Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Hallelujah for 50ft Women: poems about women's
Book SynopsisRaving Beauties women's theatre company was born out of a deep sense of frustration with domesticity, naivete and a burning need for a creative outlet. It led to an enormous personal, political and professional learning curve. Hallelujah for 50ft Women is their third anthology of women's poetry. Their first book, In the Pink (The Women's Press), sold thousands and was reprinted six times. Our relationship to our bodies is affected by many things including culture, religion, family, sex, hunger, pleasure and pain. This new anthology is inspired by a passionate desire to celebrate our bodies in a fully realised way, leaving Barbie's grotesque silent pliability in her box for good. Instead of pouting, our mouths have the power of language, our romantic fluttering hearts give and receive compassion, skin ages with grace when we see beauty in everything, a pierced belly button connects us to our ancestors and a belly needs to be strong before it's flat. This book has been selected from over a thousand submissions. New poets published here for the first time are proud to share this anthology with established writers such as Selima Hill, Kim Addonizio, Jackie Kay and Helen Dunmore. By revealing the complex depths of our relationships with our bodies Hallelujah for 50ft Women makes a much needed contribution to a compassionate understanding of our evolving selves.Trade Review'In their performances and anthologies Raving Beauties have done a great service to women writers' - Guardian. ' - brilliant, actually' - Observer.
£999.99
Carcanet Press Ltd Golden Apple A Round of Stories Songs Spells
Book SynopsisOffers a selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature.Trade Review'Throughout there is the sense of the unadorned, unrationalized essence of folk tradition - This book entertains and startles afresh on each reading.' - Michael Cayley, PN Review ' - an absolute delight. The tales fly along relentlessly to their enigmatic endings, mixing up the ridiculous, the miraculous and the commonplace, putting to shame the puerile moralizing of many modern children's books. The irrational is sitting in the trees waiting to leap upon you - ' - George Szirtes, Quarto
£999.99
Banipal Books Generation 56 Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab
Book SynopsisGeneration '56 features nine influential Arab voices, all born in 1956, all of whom grew up to become major beacons of modernity, intellectual freedom and creativity in the Arab world and who established important cultural initiatives. Plus works by five more Sudanese authors, two poet film-makers and two fiction writers.
£12.25
Simon & Schuster Ltd Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
Book SynopsisThe perfect companion volume to sit alongside the highest selling poetry book of 2014, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
£12.74
Peepal Tree Press Ltd Coming up Hot: 8 New Caribbean Poets
Book SynopsisHere is an opportunity to discover some of the best new, unpublished poets from the Caribbean. Coming Up Hot is the second publication of Peekash Press, an imprint of Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press committed to supporting the emergence of new Caribbean writing, and as part of CaribLit project.With a generous sample from each poet, there are new writers from Jamaica, Trinidad, St Lucia, St Vincent and Guyana. Meet Danielle Boodoo-Fortune and her richly gothic take on love and its complications; Danielle Jennings’ exuberant narratives of family history and the struggles for respect between men and women; Ruel Johnson’s often witty attempts to confront the insanity of contemporary Guyana’s race wars and political corruption through the formal coolness of poetry; Monica Minott’s frank celebrations of women’s sexuality and her attempt to re-enter the world of spirit possession and trance; Debra Providence’s spare womanist reflections that pack a more devastating punch by saying more with less; Shivanee Ramlochan’s confidently experimental poems that explore the threatening uncertainties of the present through the imagery of speculative fictions set in some post-disaster world; Colin Robinson’s polyphonic, modernist reflections on the queer Caribbean and its joys and sorrows; and Sassy Ross’s tightly structured explorations of memory between the here and there of St Lucia and New York. Here is a generation that has absorbed Walcott, Brathwaite, Carter and Lorna Goodison, but has found its own distinctive voices, themes and formal models. Each of the contributors is well on the way to having their own first collections.Coming Up Hot is the second publication of Peekash Press, a joint imprint of Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press committed to supporting the emergence of new Caribbean writing, as part of CaribLit project.Table of ContentsDanielle Boodoo-FortuneDanielle JenningsRuel JohnsonMonica MinottDebra ProvidenceShivanee RamlochanColin RobinsonSassy Ross
£10.97
Vagabond Voices Our Real, Red Selves
Book SynopsisAn anthology of three collections bringing three poets together around the subjects of birth and war. The styles of these poets differ, but their imagery and intensity echo each other.
