Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Carcanet Press Ltd New York Poets: An Anthology
Book SynopsisFor the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competing and encouraging each other's radical experiments with language and form. Much of their work reflects their participation in the creative energies of the New York art scene, 'the floods of paint', to quote James Schuyler, 'in whose crashing surf we all scramble'. Believing that anything could be material for a poem, they transformed American poetry with their irreverent wit and daring. Mark Ford's anthology is an essential introduction to four poets whose work has influenced poetry around the world. It includes detailed background information and a substantial bibliography.Table of ContentsFrank O'Hara John Ashbery Kenneth Koch James Schuyler
£13.46
City Lights Books City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
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 Worldand 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
£15.19
John Wiley & Sons Poetry Comes Up Where It Can
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£12.56
Faber & Faber 101 Sonnets
Book SynopsisPoets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has devised an anthology that is both a sharing of personal favourites and a celebration of high moments in the sonnet''s history. His introduction and wonderfully insightful notes provide a history and commentary that will prove illuminating to the casual reader and indispensable to the student or aspiring sonneteer.
£10.44
Faber & Faber W H Auden Prose Volume 3 19491955
Book SynopsisThis is the fifth volume to be published in the ongoing complete edition of Auden''s works, under the editorship of Edward Mendelson. It includes the essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 -- when he wrote his first book of criticism, The Enchafèd Flood -- and December 1955, shortly before he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and began the series of lectures that he published, with much else, in The Dyer''s Hand.The texts throughout this edition are, wherever possible, newly edited from Auden''s manuscripts, and the notes report variant readings from all published versions.Trade Review"'The Complete Works, edited with elegant scruple by Edward Mendelson, is the only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him.' Boston Book Review"
£30.00
The Islamic Texts Society Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology
Book SynopsisSufi Poems is a selection of poems from the golden period of Sufism especially chosen and translated from the Arabic by the distinguished scholar Dr Martin Lings. Dr Lings is the author of numerous best-selling works on Sufism and is a published poet in his own right. Including poems here translated for the first time, Sufi Poems brings together selections from the giants of Sufism; for example, Rabia, Hallaj, Ibn al-Farid and Ibn Arabi. Sufi Poems is published as bi-lingual Arabic-English edition, which will be of interest to all those wishing to read the original Arabic and will also be helpful for university students of Arabic.
£12.59
Penguin Books Ltd The Nibelungenlied
Book SynopsisA story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courageThis great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried''s love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the quarrel between the two queens, Hagen''s treacherous murder of Siegfried, and Kriemhild''s eventual triumph.Composed nearly eight hundred years ago by an unnamed poet, the Nibelungenlied is the principal literary expression of those heroic legends of which Richard Wagner made such free use in The Ring. A. T. Hatto''s translation transforms an old text into a story as readable and exciting as Homer''s Iliad.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.
£11.69
Penguin Books Ltd The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry
Book SynopsisLove itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written. From the fragments of Sappho, to the sonnets of Shakespeare and the Romantic verses of Byron, Keats and Shelley, right through to Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry collates and curates the very finest poems on this subject from across cultures and ages. Whether it''s the burning passion of two young lovers, the steady companionship of a married couple, the unconditional love of a parent for a child or the enduring affection of lifelong friendship, this is Penguin''s definitive collection of the most treasured writing on the most universal of themes.
£11.69
Birlinn General Tools of the Trade
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.
£6.99
Quercus Publishing The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the
Book SynopsisAn essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a deeper understanding and enjoyment of these extraordinary poems.Poets include:W.B. YeatsRobert FrostEdward ThomasPhilip LarkinT.S. EliotTed HughesLangston HughesSylvia PlathC.S SissonDerek WalcottEzra Pound& many more!
£10.44
Pan Macmillan Something New
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£15.60
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
Book SynopsisIntroduces international writing to the general and literary public - travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and a new generation of eclectic readers - by presenting international literature not as a static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the world.Trade Review"An incomparable collection of poets whose work has bever been fully available in English...The reader is given a sense of the entire twentieth century. Kaminsky and Harris have done a first-rate job of bringing a literal world of poets together." -- Ploughshares "The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry is essential reading...There's no shortage of marvelous new voices to discover. Spanning generations, cultures and countries, this is truly a landmark publication-and it's a good gift for the poetry lover in your life, even if that person is you." -- Newsday "In this highly readable anthology, Kaminsky, one of his generation's finest poets, and Harris, the editorial director of Words Without Borders, aim to expand literary citizenship -- and succeed elegantly." -- The Barnes & Noble Review "I suspect there are not many collections (if any) like The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. Gathered within its pages are some of the finest poems from around the planet written in the 20th century." -- The Morning News "From canonical modernists like Valery, Vallejo and Pasternak to younger poets of today, the Ecco Anthology collects an amazing spectrum of poetic voices from around the world in gifted translations, often by other well-known poets. It becomes immediately indispensable." -- John Ashbery "It is a modern book of wonders, of airy correspondences and earthly dialogues, of faraway voices and unlikely global encounters, of borders magically crossed and deaths transfigured, of candles lighting each other, like souls. It is inexhaustible." -- Edward Hirsch "This brilliantly assembled gathering of world voices reads as a symphony of utterance beginning to end, an international conversation of the highest order, regarding the questions and concerns of humankind, beyond borders and all other such barriers, real or imagined." -- Carolyn Forche
£15.57
Carcanet Press Ltd Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology III
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£12.34
University of California Press Poems for the Millennium Volume Two
Book SynopsisIntends to bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. This work offers a chronicle of the second 'great awakening' of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. It provides informative and irreverent commentaries throughout.
