Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Penguin Putnam Inc Spoon River Anthology
Book SynopsisIn 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book of dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River were immediately recognized by readers as authentic. Masters raises the dead “sleeping on the hill” in their village cemetery to tell the truth about their lives, and their testimony topples the American myth of the moral superiority of small-town life. Spoon River, as undeniably corrupt and cruel as the big city, is home to murderers, drunkards, crooked bankers, lechers, bitter wives, abusive husbands, failed dreamers, and a few good souls. The freshness of this masterpiece undiminished, Spoon River Anthology remains a landmark of American literature.With an Introduction by John Hollander and an Afterword by Ronald Primeau
£8.50
The University of Michigan Press New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection
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£60.95
Houghton Mifflin 100 Poems to Break Your Heart
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£20.90
Penguin Young Readers No Place Like Home
Book SynopsisPoets from around the world celebrate the universal appeal of the comforts of home in this unique anthology.Whether inhabited or remembered, whether solitary or teeming with family, whether a refuge from the world or a connection to a community, home is essential to the self. The poems in this anthology invite us into urban apartments and cozy cottages, stately mansions and hermits’ huts. We watch a medieval housewife explain how she has spent her day; we join with Robert Herrick as he gives thanks for his “humble roof . . . weatherproof”; we peep in on Amy Lowell in the bath and John Donne in his bed, and join Joy Harjo at the kitchen table. Home can mean many things: from Horace’s rural farm to Billy Collins’s favorite armchair, from Milton’s “blissful bower” in Paradise to Imtiaz Dharker’s “Living Space” in the slums of Mumbai. Mary Oliver imagines her dream house, Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility—a fairer House than Prose, and a wide range of displaced poets long for their home countries: Ovid, Joachim du Bellay, Kapka Kassabova, Mahmoud Darwish, and even Jules Supervielle feeling “Homesick for the Earth.” Wherever you happen to dwell or whatever your idea of domestic bliss, you are sure to find visions that resonate in No Place Like Home.Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£15.15
Penguin Young Readers Fairy Poems
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging and appealingly fairy-sized treasury of fantastical poems from across the centuries and around the world, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcoverFascination with fairies spans centuries and cultures. With ancient roots in pagan belief, fairies have long populated mythology, folklore, and oral and written poetry. They have seen repeated surges of renewed popularity from the Renaissance to the present fantasy-besotted moment.Elves, changelings, mermaids, pixies, and sprites, England’s Queen Mab, France’s Morgana, Scandinavian nixies, and Irish banshees: these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, but always enchanting. This collection brings together a diverse array of literary fairies: here are Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare‘s Titania, and Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” but also Arthur Rimbaud’s “Fairy,” Goethe''s Erlking, Claude McKay’s “
£17.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Spellbound
Book SynopsisA unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate magic and magiciansNo matter how modern or scientifically advanced our societies become, human beings remain perpetually enthralled by the idea of magic, from our daily superstitions to our choices of entertainment. Magic has long been a central subject of poetry, and the poems in this collection are evocative evidence that the poet’s art depends on a form of wizardry—the ability to conjure enchantment from a particular combination of words.Venerable literary wizards such as Shakespeare's Prospero, Tennyson's Merlin, and T. S. Eliot's Mr. Mistoffelees make appearances here alongside illusionists and prestidigitators in Kay Ryan's Houdini, Ted Kooser's Card Trick, Charles Simic's My Magician, and Richard Wilbur's The Mind-Reader. Here is a treasury of poetic spells, charms, and incantations, from Elise Paschen's Love Spell, Robert Graves's Love and Black Magic, and Lu Yu's The Pedlar of Spells, to a Cherokee Spell to Destroy Life. And here, too, are all sorts of sorcerers, conjurers, enchantresses, and witches, as captured in Emily Dickinson's Best Witchcraft is Geometry, Michael Schmidt's Nine Witches, and H. D.'s Circe, keeping company with magical poems from cultures around the world. Everyman's Library's Pocket Poets are pocket-sized hardcovers that feature acid-free cream-colored paper bound in a full-cloth case with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, a silk ribbon marker, a European-style half-round spine, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£17.00
HarperCollins thenightbeforechristmas
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£7.99
Northwestern University Press The End of Chiraq
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of poems, rap lyrics, short stories, essays, interviews, and artwork about Chicago, the city that came to be known as Chiraq (Chicago + Iraq), and the people who live in its vibrant and occasionally violent neighbourhoods. This literary mixtape unpacks the meanings of Chiraq as both a vexed term and a space of possibility.