£10.59
Candlestick Press Ten Poems About Sheep: Volume One
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£8.90
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Earth Shattering: Ecopoems
Book Synopsis"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air, felling trees and forests), there are poems here to alert and alarm anyone willing to read or listen. Other poems celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink. Earth Shattering's words of warning include contributions from many great writers of the past as well as leading contemporary poets from around the world, ranging from Wordsworth, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy, Rilke and Charlotte Mew to Wendell Berry, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin and Gary Snyder. This is the first anthology to show the full range of ecopoetry, from the wilderness poetry of ancient China to 21st-century native American poetry, with postcolonial and feminist perspectives represented by writers such as Derek Walcott, Ernesto Cardinal,Oodgeroo and Susan Griffin. Ecopoetry goes beyond traditional nature poetry to take on distinctly contemporary issues, recognising the interdependence of all life on earth, the wildness and otherness of nature, and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature. The poems dramatise the dangers and poverty of a modern world perilously cut off from nature and ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power. As the world's politicians and corporations orchestrate our headlong rush towards Eco- Armageddon, poetry may seem like a hopeless gesture. But its power is in the detail, in the force of each individual poem, in every poem's effect on every reader. And anyone whose resolve is stirred will strengthen the collective call for change.Trade ReviewAny poetry anthology, in any field, inevitably owes something to those anthologies that have gone before it. But with Earth Shattering, Neil Astley has set out to do something rather different – not just moving us well beyond the canon of "nature poetry" (which a number of other anthologies have also sought to do over the last few years), but by digging much deeper into the complexities of the historical relationship between humankind and the living Earth that sustains us, reflected in a highly contemporaneous and politically aware way. That will certainly appeal to environmental activists who will already be familiar with many of the poets featured in Earth Shattering. But they will discover a whole lot more than this in this astonishingly eclectic and wide-ranging anthology. -- Jonathon Porritt * Sofia *
£17.00
Harvard University Press Greek Iambic Poetry
Book SynopsisThe poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC that the Greeks called iambic is primarily invective.Trade ReviewThese two additions to the Loeb Classical Library [Greek Iambic Poetry and Greek Elegiac Poetry] will be welcomed by readers at all levels. Archolicus, Hipponax, Solon, the Theognidea, and many others are now accessible as never before...The translations, into prose, are wonderfully clear and readable. All traces of translationese have been removed, or more likely were never there. While the revisions are plain, they are always instructive and can be elegant. It will repay students to read these versions not just as a crib, but to compare them carefully with the Greek. There are surprises and delights for the attentive...Gerber has a gift for finding English that shows how the Greek works...The notes are marvels of condensed information...Gerber throughout the notes writes in a clear, concise, and scrupulous style. In effect he had summarized for his readers a great deal of information about current interpretations and problems of dozens and dozens of fragments...Gerber has distilled an impressive amount of scholarship. That feat, together with the excellence of his translations, makes these volumes among the most distinguished of those recently issued. -- H.G. Edinger * Phoenix *The contemporary literalness of Gerber's translations will fo much to make these poems appealing and accessible to undergraduates...Gerber successfully transmits both the letter and the spirit of the Greek, and his eloquent directness will be welcome to both scholars and students. -- Emily Katz Anhalt * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
£23.70
Harvard University Press Poems. Letters
Book SynopsisExtant works by Sidonius Apollinaris are three long panegyrics in verse, poems addressed to or concerned with friends, and nine books of letters.
