Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book Synopsis‘I can't think of a single person who wouldn't enjoy having this beautiful collection of poetry to dip into when they need a boost' – Good Housekeeping ‘This is supreme bedtime reading.’ – The Lady ‘Go to sleep with the lightest of hearts, with verses from Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope and more’ – Townswoman These days we're all in need of a little nugget of happiness to help soothe our weary souls at the end of the day. A Happy Poem to End Every Day provides just that: one sublimely happy poem for every day of the year, from cosy fireside idylls in winter to outdoor adventures in summer, encounters with the beauty of nature in spring and moments of quiet reflection in autumn. It features some of the greatest poets ever to put pen to paper, from William Wordsworth on the joy of skating and Emily Brontë enjoying life on the moors to Simon Armitage catching a cricket ball and Wendy Cope sharing an orange, with a good smattering of classic jolly verse such as Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat. Beautifully illustrated with contemplative scenes of pure happiness, this wonderful book is the perfect way to give yourself a little lift every evening. Keep it by your bedside and it's sure to bring restful sleep and sweet dreams.Trade Review‘Pop this book on your bedside table and create a lovely night time routine’ Psychologies ‘I can't think of a single person who wouldn't enjoy having this beautiful collection of poetry to dip into when they need a boost’ Good Housekeeping ‘A real joy’ Miranda Mills YouTube 'This wonderful compendium of poems, one for every day of the hear, has been curated to being a little light into the world. … It really is one of those rare gifts that keeps on giving.’ WI Life ‘Go to sleep with the lightest of hearts, with verses from Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope and more’ Townswoman ‘Beautifully produced and illustrated. The selection of poems is excellent. They are upbeat but not trite, and each one has a fresh and often unexpected take on wildly different experiences of joy … This is supreme bedtime reading.’ The LadyTable of ContentsJanuary: Winter Songs of Birds and Poets 10 February: Gather Round the Fire 46 March: Dancing in the Breeze 86 April: Blessing in the Air 122 May: The Country of Young Laughter 156 June: The Far Horizon Fading Away 194 July: Pleasant Be Thy Dreams 232 August: Feel the Sunshine 270 September: My Spirit is Soaring 308 October: The Golden Times 346 November: Twixt Air and Angels 386 December: Tidings of Comfort and Joy 426 Index of First Lines 464 Index of Poets 470 Acknowledgements 480

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Book SynopsisA glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year. Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The perfect gift for the bibliophile in your life, it contains snippets from some of the greatest writers and book collectors from throughout history, including: Charles Dickens on the smell of books Maya Angelou on the pleasures of reading aloud Virginia Woolf on finding space for writing Nick Hornby on reading for pure enjoyment and much more. Along the way, you’ll find advice on how to look after your most precious volumes, what to do when books start taking over your home, and where to find the most atmospheric libraries and bookshops around the world. Keep this beautifully illustrated book by your bedside and wander into a magical world of books every night of the year.Trade Review‘This would be a much-loved and treasured gift for bookworms! From fact and fiction, to letters and diaries, be greeted by the beauty of the written word’ Love Reading ‘The perfect gift for any book lover, with a mix of letters and diaries, both fact and fiction’ Prima ‘This is the perfect book for any bookworm… a real classic in the making’ Miranda Mills YouTubeTable of ContentsJanuary: An Illimitable Choice 10February: Frivolous and Idle Books 46March: A Stroke of the Pen 78April: Something Sensational to Read 112May: Encouraging Early Bookishness 146June: The Poet and the Dreamer 182July: I Always Took a Book 216August: Bibliomania, or Book-madness 252September: In an Elbow-chair at Ease 288October: The Art of Bookbinding 324November: An Abundant Library 358December: The Craft of Genius 394Index: 430Acknowledgements 444

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Book SynopsisA Year of Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of 366 poems to keep you company for every day of the year.Reflecting the changing seasons, landscape and history of Scotland and her people and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar – from Burns Night to Hogmanay – these poems are powerful, thoughtful and uplifting.Compiled by Gaby Morgan, with an introduction from the National Poet for Scotland, Makar Jackie Kay, this collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry including Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Mackay Brown, Sir Walter Scott, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson, Nan Shepherd, Stewart Conn, Kathleen Jamie, Elma Mitchell, John Rice, Muriel Spark, Iain Crichton Smith, Julia Donaldson, Kate Clanchy, Carol Ann Duffy and many more to deliver magic on every page that lasts a whole year!