£17.95
Northwestern University Press Triquarterly Issue 132
Book SynopsisSince its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. This title features Lee Upton on purity, Donna Seaman on Lousie Nevelson and David Kirby on rock lyrics and magic spells; and, fiction by Stephen O'Connor, Justin Quarry, and Murzban Shroff.
£11.35
The University Press of Kentucky What Comes Down to Us 25 Contemporary Kentucky
Book SynopsisWhat Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most accomplished contemporary poets. Worley's introduction places contemporary Kentucky poetry in the context of the state's rich literary tradition, and the poet biographies include their reflections and, often, their poetic approach and technique.
£32.26
The University Press of Kentucky Black Bone
Book SynopsisThis act inspired a group of gifted artists, the Affrilachian Poets, to begin working together and using their writing to defy persistent stereotypes of Appalachia as a racially and culturally homogenized region. After years of growth, honors, and accomplishments, the group is acknowledging its silver anniversary with Black Bone.Trade ReviewBlack Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets is a beautiful collection of both old and new work."" - USA Today""The Affrilachian Poets continue to be a groundbreaking literary force.... In celebration of their decades-long collaboration, the group has published its first anthology, Black Bone."" - Detroit Free Press
£21.56
The University Press of Kentucky What Things Cost
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£25.16
University of Arizona Press Beyond Earths Edge The Poetry of Spaceflight
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£19.76
Wesleyan University Press Dear Yusef
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£49.83
Carcanet Press Ltd Anvil New Poets 3 No 3
Book SynopsisPresents ten outstanding poets from Britain, and beyond.
£12.89
Carcanet Press Ltd The Spaces of Hope Poetry for Our Times and
Book SynopsisFor 30 years Anvil championed the idea of poetry as a free space for the imagination and spirit. In the process the press has gained recognition as one of the liveliest publishers of British and international poetry. This book celebrates that endeavour with the author's selection of the most memorable poetry he has encountered since 1968.
£12.76
Carcanet Press Ltd Flower and Song Poems of the Aztec Peoples UNESCO
Book SynopsisThe brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. This title gives us echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs, the songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual and war, and the epics of myth and legend.
£15.50
Michigan State University Press Flowers of Flame Unheard Voices of Iraq
Book SynopsisPresents a collection in which Iraqis themselves depict the bombing of Baghdad, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the invaders, the sectarian violence - and in the midst of it all, the hardships, loves, and hopes of the Iraqi people. This title includes poems that represent Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, those who remain in Iraq, and those who fled.Trade Review"The startlingly fresh poems gathered here, which range from the grim to the ecstatic, stand as a crucial reminder that the country of Iraq cannot be reduced to a place of terrorism, for it is populated by real people, some of them poets with real voices." -Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001-2003"
£12.82
University of Iowa Press Boomer Girls Poems by Women from the Baby Boom
Book SynopsisAn anthology of coming-of-age poems written by women born between 1945 and 1964. The poems are by unknown, emerging and established writers, women who particpated in the second wave of feminism. They speak with diverse voices and embody a wide range of experiences.
£20.95
University of Iowa Press Visiting Walt
Book SynopsisPoets to come! Arouse! For you must justify me! Answering the challenge that Whitman issued nearly 150 years ago, this book has gathered together 100 poems by 100 poets, bearing witness to Whitman's enormous influence on American and global literature.
£18.85
University of Iowa Press The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries
Book SynopsisThis collection features emerging poets who combine a commitment to innovation and experimentation with a love for the lyric tradition, whose poetry transcends ""mainstream"" and avant garde practice to create new and exciting poetic territories.
£23.95
University of Iowa Press Sweeping Beauty
Book SynopsisIn Sweeping Beauty, a number of poets illustrate how housekeeping's repetitive motions can free the imagination and release the housekeeper's muse.
£19.76
MP-ARK University of Arkansas Moon City Review 2009 An Annual of Poetry Story
Book SynopsisAn annual intermingling poetry, story (both fiction and creative nonfiction), visual art, and timely cultural and literary criticism. Featuring the invited work of nationally renowned authors, it also provides a venue for upcoming authors and artists.