£23.70
Princeton University Press Leopardi
Book SynopsisFeatures translations of poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) that render into modern English verse - the work of a writer who is regarded as one of the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1998 Poetry in Translation Award, PEN American Center "[Leopardi's] contribution to 19th-century European poetry second only to Baudelaire's ... there's plenty to be grateful for in this lucidly translated selection... "--Boston ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Giacomo LeopardiTranslator's Introduction: "Attempts and Preludes"Infinitive3Sunday Evening5To the Moon9Dream11The Life of Solitude17Sappho's Last Song23Chorus of the Dead27To Silvia31The Solitary Thrush35Memories39The Clam after the Storm49Saturday in the Village53Night Song of a Nomadic Shepherd in Asia57To Himself67The Setting Moon69Broom or The Flower of the Desert73
£22.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Greek Lyric Poetry Ajax BCP Greek Texts
Book SynopsisDavid A. Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Abbreviations Archilochus Cal linus Tyrtaeus Semonides Alcman Mimnermus Solon Stesichorus Sappho Alcaeus Ibycus Anacreon Xenophanes Phocylides Demodocus Theognis Hipponax Simon ides Pratinas Timocreon Corinna Bacchylides Praxilla Carmina popularia Scolia Appendix on Metre Index
£36.99
Old Street Publishing The People's Favourite Poems: Out and about with
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£12.34
Modern Language Association of America The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of
Book SynopsisIn the Nahda, or Arab Renaissance, from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century, Arab culture and politics for the first time responded to European modernity and face the challenges to Arab power, tradition, and identity posed by the industrial, colonial nations of the West. In the process, Arab society both imitated and innovated, translating contemporary foreign texts, adopting new genres, developing journalism, creating a new publishing industry, and building new educational systems as it changed under conflicting forces: nationalism, secularism, Islamic revival, and language reforms. Collected in this anthology are texts by intellectuals, writers, clergy, and political figures that deal with authority, social norms, conventions and practices both secular and religious, gender roles, class, travel, and technology. Presented in the original Arabic and in English translation, they will be of interest of students of Arabic language and culture, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and other disciplines.
£36.51
University of Arkansas Press The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring
Book SynopsisThe Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes.An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets.This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.
£24.71
Rowman & Littlefield InVerse 2012: Italian Poets in Translation
Book SynopsisPoetry by Sebastiano Aglieco Annelisa Alleva Elisa Biagini Elisa Davoglio Alessandro De Francesco Sonia Gentili Giuliano Mesa Luigi Nacci Elio Pecora Maria Luisa Spaziani Andrea Zanzotto Federico Zuliani Edited by Brunella Antomarini Berenice Cocciolillo Rosa Filardi On the occasion of John Cabot University’s fortieth anniversary, we are proud to present the fifth edition of the InVerse poetry anthology. In publishing InVerse, the University is true to its deepest mission and commitment: to bring together Anglo-American and Italian cultures. Franco Pavoncello PresidentTable of ContentsIntroduction The Task of the Translator Today Translators Credits Andrea Zanzotto Giuliano Mesa Frederico Zuliani Elisa Biagini Luigi Nacci Alessandro De Francesco Elisa Davoglio Maria Luisa Spaziani Elio Pecora Annelisa Alleva Sebastiano Aglieco Sonia Gentili Biographies
£27.00
Dedalus Press Landing Places: Immigrants Poets in Ireland
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£999.99
University of Iowa Press The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and
Book SynopsisPoet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith collect and foreground an impressive range of sonnets, including formal and formally subversive sonnets by established and emerging poets, highlighting connections across literary moments and movements. Poets include Phillis Wheatley, Fredrick Goddard Tuckerman, Emma Lazarus, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gertrude Stein, Fradel Shtok, Claude McKay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ruth Muskrat Bronson, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dunstan Thompson, Rhina P. Espaillat, Lucille Clifton, Marilyn Hacker, Wanda Coleman, Patricia Smith, Jericho Brown, and Diane Seuss. The sonnets are accompanied by critical essays that likewise draw together diverse voices, methodologies, and historical and theoretical perspectives that represent the burgeoning field of American sonnet studies.Trade Review“With keen observation and rigorous inquiry, The American Sonnet documents and celebrates American poets’ vital contributions to an ancient, global verse form. The poems and essays collected here situate the ‘American sonnet’ within a centuries-long conversation about how poetry happens on the page and in the mind. By centering diverse, living American poets for whom the sonnet is a way to think deeply about social and political questions, this work offers a timely snapshot of our urgent literary moment. The American Sonnet is a feast of discovery for all readers.”