape Town Natchathiran Sevvinthiyan (b. 1974) T 326 Until My Wineglass Was Empty 326 Kokkatticholai 166 Sharmila Seyyid (b. 1982) T 327 Three Dreams 328 Keys to an Empty Home 329 Fire Alfreda de Silva (1930–2001) E 330 Grassfields in Sunlight 331 Cormorants and Children 331 The End of Something 332 Kotmale Lakshmi de Silva (b. 1936) E 333 Tangalla, 9th April 1971 334 Addition and Subtraction S.J. Sindu (b. 1987) E 335 Gods in the Surf 335 For Sale: 1997 Christmas Barbie, $600 Regi Siriwardena (1922–2004) E 337 Birthday Apology and Apologia 340 Colonial Cameo 340 To the Muse of Insomnia Shirani Situnayake (b. 1957) E 341 Beginnings Shanmugam Sivalingam (1936–2012) T 342 Nowadays 342 Unsung Songs 343 In Memory of Our Songs Sumathy Sivamohan (b. 1959) E 345 on reading the astonishing novel ‘mm’ by shoba shakthi S. Sivaramani (1968–91) T 347 Oppressed by Nights of War 348 [Untitled] S. Sivasegaram (b. 1942) T 350 from Faces of War Solaikili (b. 1957) T 353 The Story of a Golden River 354 A Refugee Poet Talking to the Moon Isuru Chamara Somaweera (b. 1981) S 355 The Little Fellow 356 My Pillow Is Wet 357 Mother’s Actress Friend 357 The Meaning of Life. Sandaresee Sudusinghe (b. 1984) S 358 from Gini Wadunu Piyapath Pireeni Sundaralingam (b. 1977) E 360 Lot’s Wives 361 Fugue 362 Times Two Yasmin V. Tambiah (b. 1961) E 364 The Civil War 365 Sandalwood M.J.T. Tambimuttu (1915–83) E 366 My Country, My Village Theepachelvan (b. 1983) T 369 The Lost Kitten 370 A Friend Stands Behind Me 371 An Unpublished Poem Ajith Thilakasena (b. 1933) S 371 Where 372 I do not know if… Thiru Thirukkumaran (b. 1978) T 373 Resurrection 374 This Is How the Buddha Disappeared 375 A Detached Feather Thirumavalavan (1955–2015) T 376 Mullaitivu 376 Living Shash Trevett (b. 1974) E 377 Uduvil, Nightfall 378 The Sinhala Only Act, 1956 379 My Grandfather’s House Urvasi (b. 1956) T 380 Do You Understand? 381 Why Must We Wait? Vivimarie Vanderpoorten (———) E 382 Cadaver 383 Traditional 384 Diplomatic S. Vilvaratnam (1950–2006) E 385 There Was a Time 386 The Echo of Moonlight S. Vinothini (b. 1969) T 388 The Mask Maker 389 The Night Nandana Weerasinghe (———) S 390 The Moon-shadow 390 Full Moon on a Dewdrop. 391 Kalidasa and the Moon 392 Something Square-shaped Rushika Wick (b. 1973) E 393 Hair 393 Ultramarine Pink PV15 394 Yellow Phone in the Yellow House Illavalai Wijayendran (b. 1961) T 395 To Those Who Bear Sticks 395 The Missing Children 396 The Veenai and the Sword Ratna Sri Wijesinghe (b. 1953) S 397 Two Teardrops 398 from The Motherless Two Lakdasa Wikkramasinha (1941–78) E 400 Don’t Talk to Me about Matisse 400 The Flames, 1972 401 Luis de Camoes 402 Middle Richard de Zoysa (1958–90) E 402 Animal Crackers 404 Corporation Love Song (1) 405 [as Angela de Silva] Gajagavannama 406 The Poet 409 Translators 415 Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of Latin poetry produced during a period of four and a half centuries.

