Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Graywolf Press The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian
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£16.20
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the
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£15.29
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Dreams of the Presidents: From George Washington
Book SynopsisThe stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the sense of entitlement and self-importance that afflicts too many politicians. Fun to read, humorous, and laced with events of historical interest, each poem gives a dose of insight into the president’s life and his relationships with others, including his family, allies, and rivals. Where contemporary people or important references to American history—such as slavery and the Indian wars—occur, notes explain and contextualize them within the poem’s meaning. Published during an election year, this book offers a well-timed look at politicians, some much-needed laughs at leaders who take themselves too seriously, and a fun platform from which readers can start to explore the lives of those who, for better or worse, have led America.
£10.79
University of Arkansas Press Southern Omnibus
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£29.95
University of Arkansas Press Oblivion and Stone: A Selection of Contemporary
Book SynopsisIn a literature where recognition is hard earned, this anthology demonstrates what distinguishes contemporary Bolivian fiction and poetry from the rest of Latin American writing and shows clearly how Bolivian writers relate to that tradition.Bolivia is a landlocked nation of mountains and high, arid plains, a place native writer JesÚs Urzagasti calls the “Land of Silence.” This crucible of indigenous and European influences has contributed to the creation of a writing style that is always down-to-earth, often grittily realistic.From this fundamental base, Bolivian writers express provincial customs and values, decry political oppression, and sound universal themes of isolation, even resignation; but, more often, they show the will to move forward as a people. This rich thematic mix encourages what critic Edgar Lora has called the “dynamic and vigorous social dis course” and the resulting “subversive, militant, and revolutionary” qualities of Bolivian literature.Editor Sandra Reyes has gathered a panoramic sampling of twenty two poets and eighteen fiction writers. Focusing predominantly on living, practicing writers, this anthology defines the current literary voice of Bolivia and gives us a distillation of the contemporary Bolivian consciousness.
£32.76
University of Arkansas Press The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe second edition features twelve new poets as well as new work by Donald Justice, T. R. Hummer, Dave Smith, Pattiann Rogers, Andrew Hudgins, Henry Taylor, Gerald Barrax, Rodney Jones, and others. Among the new additions are Mark Jarman, Cathy Smith Bowers, and Charlie Smith. Many teachers realize that the best way to get their students to relate to poetry is to show them poems that contain landscapes and subjects they understand and can identify with. Leon Stokesbury has put together a richly varied collection used in classrooms not only in the South but all over the country as a means of studying the important influence of southern poetry on American literature. With the publication of the second edition of The Made Thing, Stokesbury has marked the end of the twentieth century and the rise to prominence of southern writers. This collection serves as a substantial sampling of poets whose works span more than five decades and who explore the rich personal and cultural history that extends beyond the boundaries of the South.
£46.50
University of Massachusetts Press Coro, El: Chorus of Latino/Latina Poetry
Book SynopsisThis is an anthology of work by Latino and Latina poets, which reveals a diversity of form and content. Among the poets are former farm workers and gang members, a physician, a chef and a Vietnam veteran. The variety of experience demonstrates that there is no single ""Latino/a outlook"".
£27.73
Thunder's Mouth Press The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
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£34.10
Hendrickson Publishers Inc The Works of Josephus
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£30.60
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse
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£16.96
The New York Review of Books, Inc Poets In A Landscape
Book SynopsisGilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
£16.19
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Interior Landscape
Book SynopsisIn The Interior Landscape the great Indian poet and translator A.K. Ramanujan has drawn on a celebrated anthology of classical Tamil poetry to compose an unforgettable sequence of love poems. The story unfolds in a series of dramatic exchanges between a shifting array of characters—the lovers, relatives, friends, rivals, and sundry passersby—and as it does we are conducted through five phases of love, from first meeting, anxiety, infidelity and separation to final union, each associated with a lush interior landscape of its own. Immersed in the glories of the natural world, the poems evoke the whole spectrum of love while also capturing the gossip and wisecracking of those who look on from outside.
