Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Poetry Sanguine
£21.60
Ellerslie Books Udolpho Issue 2
£15.15
The River Woods Writers Tell Me When You Are Tired of Me
£13.29
£14.20
Independently Published Siento. Poesía al azar
£7.92
Independently Published A Tapestry Of Experience
£13.88
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Prospettive e Fughe Evasione
£10.16
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Will Enough Ever Suffice
£16.62
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Thin Places Sacred Spaces
£14.12
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Relatos de un amor y otros desvaríos
£8.67
Independently Published Against hate
£12.30
Independently Published Bioversa
£15.49
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp A Pocket Book of Poesy
£7.92
Independently Published Antología Completa
£13.51
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Almost Mine
£8.06
Greenpoint Books, LLC A History of Haiku (Volume Two): From Issa up to the Present
£23.00
Grayson Books Poetry of Presence II: More Mindfulness Poems
£18.04
Arrowsmith Press In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine
£18.04
Penguin Putnam Inc The Penguin Book of the Sonnet
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£20.69
Little, Brown Book Group Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Book SynopsisBy the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil''s last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction. Amid the flight and re-enslavement of the inhabitants, their narrative emerges.Two powerful, epic poems give voice to the lovers: Almeyda''s passionate lament for Anninho, whom she believes has been killed, is combined with his response as he searches for her. Their story is one of longing - for each other, for freedom - and for revolution.''I want to stay here, Anninho.''''There won''t be any wayyou can stay here.When they catch us,they''ll take you back.''''The men they kill,the women they take back.''
£12.34
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc TwentiethCentury German Poetry
£23.65
British Museum Press Classical Love Poetry
Book SynopsisOffers short poems and extracts from the Classical tradition, by authors including Virgil, Homer, Catullus, Horace, Sappho and Ovid, and illustrates them with the finest Classical and classically inspired pieces from the British Museums extensive collection. This title explores of the treasures of Classical literature and art.
£9.49
Edinburgh University Press Mador of the Moor
Book SynopsisA flowing and immensely readable narrative that eloquently challenges the deeply-ingrained class and gender prejudices of Hogg's society.Trade Review...comprehensive glossarie... -- Lallans 70 2007 ...comprehensive glossarie...
£90.25
Abrams Poem in Your Pocket 200 Poems to Read and Carry
Book SynopsisHelps to select a poem you love, then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends. Whether you're a fan of Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson, Frank O'Hara or Walt Whitman, this title includes poems for various people.
£14.64
Josef Weinberger Plays laura
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£10.44
Saqi Books Kalakuta Republic
Book SynopsisA collection of poems detailing the harrowing experiences endured by Chris Abani and others at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s. In the poems, Abani describes the characters that people the dark world of the prison cells, from the inmates to their torturers, the generals.Trade Review'A beautiful work of art . . . elevates art and humanity above meanness and inhumanity.' World Literature Today; 'An unheralded chunk of authentic literature . . . Abani has lived to tell his tale, the least we can do, is listen to it.' New Statesman; 'A brave and challenging book . . . I was moved as much by what the poems have achieved as by what they have rescued from that nightmare world. Reading, I found myself in tears.' Sunday Tribune; 'Abani's poems are the most naked, harrowing expression of prison life and political torture imaginable. Reading them is like being singed by a red hot iron.' Harold Pinter;'Abani's survival instinct and his poems contain moments of grace, humanity and humor.' Susannah Tarbush, Diwaniya; 'Abani's poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength, survival and tyranny.' Pride;'Chris has emerged with poems that are graceful pieces of art, almost ready to be hung in a gallery for others to come and enter them and rest in them and weep in them and admire them.' Kwame Dawes, professor of English literature, University of Columbia, South Carolina, USA
£7.59
Iron Press Unholy Trinity
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£7.46
Five Leaves Publications Passionate Renewal Jewish Poetry in Britain since
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£14.24
Eland Publishing Ltd Venice A Collection of the Poetry of Place
Book SynopsisAn extraordinarily ecclectic selection of poetry evoked by 'La Serenissima', including poetry from Longfellow, Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ezra Pound, Oscar Wilde, Pushkin, Rilke, Brodsky, Dante and Derek Walcott. With a scintillating introduction by John Julius Norwich, who as Chairman of the organisation Venice in Peril has done much to help preserve the fabric of the fragile city.
£7.08
IRISH PAGES Irish Pages New Voices Contemporary Poetry from
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£11.40
Modern Poetry in Translation Metamorphoses Third Series Modern Poetry in
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£10.45
Modern Poetry in Translation Transplants No 13 Modern Poetry in Translation
Book SynopsisTranslation can be thought of as the transplanting of a living thing out of its native time and place into somewhere foreign. There it may thrive or die. In this issue of MPT, the authors show many of the ways and means by which a literary transplant's chances of survival may be increased.