£13.25
American Oriental Society Aspects of Versification in Sanskrit Lyric Poetry
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£58.87
Mystic Productions On Starry Thighs
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£11.89
Saturnalia Books Gurlesque
Book SynopsisGurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics brings together eighteen poets of wide-ranging backgrounds, united in their ability to push the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies, and pairs them with visual artists who do the same. At the turn of the millennium, we are witnessing the emergence of a vital-perhaps viral-new strain of female poetics: the Gurlesque, a term that describes writers who perform femininity in their poems in a campy or overtly mocking manner, risking the grotesque to shake the foundations of acceptable female behavior and language. Built from the bric-a-brac of girl culture, these works charm and repel: this work is fun, subversive, and important. Poets include Brenda Coultas, Brenda Shaghnessy, Cathy Park Hong, Matthea Harvey, and Sarah Vap.
£19.00
Random House USA Inc Poems of Gratitude
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£17.00
Random House USA Inc Poems of Paris
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£17.00
Random House USA Inc Poems of Healing
Book SynopsisA remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual.From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£14.36
Random House USA Inc Buzz Words
Book SynopsisA unique hardcover anthology of poems—from around the world and through the ages—that celebrates the gloriously diverse insect world. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Given that insects vastly outnumber us, it is no surprise that many cultures have long and rich traditions of verse about our tiny fellow creatures. Tang Dynasty poets in China and the haiku masters of Japan composed thousands of works in praise of crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, moths, and butterflies, as well as such humbler bugs as houseflies, fleas, and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about insects date back to the ancient Greeks and appear frequently in Europe from the Elizabethan period onward. The brilliant poets collected here range far and wide in time and place, including Tu Fu, John Donne, Kobayashi Issa, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Xi Chuan, and Kevin Young. Bees, butterflies, and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies and dragonflies, ladybugs and glowworms—the miniature beings that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that celebrate them.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£14.37
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group German Romantic Poets
Book SynopsisA greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets of the Romantic movement, including Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, and Heine, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcoverUnlike the more earnest English Romantic poets, followers of the Romantic movement in Germany valued wit and humor along with beauty. Admiration for nature is also prominent in their poetry, and in particular the dramatic forests which still cover large areas of Germany. Love and death crop up repeatedly as themes in such famous works as Goethe’s “Elf King” and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. Characters from myth and folklore abound—most famously Lorelei, an enchantress who is associated with the rock of the same name on the bank of the Rhine, who is featured in several poems in this volume. Also gathered here are such favorites as Hölderlin’s “Bread and Wine,” Schiller’s “The Visit of the Gods,” Eichendorff’s “
£17.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Cold Mountain Poems
Book SynopsisThe best of Hanshan's beloved poems—among the earliest of Zen-style Buddhist poetry, beloved by the Beat Generation—here newly translated and organized thematically in a beautiful Pocket Poets hardcoverOften ranked among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were traditionally thought to have been written at least twelve centuries ago on rock walls by a Buddhist monk living in the mountains of southeastern China. The best of his poems, collected here and organized by theme, reflect the sense of humor, deep love of solitude, and vivid descriptions of nature that have endeared these poems to generations of readers.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£13.09
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Browning Poems
Book SynopsisThe Brownings’ astonishing romantic and poetic relationship is here preserved in a beautiful and lasting hardcover volume. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.This collection presents the Brownings’ work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth’s death. Whether in short poems such as Elizabeth’s “Hector in the Garden” and Robert’s “Natural Magic,” or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature. Elizabeth’s famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, based on their love affair, is included in its entirety.The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Indian Love Poems
Book SynopsisAccording to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion “there is no textbook at all, and no order.” Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disordered ecstasies of love, ranging from the Kama Sutra and earlier works up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora.Indian Love Poems features works from the classical languages of Sanskrit and Tamil and such later languages as Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English. Emerging from many Indian cultures and eras, the poems collected here reflect a variety of erotic and spiritual passions, and celebrate the powerful role of desire-both male and female-in the intricate dance of existence. From the twelfth-century female poet Mahadeviyakka to the twentieth-century Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore to such contemporary poets as Kamala Das and Vikram Seth, this glittering tapestry of lyric voices beautifully and sensually evokes the transfiguring force of love.
£17.00
Random House USA Inc The Great Cat Poems About Cats Everymans Library
Book SynopsisThis delightful anthology gives us a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, ever-mystifying cat.The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline family-from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthers-doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves. Here are Yeats’s Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart’s Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, T. S. Eliot’s Rum Tum Tugger, William Blake’s tyger and Rilke’s panther. Here are tributes from Sufi mystics, medieval Chinese poets, and haiku masters of imperial Japan, from Chaucer, Shelley, Borges, Neruda, Dickinson, and Shakespeare. Here are the cats of Mother Goose, and the one who wore the hat for Dr. Seuss.The Great Cat will delight cat lovers everywhere, celebrating as it does the beauty, the mystery, the gravity, the grace, and, of course, the unassailable superiority of the cat.