£14.44
The New York Review of Books, Inc English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection Of
Book SynopsisAN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONERPoetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet for many years the poetry of the era was considered little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. The twentieth century brought a reevaluation, and the English Renaissance has since come to be recognized as the period of extraordinary poetic experimentation that it was. Never since have the possibilities of poetic form and, especially, poetic voice—from the sublime to the scandalous and slangy—been so various and inviting. This is poetry that speaks directly across the centuries to the renaissance of poetic exploration in our own time.John Williams’s celebrated anthology includes not only some of the most famous poems by some of the most famous poets of the English language (Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Donne, and of course Shakespeare) but also-—-and this is what makes Williams’s book such a rare and rich resource—the strikingly original work of little-known masters like George Gascoigne and Fulke Greville.
£17.09
Soft Skull Press I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems
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£14.41
The Library of America The Heart of American Poetry
Book SynopsisAn acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American traditionWe live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what?s best in us.In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew?from Anne Bradstreet?s ?The Author to Her Book? and Phillis Wheatley?s ?To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works? to Garrett Hongo?s ?Ancestral Graves, Kahuku? and Joy Harjo?s ?Rabbit Is Up to Tricks??exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation.?This is a personal book about American poetry,? writes Hirsch, ?but I hope it is more than a personal selection. I have chosen forty poems from our extensive archive and songbook that have been meaningful to me,part of my affective life, my critical consideration, but I have also tried to be cognizant of the changing playbook in American poetry, which is not fixed but fluctuating, ever in flow, to pay attention to the wider consideration, the appreciable reach of our literature. This is a book of encounters and realizations.?
£22.10
University of New Orleans Press On a Wednesday Night: Poems from the Creative
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£21.21
University of New Orleans Press Blossoms in Snow: Austrian Refugee Poets in
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£21.21
Michigan State University Press The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its Exiles
Book SynopsisDuring the 1979 revolution, Iranians from all walks of life, whether Muslim, Jewish, Christian, socialist, or atheist, fought side-by-side to end one tyrannical regime, only to find themselves in the clutches of another. When Khomeini came to power, freedom of the press was eliminated, religious tolerance disappeared, women's rights narrowed to fit within a conservative interpretation of the Quran, and non-Islamic music and literature were banned. Poets, writers, and artists were driven deep underground and, in many cases, out of the country altogether. This moving anthology is a testament to both the centuries-old tradition of Persian poetry and the enduring will of the Iranian people to resist injustice. The poems selected for this collection represent the young, the old, and the ancient. They are written by poets who call or have called Iran home, many of whom have become part of a diverse and thriving diaspora.
£16.10
Akashic Books, Ltd. NewGeneration African Poets A Chapbook Box Set
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£26.96
Black Lawrence Press In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets
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£20.66
Akashic Books, Ltd. KUMI NewGeneration African Poets
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£25.98
Shambhala Publications Inc Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage: And One to
Book SynopsisPoems can teach us in ways that surpass other forms of understanding, especially when the subject concerns matters of the heart. When the heart’s whispers are too faint for us to hear in ordinary ways, poetry can speak to us with another kind of eloquence. From the leap of joy that a couple takes on their wedding day to a fiftieth wedding anniversary that acknowledges the deep connection that a life together can bring, marriage takes us on a journey that passes through seasons and stages, peaks and valleys. This book honors that journey through twenty poems that celebrate and illuminate some of these major stages and provides not only inspiration for the journey but also solace and wisdom. Roger Housden, the author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life, provides essential insights into the poems, creating a collection of reflective prose and poetry that makes this an inspirational guidebook as much as a volume of poetry. In Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage, Roger Housden offers poems and essays that will give voice to your heart, offering up words and wisdom not just for special occasions but to act as friends and guides to refer to throughout the life of a marriage.
£11.39
Vesuvian Books Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry
Book SynopsisA showcase of poetry from some of the darkest and most lyrical voices of women in horror. A follow-up to the award-winning poetry showcase Under Her Skin, UNDER HER EYE features the best in never-before-published dark verse and lyrical prose from the voices of Women in Horror, themed on domestic horror and the terror women too often experience in their own homes. Edited by Lindy Ryan and Lee Murray, UNDER HER EYE celebrates women in horror from cover to cover. In addition to poems contributed by over one hundred poets worldwide, the collection features poems from Stephanie M. Wytovich, Jessica McHugh, and Marge Simon, with cover art by noted horror artist Lynne Hansen and an introduction by Bram Stoker Award®-winning poet Sara Tantlinger. This showcase is produced in partnership with The Pixel Project, a global non-profit organization focused on ending violence against women globally.
