Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Xlibris One Card at a Time
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Pan Macmillan The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse
Book SynopsisThe Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate.It is arranged chronologically in four books which each celebrate a different era in the evolution of English poetry, from Elizabethan to the 19th century. All the greats are here, including Shakespeare and Milton, Marvell and Pope, Wordsworth and Keats. First published in 1861, it became the standard anthology for over 100 years.This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition includes a foreword by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and is published to mark Macmillan’s 175th anniversary.Table of ContentsSection - i: Foreword by Carol Ann Duffy Section - ii: Dedication Section - iii: Preface Unit - 1: Book I: Elizabethan Unit - 2: Book II: 17th Century Unit - 3: Book III: 18th Century Unit - 4: Book IV: 19th Century Index - iiii: Index of Writers Index - v: Index of First Lines
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Pan Macmillan Poems of Childhood
Book SynopsisA child’s life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by acclaimed children's writer, Michael Morpurgo.Poems of Childhood combines the best of classic children’s poetry into one anthology featuring a rich range of themes – from animals to nursery rhymes, from nonsense poems to magic. Many favourites are here, including ‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’, ‘Jabberwocky’ and ‘The Tyger’. This delightful collection is the perfect gift for children and a chance for adults to revisit their favourite verse from the likes of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Animals Poem - 1: The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear Poem - 2: The Kitten at Play - William Wordsworth Poem - 3: The Cat and the Moon - W. B. Yeats Poem - 4: Maggie - Anon. Poem - 5: The Duel - Eugene Field Poem - 6: Old Mother Hubbard - Anon Poem - 7: An Alphabet of Questions - Charles Edward Carryl Poem - 8: Measles in the Ark - Susan Coolidge Poem - 9: Old Noah’s Ark - Anon Poem - 10: There Was an Old Lady - Anon Poem - 11: The Lion and the Unicorn - Anon Poem - 12: The Law of the Jungle - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 13: The Tyger - William Blake Poem - 14: On the Grasshopper and Cricket - John Keats Poem - 15: Way Down South - Anon Poem - 16: The Spider and the Fly - Mary Botham Howitt Poem - 17: Against Idleness and Mischief - Isaac Watts Poem - 18: How Doth the Little Crocodile - Lewis Carroll Poem - 19: Hey Diddle Diddle - Anon Poem - 20: Three Blind Mice - Anon Poem - 21: Hickory, Dickory, Dock - Anon Poem - 22: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep - Anon Poem - 23: Mary Had a Little Lamb - Sarah Josepha Hale Poem - 24: The Mouse, the Frog and the Little Red Hen - Anon Poem - 25: A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go - Anon Poem - 26: Five Little Speckled Frogs - Anon Poem - 27: A Song of Toad - Kenneth Grahame Poem - 28: The Shark - Lord Alfred Douglas Poem - 29: The Lobster Quadrille - Lewis Carroll Poem - 30: The Donkey - Anon Poem - 31: The Plaint of the Camel - Charles Edward Carryl Unit - 2: Counting Poem - 1: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Anon Poem - 2: One Potato - Anon Poem - 3: Thirty Days Hath September - Anon Poem - 4: Three Little Ghostesses - Anon Poem - 5: One, Two, Three, Four, Five - Anon Unit - 3: Nature Poem - 1: The Months - Sara Coleridge Poem - 2: Child’s Song in Spring - Edith Nesbit Poem - 3: Seven Times One: Exultation - Jean Ingelow Poem - 4: I Saw - Anon Poem - 5: Daffodils - William Wordsworth Poem - 6: Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde Poem - 7: What is Pink? - Christina Rossetti Poem - 8: I Asked the Little Boy Who Cannot See - Anon Poem - 9: Lavender’s Blue - Anon Poem - 10: Little Robin Redbreast - Anon Poem - 11: She Sells Seashells - Anon Poem - 12: I Had a Little Nut Tree - Anon Poem - 13: The Mulberry Bush - Anon Poem - 14: Banyan Tree - Anon Unit - 4: People Poem - 1: Pat- a- cake - Anon Poem - 2: Little Miss Muffet - Anon Poem - 3: Peter Piper - Anon Poem - 4: Simple Simon - Anon Poem - 5: Little Jack Horner - Anon Poem - 6: Little Boy Blue - Anon Poem - 7: Each Peach Pear Plum - Anon Poem - 8: Do You Know the Muffin Man? - Anon Poem - 9: Doctor Foster - Anon Poem - 10: Betty Botter - Anon Poem - 11: Jack and Jill - Anon Poem - 12: Polly and Sukey - Anon Poem - 13: Rosy Apple - Anon Poem - 14: Monday’s Child - Anon Poem - 15: Daisy - Anon Poem - 16: Old King Cole - Anon Poem - 17: Humpty Dumpty - Anon Poem - 18: Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me? - Anon Poem - 19: Bobby Shaftoe - Anon Poem - 20: There Was a Princess Long Ago - Anon Poem - 21: Brown Girl in the Ring - Anon Poem - 22: Waltzing Matilda - Banjo Paterson Poem - 23: The School Boy - William Blake Poem - 24: from The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning Poem - 25: La Belle Dame sans Merci - John Keats Poem - 26: Lochinvar - Sir Walter Scott Unit - 5: Nonsense Poem - 1: Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll Poem - 2: Tweedle- dum and Tweedle- dee - Anon Poem - 3: Beautiful Soup - Lewis Carroll Poem - 4: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat - Lewis Carroll Poem - 5: You Are Old, Father William - Lewis Carroll Poem - 6: The Mad Gardener’s Song - Lewis Carroll Poem - 7: The Sugar-Plum Tree - Eugene Field Poem - 8: Wynken, Blynken and Nod - Eugene Field Poem - 9: There Was an Old Man with a Beard - Edward Lear Poem - 10: The Man in the Wilderness - Anon Poem - 11: The Jumblies - Edward Lear Poem - 12: The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll Poem - 13: The Pobble Who Has No Toes - Edward Lear Unit - 6: Places Poem - 1: I Remember, I Remember - Thomas Hood Poem - 2: From a Railway Carriage - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 3: The Big Ship Sails on the Alley, Alley O - Anon Poem - 4: A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea - Anon Poem - 5: Pop Goes the Weasel! - Anon Poem - 6: The Bells of London - Anon Poem - 7: London Bridge Is Falling Down - Anon Unit - 7: Fairies, Mermaids and Witches Poem - 1: Fire, Burn; and Cauldron, Bubble - William Shakespeare