£18.00
Random House USA Inc Motherhood
Book SynopsisCelebrating mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, grandmothers and grandchildren, Motherhood is a glorious, wonderfully intimate tribute to the first love in every reader’s life.From tenth-century Japan’s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel’s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland’s Paul Muldoon, and Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls “How the days went / While you were blooming within me”; Jorie Graham muses on her mother’s sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in “Kaddish”; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother’s empowering example: “Don’t you fall now— / For I’se still goin’, honey, / I’se still climbin’, / And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” From Emily Brontë’s “Upon Her Soothing Breast” and Seamus Heaney’s “Mother of the Groom” to Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” and Frank O’Hara’s “Ave Maria,” the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Solitude
Book SynopsisA literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called “sessions of sweet silent thought,” this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering “lonely as a cloud”; Poe confiding “all I loved, I loved alone”; Yeats’s communion with “the deep heart’s core”; and Han Shan’s heart of a hermit, “clean as a white lotus.” From Sir Edward Dyer’s “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is,” to the spiritual searching of the Transcendentalists, to the meditative verse of Jorie Graham, some of the most indelible poems from every time and culture have grown out of the aloneness inherent in the poet’s art. The poems collected here, whether reflecting on the soul or on nature, addressing an absent loved one, or honoring the self, form a book of respite and contemplation, and a beautiful tribute to the interior life.
£15.30
HarperCollins Focus Women Who Wrote
Book SynopsisThis beautiful, giftable collection celebrates both the wisdom and tenacity of courageous women who defied society’s expectations and gifted the world with literary treasures through unparalleled fiction and poetry.
£13.29
Johns Hopkins University Press Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.-Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650Trade ReviewRichly enjoyable and informative collection of lyric poems... Cox frames the poems with an admirably detailed historical introduction, a guide to technical issues (form, meter, rhythm, rhyme), capsule biographies of the poets, and consistently helpful footnotes. The result is a unique and valuable anthology that will appeal to any reader of Renaissance poetry. Highly recommended. Choice There is no doubt that Virginia Cox's work in the field has had a transformative impact on the study of Renaissance women writers in Italy in recent years. This fascinating anthology positively vibrates with the quality and interest of its contents... -- Abigail Brundin, University of Cambridge Renaissance Quarterly Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance is thus a monumental work in both purpose and design. Not only does it anthologize 211 poems by fifty-five women authors (both familiar and obscure), it presents a corpus of literature that while known to be vast, had no singular entry point for study... In sum, Lyric Poetry is a valuable book for both student and scholar. -- Gerry Milligan Early Modern Women It is impossible to overestimate the role that Virginia Cox has played in bringing to light, researching, and promoting awareness of and appreciation for writings by women in early modern Italy... Cox's tireless work and elegant, timely writing continue to expand our horizon and field of enquiry. -- Maria Galli Stampino Modern Language Review An invaluable anthology. -- Bryan Brazeau Year's Work in Modern Language Studies A rich source for those interested in early modern women's lyric in Italy. Particularly impressive is the overview of the field in the detailed introduction... The text could well serve the novice interested in an overview of the period and also the more experienced reader by providing access to lesser-known writers and texts. -- Veena Carlson Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Amorous VerseIn VitaIn morteVentriloquized Love PoetryPart II: Religious VersePart III: Correspondence VersePart IV: Encomia of Rulers and PatronsPart V: Political Verse Part VI: Polemical and Manifesto VersePart VII: Verse of Friendship and Family LoveIn VitaIn mortePart VIII: Other in morte VersePart IX: Verse of Place and SelfhoodPart X: Comic and Dialect VerseNotes on AuthorsAppendixesA. Poems by AuthorB. Poems by MeterC. Metrical AnalysisD. Citations and SourcesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
£34.83
Pan Macmillan Poems on Nature