£13.25
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for
Book SynopsisIBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to millions of people in West Africa from 1991 to 2002. The atrocities committed in this war and the accounts of its survivors were duly recorded by international organizations, but they run the risk of being consigned to dusty historical archives. Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone’s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage, dignity, and resilience. Her use of innovative literary techniques helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are not forgotten, but rather heard across the world. This volume also includes an introduction that explores how the genre of “found poetry” can serve as a uniquely powerful means through which writers may bear witness to atrocity. This book’s unforgettable excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens new possibilities for speaking about the unspeakable.Trade Review“When politics invades lives in the most brutal of ways, what can be fashioned from the aftermath? In these found poems Shanee Stepakoff has taken the testimonies of those upon whom the violence was committed and turned them into a work of witness, Nadine Gordimer’s ‘inward testimony’ that it is the task of artists to deliver. Outwardly the poems in this collection stand as monument to remembrance and commemoration, a stay against oblivion for the people of Sierra Leone whose lives were marked by the civil conflict of 1991-2002. They are a significant contribution to the literature of that country and of conflict.” -- Aminatta Forna * author of Happiness *“Of the many forms of human suffering, ethical loneliness—the experience of enduring atrocity only to be confronted with the annihilating cruelty and injustice of remaining unheard—sheds a radiant, hurt light on the very nature and power of language itself. In stark, beautifully calibrated lines, Shanee Stepakoff reaches into that silence to serve and bring forth these necessary voices. Here, the plainest words—‘I saw,’ ‘I heard,’ ‘I walked,’—take on an almost shocking and devastating dignity. As the survivors recount their stories, it is as if each syllable, each word, is a bone stripped bare. ‘He was burning,’ ‘I used to be,’ ‘I was born,’ ‘he was cutting the child.’ At once unsparing and informed by a deep tenderness and care, this darkly luminous work implicitly interrogates the nature of authorship and poetic form, and like all seminal works, helps to question, expand, and re-define their boundaries.” -- Laurie Sheck * Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Willow Grove *“These ‘found poems’ are unquestionably harrowing to read and painful to absorb. Eight survivors of the murderous cruelty and atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone tell their own stories, and in their own words. Every one of these words is drawn from transcripts of the war crimes tribunals that came with the end of that war. Shanee Stepakoff—a psychologist who has long worked with survivors of torture—brings to these transcript accounts her poet’s sense of lineation, stanzaic structure, pauses, refrains, and repetitions. Thus, she creates a ceremonial space in which we as readers might begin to hear and bear witness to the unbearable degree of violence, suffering, and loss that these women and men endured." -- Fred Marchant * author of Said Not Said: Poems *“With this collection, Shanee Stepakoff finally breaks the veil of silence that surrounds the unspeakable horrors of Sierra Leone’s long civil war. She has recomposed the official accounts to offer us both the intimacy and eternality of survivor stories.” -- Remi Raji * author of A Harvest of Laughers * “The incredible horrors painfully recited herein, including the mutilation of children, mass rapes and torture by rival revolutionary groups makes us wonder whether humans are really human. Shanee Stepakoff’s documented testimonies illustrate the continuing crying need for effective international controls and binding laws to deter such atrocities everywhere.” -- Benjamin Ferencz * investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials *"At once astonishing and devastating, these poems attest to poetry’s ability to bear witness to atrocity, while the poignant cover image by Liberian American artist and war refugee Papay Solomon reminds us of those whose voices have been silenced for too long." * Poetry Foundation *“When politics invades lives in the most brutal of ways, what can be fashioned from the aftermath? In these found poems Shanee Stepakoff has taken the testimonies of those upon whom the violence was committed and turned them into a work of witness, Nadine Gordimer’s ‘inward testimony’ that it is the task of artists to deliver. Outwardly the poems in this collection stand as monument to remembrance and commemoration, a stay against oblivion for the people of Sierra Leone whose lives were marked by the civil conflict of 1991-2002. They are a significant contribution to the