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Book SynopsisA complex and truly timeless emotion, love – whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation – has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verses of outstanding beauty.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, 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 bestselling author and Romantic Novelist Association prize-winner Joanna Trollope.There has always been love, and we have been writing poetry about it for over 4,000 years. From John Donne and William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, the very best classic love poetry is collected in this elegant anthology, Poems for Love. That we still read and enjoy these heartfelt poems today is a testament both to their individual genius and to the enduring power of love.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction by Joanna Trollope Chapter - 1: What is Love? Chapter - 2: Madam, Will You Walk? - Longing and Courting Chapter - 3: If All the World and Love Were Young - It must be love Chapter - 4: Delight in Disorder - Kissing etc Chapter - 5: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds - Love & marriage Chapter - 6: My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close - Lost love

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Book SynopsisCarmina Burana, the largest surviving collection of secular Medieval Latin verse, features poems on subjects ranging from sex and gambling to crusades and corruption. This new, two-volume presentation of the medieval classic makes the anthology accessible in its entirety to Latin lovers and English readers alike.Trade Review[Traill] brings to this ambitious project deep knowledge of medieval Latin poetry and the Carmina Burana manuscript…These are, indeed, translations worth having…The DOML Carmina Burana is a wonderful resource. -- Thomas C. Moser, Jr. * Speculum *

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Book SynopsisThe Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth century BC that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the scurrilous and obscene.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 *Gerber's texts and general scholarship, including helpful notes, are fully up-to-date, his presentation is lucid...and his translations are neat and accurate, as well as faithful to, for example, the obscenity of iambos (the era of euphemistic Loebs is over). These volumes form a fine complement to Campbell's Greek Lyric set; they deserve to be widely used. -- Stephen Halliwell * Greece and Rome *

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Book Synopsis'Truly a marvellous collection ... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, an arm around the lonely shoulder - the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss' Stephen FrySometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realization - I'm not the only one who feels like this.In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain.'The book is delightful; it rightly resituates poetry in relation to its biggest and most serious task: helping us to live and die well' Alain de Botton

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Book SynopsisIf the most wonderful time of year is enough to plunge you into a gloom, look no further. This collection of spirited stories and vibrant poetry will brighten your mood as it brings together Charles Dickens and Philip Larkin, W.H.Auden and Wendy Cope, Jilly Cooper and Dylan Thomas. From tales of carolling and snatched mistletoe kisses to ''The Worst Christmas Dinner, Ever'', there''s something here to amuse and interest Christmas lovers, grinches, and everyone in between.

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Book SynopsisThis is an anthology to delight both lovers of reggae and lovers of poetry which sings light as a feather, heavy as lead over the bedrock of drum and bass. If in the past Caribbean poetry seemed split between the English literary tradition and the oral performance of dub poetry, Wheel and Come Again brings together work which combines reggae's emotional immediacy, prophetic vision, fire and brimstone protest and sensuous eroticism with all the traditional resources of poetry: verbal inventiveness, richness of metaphor and craft in the handling of patterns of rhythm, sound and poetic structure.Its range is as wide as reggae itself. There are poems celebrating, and sometimes mourning, the lives and art of such creative geniuses as Don Drummond, Count Ossie, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Bob Marley, Big Youth, Bunny Wailer, Winston Rodney, Patra and Garnett Silk. There are poems of apocalyptic vision, fantasy, humour and storytelling; poems about history, culture, politics, religion, art, human relationships and love; poems which employ standard Caribbean English, poems written in Jamaican nation language and many poems which move easily between the two.From its birth in the ghettos of Kingston, reggae has become an international musical language, and whilst Jamaicans are inevitably well represented in this anthology, Wheel and Come Again reflects reggae's universal appeal with contributors from the USA, Canada, Britain, Guyana and St. Lucia. What all have found in reggae is an art with a rich aesthetic which, like the poetry they aspire to write, speaks to the body, mind and spirit, which compels a state of heightened expectancy with its combination of pattern and surprise: 'Counting out the unspoken pulse/ then wheel and come again'."Wheel and Come Again is no academic treatise - it is an attempt to hold a dancehall session in poetry, to take readers to the heart of reggae and carry them into the compelling seduction of the drum and bass' (26). This bold assertion, made in the introduction of Dawes's latest work, Wheel and Come Again, could have also added the word 'celebration'. And there is a lot to celebrate in this anthology"Geoffrey Philp, The Caribbean Writer.Kwame Dawes is widely acknowledged as the foremost Caribbean poet of the post-Walcott generation. He currently holds the position of Distinguished Poet In Residence and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.