£31.50
University of California Press French Symbolist Poetry 50th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisWhether viewed as an influence or in and for themselves, the Symbolists are a tantalizing group. The poetry itself is the movement's best definition. Including bilingual text en face, an introduction, and notes, this work contains some forty selected poems of that movement.
£21.25
Oxford University Press Greek Lyric Poetry
Book SynopsisThe Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. It is not merely a selection but covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments, apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides, and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. The Introduction gives a brief account of the poets, and explanatory Notes on the texts will be found at the end. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
£8.99
Penguin Books Ltd Islamic Mystical Poetry
Book SynopsisWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that develop many of the central ideas of Sufism: the Lover, the Beloved, the Wine, and the Tavern; while others are more personal and echo the poet''s battle to leave earthly love behind. These translations capture the passion of the original poetry and are accompanied by an introduction on Sufism and the common themes apparent in the works. This edition also includes suggested further reading.
£11.69
Penguin Books Ltd Poems on the Underground
Book SynopsisAfter nearly thirty years and almost 500 poems, Poems on the Underground has become a familiar and welcome sight on London''s Tube, paying tribute to the magnificent tradition of English poetry, and to those who have contributed to its richness and diversity. In this beautiful paperback edition, poems old and new, familiar and unfamiliar explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, family, dreams, war, music and nature, and feature hundreds of poets including Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and John Clare, among many others.Trade ReviewThe most democratic artistic intervention of my lifetime -- Maev Kennedy * Guardian *London's most original contribution to urban civilisation -- Simon Jenkins * Evening Standard *Beautifully presented ... This makes it an ideal book to dip into. Few people would see this book lying around the house and not be tempted to quickly browse through and find a morsel of verse that meant something to them at that moment. Everyone will find their own favourites in the book * A Common Reader *
£14.24
Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Book SynopsisUnrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This title reflects the diverse experience of those who lived through the war - bringing together the words of poets, soldiers and civilians affected by the conflict.Table of ContentsThe Penguin Book of First World War PoetryIntroductionAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextPreludeI. Your Country Needs You'Let the foul Scene proceed''Who's for the khaki suit'In Training2. Somewhere In FranceIn TrenchesBehind the LinesComrades of War3. ActionRendezvous with DeathBattleAftermath4. BlightyGoing BackThe Other WarLucky Blighters5. PeaceEveryone SangThe Dead and the Living'Have you forgotten yet?'CodaNotesA Glossary of the Western FrontBiographiesFurther ReadingPoem AcknowledgementsIndex of Titles and First Lines
£9.49
Haymarket Books HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US
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£17.99
Eland Publishing Ltd Berber: Odes from the Atlas Mountains
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.
£6.64
The New Menard Press A Necklace of Bees Selected Poems
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£5.95
Modern Poetry in Translation Between Clay and Star No 2 Modern Poetry in
Book SynopsisMPT's summer Issue Between Clay and Star features a focus on new Romanian poetry: new translations of Liliana Ursu, Dan Sociu, Ana Blandiana and Gellu Naum, and a conversation between Dan Sociu and the younger poet Oana Sanziana Marian. Also a long poem by Aime Cesaire, poems by Khlebnikov, Bonnefoy and the Uruguayan poet Laura Cesarco Eglin.
£7.00
Lautus Press Washing Lines A Collection of Poems
Book SynopsisWhen we published Washing Lines in 2011, we found to our delight that we were not the only people in the world who love washing lines and poetry. The book sold out quickly, hence this new REVISED EDITION - which replaces some poems with new or previously undiscovered work (highlighted in the contents list).Trade ReviewRadio 2 Arts Programme - 'possibly one of my favourite books of the whole year' Claire Armitstead. Oxford Times - 'the finished product is as satisfying as a clean basket of laundry' 'The most original and entertaining poetry anthology of the year' Sebastian Shakespeare, TatlerTable of ContentsCONTENTS Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme They That Wash On Monday Louisa May Alcott: A Song from the Suds Dorothy Aldis: Windy Wash Day Moniza Alvi: Arrival 1946 Yehuda Amichai: Jerusalem, trans Irena Gordon (Harvest Books) Ken Arnold: At Shugakuin Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Washing-Day Dawn Bauling: Washing Day: Monday Morning 1966 Amy Benedict: Wood on cloth on cord George Bilgere: Laundry Gillian Clarke: The Lace-Maker Gillian Clarke: Laundry Gillian Clarke: Women's Work *Gillian Clarke: Pegging Out *Gillian Clarke Six Bells Marsha Truman Cooper: Ironing After Midnight *Imtiaz Dharker: Sari Maura Dooley: The Line *Helen Dunmore The Captainess of Laundry Vicki Feaver: Ironing Leontia Flynn: Mangles Liz Gallagher: A Washing Machine Repairman Speaks on Poetry Tess Gallagher: I Stop Writing the Poem Ted Genoways: Anna on the Beach Ted Genoways: Anna at the Ironing Board Magi Gibson: Washing Day in Dublin Sandra Gilbert: Doing Laundry Louise Gluck: A Warm Day Eamon Grennan: A Few Last Lines of Laundry Jo Haslam: Shirt Seamus Heaney: The Clothes Shrine Seamus Heaney: From Clearances 5 Jane Holland: Spin-Cycle Homer: Odyssey Michael Hulse: Washerwomen at Wurzburg Marie Kazalia: That Moment Jane Kenyon: Wash Day Sarah Knight: Hanging Out Washing Anita Lahey: Woman at Clothes Line Carl Little: A Reminder (Great Cranberry Island) Michael Longley: War and Peace Michael Longley: Washing *Olivia McCannon Ironing Dot McGinnis: Our Lady's Shelter/ Mary's Wash Day Ruth Moose: Laundry *Esther Morgan Enola Gay Kelly Morris: In a Magdalene Laundry, County Cork, 1967 Pablo Neruda: Ode To Ironing (Translated by Jodey Bateman) P.K. Page: Planet Earth Fernando Pessoa: The Washerwoman Beats the Laundry (Translated by Richard Zenith) Marge Piercy: Folding Sheets *Katrina Porteous Domestic Craig Raine: Heaven on Earth Rati Saxena: Washing Clothes Anna Swir: I Wash the Shirt Kathrine Varnes: Folding the Laundry I think About Aesthetics Borben Vladovic: Washing on the Line Marilyn K. Walker: Clothesline Deceit *Jo Walton Doing laundry on the last day of the world Joanna M. Weston: Washing Line Walt Whitman: From Song of Myself Richard Wilbur: Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World Hugo Williams: Woman in a New House ILLUSTRATIONS Clifford Harper Anne Hayward: September Morning Beth Krommes: The Zen of Ironing Clare Leighton: Washer Women of Toulon Miriam MacGregor: Mrs Hooper's Garden Pam Pebworth: Lympstone Washday Elizabeth Rashley: Washday Sue Scullard: Vegetable Garden from Lark Rise to Candleford Sue Scullard: Pantaloons/Venice Daniel Waters: Card Sarah Young: Print Garden