literature of that country and of conflict.” -- Aminatta Forna * author of Happiness *“Of the many forms of human suffering, ethical loneliness—the experience of enduring atrocity only to be confronted with the annihilating cruelty and injustice of remaining unheard—sheds a radiant, hurt light on the very nature and power of language itself. In stark, beautifully calibrated lines, Shanee Stepakoff reaches into that silence to serve and bring forth these necessary voices. Here, the plainest words—‘I saw,’ ‘I heard,’ ‘I walked,’—take on an almost shocking and devastating dignity. As the survivors recount their stories, it is as if each syllable, each word, is a bone stripped bare. ‘He was burning,’ ‘I used to be,’ ‘I was born,’ ‘he was cutting the child.’ At once unsparing and informed by a deep tenderness and care, this darkly luminous work implicitly interrogates the nature of authorship and poetic form, and like all seminal works, helps to question, expand, and re-define their boundaries.” -- Laurie Sheck * Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Willow Grove *“These ‘found poems’ are unquestionably harrowing to read and painful to absorb. Eight survivors of the murderous cruelty and atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone tell their own stories, and in their own words. Every one of these words is drawn from transcripts of the war crimes tribunals that came with the end of that war. Shanee Stepakoff—a psychologist who has long worked with survivors of torture—brings to these transcript accounts her poet’s sense of lineation, stanzaic structure, pauses, refrains, and repetitions. Thus, she creates a ceremonial space in which we as readers might begin to hear and bear witness to the unbearable degree of violence, suffering, and loss that these women and men endured." -- Fred Marchant * author of Said Not Said: Poems *“With this collection, Shanee Stepakoff finally breaks the veil of silence that surrounds the unspeakable horrors of Sierra Leone’s long civil war. She has recomposed the official accounts to offer us both the intimacy and eternality of survivor stories.” -- Remi Raji * author of A Harvest of Laughers * “The incredible horrors painfully recited herein, including the mutilation of children, mass rapes and torture by rival revolutionary groups makes us wonder whether humans are really human. Shanee Stepakoff’s documented testimonies illustrate the continuing crying need for effective international controls and binding laws to deter such atrocities everywhere.” -- Benjamin Ferencz * investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the last surviving prosecutor at the Nurember *"At once astonishing and devastating, these poems attest to poetry’s ability to bear witness to atrocity, while the poignant cover image by Liberian American artist and war refugee Papay Solomon reminds us of those whose voices have been silenced for too long." * Poetry Foundation *Table of ContentsForeword by Ernest D. Cole Notes on the Text Introduction: Silence, Language, and the Making of Art The Amputee’s Mother The Child Soldier The Grieving Father The Rape Survivor The Blinded Farmer The Widower The Gravedigger The Beggar The Victim of War Further Resources Acknowledgments About the Cover Artist About the Author
£17.99
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for
Book SynopsisIBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to millions of people in West Africa from 1991 to 2002. The atrocities committed in this war and the accounts of its survivors were duly recorded by international organizations, but they run the risk of being consigned to dusty historical archives. Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone’s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage, dignity, and resilience. Her use of innovative literary techniques helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are not forgotten, but rather heard across the world. This volume also includes an introduction that explores how the genre of “found poetry” can serve as a uniquely powerful means through which writers may bear witness to atrocity. This book’s unforgettable excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens new possibilities for speaking about the unspeakable.Trade Review“When politics invades lives in the most brutal of ways, what can be fashioned from the aftermath? In these found poems Shanee Stepakoff has taken the testimonies of those upon whom the violence was committed and turned them into a work of witness, Nadine Gordimer’s ‘inward testimony’ that it is the task of artists to deliver. Outwardly the poems in this collection stand as monument to remembrance and commemoration, a stay against oblivion for the people of Sierra Leone whose lives were marked by the civil conflict of 1991-2002. They are a significant contribution to the literature of that country and of conflict.” -- Aminatta Forna * author of Happiness *“Of the many forms of human suffering, ethical loneliness—the experience of enduring atrocity only to be confronted with the annihilating cruelty and injustice of remaining unheard—sheds a radiant, hurt light on the very nature and power of language itself. In stark, beautifully calibrated lines, Shanee Stepakoff reaches into that silence to serve and bring forth these necessary voices. Here, the plainest words—‘I saw,’ ‘I heard,’ ‘I walked,’—take on an almost shocking and devastating dignity. As the survivors recount their stories, it is as if each syllable, each word, is a bone stripped bare. ‘He was burning,’ ‘I used to be,’ ‘I was born,’ ‘he was cutting the child.’ At once unsparing and informed by a deep tenderness and care, this darkly luminous work implicitly interrogates the nature of authorship and poetic form, and like all seminal works, helps to question, expand, and re-define their boundaries.” -- Laurie Sheck * Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Willow Grove *“These ‘found poems’ are unquestionably harrowing to read and painful to absorb. Eight survivors of the murderous cruelty and atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone tell their own stories, and in their own words. Every one of these words is drawn from transcripts of the war crimes tribunals that came with the end of that war. Shanee Stepakoff—a psychologist who has long worked with survivors of torture—brings to these transcript accounts her poet’s sense of lineation, stanzaic structure, pauses, refrains, and repetitions. Thus, she creates a ceremonial space in which we as readers might begin to hear and bear witness to the unbearable degree of violence, suffering, and loss that these women and men endured." -- Fred Marchant * author of Said Not Said: Poems *“With this collection, Shanee Stepakoff finally breaks the veil of silence that surrounds the unspeakable horrors of Sierra Leone’s long civil war. She has recomposed the official accounts to offer us both the intimacy and eternality of survivor stories.” -- Remi Raji * author of A Harvest of Laughers * “The incredible horrors painfully recited herein, including the mutilation of children, mass rapes and torture by rival revolutionary groups makes us wonder whether humans are really human. Shanee Stepakoff’s documented testimonies illustrate the continuing crying need for effective international controls and binding laws to deter such atrocities everywhere.” -- Benjamin Ferencz * investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials *"At once astonishing and devastating, these poems attest to poetry’s ability to bear witness to atrocity, while the poignant cover image by Liberian American artist and war refugee Papay Solomon reminds us of those whose voices have been silenced for too long." * Poetry Foundation *“When politics invades lives in the most brutal of ways, what can be fashioned from the aftermath? In these found poems Shanee Stepakoff has taken the testimonies of those upon whom the violence was committed and turned them into a work of witness, Nadine Gordimer’s ‘inward testimony’ that it is the task of artists to deliver. Outwardly the poems in this collection stand as monument to remembrance and commemoration, a stay against oblivion for the people of Sierra Leone whose lives were marked by the civil conflict of 1991-2002. They are a significant contribution to the literature of that country and of conflict.” -- Aminatta Forna * author of Happiness *“Of the many forms of human suffering, ethical loneliness—the experience of enduring atrocity only to be confronted with the annihilating cruelty and injustice of remaining unheard—sheds a radiant, hurt light on the very nature and power of language itself. In stark, beautifully calibrated lines, Shanee Stepakoff reaches into that silence to serve and bring forth these necessary voices. Here, the plainest words—‘I saw,’ ‘I heard,’ ‘I walked,’—take on an almost shocking and devastating dignity. As the survivors recount their stories, it is as if each syllable, each word, is a bone stripped bare. ‘He was burning,’ ‘I used to be,’ ‘I was born,’ ‘he was cutting the child.’ At once unsparing and informed by a deep tenderness and care, this darkly luminous work implicitly interrogates the nature of authorship and poetic form, and like all seminal works, helps to question, expand, and re-define their boundaries.” -- Laurie Sheck * Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Willow Grove *“These ‘found poems’ are unquestionably harrowing to read and painful to absorb. Eight survivors of the murderous cruelty and atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone tell their own stories, and in their own words. Every one of these words is drawn from transcripts of the war crimes tribunals that came with the end of that war. Shanee Stepakoff—a psychologist who has long worked with survivors of torture—brings to these transcript accounts her poet’s sense of lineation, stanzaic structure, pauses, refrains, and repetitions. Thus, she creates a ceremonial space in which we as readers might begin to hear and bear witness to the unbearable degree of