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Book SynopsisThis unique collection brings together the finest poetry and prose on the Nakba by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years.Trade Review`In this crucial anthology, Palestine's greatest classic and contemporary writers use the poetry and rigour of their words to delineate both the trauma of the past and the continuities of exile, oppression and resistance.' Molly Crabapple; `An essential collection of vital voices ... Palestinian literature and thought are defiantly alive and pushing boundaries in fiction, poetry, memoir and reportage.' Bidisha; `This anthology brilliantly brings together seminal writings on the Nakba. It will be of interest to students of literature as well as those wishing to learn about Palestine for a long time to come.' Yasir Suleiman, University of Cambridge and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies; `This collection sings of more than just suffering - remembrance and beauty, too.' Fatima Bhutto;`A Map of Absence is a remarkable collection of some of the finest examples of [Palestinian] literature ... It is the details hidden in each piece of writing - occasionally hopeful, often heartbreaking - that lend this collection its personality.' The National; `Core questions are addressed throughout: injustice, memory, resistance, longing for peace and a normal life, and especially return to the homeland ... A Map of Absence has the makings of becoming a classic, due to its documentation of a seminal event and the beauty and intensity of the writing. In the words of Atef Alshaer, "Nowhere has the voice of Palestine resonated more powerfully than in the literature of Palestinians".' The Jordan Times; `A Map of Absence< is a tribute to the power and elegance of the Arabic language and to the sensitivity of the editor. Some of the contributors write in English but most are beautifully translated from the original Arabic. Above all, the book is a reminder of the suffering and bravery of many of today's refugees in their fight to find a new identity and deal with the fact that they can never forget their home, their land and the identity they have lost.' 7D News; `Throughout this book, it is the human experience that stands out, elsewhere discarded to make space for the politics that have disrupted and ruptured Palestinian lives.' Middle East Monitor

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Book SynopsisThe Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. As a unifying principle, editor Marlé Hammond has selected eighty poems reflecting desire and longing of various kinds: for the beloved, for the divine, for the homeland, and for change and renewal. Poets include the legendary pre-Islamic warrior 'Antara Ibn Shaddad, medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, the wandering poet Al-A’sha, and the influential Egyptian Romantic Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi. Here too are literary giants of the past century: Khalil Jibran, author of the bestselling The Prophet; popular Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani; Palestinian feminist Fadwa Tuqan; Mahmoud Darwish, bard of occupation and exile; acclaimed iconoclast Adonis, and more. In their evocations of heroism, nostalgia, mysticism, grief, and passion, the poems gathered here transcend the limitations of time and place.

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Book SynopsisCarmina Burana, the largest surviving collection of secular Medieval Latin verse, features poems on subjects ranging from sex and gambling to crusades and corruption. This new, two-volume presentation of the medieval classic makes the anthology accessible in its entirety to Latin lovers and English readers alike.Trade Review[Traill] brings to this ambitious project deep knowledge of medieval Latin poetry and the Carmina Burana manuscript…These are, indeed, translations worth having…The DOML Carmina Burana is a wonderful resource. -- Thomas C. Moser, Jr. * Speculum *

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From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Réda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today’s rising stars mingling with the great writers of past centuries: La Fontaine, Villon, du Bellay, Christine de Pisan, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and many more. Here, too, are representatives of the modern francophone world, encompassing Lebanese, Tunisian, Senegalese and Belgian poets, including such notable writers as Léopold Senghor, Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Hédi Kaddour. Finally, this anthology showcases a wide range of the English language’s finest translators - including such renowned poet-translators as Ezra Pound, John Ashbery, Marianne Moore and Derek Mahon - in a dazzling tribute to the splendours of French poetry.