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From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Réda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today’s rising stars mingling with the great writers of past centuries: La Fontaine, Villon, du Bellay, Christine de Pisan, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and many more. Here, too, are representatives of the modern francophone world, encompassing Lebanese, Tunisian, Senegalese and Belgian poets, including such notable writers as Léopold Senghor, Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Hédi Kaddour. Finally, this anthology showcases a wide range of the English language’s finest translators - including such renowned poet-translators as Ezra Pound, John Ashbery, Marianne Moore and Derek Mahon - in a dazzling tribute to the splendours of French poetry.

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Book Synopsis''A revelation'' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running over three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations, this anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form. Adam L. Kern''s new translations are accompanied here by the original Japanese and short commentaries on the poems, as well as an introduction and illustrations from the period.Trade ReviewAdam L. Kern's authoritative new anthology challenges the myth of haiku as a monkish meditation on the natural world ... What we get is a cultural history of Japan up to the end of the 19th century condensed into verse ... This feast-like anthology reminds us that poets excelled at social media long before the "floating world" of the internet -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * The Times *This collection will appeal to the general reader as well as the academic. Kern's impressive research and copious annotations will give the scholar plenty to digest, but the lay reader can equally delight in a collection that truly revolutionizes the schoolbook image of haiku ... With this new collection, haiku stands poised and ready for its reintroduction to the world of literature * Japan Times *This is not your grandma's haiku book. It is bound to ruffle many feathers with its insistence on distinguishing between pre-modern haiku as a communal art of linked comic verse and the modern invention of 'haiku' as a Zen-inspired minimalist stand-alone poem of seventeen syllables ... After word of this book gets out, the English-language practice and study of haiku will never be the same -- Jay RubinThe Penguin Book of Haiku is an amazing collection of haiku and senryu and related verse. This collection spans the entire range of poetry from the bawdy to the sublime, giving this book more diversity than any other book of haiku I have read. * Frogpond (vol 41, issue no.3) *An eye-opening introduction ... Adam L. Kern's translations, commentaries and unabashed selections bring fresh insight to the old 'game' of haiku, a collaborative poetic form distinct from the standalone 'haiku' the world knows today ... In reasserting the relevance of haiku in all its incarnations variously serious, crude and comic, Kern does the haiku-loving world a great service and gives us all a good laugh at the same time * Japan Journal *One of the most enjoyable reads I've had lately, and now readers can see what haiku really was like and what it can do. Kern is a marvellous translator ... The illustrations further add to the enjoyment. It's a book that should be in the library of anyone who loves Japanese literature * Asian Review of Books *For anyone even remotely interested in the origins of haiku and the claims of tradition [...] this extraordinary tome is a must-read * Modern Haiku *

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Book SynopsisMy Heart’s In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious celebration of poetry and verse by the greatest classic Scottish poets, and introduced by the acclaimed poet John Glenday.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. The poems in this collection are selected by editor, Gaby Morgan.With poems from famous Scottish writers such as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Mary Queen of Scots herself there is plenty here to enjoy and inspire. The collection roams across so many aspects of Scottish life and culture; its landscape and its history, its people and its celebrations. It’s a country that has always inspired poets to write about love, nature and heritage, and to reflect on the important things of life.