violence, suffering, and loss that these women and men endured." -- Fred Marchant * author of Said Not Said: Poems *“With this collection, Shanee Stepakoff finally breaks the veil of silence that surrounds the unspeakable horrors of Sierra Leone’s long civil war. She has recomposed the official accounts to offer us both the intimacy and eternality of survivor stories.” -- Remi Raji * author of A Harvest of Laughers * “The incredible horrors painfully recited herein, including the mutilation of children, mass rapes and torture by rival revolutionary groups makes us wonder whether humans are really human. Shanee Stepakoff’s documented testimonies illustrate the continuing crying need for effective international controls and binding laws to deter such atrocities everywhere.” -- Benjamin Ferencz * investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the last surviving prosecutor at the Nurember *"At once astonishing and devastating, these poems attest to poetry’s ability to bear witness to atrocity, while the poignant cover image by Liberian American artist and war refugee Papay Solomon reminds us of those whose voices have been silenced for too long." * Poetry Foundation *Table of ContentsForeword by Ernest D. Cole Notes on the Text Introduction: Silence, Language, and the Making of Art The Amputee’s Mother The Child Soldier The Grieving Father The Rape Survivor The Blinded Farmer The Widower The Gravedigger The Beggar The Victim of War Further Resources Acknowledgments About the Cover Artist About the Author
£44.65
Word on Fire 100 Great Catholic Poems
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£31.46
The Old Mill Press A Treasury of Christmas Poems
Book SynopsisEvery year during the Christmas season, holiday themed poems are read aloud or enjoyed silently to help usher in that special time of year. It may be a family tradition passed down from one generation to another or a new one just starting. In this beautifully bound book assembled by The Old Mill Press, readers of all ages will find a delightful collections of Christmas poems to enjoy throughout the season. Some of the poems are familiar classics like A Visit from St. Nicholas, better known as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore and The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost to lesser known but poignant poems like Wartime Christmas by Joyce Kilmer and the lovely A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling. Poetry is an art-form that has many facets. It is the beauty of words that express feelings, emotions and thoughts through carefully selected words. One poet called a poem "a thought, caught in the act of dawning." Another said a poem is a means of bringing the wind in the grasses into the house. Still another stated, even more simply: "Poetry is a pheasant disappearing in the brush". If you ask many different people what poetry is you'll get many different answers. That's because poetry affects each of us differently with its focus on words, how they sound, the textures, verse patterns, word choice and interpretations. All of that creates a verbal music-a rhythm, a cadence, a beat-that creates an emotional response in each of us, deep within our soul. A Treasury of Christmas Poems is sure to delight and evoke the warm emotions associated with the holiday season.
£16.16
Franciscan University Press Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020
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£14.95
Guernica Editions,Canada The Heart Is Improvisational: An Anthology in
Book SynopsisPoets attribute an array of roles and capacities to the involuntary muscle and catalyst of our storied lives. The heart becomes a repository of erotic and familial love and a sanctuary for memory. In this collection, poets explore the flux of the heart's responses and instigations: the heart's tender overtures, its joyous pulse, its mating call for the other, its changeable temperament, its final tick in freeze-frame. Among the poets featured: Kenneth Sherman, Lorna Crozier, Marilyn Bowering, Roo Borson, Patrick Lane, Charles Bukowski, Rita Dove, Eugénio de Andrade, John Barton, Robyn Sarah, and Mary di Michele.
£19.76
Guernica Editions Poetry for the New Millennium
£17.61
Acorn Press Are We Friends Now?: An Anthology by and about
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£15.15
Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review: No. 228