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Book Synopsis Printer''s ink is the greater explosive.—Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World—and within a year, he had brought out two more volumes, translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then, poems by Kenneth Patchen. But it was the success and scandal of Number Four, Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956), that put City Lights on the map, positioning the Pocket Poets Series at the forefront of the literary counterculture. A landmark sixtieth retrospective celebrating 60 years of publishing and cultural history, this edition provides an invaluable distillation of the energetic, iconoclastic and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes, including the work of Ginsberg, KTrade Review"[A] book you can’t help but cherish.”—Times Literary Supplement "The true marvel of the City Light Pocket Poets Anthology is its reappearance in its 60th year. That represents a venerable tradition (and a long run) for an avant-garde that often mutates too quickly for continuity … just as Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems became the best-selling poetry book of a generation, Ferlinghetti’s own A Coney Island of the Mind, with its insouciant bravado and cheer, has passed the million sales mark. That’s a rare occurrence in these United States. So is the Pocket Poets Series.”—John Tytell, Los Angeles Review of Books "The 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology is the kind of collection the publisher has produced for years. It keeps the brand alive and necessary, and wow, there are some special treats, like poems by Pablo Picasso. Its old news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who edited this, has been looking at art with devastating erudition since the middle of the last century. As anthologist, he has lost none of his edge, and so he gives us a fabulous stew of the familiar, in Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, and other beats mixed in with Marie Ponsot, has earned more attention than she usually receives — There is so much more in this blazing gift of a volume that provides another example of the range of the City Lights endeavor. Allen Ginsberg. Gregory Corso. Diane di Prima. Check. Check. Check. Plus imported and domestic surprises. Pocket Poets has always been a project that enabled people to carry fine poems comfortably in their clothes, next to skin, so that this great stream of poetry could seep right in.”—The Rumpus “Open the book anywhere and you will be sure to find an unexpected delicacy that gives rise to political memories, trips to distant places, or spiritual quests … Ferlinghetti has once again given us the opportunity to walk the streets with laughter, satire, ferment, sadness, joy, dissidence, and love tucked in our pockets.”—R.I. Sutherland-Cohen, Beat Scene "San Francisco’s City Lights Books began publishing the Pocket Poets Series in 1955. Speaking of his intentions for the series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes, 'I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment.' Consistent with this philosophy, the new 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology includes not only the familiar names associated with a particular San Francisco literary scene (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti himself, others), but writing and writers from across the years and oceans. Readers possessing only anecdotal familiarity with City Lights Books will find an unexpected breadth of artistic sensibility within the Anthology, and no doubt several fine poems by previously undiscovered writers. Recommended for established fans of the press and newcomers alike.”—Toad Suck Review"[A] book you can’t help but cherish.”—Times Literary Supplement "The true marvel of the City Light Pocket Poets Anthology is its reappearance in its 60th year. That represents a venerable tradition (and a long run) for an avant-garde that often mutates too quickly for continuity … just as Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems became the best-selling poetry book of a generation, Ferlinghetti’s own A Coney Island of the Mind, with its insouciant bravado and cheer, has passed the million sales mark. That’s a rare occurrence in these United States. So is the Pocket Poets Series.”—John Tytell, Los Angeles Review of Books "The 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology is the kind of collection the publisher has produced for years. It keeps the brand alive and necessary, and wow, there are some special treats, like poems by Pablo Picasso. Its old news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who edited this, has been looking at art with devastating erudition since the middle of the last century. As anthologist, he has lost none of his edge, and so he gives us a fabulous stew of the familiar, in Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, and other beats mixed in with Marie Ponsot, has earned more attention than she usually receives — There is so much more in this blazing gift of a volume that provides another example of the range of the City Lights endeavor. Allen Ginsberg. Gregory Corso. Diane di Prima. Check. Check. Check. Plus imported and domestic surprises. Pocket Poets has always been a project that enabled people to carry fine poems comfortably in their clothes, next to skin, so that this great stream of poetry could seep right in.”—The Rumpus “Open the book anywhere and you will be sure to find an unexpected delicacy that gives rise to political memories, trips to distant places, or spiritual quests … Ferlinghetti has once again given us the opportunity to walk the streets with laughter, satire, ferment, sadness, joy, dissidence, and love tucked in our pockets.”—R.I. Sutherland-Cohen, Beat Scene "San Francisco’s City Lights Books began publishing the Pocket Poets Series in 1955. Speaking of his intentions for the series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes, 'I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment.' Consistent with this philosophy, the new 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology includes not only the familiar names associated with a particular San Francisco literary scene (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti himself, others), but writing and writers from across the years and oceans. Readers possessing only anecdotal familiarity with City Lights Books will find an unexpected breadth of artistic sensibility within the Anthology, and no doubt several fine poems by previously undiscovered writers. Recommended for established fans of the press and newcomers alike.”—Toad Suck ReviewTable of ContentsCity Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 40th Anniversary edition, published in 1995, contained a selection of three poems each from every Pocket Poet book published in the series, up through Number 52. This edition picks up where that left off, including all of the above, and adding three poems each (selected again by Ferlinghetti, series editor) from the titles/poets published in the series since then: Number 53 SAVE TWILIGHT Julio Cortázar Number 54 ORPHIC SONGS Dino Campana Number 55 FRONT LINES Jack Hirschman Number 56 NINE ALEXANDRIAS Semezdin Mehmedinovic Number 57 THE LANGUAGE OF SAXOPHONES Kamau Daáood Number 58 STATE OF EXILE Cristina Peri Rossi Number 59 TAU Philip Lamantia Number 60 WHEN I WAS A POET David Meltzer