Book SynopsisThe poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.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 Helen Macdonald, author of the international bestseller, H is for Hawk.Since poetry began, there have been poems about nature; it’s a complex subject which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Poets from Andrew Marvell to W. B. Yeats to Emily Brontë have sought to describe the natural environment and our relationship with it. There is also a rich tradition of songs and rhymes, such as ’Scarborough Fair’, that hark back to a rural way of life which may now be lost, but is brought back to life in the lyrical verses included in this collection.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Spring Poem - 1: ‘The year’s at the spring’ - Robert Browning Poem - 2: I so liked Spring - Charlotte Mew Poem - 3: There Will Come Soft Rains - Sara Teasdale Poem - 4: To a Snowdrop - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: February Twilight - Sara Teasdale Poem - 6: Spring - William Blake Poem - 7: Thaw - Edward Thomas Poem - 8: Spring - Christina Rossetti Poem - 9: Her Anxiety - W. B. Yeats Poem - 10: Invitation to the Country - George Meredith Poem - 11: To my Sister - William Wordsworth Poem - 12: ‘Dear March – Come In –’ - Emily Dickinson Poem - 13: The Lamb - William Blake Poem - 14: March - Anon Poem - 15: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth Poem - 16: To Daffodils - Robert Herrick Poem - 17: Mothering Sunday - George Hare Leonard Poem - 18: I Watched a Blackbird - Thomas Hardy Poem - 19: Loveliest of trees - A. E. Houseman Poem - 20: The Cuckoo - Anon Poem - 21: The Cuckoo - Anon Poem - 22: The Woods and Banks - W. H. Davies Poem - 23: Little Trotty Wagtail - John Clare Poem - 24: Home Thoughts from Abroad - Robert Browning Poem - 25: On a Lane in Spring John Clare Poem - 26: Spring - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 27: The Starlight Night - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 28: Tall Nettles - Edward Thomas Poem - 29: ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ - William Shakespeare Poem - 30: Sonnet 98 - William Shakespeare Poem - 31: But These Things Also - Edward Thomas Poem - 32: The Argument of His Book Robert Herrick Poem - 33: The Song of Wandering Aengus - W. B. Yeats Poem - 34: A Brilliant Day - Charles Tennyson Turner Unit - 2: Summer Poem - 1: Summer - Christina Rossetti Poem - 2: The Happy Countryman - Nicholas Breton Poem - 3: A Day - Emily Dickinson Poem - 4: My Heart Leaps Up - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: The Merry Month of May - Thomas Dekker Poem - 6: ‘Sumer is icumen in’ - Anon Poem - 7: The Throstle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 8: The Landrail - John Clare Poem - 9: The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats Poem - 10: Seven Times One: Exultation - Jean Ingelow Poem - 11: This Lime-tree Bower my Prison - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 12: The Cow - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 13: The Frog - Anon. Poem - 14: Little Fish - D. H. Lawrence Poem - 15: Heaven - Rupert Brooke Poem - 16: To Make a Prairie - Emily Dickinson Poem - 17: The Unknown Bird - Edward Thomas Poem - 18: To a Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 19: Trees - Joyce Kilmer Poem - 20: The Sweet o’ the Year - George Meredith Poem - 21: Ladybird! Ladybird! - Emily Brontë Poem - 22: Daisies - Christina Rossetti Poem - 23: Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare Poem - 24: The Gardener - Anon Poem - 25: The Cries of London - Anon Poem - 26: Scarborough Fair - Anon Poem - 27: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare Poem - 28: Summer Dawn - William Morris Poem - 29: Careless Rambles - John Clare Poem - 30: A Green Cornfield - Christina Rossetti Poem - 31: The Caterpillar - Christina Rossetti Poem - 32: To a Butterfly - William Wordsworth Poem - 33: Adlestrop - Edward Thomas Poem - 34: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea - Christina Rossetti Poem - 35: Epitaph on a Hare - William Cowper Poem - 36: A London Plane-Tree - Amy Levy Poem - 37: In the Fields - Charlotte Mew Poem - 38: Meeting at Night - Robert Browning Unit - 3: Autumn Poem - 1: To Autumn - John Keats Poem - 2: Leisure - W. H. Davies Poem - 3: from Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun - Walt Whitman Poem - 4: Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 5: The Glory - Edward Thomas Poem - 6: The Rainy Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem - 7: Autumn Rain - D. H. Lawrence Poem - 8: Digging - Edward Thomas Poem - 9: Autumn Fires - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 10: Now is the Time for the Burning of the Leaves - Laurence Binyon Poem - 11: Moonlit Apples - John Drinkwater Poem - 12: The Lane - Edward Thomas Poem - 13: The Wild Swans at Coole - W. B. Yeats Poem - 14: ‘Western wind, when wilt thou blow?’ - Anon. Poem - 15: Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti Poem - 16: from The Garden - Andrew Marvell Poem - 17: Autumn Birds - John Clare Poem - 18: The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 19: The Owl - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 20: Sweet Suffolke Owle - Anon Poem - 21: Rural Evening - Lord De Tabley Poem - 22: The Hayloft - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 23: The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth Poem - 24: To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No- W. B. Yeats Poem - 25: The Way through the Woods - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 26: The Fisherman’s Wife - Amy Lowell Poem - 27: Sign of the Times - Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem - 28: Fall, Leaves, Fall - Emily Brontë Poem - 29: Pleasant Sounds - John Clare Poem - 30: A Noiseless, Patient Spider - Walt Whitman Poem - 31: Something Told the Wild Geese - Rachel Field Unit - 4: Winter Poem - 1: To a Mouse - Robert Burns Poem - 2: Spellbound - Emily Brontë Poem - 3: Winter-Time - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 4: Winter - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 5: A Winter Night - William Barnes Poem - 6: Snow Storm - John Clare Poem - 7: No! - Thomas Hood Poem - 8: Sheep in Winter - John Clare Poem - 9: Snow - Edward Thomas Poem - 10: Out in the Dark - Edward Thomas Poem - 11: The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House - Thomas Hardy Poem - 12: from As You Like It - William Shakespeare Poem - 13: A Winter Bluejay - Sara Teasdale Poem - 14: Birds at Winter Nightfall - Thomas Hardy Poem - 15: The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy Poem - 16: Little Robin Redbreast - Anon. Poem - 17: Frost at Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 18: Up in the Morning Early - Robert Burns Poem - 19: In Tenebris - Ford Madox Ford Poem - 20: The Holly and the Ivy - Anon. Poem - 21: The First Tree in the Greenwood - Anon. Poem - 22: The Oxen - Thomas Hardy Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines
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Pan Macmillan Poems for Happiness
Book SynopsisPoetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms – whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature. 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 writer, broadcaster and parish priest, The Reverend Richard Coles.Poems for Happiness is an inspiring and life-affirming collection that features writing by some of our greatest poets whose work is still widely read today. It includes famous poems such as ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling, ‘My Heart Leaps Up’ by William Wordsworth and ‘Invictus’ by W. E. Henley. In addition to these well-known verses, this beautiful volume includes lesser-known poems to discover and enjoy.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Happy Thought Poem - 1: Happy Thought - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 2: Happy the Man - John Dryden Poem - 3: New Sights - Anon Poem - 4: On a Quiet Conscience - Charles I Poem - 5: Leisure - W.H. Davies Poem - 6: High Flights - John Gillespie Magee Jr. Poem - 7: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You - Anon. Poem - 8: If - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 9: Now May Every Living Thing - Anon. Poem - 10: Hurt No Living Thing - Christina Rossetti Poem - 11: from Auguries of Innocence - William Blake Poem - 12: To Every Thing There Is a Season - Book of Ecclesiastes Poem - 13: from Endymion - John Keats Poem - 14: Shining Things - Elizabeth Gould Poem - 15: The Quiet Life - Alexander Pope Poem - 16: Song of Apollo - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 17: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is - Sir Edward Dyer Poem - 18: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats Poem - 19: Eternity - William Blake Poem - 20: A Farewell - Charles Kingsley Poem - 21: A Vision - Henry Vaughan Poem - 22: Gratefulnesse - George Herbert Poem - 23: Thanks in Old Age - Walt Whitman Poem - 24: A Little Health - Anon. Unit - 2: Glory Be To God For Dappled Things Poem - 1: Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 2: Amazing Grace - John Newton Poem - 3: God Be In My Head - Sarum Missal Poem - 4: ‘Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace’ - St Francis of Assisi Poem - 5: Miracles - Walt Whitman Poem - 6: Father, We Thank Thee - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 7: African Canticle - Anon Poem - 8: The Thanksgivings - Iroquois, Traditional tr. Harriet Maxwell Converse Poem - 9: Harvest Home - Henry Alford Poem - 10: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Wallace Willis Poem - 11: Desiderata - Max Ehrmann Poem - 12: The Iroquois Prayer - Iroquois, Traditional Poem - 13: Jewish Prayer - Service of the Orthodox Synagogue for the Festival of Tabernacles Poem - 14: from His Pilgrimage - Sir Walter Raleigh Poem - 15: When the Heart is Hard - Rabindranath Tagore Poem - 16: The Selkirk Grace - Robert Burns Poem - 17: Epitaph - Winifred Holtby Unit - 3: I Sing of Brooks, of Blossoms, Birds, and Bowers Poem - 1: The Argument of His Book - Robert Herrick Poem - 2: The Song of Wandering Aengus - W. B. Yeats Poem - 3: Spring - William Blake Poem - 4: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose - Emily Dickinson Poem - 6: The Happy Child - W. H. Davies Poem - 7: from Pippa Passes - Robert Browning Poem - 8: A Greeting - W. H. Davies Poem - 9: February Twilight - Sara Teasdale Poem - 10: Adoration - Christopher