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competing and encouraging each other's radical experiments with language and form. Much of their work reflects their participation in the creative energies of the New York art scene, 'the floods of paint', to quote James Schuyler, 'in whose crashing surf we all scramble'. Believing that anything could be material for a poem, they transformed American poetry with their irreverent wit and daring. Mark Ford's anthology is an essential introduction to four poets whose work has influenced poetry around the world. It includes detailed background information and a substantial bibliography.Table of ContentsFrank O'Hara John Ashbery Kenneth Koch James Schuyler

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Book Synopsis Printer''s ink is the greater explosive.—Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World—and within a year, he had brought out two more volumes, translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then, poems by Kenneth Patchen. But it was the success and scandal of Number Four, Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956), that put City Lights on the map, positioning the Pocket Poets Series at the forefront of the literary counterculture. A landmark sixtieth retrospective celebrating 60 years of publishing and cultural history, this edition provides an invaluable distillation of the energetic, iconoclastic and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes, including the work of Ginsberg, KTrade Review"[A] book you can’t help but cherish.”—Times Literary Supplement "The true marvel of the City Light Pocket Poets Anthology is its reappearance in its 60th year. That represents a venerable tradition (and a long run) for an avant-garde that often mutates too quickly for continuity … just as Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems became the best-selling poetry book of a generation, Ferlinghetti’s own A Coney Island of the Mind, with its insouciant bravado and cheer, has passed the million sales mark. That’s a rare occurrence in these United States. So is the Pocket Poets Series.”—John Tytell, Los Angeles Review of Books "The 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology is the kind of collection the publisher has produced for years. It keeps the brand alive and necessary, and wow, there are some special treats, like poems by Pablo Picasso. Its old news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who edited this, has been looking at art with devastating erudition since the middle of the last century. As anthologist, he has lost none of his edge, and so he gives us a fabulous stew of the familiar, in Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, and other beats mixed in with Marie Ponsot, has earned more attention than she usually receives — There is so much more in this blazing gift of a volume that provides another example of the range of the City Lights endeavor. Allen Ginsberg. Gregory Corso. Diane di Prima. Check. Check. Check. Plus imported and domestic surprises. Pocket Poets has always been a project that enabled people to carry fine poems comfortably in their clothes, next to skin, so that this great stream of poetry could seep right in.”—The Rumpus “Open the book anywhere and you will be sure to find an unexpected delicacy that gives rise to political memories, trips to distant places, or spiritual quests … Ferlinghetti has once again given us the opportunity to walk the streets with laughter, satire, ferment, sadness, joy, dissidence, and love tucked in our pockets.”—R.I. Sutherland-Cohen, Beat Scene "San Francisco’s City Lights Books began publishing the Pocket Poets Series in 1955. Speaking of his intentions for the series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes, 'I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment.' Consistent with this philosophy, the new 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology includes not only the familiar names associated with a particular San Francisco literary scene (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti himself, others), but writing and writers from across the years and oceans. Readers possessing only anecdotal familiarity with City Lights Books will find an unexpected breadth of artistic sensibility within the Anthology, and no doubt several fine poems by previously undiscovered writers. Recommended for established fans of the press and newcomers alike.”—Toad Suck Review"[A] book you can’t help but cherish.”—Times Literary Supplement "The true marvel of the City Light Pocket Poets Anthology is its reappearance in its 60th year. That represents a venerable tradition (and a long run) for an avant-garde that often mutates too quickly for continuity … just as Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems became the best-selling poetry book of a generation, Ferlinghetti’s own A Coney Island of the Mind, with its insouciant bravado and cheer, has passed the million sales mark. That’s a rare occurrence in these United States. So is the Pocket Poets Series.”—John Tytell, Los Angeles Review of Books "The 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology is the kind of collection the publisher has produced for years. It keeps the brand alive and necessary, and wow, there are some special treats, like poems by Pablo Picasso. Its old news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who edited this, has been looking at art with devastating erudition since the middle of the last century. As anthologist, he has lost none of his edge, and so he gives us a fabulous stew of the familiar, in Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, and other beats mixed in with Marie Ponsot, has earned more attention than she usually receives — There is so much more in this blazing gift of a volume that provides another example of the range of the City Lights endeavor. Allen Ginsberg. Gregory Corso. Diane di Prima. Check. Check. Check. Plus imported and domestic surprises. Pocket Poets has always been a project that enabled people to carry fine poems comfortably in their clothes, next to skin, so that this great stream of poetry could seep right in.”—The Rumpus “Open the book anywhere and you will be sure to find an unexpected delicacy that gives rise to political memories, trips to distant places, or spiritual quests … Ferlinghetti has once again given us the opportunity to walk the streets with laughter, satire, ferment, sadness, joy, dissidence, and love tucked in our pockets.”—R.I. Sutherland-Cohen, Beat Scene "San Francisco’s City Lights Books began publishing the Pocket Poets Series in 1955. Speaking of his intentions for the series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes, 'I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment.' Consistent with this philosophy, the new 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology includes not only the familiar names associated with a particular San Francisco literary scene (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti himself, others), but writing and writers from across the years and oceans. Readers possessing only anecdotal familiarity with City Lights Books will find an unexpected breadth of artistic sensibility within the Anthology, and no doubt several fine poems by previously undiscovered writers. Recommended for established fans of the press and newcomers alike.”—Toad Suck ReviewTable of ContentsCity Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 40th Anniversary edition, published in 1995, contained a selection of three poems each from every Pocket Poet book published in the series, up through Number 52. This edition picks up where that left off, including all of the above, and adding three poems each (selected again by Ferlinghetti, series editor) from the titles/poets published in the series since then: Number 53 SAVE TWILIGHT Julio Cortázar Number 54 ORPHIC SONGS Dino Campana Number 55 FRONT LINES Jack Hirschman Number 56 NINE ALEXANDRIAS Semezdin Mehmedinovic Number 57 THE LANGUAGE OF SAXOPHONES Kamau Daáood Number 58 STATE OF EXILE Cristina Peri Rossi Number 59 TAU Philip Lamantia Number 60 WHEN I WAS A POET David Meltzer