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Book SynopsisBeing 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, comfort and support as you begin work.

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Book SynopsisThese verses are a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage.Trade Review. . . the translation may indeed be regarded as the crowning achievement of a great scholar. * Scandinavian-American Bulletin *Table of Contents General Introduction The Prophecy of the Seeress: Voluspá The Sayings of Hár: Hávamál The Lay of Vafthrúthnir: Vafthrúthnismál The Lay of Grímnir: Grímnismál The Lay of Skírnir: Skírnismál The Lay of Hárbarth: Hárbarzljóth The Lay of Hymir: Hymiskvitha The Flyting of Loki: Lokasenna The Lay of Thrym: Thrymskvitha The Lay of Alviís: Alvíssmál Baldr's Dreams: Baldrs draumar The Lay of Ríg: Rígsthula The Lay of Hyndla: Hyndluljóth The Short Seeress' Prophecy: Voluspá hin skamma The Lay of Svipdag: Svipdagsmál The Spell of Gróa: Grógaldr The Lay of Fjolsvith: Fjolsvinnsmál The Lay of Grotti: Grottasongr The Lay of Volund: Volundarkvitha The Helgi Lays The Lay of Helgi Hjorvarthsson: Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar The First Lay of Helgi the Hunding-Slayer: Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I The Second Lay of Helgi the Hunding-Slayer: Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II Sinfjotli's Death: Frá dautha Sinfjotla The Prophecy of Grípir: Grípisspá The Lay of Regin: Reginsmál The Lay of Fáfnir: Fáfnismál The Lay of Sigrdrífa: Sigrdrífumál The Great Lacuna Fragment of a Sigurth Lay: Brot of Sigurtharkvithu The First Lay of Guthrún: Guthrúnarkvitha I The Short Lay of Sigurth: Sigurtharkvitha hin skamma Brynhild's Ride to Hel: Helreith Brynhildar The Fall of the Niflungs: Dráp Niflunga The Second (or Old) Lay of Guthrun: Guthrúnarkvitha II (hin forna) The Third Lay of Guthrun: Guthrúnarkvitha III The Plaint of Oddrún: Oddrúnargrátr The Lay of Atli: Atlakvitha . The Greenlandish Lay of Atli: Atlamál hin groenlenzku Guthrun's Lament: Guthrúnarhvat The Lay of Hamthir: Hamthismál (hin fornu) The Catalogue of Dwarfs: (Dvergatal) Guide to Pronunciation Glossary Selected Bibliography Index and List of Names

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Book SynopsisThe Berber tribes of the Mountains of Morocco are one of the great and inspiring survival stories of our times. They have occupied their mountain homelands since before the dawn of history, and travellers have long marvelled at how their music, dance, pre-historic rock carvings, traditional jewelry, tattoos, indigenous pottery, embroideries and carpets have all been impregnated with the wild soul of their fierce mountainous landscape. Never before have their traditional odes – which open up to us a precious window into a Homeric nobility and spiritualized landscape – been translated into English. Michael Peyron who has taught, explored and researched the history of the Berbers of Morocco over the last fifty years, has an exceptional understanding of this region and a unique archive of oral transmissions from some of the last bards uninfluenced by the modern world. This collection is both a gift to travellers and a priceless legacy.

