Poetry / poems by individual poets
Faber & Faber Collected Poems
Book SynopsisSince its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended: it is, for the first time, Larkin's 'own' collected poems.
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Pan Macmillan Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Book SynopsisWilliam Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet’s finest and best-loved poems such as ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’ and ‘The Tiger’. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has a foreword by Peter Harness. Blake’s work is instantly recognizable by its flamboyance and inventiveness. This gorgeous edition contains stunning reproductions of the fifty-four plates of the poems and illustrations together, which Blake etched himself and coloured by hand. Each has the poem printed on the facing page. Whilst Songs of Innocence captures the innocence of childhood, Songs of Experience is its contrasting sequel.Trade ReviewMy mind and my body reacted to certain lines from the Songs of Innocence and of Experience . . . with the joyful immediacy of a flame leaping to meet a gas jet. -- Philip Pullman * The Guardian *As a poet, Blake's greatest works are the short ones, his Songs of Innocence and Experience. * The Independent *
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Lucent Dreaming Painting over the cracks
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Penguin Books Ltd The Sonnets and a Lovers Complaint
Book SynopsisPart of the "Clothbound Classics" series, this title collects sonnets of Shakespeare's that deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. It also includes the sonnet "A Lover's Complaint", in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.
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Penguin Books Ltd Letters to a Young Poet
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Nine Arches Press Neon Manila
Book SynopsisNeon Manila is an exploration of the queer Filipino body in all of its skin and glitter. Looking at pop music, fashion, jewellery, dating mishaps, and everyday London life, the poems in this collection seek a better grasp of the relationships we build with ourselves, of the internal as constantly contoured by the external.
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Milk and Honey
Book SynopsisThis stunning new hardcover book celebrates the journey of Rupi Kaur and milk and honey. 40 new original poems and 20 new illustrations Full-color, never-before-seen photos and memorabilia Illuminating introduction and handwritten diary entries by Rupi Heartfelt annotations from Rupi and some of today’s most respected voices Since its debut, milk and honey has sold more than 6 million copies globally, becoming the highest-selling book of poetry in the 21st century and propelling Rupi Kaur into the stratosphere as the voice of a generation. milk and honey has taken millions of readers on a shared journey through life’s most emotional moments, reminding us along the way that there is sweetness everywhere, if only we are willing to look. An exceptional volume, the milk and honey 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition is a must-have keepsake that will be treasured by longtime fans as well as readers new to the work that transformed poetry in our time.
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book SynopsisWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life’s work as a poet, in part because of a lack of representative but accessible editions of her work. Readers will find here not only her well-known sonnet sequence of love poems, Sonnets From the Portuguese, but also lesser known sonnets, some in praise of the cross-dressing bohemian writer George Sand, others to contemporary poets and artists. Her religious and spiritual poetry echoes that of the Metaphysical poets. A different voice emerges in her social and political protest poems, such as ‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’. Her experimental ballads allowed her to develop a distinctive way of writing about women within an apparently conventional form. In the outstanding work of her maturity, Aurora Leigh, the woman’s voice takes centre stage. This ‘novel-poem’ is full of verve and interest, with a female poet-hero who casts a caustic eye on life and on her fellow men – and women. We all think we know the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning – the mysterious illness which enclosed her in her room, her over-loving but imperious father, and her romantic, secret marriage to the poet Robert Browning and their life together in Italy. But this comprehensive selection of her poetry tells the real story of her sustained creative life as a poet, which began with her childhood poetic ambitions and ended only with her death. All the major aspects of her poetry are represented in this accessible edition which is well-annotated and contextualised, with a wide-ranging introduction which covers Barrett Browning’s poetic and intellectual life as well as her personal one. Recent critical re-readings, including major feminist reassessments, of her poetry are covered in the introduction, with helpful suggestions for further reading.
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Faber & Faber New Selected Poems 19661987
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions.
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Vintage Publishing Marston Meadows and Other Poems
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Bonnier Books Ltd I Dont Want To Settle
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Eyewear Publishing Ghost Hunt
Book SynopsisGhost Huntis a poetry book of powerful truths in the aftermath of a sudden death. Laced with expressions of loss and an exploration of the spectrum of human emotions, this collectiontakes you on a jolting journey with keen insight and humour.