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Book SynopsisPoets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has devised an anthology that is both a sharing of personal favourites and a celebration of high moments in the sonnet''s history. His introduction and wonderfully insightful notes provide a history and commentary that will prove illuminating to the casual reader and indispensable to the student or aspiring sonneteer.

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Book SynopsisThis is the fifth volume to be published in the ongoing complete edition of Auden''s works, under the editorship of Edward Mendelson. It includes the essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 -- when he wrote his first book of criticism, The Enchafèd Flood -- and December 1955, shortly before he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and began the series of lectures that he published, with much else, in The Dyer''s Hand.The texts throughout this edition are, wherever possible, newly edited from Auden''s manuscripts, and the notes report variant readings from all published versions.Trade Review"'The Complete Works, edited with elegant scruple by Edward Mendelson, is the only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him.' Boston Book Review"

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Book SynopsisSufi Poems is a selection of poems from the golden period of Sufism especially chosen and translated from the Arabic by the distinguished scholar Dr Martin Lings. Dr Lings is the author of numerous best-selling works on Sufism and is a published poet in his own right. Including poems here translated for the first time, Sufi Poems brings together selections from the giants of Sufism; for example, Rabia, Hallaj, Ibn al-Farid and Ibn Arabi. Sufi Poems is published as bi-lingual Arabic-English edition, which will be of interest to all those wishing to read the original Arabic and will also be helpful for university students of Arabic.

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Book SynopsisA story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courageThis great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried''s love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the quarrel between the two queens, Hagen''s treacherous murder of Siegfried, and Kriemhild''s eventual triumph.Composed nearly eight hundred years ago by an unnamed poet, the Nibelungenlied is the principal literary expression of those heroic legends of which Richard Wagner made such free use in The Ring. A. T. Hatto''s translation transforms an old text into a story as readable and exciting as Homer''s Iliad.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Book SynopsisLove itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written. From the fragments of Sappho, to the sonnets of Shakespeare and the Romantic verses of Byron, Keats and Shelley, right through to Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry collates and curates the very finest poems on this subject from across cultures and ages. Whether it''s the burning passion of two young lovers, the steady companionship of a married couple, the unconditional love of a parent for a child or the enduring affection of lifelong friendship, this is Penguin''s definitive collection of the most treasured writing on the most universal of themes.