Poem - 2: Overheard on a Saltmarsh - Harold Monro Poem - 3: The Mermaid - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 4: The Merman - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 5: The Forsaken Merman - Matthew Arnold Unit - 9: Night Poem - 1: Star Light, Star Bright - Anon Poem - 2: Bed-time - Anon Poem - 3: Hush, Little Baby - Anon Poem - 4: Sweet and Low ( from The Princess) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 5: The Star - Jane Taylor Poem - 6: A Cradle Song - Thomas Dekker Poem - 7: A Cradle Song - Thomas Dekker Poem - 8: My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 9: Escape at Bedtime - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 10: The Land of Story Books - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 11: I Had a Boat - Mary Coleridge Poem - 12: Windy Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 13: The Land of Counterpane - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 14: Minnie and Winnie - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 15: Teddy Bear - Anon Poem - 16: I See the Moon - Anon Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines
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SMK Books Spoon River Anthology
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Pan Macmillan Poems About Birds
Book SynopsisCountless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds – their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially our poetry, is full of them. This annotated edition of Poems About Birds selects the very best from H. J. Massingham’s original collection which was first published in 1922.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, Poems About Birds captures the enticing lives of birds through the eyes of classic poets. From John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ to Sylvia Lynd’s ‘The Return of the Goldfinches’, and from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Eagle’ to William Wordsworth’s ‘To The Skylark’, countless varieties of bird are celebrated here.
£10.44
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. A House Called Tomorrow: 50 Years of Poetry from
Book SynopsisCopper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years.Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board—past and present—to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon’s early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, “Certain poems / In an uncertain world— / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back.”
£17.09
Medieval Institute Publications The Roland and Otuel Romances and the
Book SynopsisThis edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances centre on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Select Bibliography Roland and Vernagu Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel a Knight Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel and Roland Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes The Anglo-French Otinel Introduction Select Bibliography Text and Translation Notes Glossary
£20.90
Trinity University Press,U.S. Texas Being
Book SynopsisTexas, Being: A State of Poems collects more than forty-five poems from a beautiful and brutal state. Some are about the music of their languages. Some speak to the dead, some to the sun, and others to omissions of history. One concerns a hedgehog cactus, and another a roller rink. From “Happy, Texas” to “Palestine, TX,” from seashores to skeletons to Selena, all are in one way or another about Texas, but good poems are always about more than one thing.Selected by Jenny Browne, 2017 poet laureate of Texas, these poems draw a picture of one of America’s vastly sublime yet most audaciously independent corners. In these diverse voices, the state is a lovely and painful contradiction of space and meaning. Texas is a place “where blind catfish cruise” and wild asters grow. It’s a frame of mind where Jenn
£13.29
Kent State University Press I Hear the World Sing (Sento cantare il mondo):
Book SynopsisShared joys and concerns across cultures and language, expressed in the poetry of children.When school children from Kent, Ohio and Florence, Italy, were invited to express their thoughts about "Where I'm From" in poetry, the connections that emerged between these students from different continents were remarkable. Their responses to this prompt—"lo vengo da" in Italian—demonstrate the underlying importance of home, families, the natural world, and the creative identities that children harbour within them.The 40 poems in I Hear the World Sing, printed in both English and Italian, presents these poems in three sections—"The Chirp of Little Birds," "Witness the River," and "I Write to Grow a World"—which explore and celebrate the commonalities between us. Anyone can be a poet, no matter the language one speaks or writes. And by presenting each poem in two languages, this collection emphasises how successfully poetry transcends both physical and linguistic boundaries, no matter the age of the poet.Originally composed in workshops facilitated by the Wick Poetry Center's Traveling Stanzas project and translated by students in Kent State University's Italian translation program, I Hear the World Sing is an invitation for students of poetry, of Italian, and readers of any age to reflect on language and how it shapes our lives.
£18.66
Modern History Press U.P. Reader -- Volume #5: Bringing Upper Michigan
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£17.96
Archway Publishing Alchemy: The Day the World Stood Still
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£12.85
The New York Review of Books, Inc Proensa
Book SynopsisIt was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical.The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is Proensa, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn’s Proensa, George Economou writes, “will take its place among Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid, Golding’s Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley’s Japanese, and Pound’s Chinese, Italian, and Old English.”
£21.91
Aperient Press Verse Infernal: Poetry Inspired by the Satanic
Book SynopsisVerse Infernal is a collection of poems inspired by the life and work of Anton LaVey, the Church of Satan, and the Satanic religion. Edited by Ronald J. Murray and Ruth Waytz.
