Poetry / poems by individual poets
Meridian Czernowitz Templars
Book Synopsis"The Templars" - 39 poems about the war that no one has declared, about the pain that no one can cope with, about the love that no one can refuse, and the hope on which everything is based.
£17.16
Twisted Spoon Press The Absolute Gravedigger
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£14.25
Divus My itinerary has been monotonous for quite a
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£13.30
Turner Publicaciones, S.L. Pangolin
Book SynopsisShortly after the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, Iran do Espírito Santo, in São Paulo, contacted Enrique Juncosa, in Mallorca, proposing to collaborate on a book. It so happened that Juncosa had started some poems in prose related to travels based on personal memories and imagination, and which referred to a way of life that was suddenly suspended. He wrote 40 poems, suggesting the idea of quarantine, encompassing quarantine, encompassed under the title Pangolin, an animal pointed out as the initial propagator of the virus. Do Espírito Santo made 40 watercolours, one per poem, related to the text, although not always in an evident way, suggesting an inner journey. Floating images in a white space, abstract and geometric in origin, with the delicacy of oriental miniatures. Text in English and Spanish.
£31.50
Skira Last Words
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£11.88
The Last Books In Abeyance
£14.25
The Last Books figurae
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£14.25
The Last Books Jokes
£13.30
Almanac Press Extra Limbic System
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£15.00
The New York Review of Books, Inc A Little Primer Of Tu Fu
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£999.99
Blue Mango Publishing 11 / 9
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£8.99
LMH Publishing An Advanced Students' Guide To Edward Baugh's
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£8.07
Blue Moon Publishing Riddim & Riddles
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£9.99
Landmark Books Pte.Ltd ,Singapore The Other Merlon and Other Poems
Book SynopsisThe Merlion is the official tourism mascot of Singapore, but The Other Merlion of this anthology introduces the Singapore and Singaporeans that only those who truly know them know.Witty, caustic, naughty, irreverent and full of fun, the poet laughs out loud with his people.
£12.00
Oxford University Press John Milton
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£23.75
OUP Oxford Ariosto the Orlando Furioso and English Culture
Book SynopsisThe Orlando Furioso remains a masterpiece of Italian literature and stands as a key contribution to European Renaissance culture as a whole. This collection brings together cutting-edge research by international scholars and examines why Ariosto's magnum opus continues to excite cultural interest even today.Trade Review...outstanding essays, well argued, precisely focused, and fully in control of their materials * Warren Chernaik, University of London, Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1: Jane E. Everson, Andrew Hiscock, & Stefano Jossa: Introduction Part I: Before Reading - The Image 2: Lina Bolzoni: The Visualization of Orlando Furioso: From the Original Editions to Modern Video Art 3: Luca degl'Innocenti: Reading the Poem 'in the Very Picture'. New Evidence on Harington's Original Sin 4: Eleonora Stoppino: Ariosto's Seascapes: the British Isles and the Orlando Furioso Part II: From the Elizabethans to the Enlightenment 5: Andrew Hiscock: 'englishing th'Italian Ariost': Orlando Furioso among the Elizabethans. Adaptation and Audience 6: Tobias Gregory: Milton and Ariosto 7: Ita Mac Carthy: Fiordispina's English Afterlives: from Harington to Ali Smith Part III: Gothic and Romantic Ariosto 8: Jane E.Everson: Ariosto in England in the Eighteenth Century: From Antipathy and Ambivalence to Enthusiasm 9: Tim Carter: Lessons in Madness: Orlando Furioso on the 18th-Century Operatic Stage (with Special Reference to Handel) 10: Susan Oliver: Walter Scott and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso 11: Maureen McCue: Authorising Ariosto: The Construction of Ariosto in Early Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals Part IV: Text and Translation in the Modern Era 12: Marco Dorigatti: Antonio Panizzi, Textual Editor of Ariosto 13: Martin McLaughlin: The Furioso in Translation: 'Lascivious' Ariosto in Two Modern English Versions 14: Nicola Gardini: Orlando Furioso, Writing and the Construction of Meaning 15: Stefano Jossa: Entertainment and Irony: Orlando Furioso from Modern to Postmodern Bibliography
£71.25
The University of Chicago Press Thresherphobe Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisIntends to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries - dire and hilarious - from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetnal frustration of our cravings for egotriumph, for sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for peace of spirit.Trade Review"A totally original, quintessentially American poet. Mark Halliday's work is forever in the pleasure section of my reading life. Sad very funny, thoughtful, honest lyrically and for mally adventurous, Halliday's voice is whimsical-seeming and crazy-quilt on the surface; in fact, his poems tremble and reel in the fierce abrasive currents of being alive" (Tony Hoagland)"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal A Bilingual
Book SynopsisThis selection of poems from Les Fleurs du mal demonstrates the range of Baudelaire's gift, from the quatrains to the formal challenges of his sonnets. The poems are presented in both French and English, accompanied by the work of illustrator David Schorr.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press An Algebra Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisA collection of eight sequences and sixteen individual poems, which leap from the public realm of urban decay and outsourcing to the intimacies of family life, from a street mime to a haunting dream, from elegy to lyric evocation.Trade Review"In his best work... conscience and craft fuse seamlessly, and the result is original and arresting." - Nation"