£9.50
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Hallelujah for 50ft Women: poems about women's
Book SynopsisRaving Beauties women's theatre company was born out of a deep sense of frustration with domesticity, naivete and a burning need for a creative outlet. It led to an enormous personal, political and professional learning curve. Hallelujah for 50ft Women is their third anthology of women's poetry. Their first book, In the Pink (The Women's Press), sold thousands and was reprinted six times. Our relationship to our bodies is affected by many things including culture, religion, family, sex, hunger, pleasure and pain. This new anthology is inspired by a passionate desire to celebrate our bodies in a fully realised way, leaving Barbie's grotesque silent pliability in her box for good. Instead of pouting, our mouths have the power of language, our romantic fluttering hearts give and receive compassion, skin ages with grace when we see beauty in everything, a pierced belly button connects us to our ancestors and a belly needs to be strong before it's flat. This book has been selected from over a thousand submissions. New poets published here for the first time are proud to share this anthology with established writers such as Selima Hill, Kim Addonizio, Jackie Kay and Helen Dunmore. By revealing the complex depths of our relationships with our bodies Hallelujah for 50ft Women makes a much needed contribution to a compassionate understanding of our evolving selves.Trade Review'In their performances and anthologies Raving Beauties have done a great service to women writers' - Guardian. ' - brilliant, actually' - Observer.
£9.45
Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from
Book SynopsisThis epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies – with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic’s argument or to illustrate a journalistic overview. Instead, Edna Longley shows you the key poets of the century, and through interlinking commentary points up the connections between them as well as their relationship with the continuing poetic traditions of these islands. Edna Longley draws the poetic line of the century not through culture-defining groups but through the work of the most significant poets of our time. Because her guiding principle is aesthetic precision, the poems themselves answer to their circumstances. Readers will find this book exciting and risk-taking not because her selections are surprising but because of the intensity and critical rigour of her focus, and because the poems themselves are so good. This is a vital anthology because the selection is so pared down. Edna Longley has omitted showy, noisy, ephemeral writers who drown out their contemporaries but leave later or wiser readers unimpressed. Similarly there is no place here for the poet as entertainer, cultural spokesman, feminist mythmaker or political commentator. While anthologies survive, the idea of poetic tradition survives. An anthology as rich as Edna Longley’s houses intricate conversations between poets and between poems, between the living and the dead, between the present and the future. It is a book which will enrich the reader’s experience and understanding of modern poetry. The anthology covers the work of 70 poets: Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Edward Thomas, D.H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Edwin Muir, T.S. Eliot, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Hugh MacDiarmid, Wilfred Owen, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Robert Graves, Austin Clarke, Basil Bunting, Stevie Smith, Patrick Kavanagh, Norman Cameron, William Empson, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, John Hewitt, Robert Garioch, Norman MacCaig, R.S. Thomas, Henry Reed, Dylan Thomas, Alun Lewis, W.S. Graham, Keith Douglas, Edwin Morgan, Philip Larkin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Montague, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, Sylvia Plath, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, Tom Leonard, Carol Rumens, Selima Hill, Ciaran Carson, James Fenton, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott, Ian Duhig, Carol Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie, Simon Armitage and Don Paterson.
£11.40
Carcanet Press Ltd Ten South African Poets
Book SynopsisBrings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the anthology takes the poetry of the region away from the dichotomy which apartheid promoted.
£14.20
Carcanet Press Ltd Golden Apple A Round of Stories Songs Spells
Book SynopsisOffers a selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature.Trade Review'Throughout there is the sense of the unadorned, unrationalized essence of folk tradition - This book entertains and startles afresh on each reading.' - Michael Cayley, PN Review ' - an absolute delight. The tales fly along relentlessly to their enigmatic endings, mixing up the ridiculous, the miraculous and the commonplace, putting to shame the puerile moralizing of many modern children's books. The irrational is sitting in the trees waiting to leap upon you - ' - George Szirtes, Quarto
£8.95
Josef Weinberger Plays Inherit the Wind by Lee Robert E Author ON
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£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers Nature Poems
Book SynopsisMore than 100 poems about Britain''s nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains. This carefully chosen collection will inspire you to explore nature through a poet's eye the perfect antidote to times when the world is too much with us', as Wordsworth so beautifully put it.There are celebrated poems by the greats Keats, Yeats, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, John Masefield, Robert Burns, Dylan Thomas as well as others by contemporary poets whose work you will want to seek out and explore further, including Carol Anne Duffy, Simon Armitage and Jean Sprackland. Where poems have links to National Trust sites, footnotes are included to explain the connections.