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Book SynopsisWinner • Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Translation Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature.Trade Review"Like Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf,…Dubin reproduces the world and the feeling of the medieval tale…that travel joyfully from the Middle Ages to the present." -- R. Howard Bloch, from the introduction to The Fabliaux"Devilishly bawdy and irreverent…The 69 fabliaux presented here in their original French and translated into rascally, buoyant English by Nathaniel E. Dubin, are relentlessly scabrous, egregiously misogynistic, and exuberantly oppositional to ‘bourgeois respectability’ and the church…. Vivid, funny, robustly grotesque, and drolly outrageous, these satirical tales of lust, revenge, and folly feature lecherous peasants, fornicating priests, scoundrels, fools, and women wily and tough, castigated and abused…. An historic literary achievement bound to arouse vociferous discussion." -- Booklist"Pure, unadulterated fun…. A golden bough of erotic imagination and folk humor, peopled by randy wives, cuckolded husbands, fornicating priests, and priapic knights…. Ultimately, what’s so potent and profound about these risqué yarns is not their unbridled expressions of sexuality and vulgarity per se, but their unusual ability to provoke a carnivalesque laughter in all. Through denuding, debauchery, and bodily degradation, the fabliaux create a common denominator for humanity, an earthy, holistic world in which, to quote Bakhtin again, ‘he who is laughing also belongs to it.’ Flaunting unabashed obscenity in delightful verse, The Fabliaux is a book that would entertain the fans of Dr. Freud and Dr. Seuss alike." -- Yunte Huang - The Daily Beast"Fabliaux are comic tales, in verse, composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries…. The words used…have not been adjusted to conform to modern immodesty; the translation is literal…[This is the] first substantial collection of fabliaux, in any language, for today’s general reader." -- Joan Acocella - The New Yorker"The fabliaux, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist." -- Christopher Ricks - New York Review of Books"The fabliaux are important not only for their approach to humor, but for their focus on sex, class and wealth, and bodily functions like eating and defecating—all elements quite absent from more highbrow, courtly, or Church-sanctioned religious texts. Liveright’s edition serves as the largest and most complete collection of fabliaux, in English or French, ever published “for the general reader…" The Fabliaux is a reminder that medieval texts can remain engaging, lively, and, above all, funny." -- Charlotte Bhaskar - Zyzzyva

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Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021. This first anthology of 'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan Thomas, W.S. Graham), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, Paul Potts). Over forty of the poets are women, of whom Edith Sitwell is among the most exuberant. Much of the contents has never previously been anthologised; many poems are reprinted for the first time since the 1940s. The poetry of the Second World War appears in a new context, as do early Tomlisnon and Hill. Here readers can enjoy an overview of the visionary-modernist British and Irish poetry of the mid-century, its antecedents and its aftermath. As a period style and as a body of work, Apocalyptic poetry will come as a revelation to most readers.

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Book SynopsisSelected by editor Bardia Sinaee, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2022.Featuring:David Barrick • Nina Berkhout • Nicholas Bradley • Alison Braid • Louise Carson • Hilary Clark • Erin Conway-Smith • Nancy Jo Cullen • Kayla Czaga • Rocco de Giacomo • Jean Eng • Joel Robert Ferguson • Susan Gillis • Luke Hathaway • Beatriz Hausner • Robert Hogg • Evan Jones • Meghan Kemp-Gee • Joseph Kidney • Matthew King • Sarah Lachmansingh • T. Liem • Seth MacGregor • Sadie McCarney • Erin McGregor • Anna Moore • Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin • Barbara Nickel • Peter Norman • Tolu Oloruntoba • Michael Ondaatje • Jana Prikryl • Matt Rader • Monty Reid • Lisa Richter • Meaghan Rondeau •