Smart Poem - 11: The Sun Rising - John Donne Poem - 12: Sowing - Edward Thomas Poem - 13: A Dumb Friend - Christina Rossetti Poem - 14: My Heart Leaps Up - William Wordsworth Poem - 15: The Throstle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 16: May - Thomas Dekker Poem - 17: Moonlight, Summer Moonlight - Emily Brontë Poem - 18: The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats Poem - 19: Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare Poem - 20: To Make a Prairie - Emily Dickinson Poem - 21: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare Poem - 22: Careless Rambles - John Clare Poem - 23: Magna Est Veritas - Coventry Patmore Poem - 24: Rest and Be Thankful! - William Wordsworth Poem - 24: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 - William Wordsworth Poem - 25: Moonlit Apples - John Drinkwater Poem - 26: Harvest Hymn - John Greenleaf Whittier Poem - 27: To Autumn - John Keats Poem - 28: Pleasant Sounds - John Clare Poem - 29: ‘See yonder leafless trees against the sky’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 30: Evening Quatrains - Charles Cotton Poem - 31: Ode - Joseph Addison Poem - 32: ‘It is a beauteous evening, calm and free’ - William Wordsworth Poem - 33: God’s Grandeur - Gerard Manley Hopkins Unit - 4: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Poem - 1: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth - Arthur Hugh Clough Poem - 2: Freedom - Olive Runner Poem - 3: New Every Morning - Susan Coolidge Poem - 4: Will - Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poem - 5: Invictus - W. E. Henley Poem - 6: Ain’t I a Woman? - Sojourner Truth and Erlene Stetson Poem - 7: This, Too, Shall Pass Away - Lanta Wilson Smith Poem - 8: ‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers - Emily Dickinson Poem - 9: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries - Walt Whitman Poem - 10: Courage - Amelia Earhart Poem - 11: The Call - Charlotte Mew Poem - 12: A Pebble - James W. Foley Poem - 13: from Henry V - William Shakespeare Poem - 14: The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus Poem - 15: The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln Poem - 16: The Star-Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key Poem - 17: I Hear America Singing - Walt Whitman Poem - 18: No Coward Soul Is Mine - Emily Brontë Poem - 19: A Summing Up - Charles Mackay Unit - 5: Friendship is Love Without his Wings Poem - 1: L’Amitié Est L’Amour Sans Ailes - Lord Byron Poem - 2: Outwitted - Edwin Markham Poem - 3: We Two Boys Together Clinging - Walt Whitman Poem - 4: Friendship - Dinah Maria Craik Poem - 5: Forbearance - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 6: Friendship - Aztec, Traditional Poem - 7: Travelling - William Wordsworth Poem - 8: Love and Friendship - Emily Brontë Poem - 9: New Friends and Old Friends - Joseph Parry Unit - 6: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Poem - 1: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - W. B. Yeats Poem - 2: How Do I Love Thee? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem - 3: Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare Poem - 4: Meeting at Night - Robert Browning Poem - 5: To a Friend - Amy Lowell Poem - 6: A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Poem - 7: Upon Julia’s Clothes - Robert Herrick Poem - 8: Rose- cheeked - Laura Thomas Campion Poem - 9: In an Artist’s Studio - Christina Rossetti Poem - 10: ‘It was a lover and his lass’ - William Shakespeare Poem - 11: Love Lightly Pleased - Robert Herrick Poem - 12: Invitation to Love - Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem - 13: from Paradise Lost - John Milton Poem - 14: Fulfillment - William Cavendish Poem - 15: from Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem - 16: Camomile Tea - Katherine Mansfield Poem - 17: When I Heard at the Close of the Day - Walt Whitman Poem - 18: Song - George Peele Poem - 19: To Althea, from Prison - Richard Lovelace Poem - 20: A Decade - Amy Lowell Unit - 7: The Shape of a Good Greyhound Poem - 1: The Shape of a Good Greyhound - Anon Poem - 2: The Lurcher - William Cowper Poem - 3: Dog - Harold Monro Poem - 4: The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 5: A Winter Bluejay - Sara Teasdale Poem - 6: from To a Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 7: ‘Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day’ - Thomas Heywood Poem - 8: from Jubilate Agno - Christopher Smart Poem - 9: Pangur Bán - Anon. tr. Robin Flower Poem - 10: The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear Poem - 11: Seal Lullaby - Rudyard Kipling Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines
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Vehicule Press The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry
Book SynopsisCollecting the works of 50 modern Canadian poets, this anthology of verse points to an emerging openness toward form in the nation's poetry. The book includes nearly 200 poems from more than 20 presses and an essay that describes and explains the innovations of form that distinguish the featured writers.