£9.49
Banipal Books Generation 56 Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab
Book SynopsisGeneration '56 features nine influential Arab voices, all born in 1956, all of whom grew up to become major beacons of modernity, intellectual freedom and creativity in the Arab world and who established important cultural initiatives. Plus works by five more Sudanese authors, two poet film-makers and two fiction writers.
£9.00
Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 15091659
Book SynopsisThe era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age—notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Poems by less well-known writers also feature prominently—among them significant female poets such as Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. Compelling and exhilarating, this landmark collection illuminates a time of astonishing innovation, imagination and diversity.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 intrTable of ContentsSelected and with an Introduction by David Norbrook - Edited by H.R. Woudhuysen Abbreviations Used in the TextPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNote on the Text and AnnotationI. The Public World1. JOHN SKELTON: [from A Lawde and Prayse Made for Our Sovereigne Lord the Kyng]2. SIR THOMAS MORE: De Principe Bono Et Malo3. Quis Optimus Reipublicae Status4. SIR DAVID LINDSAY: [from The Dreme] The Complaynt of the Comoun weill of Scotland5. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [Who lyst his welth and eas Retayne]6. In Spayn7. [The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent]8. HENRY HOWARD, EARLY OF SURREY: [Thassyryans king in peas with fowle desyre]9. ANONYMOUS: John Arm-strongs last good night10. ROBERT CROWLEY: Of unsaciable purchasers11. JOHN HEYWOOD: [from A Ballad on the Marriage of Philip and Mary]12. WILLIAM BIRCH: [from A songe betwene the Quenes majestie and Englande]13. QUEEN ELIZABETH I: [The dowbt off future foes exiles my present joye]14. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]15. ANONYMOUS: Of Sir Frauncis Walsingham Sir Phillipp Sydney, and Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancelor16. GEORGE PUTTENHAM: Her Majestie resembled to the crowned piller17. ANNE DOWRICHE: [from The French Historie]18. SIR WALTER RALEGH: [Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light]19. [from Fortune hath taken the away my love]20. QUEEN ELIZABETH I: [Ah silly pugge wert thou so sore afraid]21. SIR WALTER RALEGH: The 21th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia22. The Lie23. ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE: [Remembers thou in Aesope of a taill]24. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: A Tragicall Epigram25. Of Treason26. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 7827. GEORGE PEELE: [from Anglorum Feriae]28. JOHN DONNE: The Calme29. [from Satire 4]30. ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX: [Change thy minde since she doth change]31. MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE: [To Queen Elizabeth]32. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Faerie Queene Book 5]33. EOCHAIDH Ó HEÓGHUSA: [On Maguire's Winter Campaign]34. BEN JONSON: On the Union35. SIR ARTHUR GORGES: Written upon the death of the most Noble Prince Henrie36. SIR HENRY WOTTON: Upon the sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset, then falling from favor37. WILLIAM BROWNE: [from Brittania's Pastorals Book 2]38. ANONYMOUS: Feltons Epitaph39. ANONYMOUS: [Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham]40. SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE: [from An Ode Upon occasion of His Majesties Proclamation in the yeare 1630]41. JOHN CLEVELAND: Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford42. SIR JOHN DENHAM: Coopers Hill43. MARTIN PARKER: Upon defacing of White-hall44. ROBERT HERRICK: A King and no King45. ANDREW MARVELL: An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland46. SIR WILLIAM MURE: [from The Cry of Blood, and of a Broken Covenant]47. KATHERINE PHILIPS: On the 3. of September, 165148. JOHN MILTON: To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 165249. To Sir Henry Vane the younger50. ANDREW MARVELL: [from The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C.]51. ALEXANDER BROME: On Sir G.B. his defeatII. Images of Love52. ANONYMOUS: [Westron wynde when wylle thow blow]53. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [They fle from me that sometyme did me seke]54. [Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde]55. [It may be good like it who list]56. [My lute awake perfourme the last]57. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY: [The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes]58. ALEXANDER SCOTT: [To luve unluvit it is ane pane]59. GEORGE TURBERVILLE: To his Love that sent him a Ring wherein was gravde, Let Reason rule60. ISABELLA WHITNEY: I.W. To her unconstant Lover61. GEORGES GASCOIGNE: [A Sonet written in prayse of the brown beautie]62. ANONYMOUS: A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves63. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from Certain Sonnets: 4]64. [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]65. [from Astrophil and Stella] 166. [from Astrophil and Stella] 267. [from Astrophil and Stella] 968. [from Astrophil and Stella] 7269. [from Astrophil and Stella] 8170. [from Astrophil and Stella] 8371. [from Astrophil and Stella] Eight song72. [from Astrophil and Stella] Eleventh song73. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 2274. [from Caelica] Sonnet 2775. [from Caelica] Sonnet 3976. [from Caelica] Sonnet 4477. [from Caelica] Sonnet 8478. MARK ALEXANDER BOYD: Sonet79. ROBERT GREENE: Dorons description of Samela80. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Faerie Queene Book 2]81. [from The Faerie Queene Book 3]82. [from The Faerie Queene Book 3]83. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 2384. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 6485. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 6786. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 7087. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 7188. Epithalamion89. SIR WALTER RALEGH: [As you came from the holy land]90. SAMUEL DANIEL: [from Delia] Sonnet 1391. [from Delia] Sonnet 3992. [from Delia] Sonnet 5293. SIR JOHN DAVIES: [from Gullinge Sonnets]94. [Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes]95. THOMAS NASHE: The choise of valentines96. JOHN DONNE: To his Mistress going to bed97. BARNABE BARNES: [from Parthenophil and Parthenophe] Sonnet 2799. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: The passionate Sheepheard to his love99. Hero and Leander100. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [from Venus and Adonis]101. [from Lucrece]102. RICHARD BARNFIELD: [from Cynthia] Sonnet 8103. [from Cynthia] Sonnet 11104. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [from Sonnets] 19105. [from Sonnets] 20106. [from Sonnets] 29107. [from Sonnets] 35108. [from Sonnets] 36109. [from Sonnets] 55110. [from Sonnets] 56111. [from Sonnets] 66112. [from Sonnets] 74113. [from Sonnets] 94114. [from Sonnets] 121115. [from Sonnets] 124116. [from Sonnets] 129117. [from Sonnets] 135118. [from Sonnets] 138119. [from Sonnets] 144120. ROBERT SIDNEY, EARL OF LEICESTER: Sonnet 21121. Sonnet 25122. Sonnet 31123. Songe 17124. GEORGE CHAPMAN: [from Hero and Leander Sestiad 3]125. JOHN MARSTON: [from The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image]126. THOMAS DELONEY: [Long have I lov'd this bonny Lasse]127. ANONYMOUS: [from The wanton Wife of Bath]128. [JOHN DOWLAND]: [Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new]129. THOMAS CAMPION: [Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe]130. [Rose-cheekt Lawra come]131. [There is a Garden in her face]132. JOHN DONNE: His Picture133. The Sunne Rising134. The Canonization135. Loves growth136. A Valediction of weeping137. A Valediction forbidding mourning138. MICHAEL DRAYTON: [from Idea] 10139. [from Idea] 61140. To His Coy Love, A Canzonet141. BEN JONSON: Why I Write Not of Love142. My Picture left in Scotland143. LADY MARY WROTH: [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 23144. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 34145. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] A crowne of Sonetts dedicated to Love146. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus]147. [from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania] 7148. ROBERT HERRICK: Delight in Disorder149. The Vision150. The silken Snake151. Her Bed152. Upon Julia's haire fil'd with Dew153. Upon Sibilla154. THOMAS CAREW: The Spring155. Ingratefull beauty threatned156. [from A Rapture]157. MARTIN PARKER: [from Cupid's Wrongs Vindicated]158. [from Well met Neighbour]159. EDMUND WALLER: The story of Phoebus and Daphne appli'd160. Song161. The Budd162. SIR JOHN SUCKLING: [Out upon it, I have lov'd]163. JOHN CLEVELAND: The Antiplatonick164. RICHARD LOVELACE: Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres165. Gratiana dauncing and singing166. To Althea, From Prison167. Her Muffe168. [from On Sanazar's being honoured with six hundred Duckets by the Clarissimi of Venice, for composing an Elegiack Hexastick of the City. A Satyre]169. ANDREW MARVELL: To his Coy Mistress170. The Gallery171. The Definition of Love172. JAMES HARRINGTON: Inconstancy173. KATHERINE PHILIPS: An Answer to another perswading a Lady to MarriageIII. Topographies174. ALEXANDER BARCLAY: [from Certayne Egloges 5]175. GEORGE BUCHANAN: Calendae Maiae176. ANONYMOUS: [from Vox populi vox Dei]177. ANONYMOUS: [from Jack of the North]178. ANONYMOUS: The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield179. BARNABE GOOGE: Goyng towardes Spayne180. SIÔON PHYLIP: [from Yr Wylan]181. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]182. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Shepheardes Calender] Maye183. ALEXANDER HUME: [from Of the day Estivall]184. JOHN DAVIES: [from Epigrammes] In Cosmum 17185. JOSEPH HALL: [from Virgidemiarum Book 5]186. EVERARD GUILPIN: [from Skialetheia Satire 5]187. ANONYMOUS: A Songe bewailinge the tyme of Christmas, So much decayed in Englande188. JOHN DONNE: A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day189. AEMILIA LANYER: The Description of Cooke-ham190. BEN JONSON: To Penshurst191. MICHAEL DRAYTON: [from Pastorals] The Ninth Eglogue192. [from Poly-Olbion Song 6]193. To the Virginian Voyage194. SAMUEL DANIEL: [from Epistle. To Prince Henrie]195. ANONYMOUS: On Francis Drake196. W. TURNER: [from Turners dish of Lentten stuffe, or a Galymaufery]197. JOHN TAYLOR: [from The Sculler] Epigram 22198. WILLIAM BROWNE: [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2]199. EDWARD HERBERT, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY: Sonnet200. RICHARD CORBETT: A Proper New Ballad Intituled the Faeryes Farewell: Or God-A-Mercy Will201. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: The Countess of Anglesey lead Captive by the Rebels, at the Disforresting of Pewsam202. GEORGE WITHER: [from Britain's Remembrancer Canto 4]203. JOHN MILTON: Song on May morning 204. L'Allegro205. ROBERT HERRICK: To Dean-bourn, a rude River in Devon, by which sometimes he lived206. Corinna's going a Maying207. To Meddowes208. The Wassaile209. RICHARD CRASHAW: [from Bulla]210. ABRAHAM COWLEY: The Wish211. ANONYMOUS: [The Diggers' Song]212. HENRY VAUGHAN: [from To his retired friend, an Invitation to Brecknock]213. RICHARD LOVELACE: The Snayl214. ANDREW MARVELL: Bermudas215. The Mower to the Glo-Worms216. The Mower against Gardens217. The Garden218. [from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax]219. MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE: Of many Worlds in this World220. A Dialogue betwixt Man, and Nature221. Similizing the Sea to Meadowes, and Pastures, the Marriners to Shepheards, the Mast to a May-pole, Fishes to Beasts222. KATHERINE PHILIPS: Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes WalksIV. Friends, Patrons and the Good Life223. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [Myn owne John poyntz sins ye delight to know]224. GEORGE GASCOIGNE: [Upon the theme: Magnum vectigal parcimonia]225. [Gascoignes wodmanship]226. EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD: [Weare I a Kinge I coulde commande content]227. THOMAS LODGE: [from Scillaes Metamorphosis]228. JOHN DONNE: To Sir Henry Wotton229. THOMAS DELONEY: The Weavers Song230. THOMAS DEKKER: [Art thou poore yet hast thou golden Slumbers]231. SAMUEL DANIEL: To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with Mr. Donnes Satyres233. Inviting a Friend to Supper234. [THOMAS RAVENSCROFT]: [Hey hoe what shall I say]235. [Sing we now merily]236. A Belmans song237. THOMAS CAMPION: [Now winter nights enlarge]238. ANONYMOUS: The Mode of France239. MICAHEL DRAYTON: These verses weare made By Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Lawreatt the night before hee dyed240. EDMUND WALLER: At Pens-hurst241. RICHARD LOVELACE: The Grasse-hopper. To my Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. Ode242. ALEXANDER BROME: [from The Prisoners] Written when O.C. attempted to be King243. JOHN MILTON: [To Edward Lawrence]244. KATHERINE PHILIPS: Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia245. Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal. To my dearest Lucasia246. To my Excellent Lucasia, on our FriendshipV. Church, State and Belief247. JOHN SKELTON: [from Collyn Clout]248. ANNE ASKEW: The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate249. LUKE SHEPHERD: [from The Upcheringe of the Messe]250. ANONYMOUS: [A Lament for our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham]251. JOHN HEYWOOD: [from Epygrams] Of turnyng.252. GEORGE PUTTENHAM: [from Partheniades] Partheniad 11 Urania253. ROBERT SOUTHWELL: The burning Babe254. HENRY CONSTABLE: To St. Mary Magdalen255. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: A Groome of the Chambers religion in King Henry the eights time256. JOHN DONNE: Satyre 3257. Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward258. Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse259. [from Holy Sonnets]260. [Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt]261. [Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and cleare]262. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 89263. [from Caelica] Sonnet 99264. [from Caelica] Sonnet 109265. GILES FLETCHER: [from Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, over, and after death]266. AEMILIA LANYER: [from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum]267. WILLIAM DRUMMOND: [For the Baptiste]268. [Content and Resolute]269. PHINEAS FLETCHER: [Vast Ocean of light, whose rayes surround]270. JOHN MILTON: On the morning of Christs Nativity271. FRANCIS QUARLES: [from Pentelogia] Fraud Mundi272. [from Divine Fancies] On the contingencie of Actions273. [from Divine Fancies] On the Needle of a Sun-diall274. [from Divine Fancies] On the Booke of Common Prayer275. [from Divine Fancies] On Christ and our selves276. GEORGE HERBERT: Perseverance277. Redemption278. Easter wings279. Prayer280. Deniall281. Jordan282. The Collar283. The Flower284. The Forerunners285. Love286. [from The Church Militant]287. ANONYMOUS: [Yet if his Majestie our Sovareigne lord]288. SIDNEY GODOLPHIN: [Lord when the wise men came from Farr]289. JOHN TAYLOR: [from Here followeth the unfashionable fashion, or the too too homely Worshipping of God]290. EDMUND WALLER: Upon His Majesties repairing of Pauls291. RICHARD CRASHAW: A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards292. To the Noblest and best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh293. [from The Flaming Heart]294. ANONYMOUS: Upon Arch-bishop Laud, Prisoner in the Tower. 1641295. ROBERT WILD: [from Alas poore Scholler, whither wilt thou goe]296. JOHN MILTON: On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament297. MORGAN LLWYD: [from The Summer]298. LAURENCE CLARKSON: [from A Single Eye All Light, no Darkness]299. HENRY VAUGHAN: The Retreate300. The World301. Cock-crowing302. The Water-fall303. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: [from Gondibert Book 2]304. ANNA TRAPNEL: [from The Cry of a Stone]305. AN COLLINS: Another Song exciting to spirituall Mirth306. ANDREW MARVELL: The CoronetVI. Elegy and Epitaph307. JOHN SKELTON: [from Phyllyp Sparowe]308. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY: [Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead]309. [W. resteth here, that quick could never rest]310. NICHOLAS GRIMALD: [from A funerall song, upon the deceas of Annes his moother]311. CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE: [My prime of youth is but a froste of cares]312. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [The Phoenix and Turtle]313. JOHN DONNE: [from The Second Anniversarie] Of the Progres of the Soule314. BEN JONSON: On My First Sonne315. To the immortalle memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison316. SIR WALTER RALEGH: [Even suche is tyme that takes in trust]317. WILLIAM BROWNE: On the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke318. HENRY KING: An Exequy To his matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind318. GEORGE HERBERT: [from Memoriae Matris Sacrum]320. THOMAS CAREW: Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers321. SIR HENRY WOTTON: Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife322. ROBERT HERRICK: To the reverend shade of his religious Father323. Upon himselfe being buried324. Upon a child325. JOHN MILTON: Lycidas326. [Methought I saw my late espoused Saint]327. 'ELIZA': To my Husband328. HENRY VAUGHAN: [They are all gone into the world of light]329. KATHERINE PHILIPS: Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred330. Orinda upon little Hector Philips331. JAMES SHIRLEY: [The glories of our blood and state]VII. Translation332. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY: [from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4]333. RICHARD STANYHURST: [from Virgil's Aeneid Book 4]334. ARTHUR GOLDING: [from Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 6]335. EDMUND SPENSER: [from Ruines of Rome: by Bellay] 5336. MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE: Quid gloriaris? Psalm 52337. [from Psalm 89 Misericordias]338. Voce mea ad Dominum Psalm 142339. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: [from Ovides Elegies Book 1] Elegia. 13. Ad Auroram ne properet340. [from Lucan's Pharsalia Book 1]341. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: [from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso Book 34]342. EDWARD FAIRFAX: [from Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne Book 4]343. JOSUAH SYLVESTER: [from Saluste du Bartas' Devine Weekes]344. GEORGE CHAPMAN: [from Homer's Iliad Book 12]345. JOHN MILTON: The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. 1VIII. Writer, Language and Public346. JOHN SKELTON: [from A Replycacion]347. THOMAS CHURCHYARD: [from A Musicall Consort]348. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: Of honest Theft. To my good friend Master Samuel Daniel350. JOHN DONNE: The triple Foole351. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [from Sonnets]352. JOHN MARSTON: [from The Scourge of Villanie] In Lectores prorsus indignos353. SAMUEL DANIEL: [from Musophilus]354. BEN JONSON: A Fit of Rime against Rime355. An Ode. To himselfe356. GEORGE CHAPMAN: [from Homer's Iliad, To the Reader]357. SIR WALTER RALEGH: To the Translator358. WILLIAM BROWNE: [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2]359. RACHEL SPEGHT: [from The Dreame]360. MICHAEL DRAYTON: [from Idea]361. To my most dearely-loved friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, of Poets and Poesie362. [from The Muses Elizium] The Description of Elizium363. JOHN MILTON: [from At a Vacation Exercise]364. JOHN TAYLOR: [from A comparison betwixt a Whore and a Booke]365. THOMAS CAREW: An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. John Donne366. A Fancy367. ROBERT HERRICK: To the Detracter368. Posting to Printing369. GEORGE WITHER: [from Vox Pacifica]370. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: [from Gondibert Book 2]371. MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE: The Claspe372. [The Common Fate of Books]373. ABRAHAM COWLEY: The Muse374. HENRY VAUGHAN: The BookNotes to the TextAppendix 1: Index of GenresAppendix 2: Index of Metrical and Stanzaic FormsAppendix 3: Glossary of Classical NamesAppendix 4: Biographical Notes on AuthorsAppendix 5: Index of AuthorsIndex of First LinesIndex of Titles
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Arc Publications Six Basque Poets
Book SynopsisArc New Voices from Europe and Beyond: 2Six Basque Poets is the second volume in a new series of bilingual anthologies which brings the work of contemporary poets from Europe and beyond to a wider English-language readership, a series which aims to keep a finger on the 'here and now' of international contemporary poetry.The six poets included in this collection have played a defining role in the development of Basque-language poetry in the last thirty years, since the arrival of what we have come to refer to as the 'democratic age' in Spain and the Basque Country. They represent the diversity of voices and poetic schools that populate the contemporary Basque literary scene, where a variety of tendencies has emerged in the recent decades: a range of different poetics, use of various narrative styles, a preference for a non-aesthetic approach that dwells within the quotidian and an emergence of female voices that reclaim other codes and other universes.Direct, moving and thought-provoking, the poetry in the present volume gives us insight into the preoccupations of a literary milieu which may be marginalized by its use of an ancient language not spoken outside its territory but which is as powerful and original in its production as any of the literary centres in today's Europe.The featured poets: Rikardo Arregi, Bernardo Atxaga, Felipe Juaristi, Miren Agur Meabe, Kirmen Uribe, Joseba Sarrionandia.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface/9, Introduction/10, Translator's note/27. Bernado Atxaga: Biography/31, The hedgehog/33, Adam and Life/35, Elegy/37, Death and the Zebras/37, The Days go by/41, Life/43, Life is Life/45, Silly Song/47, A Finnish Day/51. Felipe Juaristi: Biography/57, "It makes no difference, mixing West with East..."/59, Smoothy/59, Metropolis 2/61, The Isthmus of Panama/63, Vanity of Vanities/65, Nevsky Propsect/67, Auschwitz/69, Gardener/69, Geography/71, Rembrandt wants to paint infinity/73. Joseba Sarrionandia: Biography/79, Nautical Logbook/81, The Organist is Dead/81, Return Home/83, A Long Train/85, A Pile of Broken Shoes/85, The Ex-Prisoner's Mind/85, Literature and Revolution/87, A Runaway's Luggage/87, The Minotaur speaks/89, Poetic Proposal/91. Rikardo Arregi: Biography/97, Papers on the Pavement/99, The Sleeping Land III/99, 66 Lines from the City under Siege/103, The Moon Anywhere/107, Onassis Tavern/111, Territories of Music II/113, Telephone Promises/115, Love Poem I/117, Like Gilen of Aquitaine/119. Miren Agur Meabe: Biography/125, Code/125, Notes on How to avoid Memory Loss (2)/127, Brief Notes (1)/129, "Scoop the pale flow of my frozen half-moon..."/129, /131, Wild roses have gobbled up..."/131, Concrete Things/133, The Ant (II)/135, Water Dreams (III)/135, Aeolia (III)/137. Kirmen Uribe: Biography/141, The River/143, The Island/145, The Visit/145, Mahmud/147, The Cuckoo/151, Birds in Winter/153, Perfect Things/155, The Unsayable/155, Way Beyond/157, May/159. About the translator/161. About the editors/162
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Vagabond Voices Our Real, Red Selves
Book SynopsisAn anthology of three collections bringing three poets together around the subjects of birth and war. The styles of these poets differ, but their imagery and intensity echo each other.