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Book SynopsisBeing a doctor is a privilege; it is also very demanding and can be stressful, and to be able to look after others, we need to look after ourselves. We offer you this little book of poetry,Tools of the Trade,as a friend to provide inspiration, comfort and support as you begin work.

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Book SynopsisAn essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a deeper understanding and enjoyment of these extraordinary poems.Poets include:W.B. YeatsRobert FrostEdward ThomasPhilip LarkinT.S. EliotTed HughesLangston HughesSylvia PlathC.S SissonDerek WalcottEzra Pound& many more!

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Book SynopsisIntroduces international writing to the general and literary public - travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and a new generation of eclectic readers - by presenting international literature not as a static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the world.Trade Review"An incomparable collection of poets whose work has bever been fully available in English...The reader is given a sense of the entire twentieth century. Kaminsky and Harris have done a first-rate job of bringing a literal world of poets together." -- Ploughshares "The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry is essential reading...There's no shortage of marvelous new voices to discover. Spanning generations, cultures and countries, this is truly a landmark publication-and it's a good gift for the poetry lover in your life, even if that person is you." -- Newsday "In this highly readable anthology, Kaminsky, one of his generation's finest poets, and Harris, the editorial director of Words Without Borders, aim to expand literary citizenship -- and succeed elegantly." -- The Barnes & Noble Review "I suspect there are not many collections (if any) like The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. Gathered within its pages are some of the finest poems from around the planet written in the 20th century." -- The Morning News "From canonical modernists like Valery, Vallejo and Pasternak to younger poets of today, the Ecco Anthology collects an amazing spectrum of poetic voices from around the world in gifted translations, often by other well-known poets. It becomes immediately indispensable." -- John Ashbery "It is a modern book of wonders, of airy correspondences and earthly dialogues, of faraway voices and unlikely global encounters, of borders magically crossed and deaths transfigured, of candles lighting each other, like souls. It is inexhaustible." -- Edward Hirsch "This brilliantly assembled gathering of world voices reads as a symphony of utterance beginning to end, an international conversation of the highest order, regarding the questions and concerns of humankind, beyond borders and all other such barriers, real or imagined." -- Carolyn Forche

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Book SynopsisIntends to bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. This work offers a chronicle of the second 'great awakening' of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. It provides informative and irreverent commentaries throughout.

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Book SynopsisWhether viewed as an influence or in and for themselves, the Symbolists are a tantalizing group. The poetry itself is the movement's best definition. Including bilingual text en face, an introduction, and notes, this work contains some forty selected poems of that movement.

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Book SynopsisThe Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. It is not merely a selection but covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments, apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides, and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. The Introduction gives a brief account of the poets, and explanatory Notes on the texts will be found at the end. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Book SynopsisWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that develop many of the central ideas of Sufism: the Lover, the Beloved, the Wine, and the Tavern; while others are more personal and echo the poet''s battle to leave earthly love behind. These translations capture the passion of the original poetry and are accompanied by an introduction on Sufism and the common themes apparent in the works. This edition also includes suggested further reading.

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Book SynopsisAfter nearly thirty years and almost 500 poems, Poems on the Underground has become a familiar and welcome sight on London''s Tube, paying tribute to the magnificent tradition of English poetry, and to those who have contributed to its richness and diversity. In this beautiful paperback edition, poems old and new, familiar and unfamiliar explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, family, dreams, war, music and nature, and feature hundreds of poets including Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and John Clare, among many others.Trade ReviewThe most democratic artistic intervention of my lifetime -- Maev Kennedy * Guardian *London's most original contribution to urban civilisation -- Simon Jenkins * Evening Standard *Beautifully presented ... This makes it an ideal book to dip into. Few people would see this book lying around the house and not be tempted to quickly browse through and find a morsel of verse that meant something to them at that moment. Everyone will find their own favourites in the book * A Common Reader *