£15.02
Wordville Celine's Salon - The Anthology Vol 2: 2
Book SynopsisCeline's Salon is a literary cabaret famous in London since 2016. This collection of poetry, short stories and lyrics gathers work from 29 inspirational writers from Glasgow, Derry, Tenby and London. Sharing poetry with a strong sense of place and character, this anthology includes Welsh-language poetry, Glaswegian poetry as well as English verse and song lyrics. Representing the most interesting writers in each of these cultural melting pots, Celine's Salon - The Anthology Vol 2 is a literary road trip, hosted by writer and performer Celine Hispiche. With new writing from established poets as well as original new voices, this is the second in the series of Celine's Salon - The Anthology. With work from 29 individual contributors. Sit back and enjoy the show.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Curtain Raiser 1. Celine Hispiche 3 Part One: Glasgow 2. Lesley O'Brien 9 3. Jo D'arc 11 4. Frank Rafferty 15 5. Thomas McColl 17 6. Ashley Chapman 21 7. Katharine Macfarlane 23 8. Pinky 29 9. Mark McGhee 32 Part Two: Derry 10. Frank Rafferty 37 11. Michael Groce 40 12. Mel Bradley 42 13. Valerie Bryce 44 14. Keiran Goddard 47 15. Ronan Carr 48 16. PBJ 51 17. Niall O'Mianain 54 18. Juanita Rea 57 19. George Houston 59 20. James King & Ann McKay 62 Part Three: Tenby 21. Ros Moore 66 22. Celine Hispiche 71 23. Susie Wild 74 24. Heather Moulson 78 25. Kevin O'Dowd 81 26. Billy Parker 82 27. Anonymous 86 28. Siobhan Lancaster 87 29. Nerys Beattie 90 30. Bob Reeves 94 CURTAIN Acknowledgements 98
£10.06
Ian Gouge New Contexts: 5
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Out-Spoken Press State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian
Book SynopsisHow do we think of ourselves as poets? How does our race, our home(s), and our cultural heritage, shape our sense of belonging, our ways of seeing or experiencing the world? How can we learn from and offer support to each other? State of Play brings together conversations between an international line-up of poets, taking place over the course of a year, to offer rich insights into these questions and the ways a life lived in many places can invigorate one’s writing. With themes ranging from the sense of home and racialised expectations, to community and language, as well as the process of writing poetry, these creative discussions delve into the complexities and diversity of identity in the days of global citizenship and cultural diaspora.‘Multiple yet singular, the conversations here reveal the complexities of poetic language as a space of becoming rather than being, of identities sharply focusing under the weight of plurality, the forces of migration and the long tethers of home and empire. This book makes a critical intervention in the shaping of diasporic writing, turns us away from the outworn frameworks to demand bolder and more imaginative ways of reading. Let these conversations begin urgent ones elsewhere about how language is made and how it remakes us as global subjects speaking together.’ —Prof. Sandeep Parmar, Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool and Founder of Ledbury Critics of Colour.‘State of Play reminds us of the global reach of English-language poetry and poetics, whose production is not limited to the predominantly white Anglophone countries of the so-called West and reminds us of the ongoing legacies of British colonialism underlying even such seemingly neutral concepts as home, everyday life, and poetics.’ —Prof. Dorothy Wang, author of Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry & convenor/co-founder of Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPUK)‘Giving voice to a diverse and multi-generational choir of distinctive voices, this anthology offers rare and intimate insights into the creative challenges of writing poetry now and the vital importance of dialogue as a free space for the play of ideas and critical thinking.’ —Prof. Susheila Nasta, Founder of Wasafiri, Magazine of International Contemporary Writing‘State of Play draws together a sparky and inspiring array of conversations between East and Southeast Asian poets situated across continents and borders. The different interactions are characterised by their commitment to exchange and reciprocity even where the poets meet for the first time only through the medium of these conversations. Editors Jennifer Wong and Eddie Tay have done a superb job of bringing together a rich spectrum of topics including nomadism, childhood, diaspora, race, belonging, the question of what it is to be creative, and all-important issues of language-choice and self-translation. I wager that no reader interested in poetry will not find excitement in this vibrant anthology.’ —Prof. Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford
£12.59
Biblioasis Best Canadian Poetry 2021
Book Synopsis“This is a book,” writes guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa, “about what I saw and read and loved, and want you to see and read and love.” Selected from work published by Canadian poets in magazines and journals in 2020, Best Canadian Poetry 2021 gathers the poems Thammavongsa loved most over a year’s worth of reading, and draws together voices that “got in and out quickly, that said unusual things, that were clear, spare, and plain, that made [her] laugh out loud … the voices that barely ever survive to make it onto the page.” From new work by Canadian icons to thrilling emerging talents, this year’s anthology offers fifty poems for you to fall in love with as well. Featuring: Margaret Atwood Ken Babstock Manahil Bandukwala Courtney Bates-Hardy Roxanna Bennett Ronna Bloom Louise Carson Kate Cayley Kitty Cheung Dani Couture Kayla Czaga Šari Dale Unnati Desai Tina Do Andrew DuBois Paola Ferrante Beth Goobie Nina Philomena Honorat Liz Howard Maureen Hynes George K Ilsley Eve Joseph Ian Keteku Judith Krause M Travis Lane Mary Dean Lee Canisia Lubrin Randy Lundy David Ly Yohani Mendis Pamela Mosher Susan Musgrave Téa Mutonji Barbara Nickel Ottavia Paluch Kirsten Pendreigh Emily Pohl-Weary David Romanda Matthew Rooney Zoe Imani Sharpe Sue Sinclair John Steffler Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Arielle Twist David Ezra Wang Phoebe Wang Hayden Ward Elana Wolff Eugenia Zuroski Jan Zwicky Trade ReviewPraise for the Best Canadian Poetry Series “[These] books are must-haves for libraries, schools, and intellectually well-intentioned bedside nightstands across the country.”