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Verve Poetry Press The Still Point
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Burning Eye Books the heart is a holding
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Valley Press Inside
Book SynopsisInside is a book that lives and breathes in its confinement.It places a brief account of the patients of a hospital assessment ward (catering to those in the process of being diagnosed with dementia) in contrast to the inmates of a broad spectrum of prisons.Holding these strands together is the voice of a single poet who doesn't hold back from telling it as it is.In sharply observed and pointed language, the whole carries a message for politicians and the public alike.
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Union Square & Co. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Barnes
Book SynopsisHamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Henry V. Macbeth. A Midsummer Night's Dream. King Lear. Lovers of literature will immediately recognise these as signature works of William Shakespeare. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare collects all thirty-seven of the immortal Bard's comedies, tragedies, and historical plays in a beautiful edition.
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Penned in the Margins The Perseverance
Book Synopsis*Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019* Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018 * Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award * Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize * The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet's father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience. Audiobook now available from Audible, Amazon and iTunes.Trade Review‘In his new collection, The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus writes: ‘We are centuries away from people / believing our stories without / perversion, without pity.’ At every turn, Antrobus pushes back against flattening, against the tidy narrative — an invidious Ted Hughes poem gets radically revised, an aunt’s misheard utterance becomes ‘a faint fog horn, a lost river.’ It’s magic, the way this poet is able to bring together so much — deafness, race, masculinity, a mother’s dementia, a father’s demise — with such dexterity. Raymond Antrobus is as searching a poet as you’re likely to find writing today.’ Kaveh Akbar‘The Perseverance is an insightful, frank and intimate rumination on language, identity, heritage, loss and the art of communication. Ranging from tender elegies about his father to frank interrogations of deafness, Antrobus highlights the persistence of memory and our need to connect. These colloquial, historical and conversational poems plunder the space of missing, and absence in speech/ our conversations — between what we hear and what we do not say. Perseverance is a lyrical translation of a power dynamic always present in conversational exchanges but even more so in the d/Deaf experiences. Thought-provoking and eloquent monologues explore the poet’s Jamaican/ British heritage with such compassion, where the spirit and rhythm of each speaker dominates. These are courageous autobiographical poems of praise, difficulties, testimony and love.’ Malika Booker'Raymond Antrobus's compelling debut, The Perseverance, confronts deeply rooted prejudice against deaf people.’ The Guardian - Poetry Book of the Year‘[A] memorable collection ... Antrobus interlaces wit and pathos as he examines his identity as a deaf British-Jamaican man in a world between sign language and speech.' The Sunday Times - Poetry Book of the Year'This book is far bigger than d/Deafness ... localising identities in the entire bodyscape, be they physical, social, racial, class or religion-based. The Perseverance starts off like a modern-day Milton (‘Echo’), ends with ‘Happy Birthday Moon’, a tender, deceptively simple pantoum about the author’s father (a keystone of the book), and ranges everywhere in between. It channels Danez Smith, Malika Booker and Caroline Bird, in formal poems, erasures, free verse, innovative use of Makaton symbols, translation, prose, and a blackout version of Ted Hughes’ ‘Deaf School’; probably the best poem I read all year, and it doesn’t even have any words in it.' Will Barrett, Poetry School Books of the Year'The rare gift of this collection is that it makes us reassess our relationship with communication. [...] The emotive, intuitive power of this work is a signature of a poet who not only understands, but indeed 'overstands' his position in society.' Maria Taylor, Under the Radar'Knocked my socks off ... one of my favourite books of the year' Book vlogger Jen Campbell
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Oxford University Press Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Book SynopsisShowing the two contrary states of the Human Soul. With an introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Map