£9.95
Stonewood Press Said and Done
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£11.40
Iron Press Pieces from Eight An Octet of New Iron Poets
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£5.60
Publishing Print Matters Collected poems Don Maclennan
Book SynopsisAlongside the companion Volume 'No other world' - Essays on the life-work of Don Maclennan, the Collected Poems deserves a place on every discerning reader's bedside table.Trade ReviewThese poems "derive their power from a kind of loyalty to the moment of immediate and existential sensibility." Tony Voss There is nothing phony about these poems. They are written by someone who knows precisely what he is, has seen life, still stronglyTable of ContentsIn Memoriam Oskar Wolberheim (1971); Life Songs (1977); Poems (1981); Reckonings (1983); Collecting Darkness (1988); Letters (1992); The Poetry Lesson (1995); Solstice (1997); Of Women and Some Men (1998); Notes from a Rhenish Mission (2001); The Road to
£16.15
Smokestack Books Nothing Out of this World Cuban Poetry 19522000
Book SynopsisCuba has always attracted the passionate sympathies of poets and revolutionaries. Cuba, my love, they put you on the rack,' wrote Pablo Neruda in Canto General, cut your face, pried open your legs of pale gold, crushed your pomegranate sex, stabbed you with knives, dismembered you, burned you.' Ernesto Che Guevara was a poet. The country's national poets, Jose Martí and Nicolás Guillén were also revolutionaries. After the fall of Batista, poets like Ginsberg, Hikmet, Yevtushenko and Enzensberger visited Cuba to write about the Revolution. But Cuban poetry was revolutionary long before the popular triumph of 1959, and it has remained so despite and because of the profound changes on the island since.Nothing Out of This World is an introduction to the work of thirty-six poets from Cuba writing in the second half of the twentieth-century, including Heberto Padilla, Nancy Morejón, and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. The oldest poet here, Fina García-Marruz, was born in 1923; the youngest, Damaris Calderón, in 1967. It's an extraordinary and heady mix, combining African and Spanish influences, realism and surrealism, colloquialism and baroque, experiment and commitment, a lucid and moving introduction to a collective poetic subject that defies all kinds of social oppression. Introduction by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez.
£10.40
Smokestack Books The Long White Thread of Words
Book SynopsisNovelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic John Berger is one of the major European intellectuals of our time. Since the 1950s he has been challenging the way we see the world and how we think about it in books like Ways of Seeing, Permanent Red, To the Wedding, A Painter of Our Time, Pig Earth, Once in Europa, Lilac and Flag, A Seventh Man, Pages of the Wound and From A to X. In 1972 he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize for his novel G. In 2009 he was awarded the Golden PEN award by London PEN for a lifetime's contribution to literature. His Collected Poems was published in 2014. The Long White Thread of Words is a celebration of John Berger's ninetieth birthday by poets from all over the world. Edited by Amarjit Chandan, Gareth Evans and Yasmin Gunarat nam, it features poets from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Macedonia, Nigeria, Palestine, Spain, Turkey, the USA and the UK, including Elaine Feinstein, Nikola Madzirov, Valerio Magrelli, Anne Michaels, Andrew Motion, Daljit Nagra, Sean O'Brien, Michael Ondaatje, Ruth Padel, Claudia Rankine and George Szirtes.
£9.49
Banipal Books Arab Literary Awards
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£8.55
Banipal Books The Longlist 59 Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab
Book SynopsisChapters from eight novels on IPAF longlists; Sudanese novelist Amir Tag Elsir writes Literary Influences; chapters from Goat Mountain, 30-year-old debut novel of Habib Selmi; “Arabic Literature in Russia” – essay by Russian Arabist Viktoria Zorytovskaya. Guest author is Spanish poet Angel Guinda. Plus a new Banipal Photo Album section.
£8.55
Banipal Books Alaa alDeeb A writer apart Banipal Magazine of
Book SynopsisBanipal magazineâs 60th issue presents a major feature on the influential Egyptian author Alaa al-Deeb, with translations from his pivotal works and articles by six fellow Egyptian writers. Other authors include Safi Said (Tunisia), Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah (Mauritania), Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin (Sudan) and two poets from Tunisia and Syria.
£8.55
Banipal Books A Journey in Iraqi Fiction Banipal Magazine of
Book SynopsisSince the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis have created a revolution in literature, writing nearly 600 novels. Banipal's first issue of 2018 focuses on this unexpected journey in Iraqi fiction with articles and chapters from selected novels. Plus two poets and the 6 Shortlisted novels of the 2018 IPAF.