£8.95
Candlestick Press Ten Poems About Sheep: Volume One
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Dover Publications Inc. English Romantic Poetry
Book SynopsisRich selection of 123 poems by 6 great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Earth Shattering: Ecopoems
Book Synopsis"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air, felling trees and forests), there are poems here to alert and alarm anyone willing to read or listen. Other poems celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink. Earth Shattering's words of warning include contributions from many great writers of the past as well as leading contemporary poets from around the world, ranging from Wordsworth, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy, Rilke and Charlotte Mew to Wendell Berry, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin and Gary Snyder. This is the first anthology to show the full range of ecopoetry, from the wilderness poetry of ancient China to 21st-century native American poetry, with postcolonial and feminist perspectives represented by writers such as Derek Walcott, Ernesto Cardinal,Oodgeroo and Susan Griffin. Ecopoetry goes beyond traditional nature poetry to take on distinctly contemporary issues, recognising the interdependence of all life on earth, the wildness and otherness of nature, and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature. The poems dramatise the dangers and poverty of a modern world perilously cut off from nature and ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power. As the world's politicians and corporations orchestrate our headlong rush towards Eco- Armageddon, poetry may seem like a hopeless gesture. But its power is in the detail, in the force of each individual poem, in every poem's effect on every reader. And anyone whose resolve is stirred will strengthen the collective call for change.Trade ReviewAny poetry anthology, in any field, inevitably owes something to those anthologies that have gone before it. But with Earth Shattering, Neil Astley has set out to do something rather different – not just moving us well beyond the canon of "nature poetry" (which a number of other anthologies have also sought to do over the last few years), but by digging much deeper into the complexities of the historical relationship between humankind and the living Earth that sustains us, reflected in a highly contemporaneous and politically aware way. That will certainly appeal to environmental activists who will already be familiar with many of the poets featured in Earth Shattering. But they will discover a whole lot more than this in this astonishingly eclectic and wide-ranging anthology. -- Jonathon Porritt * Sofia *
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Harvard University Press Greek Iambic Poetry
Book SynopsisThe poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC that the Greeks called iambic is primarily invective.Trade ReviewThese two additions to the Loeb Classical Library [Greek Iambic Poetry and Greek Elegiac Poetry] will be welcomed by readers at all levels. Archolicus, Hipponax, Solon, the Theognidea, and many others are now accessible as never before...The translations, into prose, are wonderfully clear and readable. All traces of translationese have been removed, or more likely were never there. While the revisions are plain, they are always instructive and can be elegant. It will repay students to read these versions not just as a crib, but to compare them carefully with the Greek. There are surprises and delights for the attentive...Gerber has a gift for finding English that shows how the Greek works...The notes are marvels of condensed information...Gerber throughout the notes writes in a clear, concise, and scrupulous style. In effect he had summarized for his readers a great deal of information about current interpretations and problems of dozens and dozens of fragments...Gerber has distilled an impressive amount of scholarship. That feat, together with the excellence of his translations, makes these volumes among the most distinguished of those recently issued. -- H.G. Edinger * Phoenix *The contemporary literalness of Gerber's translations will fo much to make these poems appealing and accessible to undergraduates...Gerber successfully transmits both the letter and the spirit of the Greek, and his eloquent directness will be welcome to both scholars and students. -- Emily Katz Anhalt * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Harvard University Press Poems. Letters
Book SynopsisExtant works by Sidonius Apollinaris are three long panegyrics in verse, poems addressed to or concerned with friends, and nine books of letters.
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Faber & Faber 100 Prized Poems
Book Synopsis''The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and glamorous''Carol Ann Duffy100 Prized Poems brings together the best of the poems published over a quarter century in twenty-five editions of the Forward books of poetry, a series highlighting the works commended annually for the prestigious Forward Prizes.The roll-call of poets included is a Who's Who of poetry excellence and includes both familiar names Simon Armitage, Jackie Kay, Derek Walcott - and fresh voices Kae Tempest, Kei Miller and Emily Berry. This anthology of anthologies is a great way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.
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Princeton University Press Leopardi
Book SynopsisFeatures translations of poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) that render into modern English verse - the work of a writer who is regarded as one of the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1998 Poetry in Translation Award, PEN American Center "[Leopardi's] contribution to 19th-century European poetry second only to Baudelaire's ... there's plenty to be grateful for in this lucidly translated selection... "--Boston ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Giacomo LeopardiTranslator's Introduction: "Attempts and Preludes"Infinitive3Sunday Evening5To the Moon9Dream11The Life of Solitude17Sappho's Last Song23Chorus of the Dead27To Silvia31The Solitary Thrush35Memories39The Clam after the Storm49Saturday in the Village53Night Song of a Nomadic Shepherd in Asia57To Himself67The Setting Moon69Broom or The Flower of the Desert73
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