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press Hard Bread Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisThe poems in this volume are 'spoken' in the imagined voice of the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg. While much of the poetry is based on Ginzburg's life - her upbringing in Turin, her experience of Fascism and her work as a writer- the rest is pure imagining and invention.Trade Review"The sustained originality of Peg Boyers's Hard Bread not only surpasses the notion of a merely good first book, it soars beyond the conventional expectations of 'persona' and 'dramatic monologue.' Within a few pages it's clear that this is true poetry, giving voice with unforgettable specificity to the woe, comedy and heroism of a twentieth-century life." - Robert Pinsky; "Hard Bread is easy reading; Peg Boyers has found a means (a measure) of articulating speech, the thought of speech, which sets no barrier or distance between the poem cast on the page and the dramatic figure created in the mind. Her secret is chiefly a matter of versification, for what she has given us is neither criticism nor biography, heroine-worship nor historical idealization; she has written the poetry of another person, an operation requiring the paired gifts of ventriloquist and vampire. The explicit wisdom and the mysterious reticence of 'Natalia Ginzburg' (quite different from Natalia Ginzburg, author of those tough little novels) constitutes, for all Peg Boyers's modesty of address, the most original debut in my experience of contemporary American poetry." - Richard Howard "The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series which has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today." - Billy Collins "I am touched throughout by the limpid steadiness with which each poem refuses to be budged a hairsbreadth away from the feeling behind it. As exacting in its respect for etymology as is Dickinson herself, it is one of the very few books I would recommend to someone who wanted to know what the lyric poem can do that no other medium can." - James McMichael
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Book SynopsisOften overshadowed by the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist is Michelangelo's devotion to poetry. Here is a collection of his poetic works translated to capture all the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both his language and his poetic temperament.
£22.29
The University of Chicago Press Selected Sonnets A Bilingual Edition Emersion
Book SynopsisThe most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luis de Camoes (1524-80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. This title demonstrates the range of Camoes' interests and invention.Trade Review"Splendidly produced.... William Baer brings [Camoes's] sonnets forward as accomplished, indeed often beautiful, examples of this Renaissance invention." - Jeffery Hart, National Review"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Hurricane Lamp
Book SynopsisWith my eyes closed, I might have guessed a collaboration between William Empson and Noel Coward. But of course no one could have made up Turner Cassity but himself. The man is a wizard. In these new poems, each as clear and mysterious as crystal, he has conjured all sorts of miniature wonders and nasty home truths. It is the devil's own sorcery-and pure enchantment.-J. D. McClatchy
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Particle and Wave Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisThe evening beyond each chain-lit match seemed to crouch in the shapes of houses, then rose to play havoc in a veil of dogwoods. Based on a logic that considers the atomic symbol an improvised phoneme, this book is keenly attuned to the qualities of voice and concerned with how these improvisations fall on the listening ear.Trade Review"The poetry of everyday (and not so everyday) objects has seldom been as strikingly realized as in this exciting first collection." (John Ashbery)"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press The Afterlife of Objects Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisBoth intensely personal and deeply rooted in recognizable events of a personal, familial, or national significance, The Afterlife of Objects is a kind of dreamed autobiography. Dan Chiasson divulges the enigmas of the mind through a beautifully constructed poetic voice.Trade Review"The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series which has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today." - Billy Collins "Dan Chiasson has succeeded in writing the poetry many in his generation aim for: free-swinging, gorgeous in phrase, bold in imagination, athletic in movement. What makes The Afterlife of Objects distinctive and distinguished is that in these poems imagination is more than the mere monitor of a language-show. Here, the imagination is an organ of perception, a means of feeling." - Robert Pinsky
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Weave Room Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisWhether speaking in the voice of a weaver trying to quell a violent crowd or in his own voice as a mill employee, Michael Chitwood seeks to bring together many social and historical threads to show the pattern of a people and a place that has received little treatment in American poetry.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press CounterAmores Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisFeatures poems which suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves into the battle.Trade Review"The textures of Invisible Tender - the edgy shimmer of quartz, the cool vulnerability of silk - are exhilarating. Clarvoe's canny perspectives, glistening details, and unnerving surprises are a constant delight. Her book places her at once in the starry company of poets like Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson. I am moved and thrilled to know, here is the real thing, a poet." (J. D. McClatchy)"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Reel to Reel
Book SynopsisWhere are we going? What are we doing here? you don't ask, you don't notice the blur of stations we're racing past, the others out there watching in the dim light, baffled, who for a moment thought the train was theirs. This book offers a collection of poetry.Trade Review"These meditative, syntactically supple lyrics bring a new level of abstraction and sophistication to this poet's work, marking a maturation of an already accomplished style that makes him a poet commensurate with the strange, aching, exhilarating spaces of modernity." (Mark Doty, citation for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize"