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Book SynopsisUnrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This title reflects the diverse experience of those who lived through the war - bringing together the words of poets, soldiers and civilians affected by the conflict.Table of ContentsThe Penguin Book of First World War PoetryIntroductionAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextPreludeI. Your Country Needs You'Let the foul Scene proceed''Who's for the khaki suit'In Training2. Somewhere In FranceIn TrenchesBehind the LinesComrades of War3. ActionRendezvous with DeathBattleAftermath4. BlightyGoing BackThe Other WarLucky Blighters5. PeaceEveryone SangThe Dead and the Living'Have you forgotten yet?'CodaNotesA Glossary of the Western FrontBiographiesFurther ReadingPoem AcknowledgementsIndex of Titles and First Lines

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Book SynopsisThe Berber tribes of the Mountains of Morocco are one of the great and inspiring survival stories of our times. They have occupied their mountain homelands since before the dawn of history, and travellers have long marvelled at how their music, dance, pre-historic rock carvings, traditional jewelry, tattoos, indigenous pottery, embroideries and carpets have all been impregnated with the wild soul of their fierce mountainous landscape. Never before have their traditional odes – which open up to us a precious window into a Homeric nobility and spiritualized landscape – been translated into English. Michael Peyron who has taught, explored and researched the history of the Berbers of Morocco over the last fifty years, has an exceptional understanding of this region and a unique archive of oral transmissions from some of the last bards uninfluenced by the modern world. This collection is both a gift to travellers and a priceless legacy.

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Book SynopsisMPT's summer Issue Between Clay and Star features a focus on new Romanian poetry: new translations of Liliana Ursu, Dan Sociu, Ana Blandiana and Gellu Naum, and a conversation between Dan Sociu and the younger poet Oana Sanziana Marian. Also a long poem by Aime Cesaire, poems by Khlebnikov, Bonnefoy and the Uruguayan poet Laura Cesarco Eglin.

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Book SynopsisWhen we published Washing Lines in 2011, we found to our delight that we were not the only people in the world who love washing lines and poetry. The book sold out quickly, hence this new REVISED EDITION - which replaces some poems with new or previously undiscovered work (highlighted in the contents list).Trade ReviewRadio 2 Arts Programme - 'possibly one of my favourite books of the whole year' Claire Armitstead. Oxford Times - 'the finished product is as satisfying as a clean basket of laundry' 'The most original and entertaining poetry anthology of the year' Sebastian Shakespeare, TatlerTable of ContentsCONTENTS Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme They That Wash On Monday Louisa May Alcott: A Song from the Suds Dorothy Aldis: Windy Wash Day Moniza Alvi: Arrival 1946 Yehuda Amichai: Jerusalem, trans Irena Gordon (Harvest Books) Ken Arnold: At Shugakuin Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Washing-Day Dawn Bauling: Washing Day: Monday Morning 1966 Amy Benedict: Wood on cloth on cord George Bilgere: Laundry Gillian Clarke: The Lace-Maker Gillian Clarke: Laundry Gillian Clarke: Women's Work *Gillian Clarke: Pegging Out *Gillian Clarke Six Bells Marsha Truman Cooper: Ironing After Midnight *Imtiaz Dharker: Sari Maura Dooley: The Line *Helen Dunmore The Captainess of Laundry Vicki Feaver: Ironing Leontia Flynn: Mangles Liz Gallagher: A Washing Machine Repairman Speaks on Poetry Tess Gallagher: I Stop Writing the Poem Ted Genoways: Anna on the Beach Ted Genoways: Anna at the Ironing Board Magi Gibson: Washing Day in Dublin Sandra Gilbert: Doing Laundry Louise Gluck: A Warm Day Eamon Grennan: A Few Last Lines of Laundry Jo Haslam: Shirt Seamus Heaney: The Clothes Shrine Seamus Heaney: From Clearances 5 Jane Holland: Spin-Cycle Homer: Odyssey Michael Hulse: Washerwomen at Wurzburg Marie Kazalia: That Moment Jane Kenyon: Wash Day Sarah Knight: Hanging Out Washing Anita Lahey: Woman at Clothes Line Carl Little: A Reminder (Great Cranberry Island) Michael Longley: War and Peace Michael Longley: Washing *Olivia McCannon Ironing Dot McGinnis: Our Lady's Shelter/ Mary's Wash Day Ruth Moose: Laundry *Esther Morgan Enola Gay Kelly Morris: In a Magdalene Laundry, County Cork, 1967 Pablo Neruda: Ode To Ironing (Translated by Jodey Bateman) P.K. Page: Planet Earth Fernando Pessoa: The Washerwoman Beats the Laundry (Translated by Richard Zenith) Marge Piercy: Folding Sheets *Katrina Porteous Domestic Craig Raine: Heaven on Earth Rati Saxena: Washing Clothes Anna Swir: I Wash the Shirt Kathrine Varnes: Folding the Laundry I think About Aesthetics Borben Vladovic: Washing on the Line Marilyn K. Walker: Clothesline Deceit *Jo Walton Doing laundry on the last day of the world Joanna M. Weston: Washing Line Walt Whitman: From Song of Myself Richard Wilbur: Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World Hugo Williams: Woman in a New House ILLUSTRATIONS Clifford Harper Anne Hayward: September Morning Beth Krommes: The Zen of Ironing Clare Leighton: Washer Women of Toulon Miriam MacGregor: Mrs Hooper's Garden Pam Pebworth: Lympstone Washday Elizabeth Rashley: Washday Sue Scullard: Vegetable Garden from Lark Rise to Candleford Sue Scullard: Pantaloons/Venice Daniel Waters: Card Sarah Young: Print Garden