—Kiki Petrosino, author, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia “The American Sonnet will be embraced by all who’ve noted the lack of diverse scholarship on the sonnet, particularly regarding historically underrepresented sonneteers. Malech and Smith have deepened and expanded the range of our thinking on this form. I can’t wait to teach this book—and be taught by it.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, author, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs “I can’t imagine a group of people with whom I would be more excited to talk with about the sonnet than the essayists herein, nor talk more illuminating than their essays. And the sonnets themselves cover whatever the essays don’t (more Dunstan Thompson in anthologies, please). This is an ideal anthology.”—Shane McCrae, author, Cain Named the Animal “’We shall not always plant while others reap,’ promised Countee Cullen; the robust tradition of sonnets he represented is just one of several in this memorable, thoughtful, useful, and sometimes stellar collection’s deeply American braid, reflecting both a panoply of sonnets from U.S.-based writers (and translators!) and a splendid variety of contemporary writings on the form, a modern—but not too modern—pattern designed to make ‘the soul swing open’ (as Mona Van Duyn puts it) ‘on its hinges.’ Sonnets themselves train up to the present day and then introduce up-to-date reflections on the form, from major critics’ takes to up-and-coming poets’ thoughts: Jahan Ramazani on this ‘tightly wound global form,’ Meg Day's ‘Deaf and disabled existence,’ Timo Muller on Harlem Renaissance translation, arguments about neuroqueerness and autism in (wait for it) Robert Frost, and about where on Earth this form is going beyond the pentameter, beyond—or is it back to?—the past. ‘A sonnet is a mother,’ as the great Diane Seuss writes: here are its children.”—Stephanie Burt
£32.25
Random House USA Inc Uyghur Poems
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented collection of poems spanning the rich two-thousand-year cultural legacy of the Uyghur people of Central Asia. EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY POCKET POETS.The Uyghurs have a long and glorious history of poetry, dating from the oral epics of the second century BCE through the elegant love poetry of the medieval period and up to the present moment—and much of it has never before been translated into English. Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificent natural landscapes at the heart of the Silk Road region, with its endless steppes, soaring mountain ranges, and vast deserts, as well as its turbulent history. Turkic, Sufi, and Persian influences have shaped the poetic tradition over the centuries, and more recently the modernism of the twentieth century left its mark as well. In the face of the systematic persecution of the Uyghurs in China today, which has driven many of their poets into exile, Uyghur Poems is not only a remarkable one-volume
£16.80
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review: A WB Yeats Special Issue:
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£11.77
Little, Brown & Company Coming to Age
Book SynopsisThis exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life.At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers. Coming to Age is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into their later years.Those later years can be many things: a time of harvesting, of gathering together the various strands of the past and weaving them into a rich fabric. They can also be a new beginning, an exploration of the unknown. We speak of growing old. And indeed, as we too often forget, aging is growing, growing into a new stage of life, one that can be a fulfillment of all that has come before.To everything there is a season. Poetry speaks to them all. Just as we read newspapers for news of the world, we read poetry for news of ourselves. Poets, particularly those who have lived and written into old age, have much to tell us. Bringing together a range of voices both present and past, from Emily Dickinson and W. H. Auden to Louise Gluck and Li-Young Lee, Coming to Age reveals new truths, offers spiritual sustenance, and reminds us of what we already know but may have forgotten, illuminating the profound beauty and significance of commonplace moments that become more precious and radiant as we grow older.