£9.50
Fourteen Publishing fourteen poems
£10.18
Afsana Press Songs of Freedom
Book SynopsisHeartwarming poems from award-winning Iranian and Afghan women poets living in exile. Different voices speak of love, desire, freedom, personal trauma, war, torture, imprisonment, or longing for home. But they chant mainly about life. An ode to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, and in memory of Jina Mahsa Amini.
£14.03
Out-Spoken Press Propel An Anthology of New Poetry
Book SynopsisDiscover the best new poetry from emerging voices across the UK and Ireland in the Propel Anthology, featuring selected poems from Propel Magazine Issues 112 (202224). Propel focuses on poets yet to publish a first full collection, with each issue edited by a renowned poet, Propel offers a window into the diverse poetries currently thriving in the UK and Ireland. Editor-in-Chief: Anthony Anaxagorou. Issue Editors: Mary Jean Chan, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Rebecca Tamás, Jack Underwood, Alycia Pirmohamed, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Pascale Petit, Harry Josephine Giles, Fran Lock, Inua Ellams, Ian McMillan and Tishani Doshi. Contributors include: Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Sanah Ahsan, Isabelle Baafi, Eve Ellis, Livia Franchini, Yanita Georgieva, Elontra Hall, Natalie Linh Bolderston and S. Niroshini.
£11.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Advanced Poetry
Book SynopsisA text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in historical and theoretical thinking. With a focus on innovation and breaking established boundaries, Advanced Poetry introduces you to the poetics shaping the contemporary literary moment, first guiding you through the contexts and principles of these forms using a range of practical examples, before prompting you to pick up the pen yourself. Spanning decades and continents, and covering the rich field of poets writing today, this book shows how to read, explicate, and write poetry and includes discussion of: - received traditions and innovative forms- confessional and epistolary poetry - aesthetic experimentation with voice - methods and theories developed by early Surrealists-deep image and the poeticTrade ReviewIn the charged intimacy of whispered dish or conspiracy, Nuernberger and Zeller geek with robust gusto and gleeful rigor over poetry: its making and what it makes of us. Here’s a fleet textbook that inspires possibility, offers generous guidance with a light-touch, and in the process, sneaks in a sly, keen, and often subversive anthology of poems gathered from a wide view of time and place. This is more than a textbook; it’s a compelling invitation. * Douglas Kearney *Advanced Poetry “offers readers a radical methodology to studying poetics, one that simultaneously breaks boundaries for what textbooks might achieve (similar, perhaps, to Mary Ruefle's Madness, Rack, and Honey), while also harkening back to formal and historical poetics.” It is “conversational, and it somehow simultaneously introduces you to new poets and traditions without ever making you feel inadequate for not knowing something.” I “love that it starts each chapter with poems” and that these poems are “diverse and contemporary.” And “while some craft books feel technical and dry, this one never loses its focus on poetry’s magic.” * From Laura Read’s M.F.A. Poetry Workshop students (Laura Read, Professor of Poetry, MFA program at Eastern Washington University, USA) *Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology authored by Kathryn Nuernberger and Maya Jewell Zeller offers readers a way to think about our own work in the context of our collective lineage as poets. I love the way each chapter opens with a diverse selection of poems, which allows the reader the chance to experience the poems before reading the editors’ discussion of them. And I also loved the writing in this book: it is both scholarly and accessible, poetic and sometimes personal. I will read and teach this book for the rest of my career. * Laura Read, Professor of Poetry, MFA program at Eastern Washington University, USA *Table of ContentsCONTENTS PATHWAYS INTO POETIC LINEAGES Foreword: The End and the Beginning An Invitation to Compose an Ars Poetica Before Reading Introduction and Notes to Readers, Writers, and Teachers Who is this book for? How is this book organized? Why begin each chapter with poems . . . ? Do I need to read the book in order? What pedagogical principles guide this textbook? Some Notes on Teaching This Book Chapter 1: Sound, Shape, & Space: Received and Invented Forms Chapter 2: Telling Secrets: Confessions, Epistolaries, & the Lyric I Chapter 3: The Poem in Telephone Lines & Other Thoughts on Tone, Talk, and Voice in Poetry Chapter 4: Writing Out of Surrealism Chapter 5: Duende, Deep Image, & The Poetics of Spells Chapter 6: The Poetics of Liberation Chapter 7: Writing the Body Chapter 8: The Racial Imaginary Chapter 9: Writing in the Field Chapter 10: Docupoetics & Other Forms of Lyric Research APPENDICES: MAPPING YOUR WRITING LIFE Practical Matters Creating an Inspiring and Supportive Workshop Community Strategies for Revision Some Notes on Assembling a Collection Potential Assignments & Professional Materials Submitting Poems for Publication Writing an Artist Statement Acknowledgements Index
£70.00
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology
Book SynopsisPoetry lovers - those who enjoy reading it and those who are compelled to write it - will find in this collection a truly splendid experience of the country's soul. So much of the ineffable human spirit and experience that usually remains untold is gently lifted above the surface with care, attention and honesty.