£20.43
The University of Chicago Press Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisFeatures a book-length sequence of unnumbered, untitled poems, each evoking a clear moment in time.Trade Review"Clary's third book of poems, Potential Stranger, is as enigmatic in tone and reference as its title. Yet despite its mysterious, hermetic shimmer, it is paradoxically clear, a stream of deep emotional rumination. These charged prose poems gather weight and passionate emphasis as they accumulate. Beyond logic, the longings here simplify and answer metaphysical questious that the reader learns to ask as the images offer themselves for 'deciphering.' " (Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times)"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press To Forget Venice Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisRanging over several stages of a life that features adolescent heartbreak and betrayal, marriage and children, friendship and loss, this book insistently addresses the author's desire to get to the bottom of her obsession with a place that has imprinted itself so profoundly on her consciousness.Trade Review"The creation of the voice in this book-stoic, passionate, resigned, insistent on truth-is a brilliant achievement." (Frank Bidart)"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Anyone Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisUsing a variety of forms and achieving a range of musical effects, this book traces the unraveling of astonishment upon small scenes-natural and domestic, political and religious - across America's East and Midwest.
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Raptor Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of formal poems and measured free verse unified by its investigation of our poetic, mythic, and scientific fascination with birds of prey: hawks, eagles, owls, vultures, and falcons. Drawing on his own experience working at a raptor rehabilitation center, the author shows these killing birds to be mirrors for humanity.Trade Review"Citizen is a book of ambitious poems, technically and thematically, but Andrew Feld has the discipline and the synthesizing intellect necessary to pull them off." (New York Times Book Review, on Citizen)"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press The Life and Letters
Book SynopsisThese poems feature subjects ranging from theme parks to late-night radio, the aftermath of the Holocaust to television,Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The Dream The Life and Letters Immortality Street Scene The Runners Warm Enough Only Then Story The Affair Variations on a Theme by May Swenson The Little Children of Hamelin Malke Toyb The Knot In the Manger Good Morning America Outrage Is Anointed by Levity No Big Deal In Theme Park America The Celebrities Interrupted Prayers West Street The Girlfriend Even in Eden She Knows Widow After Empires In the Mental Ward The Labyrinth Poem of the Old Avant-Garde Adventures in the Postmodern Era WWI (Writing While Under the Influence) Terminal Laughs Kiss and Tell Small Talk for a Sage How Wonderful Fragment Entrances
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Dwelling Places Poems and Translations Phoenix
Book SynopsisHailed as one of the best contemporary poets writing in the English language, David Ferry meditates unsentimentally, in many of these powerful and often wrenching poems, on the dispossession of people afflicted by madness, homelessness, or other forms of wildness. The voices in all the poems in this book demonstrate how, for each of us, there is no certain dwelling place. David Ferry's Dwelling Places is a marvelous, extremely moving book, distinguished by Ferry's characteristic formal virtuosity, extraordinarily fresh and 'inner' translations, and a kind of driven anguished rage at both the social conditions in which human beings have to live and the mysteriously unchangeable tragedies of individual human lives. The translations amplify and deepen the contemporary scenes. I feel that in the future this will be perceived as a great book.Frank BidartNot until I had read Dwelling Places several times did I see how ingeniously resourceful, ambitious, and admirably modest a book David Fe
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Of No Country I Know New and Selected Poems and
Book SynopsisBrings together the poems/translations of American poet, David Ferry. The text includes his books Strangers and Dwelling Places, selections from On the Way to the Island and selections from his translations of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, the Odes of Horace and Virgil's Eclogues.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Bewilderment
Book SynopsisThe author has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against - and with - his genius for metrical variation, thus becoming an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry and which gives him access to an immense variety of feeling.Trade Review"For fifty years [David Ferry] has practiced poetry as if it truly matters to our lives and to our souls - and now his poems have that rare power to wake us up to both." (Christian Wiman)"
£17.10
The University of Chicago Press Sir Gawain and the Green Knight In a Modern
Book SynopsisThe adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Besides the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, this title includes an introduction to the works of the Gawain poet.Trade Review"Professor Gardner's is, I believe, the best translation of these works." (Speculum)"
£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Among the Monarchs