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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.

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Book SynopsisThis epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies – with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic’s argument or to illustrate a journalistic overview. Instead, Edna Longley shows you the key poets of the century, and through interlinking commentary points up the connections between them as well as their relationship with the continuing poetic traditions of these islands. Edna Longley draws the poetic line of the century not through culture-defining groups but through the work of the most significant poets of our time. Because her guiding principle is aesthetic precision, the poems themselves answer to their circumstances. Readers will find this book exciting and risk-taking not because her selections are surprising but because of the intensity and critical rigour of her focus, and because the poems themselves are so good. This is a vital anthology because the selection is so pared down. Edna Longley has omitted showy, noisy, ephemeral writers who drown out their contemporaries but leave later or wiser readers unimpressed. Similarly there is no place here for the poet as entertainer, cultural spokesman, feminist mythmaker or political commentator. While anthologies survive, the idea of poetic tradition survives. An anthology as rich as Edna Longley’s houses intricate conversations between poets and between poems, between the living and the dead, between the present and the future. It is a book which will enrich the reader’s experience and understanding of modern poetry. The anthology covers the work of 70 poets: Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Edward Thomas, D.H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Edwin Muir, T.S. Eliot, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Hugh MacDiarmid, Wilfred Owen, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Robert Graves, Austin Clarke, Basil Bunting, Stevie Smith, Patrick Kavanagh, Norman Cameron, William Empson, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, John Hewitt, Robert Garioch, Norman MacCaig, R.S. Thomas, Henry Reed, Dylan Thomas, Alun Lewis, W.S. Graham, Keith Douglas, Edwin Morgan, Philip Larkin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Montague, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, Sylvia Plath, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, Tom Leonard, Carol Rumens, Selima Hill, Ciaran Carson, James Fenton, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott, Ian Duhig, Carol Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie, Simon Armitage and Don Paterson.

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Book SynopsisBrings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the anthology takes the poetry of the region away from the dichotomy which apartheid promoted.

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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

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Book SynopsisMore than 100 poems about Britain''s nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains. This carefully chosen collection will inspire you to explore nature through a poet's eye the perfect antidote to times when the world is too much with us', as Wordsworth so beautifully put it.There are celebrated poems by the greats Keats, Yeats, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, John Masefield, Robert Burns, Dylan Thomas as well as others by contemporary poets whose work you will want to seek out and explore further, including Carol Anne Duffy, Simon Armitage and Jean Sprackland. Where poems have links to National Trust sites, footnotes are included to explain the connections.

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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.

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