£999.99
Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisThe selected poems of a legendary romantic.Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age, from 'To Caroline' and 'To Woman' to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. RTable of ContentsSelected Poems (Byron)IntroductionTable of DatesFurther ReadingA Note on This EditionA Fragment ('When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice')To WomanThe CornelianTo Caroline ('You say you love, and yet your eye')English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A SatireLines to Mr Hodgson (Written on Board the Lisbon Packet)Maid of Athens, ere we partWritten after Swimming from Sestos to AbydosTo Thyrza ('Without a stone to mark the spot')Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Cantos I-IIPreface to the First and Second CantosTo IantheCanto the FirstCanto the SecondAppendix to Canto the SecondAn Ode to the Framers of the Frame BillLines to a Lady WeepingThe Waltz: An Apostrophic HymnRemember Thee! Remember Thee!The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish TaleThe Bride of Abydos: A Turkish TaleThe Corsair: A TaleOde to Napoleon BuonaparteStanzas for MusicShe walks in beautyLara: A TaleThe Destruction of Sennacherib Napoleon's Farewell (From the French)From the French ('Must thou go, my glorious Chief')The Siege of CorinthWhen we two partedFare thee well!PrometheusThe Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable and Sonnet on ChillonDarknessChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto IIIEpistle to Augusta ('My sister! my sweet sister!' &c.)Lines (On Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill)Manfred: A Dramatic PoemSo, we'll go no more a rovingChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto IVEpistle from Mr Murray to Dr Polidori ('Dear Doctor, I have read your play')Beppo: A Venetian StoryEpistle to Mr Murray ('My dear Mr Murray')MazeppaStanzas to the PoThe Isles of GreeceFrancesca of Rimini. From the Inferno of Dante, Canto the FifthStanzas ('When a man hath no freedom')Sardanapalus: A TragedyWho kill'd John Keats?The Blues" A Literary EclogueThe Vision of JudgmentOn This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth YearNotesWorks Cited in the NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines
£15.29
Colenso Books Yannis Ritsos among his contemporaries
Book SynopsisThe first half of the book is devoted to the poetry of Yannis Ritsos and includes several of his longer poems in their entirety. In the second half are selections of mainly shorter by poems by the other five poets, although it includes Gatsos' long poem Amorgos.
£21.38
Fourteen Publishing effable
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£9.99
Union Square & Co. Poems for Nighttime
Book SynopsisThis elegantly designed chapbook collects several dozen poems by the world's greatest poets on nighttime, dreams, and rest.
£8.14
Pilot Press Responses to Derek Jarman's Blue (1993)
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£14.25
Poetry Translation Sarah Maguire Prize Anthology 2022
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£12.00
MX Publishing The Art of Deduction: A Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisThe Game is Afoot! A collection of art, poetry and writing from fans of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson. From the deadly Moriarty to domestic life of Holmes and Watson, the Art of Deduction showcases some of the greatest talent from arguably the oldest fan base in the world. Raising awareness for the www.saveundershaw.com campaign and royalties to Help For Heroes.
£9.99
Vintage Publishing Verbal Riddim
Book SynopsisThis is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious. This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this collection spans forty years, as dub became a powerful cultural and creative force. With roots in the reggae culture of 1970s Kingston, dub poetry uses the vivid expressions of everyday spoken language to describe and challenge the experience of life on the margins. Early dub poetry took on police violence, slums and poverty. Later, as Caribbean migrants arrived in countries like Britain and Canada, dub poets faced new issues: racism, discrimination and hostility. Over four difficult decades, dub gave marginalised people a voice for their anger, defiance and creativity. It was the soundtrack to post-Windrush culture. Serious and humorous, alive and urgent, here is the very best of dub poetry. The poets included in this collection are: Oku Onuora, Mikey Smith, Mutabaruka, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, James Berry, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Lillian Allen and Afua Cooper.
£9.49
Profile Books Ltd The Poetry of Horses
Book SynopsisSince prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of galloping together across open country. They provide entertaining antics when we're bored and quiet understanding when we need it most. To poets in particular, these beloved creatures are the most wonderful muses, as they neigh, whicker and nuzzle, reflecting back at us our heartfelt tenderness and high spirits. Horse Poems offers a selection of verses in praise of the horse by some of the most celebrated poets of all time. The perfect gift for literary horse fans.Trade ReviewAll of equine life is here. A pocket treasure * The Lady *
£7.59
Acair Nàdar De
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£11.40
Peepal Tree Press Ltd Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to
Book SynopsisSelected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England’s links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly enclosure, and colonial figures, such as plantation-owners and East India Company nabobs. Fowler, who herself comes from a family of slave-owners, argues that Britain’s cultural and economic legacy is not simply expressed by chinoiserie, statues, monuments, galleries, warehouses and stately homes. This is a shared history: Britons’ ancestors either profited from empire or were impoverished by it. Green Unpleasant Land argues that, in response to recent advances in British imperial history, contemporary authors have reshaped the pastoral writing to break the powerful association between the countryside and Englishness.