Book SynopsisThis book of poetry explores common themes such as love, loss, and family with an uncommon sensibility. It is filled with metaphors, unconventional and unpredictable juxtapositions, turns and angles of perception and free verse rhythms.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press War Bird Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisA book of poems that takes us on a journey through wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities.Trade Review"The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series that has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today." - Billy Collins "A strong collection from a writer who seems to possess that most curious and necessary of literary attributes - a moral vision." - New York Times"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press The Little Field of Self Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisSet in a castle and on its grounds in Brittany, 'The little field of self' is one long poem comprised of individual poems that articulate the essence of devotion and the conflict within the devoted.Trade Review"The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series which has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today." - Billy Collins
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Clayfeld Holds On
Book Synopsisfrom Clayfeld's Farewell Epistle to Bob Pack Beneath this mellow harvest moon, I can still picture you-a boy content just fishing with his father from a ledge above a foaming stream. The flailing trout you caught is packed in gleaming ice; the pink stripe all along its side is smeared across black shiny dots that seem to shine with their own light. I'm sure that you can picture me with equal vividness, and though we're not identical, there is a sense in which I am inventing you as much as you're inventing me. In Clayfeld Holds On, Robert Pack offers his readers a comprehensive portrait of his longtime protagonist Clayfeld, who is also Pack's doppelgA nger, his alternate self, enacting both the life that the poet has lived and the life he might have lived, given his proclivities and appetites. Poet and protagonist, taken together, are self and consciousness of self, the historical self and the embellished story of that literal self. Written with a masterly ear for rhythm, a
£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Jab Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisHuman, hunger, happiness, hope, heart, and Halliday all start with h, as does ham. Accident? Maybe! But seldom have the flour of the humanistic and the egg yolk of honesty mixed more swellingly with the yeast of desire and the salt of self-doubt - not to mention the olive paste of ambition.Trade Review"Halliday's Jab is not a jab but a roundhouse haymaker that'll K.O. you, dear reader, the referee, and all three corrupt judges, leaving no one to count to ten, no one to ring the bell, and no one to ask who in the hell the president is." - Jerry Williams "What is this man doing? What is the black trash bag he is carrying? What's he doing now? Is there meaning to this? Should he be arrested? This book's a big deal. If it wasn't, you think I'd be here with you?" - Martha Rhodes "The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series which has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today." - Billy Collins
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora A Bilingual
Book SynopsisMaking Luis de Góngora's work available to contemporary English-language readers without denying his historical context,Selected Poems of Luis de Góngorapresents him as not only one of the greatest and most complex poets of his time, but also the funniest and most charismatic. From longer works, such as The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea, to shorter ballads, songs, and sonnets, John Dent-Young's free translations capture Góngora's intensely musical voice and transmit the individuality and self-assuredness of the poet. Substantial introductions and extensive notes provide personal and historical context, explain the ubiquitous puns and erotic innuendo, and discuss translation choices. A significant edition of this seminal and challenging poet,Selected Poems of Luis de Góngorawill find an eager audience among students of poetry and scholars studying the history and literature of Spain.
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press Between Silences A Voice from China Phoenix Poets
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Life Pig Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisFrom Let Me Hear You Outside is inside now. The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into the mouth that's shouting it. Alan Shapiro's newest book of poetry is situated at the intersection between private and public history, as well as individual life and the collective life of middle-class America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether writing about an aged and dying parent or remembering incidents from childhood and adolescence, Shapiro attends to the world in ways that are as deeply personal as they are recognizable and freshly social both timeless and utterly of this particular moment.
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Last Lake
Book SynopsisFrom Ritual A slow parade of old west enthusiasts, camp song and hymn, came in along the winding way where rural declined to suburban, slow riders and wagoners passing a cow staked to graze, some penned cattle looking vacantly up not in vacant lots the ancient icons of wealth they had been in odes, prayers and epics, in sacrifices and customs of bride-price or dowry. (It's good people no longer make blood sacrifices, at gas stations and stores, for example, and in the crunching gravel parking lots of small churches oh but we do.) In his tenth book of poems, Reginald Gibbons immerses the reader in many different places and moments of intensity, including a lake in the Canadian north, a neighborhood in Chicago, the poet Osip Mandelshtam's midnight of social cataclysm and imagination, a horse caravan in Texas, and an archeological dig on the steppes near the Volga River. Last Lake begins with a cougar and ends with bees; it speaks in two ways with reminiscence, meditation, and memorial, and with springing leaps of image and thought.
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Complete Poetry and Prose A Bilingual Edition The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe The Toronto Series
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£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Complete Poetry and Prose A Bilingual Edition
Book SynopsisLouise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. This bilingual edition features the translations of Labe's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the rhymed translation of Labe's elegies in their entirety.
£38.04