—Quill & Quire “The wide range of writers, forms and themes represented here make it a great jumping-off point for readers who might be interested in Canadian poetry but are unsure about where to start.”—Globe and Mail “Buy it, or borrow it, but do read it.”—Arc Poetry Magazine “A magnet, I think, for the many people who would like to know contemporary poetry.”—A.F. Moritz, Griffin Poetry Prize winner “An eclectic and diverse collection of Canadian poetry . . . a wonderful addition to anyone’s bookshelf.”—Toronto Quarterly
£12.34
Biblioasis Best Canadian Poetry 2026
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Auckland University Press AUP New Poets 11
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£11.87
Bloodaxe Books Ltd My Voice
Book SynopsisAs this gloriously diverse, revelatory selection of translations from the Poetry Translation Centre's first decade proves, nothing has invigorated poetry in English more than translation. Here you will find 111 brilliant poems translated from 27 different languages (ranging from Arabic to Zapotec: all the original scripts are included) by 45 of the world's leading poets. Arranged on a journey from exile to ecstasy, these powerful poems have been co-translated by some of the UK's best-loved poets including Jo Shapcott, Sean O'Brien, Lavinia Greenlaw, W.N. Herbert, Mimi Khalvati and Nick Laird. Founded by Sarah Maguire, the Poetry Translation Centre aims to transform English verse through engaging with the rich poetic traditions of the UK's recent immigrant communities for whom poetry is of overwhelming importance. Reading these Somali, Afghan, Sudanese and Kurdish poets (26 countries are represented), you will understand why their scintillating and heartbreaking poems inspire such devotion.Trade ReviewThis groundbreaking anthology extends the territory of English poetry through a series of generous translations that make welcome the magnificent poetic traditions of many communities now settled here. -- Carol Ann DuffyBrilliant translations, done by brilliant poets, working with brilliant scholars. -- Christina Patterson * The Independent *
£10.80
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Ten: poets of the new generation
Book SynopsisTen: poets of the new generation presents the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national programme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets founded by the writer Bernardine Evaristo in 2007. Already making a big impact on the British poetry scene, poets from the series have included Sarah Howe, the 2016 winner of both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award; Mona Arshi, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2016; and Warsan Shire, who collaborated with Beyonce on her visual album, Lemonade in 2016, which featured many of Shire's poems. This latest anthology in the Ten series will not disappoint readers hoping to discover more exceptional talent. It includes poets with even more diverse backgrounds ranging from Somalia and Nigeria through to Jamaica and the multiculturalism of Macau, and features the first poet from Latin America. These are poets who interrogate race and explode any ideas of a page/stage divide. Fierce, unexpected, sometimes beautiful and always passionate, here are ten poets to savour and enjoy. The poets included are: Raymond Antrobus, Natacha Bryan, Leonardo Boix, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Will Harris, Ian Humphreys, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Momtaza Mehri, Yomi Sode and Degna Stone. The Complete Works III is directed by Dr Nathalie Teitler, with thanks to Arts Council England for their generous funding. Copublication with The Complete Works III.Trade ReviewAs well as being a literary endeavour, Ten: Poets of the New Generation is a form of activism and a show of solidarity in which established voices stand up for and celebrate lesser-known ones. The Complete Works project has changed the literary world measurably, letting in variety not just of race, sex and cultural identity but also of voice, form, attitude, outlook and experience... a wonderfully accessible showcase for thrilling new talent and, overall, a joy to read. -- Bidisha * The Poetry Review *
£9.45
Poetry Wales Press Sanctuary
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Carcanet Press Ltd Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology II
Book SynopsisThe University of Leeds has a long tradition of engagement with poets. Many of them were members of staff (for instance, Geoffrey Hill), some were students (Jon Silkin, Ken Smith, Tony Harrison, Jeffrey Wainwright, Ian Duhig), others creative writing fellows (James Kirkup, John Heath-Stubbs, Thomas Blackburn, Jon Silkin, Peter Redgrove, David Wright, Pearse Hutchinson and Wole Soyinka among them). The poetry archives in the Brotherton Library are extensive and valuable. The Academy of Cultural Fellows has included Helen Mort, Malika Booker, Vahni Capildeo, Zaffar Kunial and Matt Howard. Its long association with the magazine Stand continues. The Brotherton Poetry Prize is the University's latest expression of commitment to poetry as a living art.