£999.99
Arc Publications Six Lithuanian Poets
Book SynopsisThe poets whose work is included in this anthology were born in the 1960s, when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, and mostly started publishing after the country achieved independence in 1991. Unlike their predecessors, the poets of this generation are not concerned with political themes but rather with issues of aesthetics and existential quests. While each follows his or her unique path, they all share a penchant for experimentation and an ironic, post-modern perspective, following European literary trends rather than domestic poetic traditions.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface.A Short Introduction to Lithuanian Poetry.AIDAS MARCENAS (translated by Jonas Zdanys and Laima Vince). Biography. My Uncle, The Bridge, Let's talk about Revenge, Arts Poetica, An International Forum, Critique of Pure Reason, The Doors through which Love leaves, To Albion, Hell's Drawer, A Real Poem, More and More Used Motor Oil, What stays with You, Kingletish.KESTUTIS NAVAKAS (translated by Jonas Zdanys). Biography. The Sand Clock, From an Unknown Poet's Diary: Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , Saturday, Sunday, Sunday Plus, Sonnets: First, Second, Tenth, Eleventh.SIGITAS PARULSKIS (translated by Medeine Tribinevicius and Laima Vince). Biography. Cold, A Subjective Chronicle, The Genesis of Teeth, The Wall, In Memoriam of a Mouse, Something accustoms Us to see, Together, Poetic Interests, The Little Broom, Empty, Squirrels. GINTARAS GRAJAUSKAS (translated by E. Alisanka and Kerry Shawn Keys). Biography. How to conquer the Berserk, The Frequency of God is 50 Hz, "having traipsed around and lined his pocketsA...", The Little Buddha, Such a Comic Strip, Some Kafka, It's Him, Poetry Readings, Sincerely , "I'm building a barricadeA...", Screen, What is at the Centre of the Internet .DAIVA CEPAUSKAITE (translated by Jonas Zdanys, E. Alisanka and Kerry Shawn Keys). Biography. "SundayA...", Lullaby for a Loved One, How to get into Paradise, I want to say, "There is a gameA...", "A little bit of sunsetA...", The Witch, "It's like SpringA...", "It's time to go to bedA...", Poetry. EUGENIJUS ALISANKA (translated by the author and Kerry Shawn Keys). Biography. From the Case of Bones, The Rats, Essay on Lithuanian Literature, Nothing Better for Men, How I know You, Anatomy of Hearing, The Autumn of Epicurus, Start of the Touring Season, Curriculum Vitae, The Pleasure of the Text. Barthes, Script, Photosession, With my Own Kind. About the translators.
£10.44
Arc Publications The Iron Flute: War Poetry from Ancient China
Book SynopsisWe may have heard of, or even read, Sunzi's Art of War, but this anthology is the first opportunity that the majority of English-language readers will have to read first-hand accounts from those involved, one way or another, in the on-going conflicts in ancient China. The bleak and barren terrain, the inclement weather - icy blasts of wind, snow-blizzards one moment and sandstorms the next - the music of the steppes, reed-pipes sounding strange melodies across the frozen wasteland, troops setting out from some barracks on the Wall, never to return, the whitened piles of bones they leave behind after their deaths in battle, the widows and orphans pining for them thousands of miles away... these are recurring themes in this anthology which spans more than sixteen centuries and includes the work of 50 poets. Conventional `border poems' (poems about heroism and the lot of the common soldier thousands of miles away from home) sit side by side with eyewitness accounts, and the majority of these poems are translated into English for the first time, which is what make s this anthology so important. The anthology's title is inspired by a famous painting of a poet who fashioned a sweet-sounding flute from an iron sword. As the translator, Kevin Maynard, says: "Out of the discord of war we humans can still conjure up sweet music."