Book SynopsisLaunched as Poetry Nation, a twice-yearly hardback, in 1973, PN Review in A4 paperback format began quarterly publication in 1976 and has appeared six times a year since PN Review 21 in 1981.Each issue includes an editorial, letters, news and notes, articles, interviews, features, poems, translations, and a substantial book review section. Poetry Nation was founded by Michael Schmidt and Professor Brian Cox at the Victoria University of Manchester. Cox and Schmidt were joined on the editorial board by Professor Donald Davie and C.H. Sisson. The magazine has been under the General Editorship of Michael Schmidt since his colleagues retired some decades ago.Through all its twists and turns, responding to social, technological and cultural change, PN Review has stayed the course. While writers of moment, poets and critics, essayists and memoirists, and of course readers, keep finding their way to the glass house, and people keep throwing stones, it will have a place.Table of ContentsChristopher Middleton (1926 - 2015): A CelebrationGraham Pechey's The-ology: The definitive article in English verse Simon Armitage's Pearl: from a new translation with poetry from Caoilinn Hughes, David Wheatley, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Judith Willson, R.F. Langley, Vahni Capildeo, Eleanor Hooker, Eric Langley, Siriol Troup, Eva Grubin & others
£11.09
Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 229
Book SynopsisThe latest edition of PN Review, one of the outstanding literary journals of our timeTable of ContentsEmily Grosholz: Encounters with BashoClaire Crowther on syllabic poetry Peter McDonald: The PN Review LecturePoems fromSinead Morrissey, Elaine Feinstein, Thomas A. Clark, C.K. Stead, Vahni Capildeo, Carol Mavor, Andrew Wynn Owen, Richard Scott, Thomas Kinsella & others
£10.95
Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review: 240
Book Synopsis• PN REVIEW PRIZE: featuring the winning and commended poems; • Peter Scupham at 85: celebrating a great poet, humourist and long-time contributor; • Poet, translator and MPT editor Sasha Dugdale in conversation; • Vahni Capildeo on sexual violence; • More on the controversy surrounding Rebecca Watts’s essay in PNR 239 on the Twitter poets; • New poems in English and translation by Marilyn Hacker, Samira Negrouche, Angela Leighton, Ned Denny and othersTrade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
£10.57
Carcanet Press Ltd Anthology of Poems by Members of Trinity College
Book SynopsisAn anthology of poems by members of Trinity College, Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College, Cambridge. Over the years, Trinity may have harboured more great poets than any other comparable institution: Herbert, Marvell, Dryden, Byron, Tennyson, Housman, and Nabokov all feature in these pages. In the modern period the college has welcomed poets including Thom Gunn and Sophie Hannah, Rebecca Watts and Jacob Polley. Readers will find here old favourites ('To His Coy Mistress', 'She Walks in Beauty', 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', 'In Memoriam', poems from Winnie-the-Pooh) and much that is startling - old and new.
£14.99
Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 247
Book SynopsisThe May-June 2019 issue. Memoirs of Brodsky in Leningrad and Ginsberg in Prague; News: Colombia arrests man for trafficking in poetry; Andy Croft deconstructs the poetry industry; East meets West in `A New Divan’; Vahni Capildeo considers shipwrecks; New poetry from Lisa Kelly, Sean O’Brien, Joe Carrick-Varty and others; New to PN Review this issue: Charles Bernstein, Jennifer Edgecombe, Michael Farrell and Samira Negrouche; and more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 249
Book SynopsisThe September-October 2019 issue; New poem sequence by Kei Miller about names of places; Don Share’s controversial lecture about Whitman and politics; New poems by Tara Bergin; Anthologist of Black-American poetry, Anthony Walton, looks back 20 years and measures the changes for Black-American writers; Kyoo Lee and Marjorie Perloff in discussion about the nature of identity in poetry; New to PN Review this issue: Jason Allen-Paisant, Jo Davis, Andrew Jordan and Petra White; and more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 250
Book SynopsisThe November-December 2019 issue The celebratory 250th issue of PN Review Sinéad Morrissey's StAnza lecture exploring Denise Riley's 'A Part Song' Elaine Feinstein's last poems Richard Price creates a compelling sequence of Inuit tales New poems by Sujata Bhatt, Jane Yeh, Angela Leighton, and Parwana Fayyaz, winner of the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Poem New to PN Review this issue: Yu Xiuhua, Petrus Borel, David Hackbridge Johnson, and Bernhard Fieldsend and more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 251
Book SynopsisThe January-February 2020 issue; New poems by Sasha Dugdale, Sinéad Morrissey, Nina Bogin, and Mina Gorji; Two posthumous poems by Brigit Pegeen Kelly; Selections from two unpublished notebooks by R.S. Thomas; Nyla Matuk tackles diversity in poetry; Alex Wylie critiques contemporary takes on poetry in ‘Democratic Rags’; New to PN Review this issue: Eugene Ostashevsky, Heather Treseler, Hugh Thomson, Annie Fan, and Deirdre Hines; and more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 252
Book SynopsisThe March-April 2020 issue New sequence of poems about climate change from New Zealand’s greatest living poet, Bill Manhire Frederic Raphael, (Eyes Wide Shut, screenwriter) discusses being a Jewish intellectual John Clegg on a new source for Keat’s ‘Nightingale’ New poems from major Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis Sasha Dugdale translates Maria Stepanova New to PN Review this issue: Maria Stepanova, Leeanne Quinn, and Francesca A. Bratton and more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 253