£11.69
University of Wales Press The Modern Spanish Sonnet
Book SynopsisThe fine tradition of the Spanish sonnet, developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the subject of Rutherford’s The Spanish Golden Age Sonnet (2016), has been extended and developed during the subsequent centuries. This book presents one hundred of the best sonnets of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including sonnets written in the Catalan and Galician languages, together with their translations into modern English sonnets and a critical commentary on each. There is a general introduction to the genre, followed by summaries of the historical and literary backgrounds and a discussion of the problems facing the translator of sonnets. The life and works of each poet are summarised and a select bibliography of further reading concludes the volume. The translations bring these sonnets to new life in the modern English language, and they can be read both as interesting and lively poems in their own right and as leads into the originals.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Diego de Torres Villarroel Nicolás Fernández de Moratín José Cadalso Tomás de Iriarte Juan Meléndez Valdés José de Espronceda Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Carolina Coronado Adelardo López de Ayala José Echegaray Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Gaspar Núñez de Arce Gustavo Alonso Bécquer Leopoldo Cano y Masas Manuel Curros Enríquez Joan Alcover Salvador Rueda Miguel de Unamuno Rubén Darío Manuel Machado Antonio Machado Ramón Cabanillas Juan Ramón Jiménez Josep Carner Tomás Morales J. V. Foix Jorge Guillén Carles Riba Xosé Crecente Vega Gerardo Diego Avelino Díaz Federico García Lorca Rosa Chacel Dámaso Alonso Rafael Alberti Miguel Hernández Xosé María Díaz Castro Blas de Otero Joan Brossa Rafael Morales Luz Pozo Garza José María Valverde Ramón García González Antonio Gamoneda Francisco Brines Antonio Carvajal Jesús Royo Arpón Luis Alberto de Cuenca Darío Xohán Cabana Ramiro Fonte Acknowledgements Select Bibliography Index of first lines of Spanish sonnets Index
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Iron Press Two Haiku Poets
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Anthem Press More Meditations of a Militant Moderate
Book SynopsisThe book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a self-described “militant moderate,” draws on his participation in many public debates. The articles are grouped into six, topical groupings that range widely: the growing need for moderate voices in policy debates; the nature of American exceptionalism; the challenge of civic discourse; the depredations of the Trump years; and policies concerning immigration, citizenship, and refugees.Trade Review“In this book, Peter Schuck demonstrates compellingly that being a ‘moderate’ need not mean being wishy-washy. He rejects cant from all quarters, demands disciplined examination of factual evidence, and comes to provocative conclusions. Ideologues of all stripes should be forewarned: this book exemplifies intellectual independence.” — Richard Fallon, Story Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.“In this welcome sequel to his superb ‘Meditations of a Militant Moderate,’ Peter Schuck gives an object lesson in the two traits which our intellectual discourse desperately needs: common sense and wise judgment. His verve and passion dispatch the myth that moderates are milquetoasts. Slaying shibboleths about everything from abortion and immigration to cancel culture and campus crybullies, Schuck shows again why his voice is unique and necessary.” — Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Suffering from low blood pressure? Peter Schuck’s More Meditations of a Militant Moderate is the perfect cure. Whether you are politically left, right, or center, you will find thrilling support for and infuriating refutation of positions you embrace. But most of all, you will revel in the pleasure of reading the muscular prose of a vigorous intellect wrestling honestly with issues that will surely matter deeply to you.” — Henry J. Aaron, Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Fellow, the Brookings Institution.Table of ContentsPart 1: Preface and Part 1; Part 2: American Exceptionalism; Part 3: Civic Discourse; Part 4: The Misbegotten Trump Presidency; Part 5: Campus Follies; Part 6: Immigrants, Citizens, and Refugees
£76.00
Everyman Russian Poets
Book SynopsisEver since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to the bitter comedy of political chaos, this collection of poems covering two centuries includes work by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Annensky,Mayakovsky, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Brodsky and others less celebrated but no less extraordinary. The text is divided into six sections. Russian poets constantly reflect on their art, so the first section is appropriately entitled 'The Muse'. Their other great topic is Russia herself, explored in parts two and three. Part four presents the inner world, parts five and six traditional themes of love and mortality. Poetry has often been a matter of life and death in Russia, where Mandelstam was not the only poet to perish in the Gulag. The comfortable private domain familiar to many English and American writers barely exists in a country where political realities are exigent - one reason for the fierce intensity found in so many of these poems.
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Everyman The Art of Angling: Poems About Fishing
Book SynopsisFishing has inspired a wealth of poetry-Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern masterpieces abound as well, by the likes of Federico García Lorca, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Audre Lorde, Richard Hugo, and Derek Walcott. In the hands of the poets collected here, fishing with a hook and line yields reflections both sparklingly light and awe-inspiringly deep. Filled with humour, nostalgia, adventure, celebrations of the beauties of nature, and metaphors for the art of living, The Art of Angling is sure to lure anglers and lovers of poetry alike.
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Everyman Uyghur Poems
Book SynopsisThe Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry - indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieval period Sufi poetry flourished, embracing Persian forms such as the ghazal, which spoke eloquently of beauty, love, loss and separation. A major poet, Alshir Navayi (1441-1501) fully established classical Turkic or Chagatai as a perfect vehicle for poetic expression. Some contemporary poets continue to find inspiration within the traditional forms, while others experiment with a freer style of verse.Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificent natural landscapes where the Uyghurs have lived for two millennia - endless steppes, soaring mountain ranges and mysterious deserts, crossed by the historic Silk Road. It is also shaped by their turbulent past, caught between warring empires or marauding warlords - and their deeply troubled present.The Uyghurs form a minority in China, where the government is now making a systematic attempt to erase their language and culture. Many intellectuals have been imprisoned, and many poets are now writing from exile, including the editor and translator of this volume, Aziz Isa Elkun, who lives in London. Uyghur Poems is not only a celebration of an ancient and vibrant poetic tradition, but also a vital witness to a culture under threat.