£15.15
Signal Editions Resisting Canada: An Anthology of New Poetry
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Vehicule Press The Montreal Prize Anthology 2020
Book SynopsisFounded in 2010, the Montreal International Poetry Prize has established itself as a major event in contemporary poetry, both in Canada and around the world. The Montreal Prize Anthology 2020 explodes with talent, combining radiant vision with striking invention in form. The loss of a father finds equivalence in a tornado’s blowing an apartment open to the night sky. Sacred and profane images of a mother pile up in couplets, making a heap of gold. Family memory stirs in the dreamy measures of a sestina. Racial injustice is defied and reversed in the unflinching mirror of a palindromic poem. A doctor confesses her life work to be a striving to right the wrong done her father. These poems, a handful of the thousands submitted to the 2020 competition, were chosen for the lone virtue of their speaking directly to the reader, with conviction and with art. In 2019, the founder of the Montreal Prize, Asa Boxer, transferred it to the Department of English at McGill University. A team of dedicated faculty and graduate students recruited a distinguished international jury, headed by Pulitzer-prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa, to judge the entries. This book is the result.Trade Review"The anthology contains more than one 'Hell yeah!' poetry moment -- the kind of poem that avid poetry readers can use to argue poetry's merits to the unconverted." -- The Montreal Review of Books
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Exile Editions We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the
Book SynopsisIgnored by critics and readers of the time, these poems were written by Canadians who witnessed the horror of World War I first-hand, forming an anthology in which the forgotten experiences of a decade are finally remembered.Trade ReviewBarry Callaghan and Bruce Meyer have done yeoman service to Canadian literature with this volume." —Rex Murphy, host, Cross-Country Check-Up, CBC Radio One
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Exile Editions 100 Love Sonnets: A Bilingual Spanish and English
Book SynopsisForty years after Pablo Neruda’s death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity of his lesser-known genre. Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influential and beloved 20th-century poets. He was a Nobel Laureate, famous for his politically engaged lyrics, who also wrote these bold and sensual sonnets.In this new edition, the poems are followed by three essays on reading Neruda and his poetic effect by the notable poets and translators A. F. Moritz, Beatriz Hausner, and Toronto’s Poet Laureate (2012–2015) George Elliott Clarke, as well as a new afterword by the translator, questions for discussion, and recommended readings.Trade Review“This handsome, bilingual edition . . . is a worthy tribute and a rollicking good read, staying true to the poet’s expansive, idiosyncratic style.” —Globe and Mail
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Exile Editions In a Time of No Song
Book SynopsisThis remarkable collection of poems lures you in, at first to stand alone in the dark, but slowly there comes a hint of light from a crack beneath a door, then a riot of sensuous intensity as you open up to the beauty that lies between the folds of words, bursts of poetic energy that casts warm light over all shadows.From the Introduction by A.F. Moritz "What is this poetry like? There are not many precedents for it or bodies of work very similar to it in English…Bien's word hoard is all his own, though, the way he animates it, constantly connecting the outer with the inner, the familiar with the distant, the limited with the vast, the realm of thought with the realm of life, non-sentient things with sentient ones… There is scarcely a stanza in Bien's work that does not contain some instance of these extendings and plunges into each other performed by things and whole modes of existence. More notable still is the mysterious ease with which the poems admit the contradictions present in perceptions, emotions and desires. In a Time of No Song will impress readers with its poetry of pure sentience and godlike laughter… The mysticism of the source is here, but most of all, I think, we will remember the great enactments and themes of this book through its omnipresent, brilliant tributes to life. We'll keep it by us for its indelible celebrations… A dove lands on my shoulder, the unbearable weight of magicwhat shelters each moment in every other, dies and lives, homelessly on,an orchard of lovely berries singing on a dying treeand so all the while, so too, I sing, that which sings me, in a time of no song.
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Graywolf Press New European Poets
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