£13.99
Verve Poetry Press Wild Dreams And Louder Voices: The Poetry Jam
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£11.77
Candlestick Press Ten Poems of Kindness: Volume Two
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£999.99
Parthian Books Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry
Book SynopsisContemporary Italian poetry offers an extraordinary array of styles, voices, approaches, ways of looking at the world and ways of representing it. This anthology tries to capture the multiplicity of these voices with its selection of the most representative poets from different backgrounds: academics, working-class writers, editors, journalists, performers, travellers and professional translators. The reader will discover a diverse poetry dealing with the topical concerns of identity, sex, politics, migration and race.Table of ContentsThe poets who appear are: Antonella Anedda, Franco Buffoni, Dome Bulfaro, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Chandra Livia Candiani, Milo De Angelis, Matteo Fantuzzi, Fabio Franzin, Marco Giovenale, Mariangela Gualtieri, Andrea Inglese, Rosaria Lo Russo, Valerio Magrelli, Guido Mazzoni, Umberto Piersanti, Laura Pugno, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Ida Travi, Luigi Trucillo, Patrizia Valduga, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto and Lello Voce. Translated by: Bhikkhu Abhinando, Craig Arnold, Johanna Bishop, Jacob S. D. Blakesley, Geoffrey Brock, Patrizio Ceccagnoli, Martin Corless-Smith, Linh Dinh, Moira Egan, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Patricio Ferrari, Lara Ferrini, Marco Giovenale, Tommaso Jacopo Gorla, Susanna Maggioni, Jamie McKendrick, Anthony Molino, Dylan J. Montanari, Matthew F. Rusnak, Jennifer Scappettone, James Schwarten, Olivia E. Sears, Susan Stewart, Serena Todesco, Cristina Viti, Justin Vitiello, William Wall and Alex Wilk.
£13.50
The Conrad Press Parallels: Selected Poems of Rene Dee and Chris
Book SynopsisThis remarkable collection of poetry by two friends whose work is in some way similar, but also refreshingly different, focuses on ten primary themes that engagingly highlight and make eternally memorable, experiences that are common to many people, but rarely as well written as this. The phrase, 'True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd / What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd', applies very poignantly to this collection. Rene and Chris served in the Intelligence Corps and met in a now redundant army camp in 1965. Their friendship has endured for more than fifty-six years, sustained even over the thirty-five years when Chris lived in Australia and Rene travelled the world. They collaborated on this book to select poems that depict their lives. The poems stir the emotions of, for example, adventure, love, family and nation. They can provoke, they often amuse. Rene and Chris hope you enjoy them.
£999.99
OUP India The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry
Book SynopsisThe first significant work of its kind, this anthology contains some of the finest Indian poetry written in the 20th century. It brings together 125 poets in English and English translation from 14 Indian languages, providing an ideal overview of the major figures, forms, and movements in Indian poetry in the last 100 years.The poets featured range from Rabindranath Tagore and Subramania Sharati to Anuradha Mahapatra, Saleem Peeradina, and Vikram Seth. `Subaltern' poets such as Narayan Surve and Namdeo Dhasal are included, as well as three generations of women poets, from Balamani Indira Sant to Revathi Devi and Gagan Gill.
£18.44
Dover Publications Inc. The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry
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£7.46
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Rhymes on the Range
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£10.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Still Rhymin on the Range
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£8.54
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Cant Stop Rhymin on the Range
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Bards in the Saddle
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£10.44
Viking Society for Northern Research 14th Century Icelandic Verse On the Virgin Mary
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£7.14
Mage Publishers Borrowed Ware
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£16.14
Otago University Press Manifesto Aotearoa
Book SynopsisA poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets from diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to Bluff, rally for justice on everything from a degraded environment to systemically embedded poverty; from the long, painful legacy of colonialism to explosive issues of sexual consent. Communally these writers show that political poems can be the most vivid and eloquent calls for empathy, for action and revolution, even for a simple calling to account. American poet Mark Leidner tweeted in mid-2016 that A vote is a prayer with no poetry. Here, then, are 101 secular prayers to take to the ballot box in an election year. But we think this book will continue to express the nations hopes every political cycle: the hope for equality and justice. Two small but potent words. 101 potent poems.
£18.45
Oliver Arts and Open Press Afghanistan
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