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Batsford Ltd Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every
Book SynopsisA beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the women who read them.This transformative collection of poems by female poets through the ages sing to us across the centuries. These poems span the worlds of desire, love and friendship, of responsibility, hardship and care, of family and friends and lovers. Their words empower us with strength and courage, fill us with verve and spirit, and inspire creativity and imagination.Contemporary voices of Fiona Benson and Jane Yeh join the evocative imagery of Christina Rossetti, Anna Akhmatova and Emily Dickinson. Even the haunting voices of ancient Sappho, Venmaniputti and Li Qingzhao touch today's generation. Here are poems written by women, with women's lives in mind. As Gertrude Stein writes, 'such a sweet singing' is in the poetry that comes to us clear and lovely from out of the dark. Read these poems aloud. Remember them. Share them.Trade Review‘Lavishly and strikingly illustrated, this book of poems holds at least eight times its weight in thirst-slaking nourishment.’ Northwords Now
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me: 100 classic
Book SynopsisThe Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me is the ultimate reader’s companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from ?ve centuries with lively “companion” commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the burden of poetry or art, what weighs us down and makes us do what we don’t really want to do as well as what pulls us back to our selves, the animal side which makes us bearable or human. The editors’ selection ranges from Wyatt, Ralegh and Shakespeare in the 16th century, to Donne, Milton and Marvell in the 17th, to Swift, Pope and Johnson in the 18th. It embraces the Romantic visions of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, as well as the later, darker outlook of Browning, Tennyson and Hardy, and seeks enlightenment in the shadowlands of Emily Dickinson, Wilde and Yeats. As well as journeying with the reader through some of the greatest poems in the English language, The Heavy Bear encounters many modern poets, not least Delmore Schwartz, whose sense of con?ict between self and society gave birth to this anthology’s title-poem, ‘The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me’. Others include some of the major figures in Irish poetry Brendan Kennelly knew personally as well as wrote about, including Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland. The poems keep each other company in this highly original compilation, questioning each other in a continuing thematic, imagistic debate which the editors seek to explore in their responses, trying at all times to de?ne their sense and vision of poetry as disturbing, questioning, enlightening companionship for the reader. Both editors are renowned communicators of poetry: Brendan Kennelly (1936-2021) as one of Ireland’s best-loved poets, as Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin, and as a popular cultural commentator on Irish television; Neil Astley as founder and editor of Bloodaxe Books and editor of the Staying Alive anthology series.Trade ReviewWe have chosen the title of Delmore Schwartz's poem as the anthology’s title, The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me, for several reasons. Poems are written because of various kinds of "withness"; the sense of mortality, failure in love, the challenge of history, the nature of consciousness, dreams, loneliness, prejudice, inexplicable hatreds, the urge to make sense of confusion, the seething need to protest against forms of injustice, to talk to somebody about things only partly grasped or understood, or not grasped or understood at all but hurtful and pressing, violating sleep, miscolouring daylight’s encounters and images, the sense of suffering an appetite that can never really be fed… Every poem is an act of faith in that imaginative momentum; every poem longs to connect with that energy whether it be pressingly immediate or blatently ignored. This is the connecting power that enables Schwartz, for example, to bring the heavy bear lumbering into our lives. Our dialogue with the gross, barging presence follows that moment of admission. Our hope, as editors, is that we have provided an anthology of poems marked by dialogue and connection, although these poems may be, usually are, born of the awareness of mortality, failure, inadequacy, loss, absurd or gross caricatures or perversions of what we take to be reality. Why not have it out, once and for all, with the heavy bear who goes with us? -- Brendan KennellyTable of ContentsNeil Astley 11 Preface: The Making of the Heavy Bear Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) 19 Introduction: The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) 25 ‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) 27 'Wyatt resteth here' Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 30 ‘Thou blind man’s mark’ Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) 32 ‘One day I wrote her name upon the strand’ Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586) 34 Elegy for Himself Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) 36 Elegia VI Sir Walter Ralegh (1552–1618) 40 The Lie Robert Southwell (?1561–1595) 44 The Burning Babe Michael Drayton (1563–1631) 46 Since There’s No Help William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 48 Sonnet 73: ‘That time of year…’ Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 50 ‘Adieu, farewell, earth’s bliss’ Thomas Campion (1567–1620) 53 What if a Day John Donne (1572–1631) 55 The Flea Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 58 On My First Son Robert Herrick (1591–1674) 60 Gather Ye Rosebuds Henry King (1592–1669) 62 Exequy upon His Wife George Herbert (1593–1633) 67 Love III Edmund Waller (1606–1687) 69 Go, Lovely Rose Richard Crashaw (1612/3–1649) 71 The Flaming Heart Richard Lovelace (1618–1658) 74 To Althea from Prison Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) 76 A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) 79 They Are All Gone into the World of Light! Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) 82 To His Coy Mistress John Milton (1608–1674) 86 from Paradise Lost Thomas Traherne (1637–1674) 89 Dreams John Dryden (1631–1700) 93 from Absalom and Achitophel John Oldham (1653–1683) 95 from The Third Satire of Juvenal, imitated Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) 101 A Description of a City Shower Alexander Pope (1688–1744) 104 Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) 107 from London: A Poem Thomas Gray (1716–1771) 114 An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard Christopher Smart (1722–1771) 120 from Jubilate Agno Oliver Goldsmith (c.1730–1774) 125 from The Deserted Village William Cowper (1731–1800) 129 The Poplar-Field William Blake (1757–1827) 131 The Tyger Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 134 Kubla Khan William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 138 Upon Westminster Bridge Lord Byron (1788–1824) 140 Darkness Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 146 Ode to the West Wind John Keats (1795–1821) 152 Ode to a Nightingale Thomas Hood (1799–1845) 158 I Remember, I Remember Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) 160 Tithonus John Clare (1793–1864) 163 I Am Robert Browning (1812–1889) 165 My Last Duchess Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) 169 How do I love thee? Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) 171 Stanzas (attr.) Emily Brontë (1818–1848) 173 Remembrance Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) 176 Dover Beach Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) 180 Remember Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1892) 182 Sudden Light Walt Whitman (1819–1892) 184 Native Moments Emily Dickinson (1822–1888) 186 Because I could not Stop for Death Alice Meynell (1847–1922) 188 Renouncement Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1899) 190 The Windhover George Meredith (1828–1909) 200 Lucifer in Starlight Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) 202 Luke Havergal Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) 205 from The Ballad of Reading Gaol A.E. Housman (1859–1936) 215 Good creatures do you love your lives Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 217 The Voice Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) 219 Madeleine in Church Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) 227 The Listeners Robert Frost (1874–1963) 229 The Road Not Taken Edward Thomas (1878–1918) 232 Adlestrop Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) 234 Break of Day in the Trenches Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) 236 Base Details Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) 238 Strange Meeting W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) 241 The Second Coming] 242 Leda and the Swan Hart Crane (1899–1932) 247 My Grandmother’s Love Letters D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) 249 Snake Edna St Vincent Millay (1892–1950) 253 Sonnet: What my lips have kissed Langston Hughes (1902–1967) 255 The Negro Speaks of Rivers Marianne Moore (1887–1972) 257 A Grave Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) 259 The Snowman Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) 261 Full Moon E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) 262 ‘next to of course god america i’ Archibald Macleish (1892–1982) 264 Ars Poetica T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 267 The Journey of the Magi Patrick Kavanagh (1905–1967) 270 Shancoduff 270 Epic 276 Brendan Kennelly: ‘A Man I Knew’ Ruth Pitter (1897–1992) 277 The Coffin Worm Elizabeth Daryush (1887–1977) 279 ‘Anger lay by me all night long’ Sheila Wingfield (1906–1992) 281 from Beat Drum, Beat Heart W.H. Auden (1907–1973) 286 In Memory of W.B. Yeats Keith Douglas (1920–1944) 289 How to Kill Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) 291 Prayer Before Birth Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) 295 Do Not Go Gentle into That Goodnight Stevie Smith (1902–1971) 297 The River God Ted Hughes (1930–1998) 299 The Thought-Fox 300 from The Burnt Fox Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) 302 Morning Song Denise Levertov (1923–1997) 304 Living Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) 305 September Song Austin Clarke (1894–1974) 307 The Redemptorist W.S. Graham (1918–1986) 310 The Beast in the Space Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) 312 Diving into the Wreck Michael Longley (born 1939) 316 Wounds Derek Mahon (1941–2020) 319 A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) 324 One Art Derek Walcott (1930–2017) 326 Love after Love Philip Larkin (1922–1985) 327 Aubade Anne Stevenson (1933–2020) 330 Poem for a Daughter Ken Smith (1938–2003) 332 Being the third song of Urias Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) 334 from Sweeney Astray Eavan Boland (1944–2020) 340 The Journey 348 References 352 Acknowledgements
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Eliza's Babes: Four Centuries of Women Poets
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive anthology celebrates four centuries of women’s poetry, covering over 100 poets from a wide range of social backgrounds across the English-speaking world. Familiar names – Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the Brontë sisters, Emily Dickinson, and Christina Rossetti – appear alongside other writers from America, Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand as well as the UK. The poets range from queens and ladies of the court to a religious martyr, a spy, a young slave, a milkmaid, labourers, servants, activists, invalids, émigrées and pioneers, a daring actor, and the daughter of a Native American chief. Whether writing out of injustice, religious or sexual passion, humour, or to celebrate their sex, their different cultures, environments, personal beliefs and relationships, these women have strong, independent spirits and voices we cannot ignore. In 1652, speaking of the poems she had published as her ‘babes’, a woman we know only as ‘Eliza’, answered ‘a Lady that bragged of her children’: Thine at their birth did pain thee bring, When mine are born, I sit and sing. Robyn Bolam’s helpfully annotated selection is illustrated with informative biographies. The texts are based on early editions or manuscripts but with modern spelling.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Jade Ladder
Book SynopsisThis anthology is the record of a revolution in Chinese poetry. As the Cultural Revolution gave way to the post-Mao era - years of political turmoil, economic boom and the return of Hong Kong - the present period has been one of extraordinary and deeply problematic growth. Chinese poets, driven by alienation, trauma and exile, have responded with one of the most thorough and exciting experiments in world poetry. Jade Ladder shows authoritatively for the first time in English the diversity of Chinese poetry as it renegotiates its relationship with Western modernist and postmodernist poetry, and re-engages with its Classical heritage. Misty, post-Misty, Fourth Generation; publication in samizdat, publication in exile, publication on the internet - in a nation of billions, it sometimes seems that there are a million ways to write poetry. This selection provides a concise series of perspectives on a proliferating scene. It focusses on key figures and key poems. It moves beyond the lyric to showcase an astonishing diversity of genres including narrative poetry, neo-Classical writing, the sequence, experimental poetry and the long poem. Through detailed introductions, it examines how contemporary poetry grew from both the fertile Classical tradition and the stony ground of the Communist period, only to rewrite that tradition, and resist that regime. Jade Ladder is the most comprehensive single volume guide to what has been happening and what is happening now in a culture of undeniably global significance. It is indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of poetry.Trade ReviewThe jade ladder itself is an image of the link between heaven and earth, translatable as the imagination. The atmosphere given off by the anthology is a heartening one, despite the grimness of some of the material, since what we read and hear testifies to the necessities of the imaginative life as embodied in poetry, whatever the political and economic climate. -- Sean O'Brien * The Guardian *This fascinating gathering of new and old voices is sure to please not only fans of Chinese culture but all who appreciate great poetry. * World Literature Today *