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Book SynopsisA beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label Asian American and Pacific Islander in today's world.In this thoughtfully curated, intergenerational collection, poets of multiple languages, lands, and waters write against and through the contested terrain of AAPI identity. Too often, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans are squeezed into the same story. The poets gathered here, and the lineages they represent, exceed this sameness. May this anthology uplift complexities and incite transformation and joy.Contributors include Marilyn Chin, Joshua Nguyen, Teresia Teaiwa, Haunani-Kay Trask, and many more writers, both established and emerging.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.Trade Review“The fairy legends of medieval Britain are at the very heart of romance: lightly touched, shimmering with suggestion, as hard to catch in their rhythmic dance as the elves glimpsed at twilight. They deal with otherworld lovers, enchanted hags, magic trees and magic animals, strange abductions and bold rescues. Yet they have never been well-known except to scholars, for the Middle English and Scots in which they are written is difficult enough to keep readers at bay, and in prose translation they lose much of their charm. Marijane Osborn’s rendition of nine of the best of them into modern English verse saves the situation, and opens the poems up to the wider audience they deserve. Her poetry pulses with life, like the originals, and her introductions to each poem set the originals in context with impeccable scholarship.” — Thomas Shippey, Professor Emeritus, Saint Louis University“With characteristic erudition, wit, and grace, Professor Osborn both contextualizes and makes accessible one familiar and eight previously remote and seldom-read medieval romances. Even Chaucer’s Herry Bailey will find no ‘drasty rymyng’ here. Instead, readers will be pleased to make the acquaintance of John Gower and Thomas Chestre as well as the five anonymous authors presented so well in these pages.” — Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1The Tale of Florent (John Gower)CHAPTER 2 The Wife of Bath’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer)CHAPTER 3 Thomas of Erceldoune CHAPTER 4 Sir Orfeo CHAPTER 5 Sir Launfal (Thomas Chestre)CHAPTER 6 Sir Thopas (Geoffrey Chaucer)CHAPTER 7 Emaré CHAPTER 8 Sir Gowther CHAPTER 9 Floris and Blancheflour APPENDIX ATwo Additional Tales Sir Libeaus and the Lamia Tam Lin APPENDIX BHearing the Music of the Text:A Justification for Translating Metrical Romances into VerseBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

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Book SynopsisHouse clearances, charity shops, jumble sales and skipsThe significance of everyday possessions, heightened by absenceIf objects could talk of the dead, what would they say?Taking in its sights the significance of everyday possessions',All that Remainsis a powerful and poignant collection resulting from a collaboration between disciplines of art.Featuring ten beautiful full-page paintings, interwoven with poems, it forces us to consider what we leave behind in the everyday items we have amassed.

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Book SynopsisA wonderful anthology of poems by women poets, collected by WENDY COPE.Collected by one of Britain's foremost poets, Is that the New Moon? is an exciting mix of styles and genres by leading women poets including: Grace Nichols, Frances Horovitz, Jenny Joseph, Wendy Cope, Alice Walker, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood.This stunning anthology of poems has been specially compiled with teenage girls in mind. The collection also has much to offer to and will be enjoyed by teenage boys and adults, too.Vibrant, funny, tender, sad and moving poems from the leading women poets of our time.Trade ReviewIn an ideal world once she turns 13 every young woman would receive a copy of Is That The New Moon? Books for Keeps (January 2003) In its reissued form, this wonderful anthology should be a handbook for all adolescent girls. The poems Wendy Cope has selected, all by women, are exciting, funny and tender, providing reassurance and understanding of the chequered path of growing up. Guardian An exceptionally good selection of women’s poetry.The Listener An essential addition to your poetry collection.The English Magazine A most exciting choice of poetry… Women’s attitudes to themselves, and to men, their feelings, how girls react to different things are all explored and celebrated in this brilliant anthology.Julia Eccleshare

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A significant collection of Latine women voices across five centuries.… Guzmán succeeds in her presentation of 'a luminous universe of texts that navigate across time and space, genre, styles, and traditions,' and the book does indeed contain 'the wisdom, memory, and DNA, or oral traditions more ancient than time itself.'… A fresh, indispensable look at the wide, multicultural world of Latine women writers." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Book SynopsisThis masterpiece of eighteenth-century British satire sparked great social controversy by rejecting a positive view of human nature and arguing the necessity of vice as the foundation of an emerging capitalist economy.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Book SynopsisDaniel Karlin is Professor of English Literature at University College London. He is co-editor, with John Woolford, of 'The Poems of Browning' and editor of the selection of Browning's poetry published in the Penguin Poetry Library.