£12.30
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology
Book SynopsisNow in its 10th year, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award is a launching pad for upcoming poets. From slam poetry to formal rhyme, the anthology is a celebration of language and cultural diversity.
£12.30
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Poetry in PreRaphaelite Paintings
Book SynopsisPoetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings is an international collection of essays written by seasoned and emerging scholars. This book explores, discusses, and provides new perspectives on Pre-Raphaelite paintings inspired by poems and poems inspired by Pre-Raphaelite paintings, ranging from the inauguration of the movement in 1848 until the end of the nineteenth century. Through a textual and visual journey, this work reflects an innovative approach to Pre-Raphaelite art and Victorian poetry. The rationale in collating this collection of essays is to suggest new approaches for studies in Victorian visual and verbal art. This collection urges new ways of looking at Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry and its dynamic impact on the changing face of Victorian artistic practices through the second half of the nineteenth century, re-evaluating the extent to which this relatively short-lived movement influenced diverse writers and artists and their work. This book will be of interest to studTrade Review“These essays provide rich, multi-layered portals into the hearts and minds of Pre- Raphaelite artists, while disrupting conventional interpretations of space, identity and gender. They advance nuanced discourse across disciplines, outlining the integration between poetry of the period, Pre-Raphaelite poetry in particular, and the visual art produced through that integration. «Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings» is not only important for ongoing academic research on the subjects, but it is unique for the ways it can prompt practicing arts professionals (including museums), to engage viewers in a total phenomenological and sensory experience in front of the physical work of art. The essays challenge us to consider gender and identity politics in the interior and exterior spaces of mind and canvas, while contemplating the lush brushstrokes and written lines of these memorable Victorian masterpieces.” Rita R. Wright, Director, Springville Museum“This thought-provoking collection of essays explores the intersection of Pre-Raphaelite painting and poetry and reimagines a poetics of the visual. By destabilizing the categories of verbal and visual representation and bringing together familiar and unfamiliar poems and paintings, the authors model new and exciting ways of thinking about gender, musicality, photography, the temporal-spatial divide, the use of the voice, morality, sexuality, social implications, and aestheticism as they are conveyed through word and image by the Pre-Raphaelites.” Constance M. Fulmer, Blanche E. Seaver Chair of English Literature, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California“This international collection not only reconsiders how painting and poetry enrich each other, but also extends the nature of ekphrasis itself beyond its traditional boundaries, as a method of expressing gendered spatial relations, as an extension of the artist’s own self, as a mode capable equally of releasing a subject into view as it is of representing an object. Of particular note are the essays enabling us to see how the sister-arts reveal what is interior, reminding us that a poem is as much introspection as it is a visual event. It is a collection in which an artist’s experiments are reframed as stylistic innovations, biographical interpretation is replaced with arguments about intertextual framework, and the voiceless receive both faces and voices. Reading these essays produces, as one author suggests, a ‘violent delight,’ asking us to consider what questions we have not been asking and which we need to ask now.” Bryn Gribben, Seattle UniversityTable of ContentsPlates – Notes on Contributors – Acknowledgments – Sophia Andres/Brian Donnelly: Pre-Raphaelite Poetic Paintings: Transcending Spatial and Temporal Boundaries – Serena Trowbridge: Gender and Space in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of "The Eve of St Agnes" – Divya Athmanathan: "Good pictures … are always another poem": Mapping Spatialities in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s "The Lady of Shalott" and Elizabeth Siddal’s The Lady of Shalott – Dante Alighieri’s Dreams in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Paintings – Laurence Roussillon-Constanty: "A Dramatis Personae of the Soul": Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Proserpine – Martina John: " Portrait of the Artist as an Italian Poet: Rossetti’s Dante – Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Poems in Paintings: Photography, Realism and Painting – Enrique Olivares: Interpretation and Representation in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s "Sonnets for Pictures" – Daniel Brown: "They that would look on her": Jane Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and "The Portrait" – Modernity’s Kaleidoscopic Views – Amelia Yeates: Poetic Narrative in William Morris’s and Edward Burne- Jones’s Pygmalion Project – Sarah Banschbach Valles: Aestheticism and Violent Delight in the Sister Arts of A. C. Swinburne and Simeon Solomon – Anne Koval: From Poet to Painter: The Aestheticism of Swinburne and Whistler – Sophia Andres: Conclusion: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of Classical Texts – Bibliography – Index.
£76.09