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Auckland University Press AUP New Poets 6
Book SynopsisRelaunched under the editorship of Anna Jackson in 2019, AUP New Poets 6 includes substantial selections from the poetry of Ben Kemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart. We move from Kemp's slow-paced attentive readings of place and people, in a selection moving between Japan and New Zealand, to the velocity of Vanessa Crofskey's fierce, funny, intimate and political poetry, which takes the form of shopping lists, Post-it Notes, graphs, erasures, a passenger arrival card and even *poetry*, and finally to Chris Stewart's visceral take on the domestic, the nights cut to pieces by teething, the gravity of love and the churn of time. AUP New Poets 6 is an arresting introduction to the rich diversity of contemporary New Zealand poetry.Trade ReviewIt is said that we are in the middle of a poetry revolution in New Zealand: there is certainly a lot of production, an eager climate of reception, and a sense that new cultural confidences and anxieties are finding new expression. It is a pleasure, then, to find a carefully chosen selection of new poets and new poems that show the rich diversity of the contemporary scene: from Ben Kemp entering 'the arteries of Tokyo . . . with ears open', to Vanessa Crofskey's barbed attention to the deceptions and oddities of our try-hard but not really multicultural society, to Chris Stewart's patient observations of family and childbirth. - Mark Williams
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Auckland University Press AUP New Poets 7
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Auckland University Press Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+
Book SynopsisWe became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and much much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.
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Auckland University Press AUP New Poets 8
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Auckland University Press AUP New Poets 9
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Biblioasis Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets
Book SynopsisIn 1910 Lawrence J. Burpee published an anthology of 100 Canadian Sonnets. Poet and critic Zachariah Wells figured it was high time for an update on that dusty tome. In Jailbreaks, Wells has gathered 99 of his favourite sonnets written by Canadians, from the 19th century to the present day.Trade Review"It's refreshing to see an editor so engaged with his material...the result is a collection that successfully showcases remarkable variety within its narrow room."—Good Reports "Richly endowed with sonnets whose wordplay is more ornate, featuring work from such inventive phrasemakers as Margaret Avison, Don McKay and George Elliott Clarke. The list goes on."—Toronto Star "What Wells offers is a thematic survey on formalist grounds, a sort of sleight of hand that makes the collection immediately familiar and intelligible but also, as his insightful notes on each poem show, rigorous in its aesthetic evaluations and thoughtful in its attention to details of prosody. As an editor and commentator, Wells is incredibly perceptive and mercifully concise."—The Walrus
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University of Chester Press Still Life: Poetry from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2010
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Luath Press Ltd 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems
Book SynopsisThis work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem excepting Burns himself, that spans centuries and feelings of affection and desire. These poems explore many different kinds of love: sexual, passionate, romantic, parental. In 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems traditional Scottish verse mixes with great literature as Bonny Barbara Allan and Jock o' Hazeldean rub shoulders with Byron and Hogg. Modern Scottish writing from some of the most inspiring poets of our time, MacCaig, MacDiarmid, Morgan and Carol Ann Duffy, contrasts with Gaelic poetry by Sorley MacLean, Derick Thomson and Meg Bateman. Poems of first love, yearning for love, love in absence and epernal love are not grouped thematically, as in so many other anthologies, but seamlessly so that contrasting poems can strike sparks off one another, across the page - often with wit and jollity - to demonstrate that we experience love in individual and inspiring ways.Trade ReviewFeaturing poems of first love, yearning for love, love in absence and eternal love, this vibrant selection spans the centuries from traditional verse to contemporary poetry in Gaelic, Scots and English. THE SCOTS MAGAZINEConn’s achievement is to have created a feelgood anthology in which doubt, loss, jealousy and impermanence are all given their due...Like the best dark chocolate, the contents of this slim volume linger ambiguously on the palate. THE SUNDAY TIMES
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Arc Publications Six Finnish Poets
Book SynopsisSix Finnish Poets, the eleventh volume in this series, features six writers whose work is symbolic of the connection between the life of poetry in Finland and the life of the poets who write it. In Finland, poetry is a part of everyday life, a way of living, founded upon a do-it-yourself attitude that is independent of the approval of critics, publishers, or the popular masses. The poets selected here exhibit the vast range of Finnish poetry, from experimental prose to image-rich surrealism, and from sparse, stark minimalism to ironically melancholy pop-culture references.
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Smith|Doorstop Books Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined
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Smith|Doorstop Books Cast: The Poetry Business Book of New
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Sound of an Iceberg: New Writing Scotland 37
Book SynopsisNew Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present) contributors. Sound of an Iceberg: New Writing Scotland 37 is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society, and includes new work from forty-one authors some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Break in Case of Silence: New Writing Scotland 39
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Dog Horn Publishing TransBareAll
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about History
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