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Book SynopsisThe Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus'' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men''s perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet''s friends, deals with the problem of achieving contentment amid the complexities of urban life, while Epistles II and the Ars Poetica discuss Latin poetry - its history and social functions, and the craft required for its success. Both works have had a powerful influence on later Western literature, inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost. The Satires of Persius (AD 34-62) are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy contemporaries - even the ruling emperor, Nero.

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Book SynopsisA STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________''Some of the most ethereal verse ever written'' Sunday Telegraph ''A glorious collection of works old and new'' Independent on Sunday ''Truly inexhaustible . . . to be read again and again'' Daily Mail ''A rich and sustaining larder, a marvellously realized sourcebook of flights of feathered fancy'' Guardian ''A life-affirming celebration of the commonplace yet enduringly mysterious creatures we share this world with and the poetry they have inspired'' Daily Telegraph Trade ReviewPowerful. A rich and sustaining larder, a marvellously realized sourcebook of flights of feathered fancy * Guardian *Some of the most ethereal verse ever written * Sunday Telegraph *A glorious collection of works old and new * Independent on Sunday *Compendious . . . offers many pleasures * Daily Express *The poems gathered here celebrate our tenuous connection to something timeless and sublime. A truly inexhaustible collection . . . to be read again and again * Daily Mail *Had me entranced * Observer *A wonderful, generous anthology. A life-affirming celebration of the commonplace yet enduringly mysterious creatures we share this world with and the poetry they have inspired * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love.For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremony, Laura Barber''s anthology is the answer to a prayer, with a wonderfully generous and unusual selection of poems suitable for reading out loud, and which celebrate and encapsulate our deepest feelings in all their bewildering diversity.Including verse by poets ranging from John Keats to Carol Ann Duffy and Walt Whitman to W. H. Auden, as well as many less familiar voices, this anthology offers numerous options for anyone about to read at the wedding of family or friends, or to celebrate their own.

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Book SynopsisOther Ways to Leave the Room features the work of three of the most beloved and lauded poets currently at large. Between them, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Nick Laird write lyrical, luminous and often darkly witty poems about the rugged wildness of the Scottish landscape; about fatherhood; about whisky-drinking, alcohol abuse and tenement life; about sex, love and the pursuit of the spiritual; about childhood in the Ireland of the Troubles, and about the strange possibilities of the technological future. What all three have in common is an ability to combine observations of gritty real life with a sense of the mythical proportions always lurking just under the surface of the everyday.The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment.

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Book SynopsisFrom the gritty realism and resentment of Du Bellay to the lyric grace and frank eroticism of Ronsard, the poems of this volume testify to the many-faceted achievement of the two poets who, as leaders of the famous 'Pléiade' group, were crucial to the creation of a new national literature.Trade ReviewThis is an essential poetry collection for all humans' home libraries, as well as public and university libraries. This collection is also a great choice for French or world literature classes. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Texts Select Bibliography A Chronology of Joachim Du Bellay A Chronology of Pierre de Ronsard Selected Poems Manifestos Explanatory Notes Glossary of Names and Places Index of French First Lines

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Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin''s Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman and W.H. Auden, it was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of modern verse, valuable not least because it reflects the tastes of one of the best, and best-loved, English poets of the twentieth century. As the successor to W.B. Yeats''s Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935, this anthology made a radical re-assessment of the century''s achievement in poetry; it represented verse that was `lighter in tone, more understated, more casual, more conversational, more colloquial, in a way more democratic and more domestic than it was for Yeats''. It also introduced many little-known poets whose names have not entered the canon, and whose contributions add colour and depth to the anthology. As Philip Larkin writes in his Preface, in choosing poems rather than individuals he has brought together `poems that will give pleasure to their readers both separately and as a collection''. For this latest reissue, the poet''s biographer Andrew Motion has written a new Foreword in which he considers the nature of Larkin as editor.Trade ReviewI am happy to see Mr. Larkin's taste in poetry and my own are in agreement ... I congratulate him most warmly on his achievement. * W. H. Auden, The Guardian *worth owning because the judgement of the compilers still carries weight * The Guardian *"a brilliant selection" The Week, Saturday, 19th June 1999It is a sheer joy to dip into. * Steve Matthews, Southern Daily Echo *