Book SynopsisThe May-June 2020 issue. Tributes to the great Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal. Phoebe Power’s (Forward Prize winner) National Trust commissioned ‘Once More the Sea’ sequence in full. Walter Bruno’s controversial essay on Value Judgement. Tara Bergin reviews Poetry of the Holocaust: An Anthology. New poetry from Vahni Capildeo, Carol Rumens, Laura Scott, and Zohar Atkins. New to PN Review this issue: Jenny King, Suzannah V. Evans, Leo Boix, and Christina Roseeta Walker. And more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 254
Book SynopsisThe July-August 2020 issue. Robyn Marsack celebrates Edwin Morgan's centenary. Frederic Raphael's polemic about the pandemic. Kirsty Gunn on Lockdown. Interviews with the great American poet Douglas Crace, with Forward Prize 2020 shortlisted poet Caroline Bird, and the major Irish poet John McAuliffe. New poetry by Sean O'Brien, Jane Draycott, and John Birtwhistle. New to PN Review this issue: Rachel Spence, Edmund Keeley, Maya C. Popa, and Hugh Haughton. And more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 255
Book SynopsisThe September-October 2020 issue. Rachel Hadas explores connections between literature and the pandemic. Jena Schmitt on ekphrasis (the description of artwork in writing), from Virgil to Tolstoy to Rilke. First published poem 'Elaine' by Katriona Feinstein, granddaughter of Elaine Feinstein. Sharron Hass on Sophocles' Farewell to Poetry, translated from the Hebrew. New poetry by Jee Leong Koh, Nyla Matuk, and Joe Carrick-Varty. New to PN Review this issue: Matthias Fechner, Rachel Hadas, Paul Stephenson, and Katriona Feinstein. And more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 256
Book SynopsisThe November-December 2020 issue. Vahni Capildeo’s Letter from Quarantine and Andrew Fitzsimons’ poetry from ‘Bashō in Lockdown’. Essays by David Rosenberg and Ricardo Nirnberg on the effect and implications of Lockdown for poetry, literature, and the human imagination. Michael Freeman’s reflections on Boethius writing his great philosophical poem ‘The Consolation of Philosophy’ while in “lockdown” in ancient times. New poetry by Andrew Mears, Victoria Kennefick, Wong May, and Maryam Hessavi. New to PN Review this issue: Andrew Fitzsimons, Jennifer Wong, and Nilton Santiago. And more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 257
Book SynopsisThe January-February 2021 issue.; Editorial considers the British Library's controversial Printed Heritage Provenance Research report and its negative impact on their welcome anti-racism policy.; Jason Allen-Paisant considers blackness and landscape.; Vahni Capildeo on trees and the poetry of ecology.; John Clegg's 'Marianne Moore Buys Some Bananas'.; Jonathan E. Hirschfeld sculpts Czeslaw Milosz (illustrated).; New poetry by Tara Bergin, Miles Burrows, and Nina Bogin.; New to PN Review this issue: Colm Tóibín, Daisy Fried, Alexey Shelvakh, and Camille Ralphs.; And more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 258
Book SynopsisThe March-April 2021 issue; The last interview with the poet John Ash; Major new talent featured: Michael Brett; Novelist Kirsty Gunn reads Henry James during lockdown; Reem Abbas, the young Palestinian poet, explores the Ghazal; Tony Roberts examines the Publisher/Poet relationship (Giroux and Berryman); New poetry by Jane Duran, Yeow Kai Chai, Rebecca Perry & Shane McCrae; New to PN Review this issue: Reem Abbas, Francis O'Hare, John Fitzgerald & Maurice Riordan; And more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 259
Book SynopsisThe May-June 2021 issue; Major new sequence of poems by Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison; Opening essay in new eco-essay series by Brian Morton, about living rough in the remote Hebrides; Conversation with great New Zealand poet Bill Manhire; Philip Terry's huge supplement on experimental poetry, OuLiPo, with first contributions from a huge range of European, American and other poets; New to PN Review this issue: Ariane Dreyfus, Naush Sabah, Devin Johnston and Silis MacLeod; and more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 260
Book SynopsisThe July-August 2021 issue; Major account by Poet of Europe Sinead Morrissey of her experiences in Gdansk, with reflections on the Belfast troubles among which she grew up; Sujata Bhatt breaks a long poetic silence with a suite of new poems; Rory Waterman and Poetry London editor Andre Naffis-Sahely converse, and sparks fly; Caitlion Stobie's amazing tribute to Tony Harrison's V, a new poem entitled W, bridges the gap between his politics and ours; New to PN Review this issue: Padraig Regan, Jordi Sarsanedas, Nuash Sabah and Kare Caoimhe Arthur; and more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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