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Book SynopsisThere can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy''s classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer''s Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Review from previous edition quite simply the most rewardingly catholic anthology of battle verse I know. Homer, Byron, Macauley, Hardy - and more recently, Keyes, Reed, Lewis, Douglas and Prince - they're all here, plus an excellent brief essay of introduction. * Times Educational Supplement *a marvellous collection of old favourites and many surprises. * The Star *This collection is of exceptionally high quality. * Washington Post *full of good things...many old favourites and quite a few genuine surprises. * Vernon Scannell, The Guardian *This is an anthology that works in a way that the work of no single poet could. * The Observer *

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Book SynopsisFeaturing 218 poems and songs in Scots, English, and Gaelic, this collection places Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and other major writers of the period alongside lesser known or even entirely forgotten figures. A significant number of important long poems are given in full, and many of the shorter works feature for the first time in a modern edition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Note on the Texts Select Bibliography Chronology Poems List of Poets Explanatory notes

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Book SynopsisThe first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology, without which no study of American poetry is complete.Trade Review"When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through is nothing less than a landmark anthology of Native Nations Poetry... The poets in this anthology are artists, historians, and keepers of the truths of their heritage, their people, and their lands. These poems are testament to their personal journeys and this collection is transcendent in its authority and eternal power." -- Lew Whittington - New York Journal of Books"...When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry... give[s] a sense of the depth of marginalised voices." -- Paul Perry, The Best Books of 2020: Poetry - The Irish Independent

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Book SynopsisHailed by Robert Creeley as both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired generations of poets, artists, musicians, and other readers, exposing them to the multiple possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Juxtaposing primitive and archaic works of art from many cultures with each other and with avant-garde and experimental poetry, Jerome Rothenberg contends that literature extends beyond specific temporal and geographic boundaries, while acting as a retort to those who would call that larger humanity into question. A half-century since its original publication, this revised and expanded third edition provides readers with a wealth of newly gathered and translated texts from recently reinvigorated indigenous cultures, bringing the volume into the present and further extending the range and depth of what we recognize and read as poetry.Trade Review"If there is anyone out there struggling to write lyrics, get your hands on this book; immerse yourselves in it, live inside it for a while, free your mind, and you will emerge brimming with ideas." * Nick Cave *Table of ContentsTHE PRE-FACES Pre-Face (2017) Pre-Face (1984) Pre-Face (1967) THE TEXTS Origins & Namings Visions & Spels Death & Defeat The Book of Events (I) The Book of Events (II) Africa America Asia Europe & The Ancient Near East Oceania Survivals & Revivals THE STATEMENTS THE COMMENTARIES POST-FACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Book SynopsisWhether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women offers an impressive array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights.With 25 speeches, ranging in age from 20 to 65, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women contains a rich variety of tragic, comic, realist and absurdist works by the best new playwrights, as well as brand new pieces from more established names. Each selection includes a synopsis of the play together with character commentary as well as recommendations for accents and reference to first performance.Jane Edwardes, Theatre Editor at Time Out magazine, also provides a general introduction with helpful hints for the audition process.The companion volume, The Faber Book of Monologues for Men, is also available.

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Book SynopsisShort and Sweet is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writing. In his witty and instructive introduction, Simon Armitage, pace-setting poet of his generation, encourages us to consider how poets over five centuries have used brevity.

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Book SynopsisThe Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but the Great War' would not as hoped be the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of armistice': its stoppage or stand' of arms, its search for truce and ceasefire. In 100 poems, our most cherished poets of the Great War speak alongside those from other conflicts and cultures, so that we hear some of the lesser-heard voices of war, including wives, families, those left behind. These poems of war and peace memorialise the horror and the tragedy of conflict. At the same time, in armistice, they become a record of renewal and a testimony to hope.

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Book SynopsisThe Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers vital overview of the literary landscape to seasoned poetry lovers and new readers alike.

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