Book SynopsisNobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humour. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. Carefully edited by her long time, award winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska's work until her death in 2012.Trade ReviewNew York Times Editor's Choice New York Times Paperback Row "Both plain-spoken and luminous…Szymborska’s skepticism, her merry, mischievous irreverence and her thirst for the surprise of fresh perception make her the enemy of all tyrannical certainties. Hers is the best of the Western mind—free, restless, questioning.”--New York Times Book Review "Vast, intimate, and charged with the warmth of a life fully imagined to the end, there’s no better place for those unfamiliar with her work to begin."--Megan O'Grady, Vogue "An extraordinary and vital summation of Szymborska’s decidedly modest output...Not only is Szymborska a major poet of the last half century but Map, as a reading experience, is wonderful, illuminating and enriching, a reminder that poetry can be direct, unadorned and still deeply moving...Weigh the mastery of Wislawa Szymborska, read Map, read any of her poems this year, the 20th anniversary of her Nobel Prize, if only for a short while."—Literary Hub “Listening to Clare Cavanagh speak of translation as an art is a reminder that translators must be as adept as poets at working with words...Map is not only impressive because of Szymborska’s precise, intimate, and observationally funny poems...but because of Cavanagh and Baranczak’s tireless dedication in bringing them to English without sacrificing their forms."--Jacob Victorine, Publishers Weekly Profile "Nobel laureate Szymborska’s gorgeous posthumous collection, translated and edited by her confidant, Cavanagh, with Baranczak, includes more than 250 poems, selected from 13 books, dating back to 1952, as well as previously unreleased poems from as far back as 1944. This revered Polish poet, who came to fame well after the poet Charles Simic first handed her work to an editor, interweaves insights into the suffering experienced during WWII and the Cold War brutalities of Stalin with catchy, realistic, colloquial musings on obvious and overlooked aspects of survival. Her poems are revelatory yet rooted in the everyday. She writes about living with horrors, and about ordinary lives: people in love, at work, enjoying a meal. Throughout, Szymborska considers loss and fragility, as when former lovers walk past each other and an aging professor is no longer allowed his vodka and cigarettes. She writes, too, of the imprecision of memory, and in the title poem, the discovery that maps “give no access to the vicious truth.” This is a brilliant and important collection."— Mark Eleveld, Booklist, starred review "Szymborska (1923–2012), winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, has her vast and impressive poetic repertoire on full display in this posthumously published volume. Ordered chronologically, the book reveals her development over seven decades, including a gradual departure from end rhyme and the sharpening of her wit. As multitudinous as Whitman, she conveyed deep feeling through vivid, surreal imagery and could revive clichéd language by reconnecting it to the body in startling ways: “Listen,/ how your heart pounds inside me.” To say that Szymborska wore many hats as a poet is an understatement: odes, critiques, and persona poems are just a few of the forms her writing took. Yet, despite their diversity, the constants of her poems were nuance and observational humor: 'Four billion people on this earth,/ but my imagination is still the same.' Also apparent is Szymborska’s rare ability to present an epiphany in a single line, and her bravery in writing toward death: 'But time is short. I write.' Ever the student, she obsessively explor —
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Candlestick Press Wood in Winter
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Flapjack Press A Moonless Night
Book SynopsisA Moonless Night was written between December 2022 and December 2023. "Poetry about embracing darkness, finding light, and exploring the depths of my lack of substance."Trade Review"The Alan Bennett of poetry." Scotsman; "Idiosyncratic and effortlessly funny." Radio Times; "The funniest man you've never heard of." Telegraph; "Painfully funny ... tender and touching." Write Out Loud; "Takes the familiar and sublimely reshapes it. Marvellous." The i; "Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit." Guardian; "Warm, accessible, never wantonly oblique, but deep beyond measure." Northern Soul
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Chiselbury Publishing Tamesis
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Tapsalteerie Long Field Loop
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Vintage Publishing Time is a Mother: From the author of On Earth
Book SynopsisDiscover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'One of the most important poets of his generation'ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical'Powerful'DUA LIPA'Redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is for'ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuong's poems contend with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit.The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time is a Mother is a return and a forging-forth all at once.Trade ReviewOcean Vuong, one of my favourite contemporary poets, expanded his body of work beautifully in Time Is a Mother * Observer *A remarkable return: Vuong's unparalleled luminosity of phrase, his perfected pinpoint accuracy of image is here placed alongside a thrilling expansion of voice and gaze which further confirms Vuong as one of the most important poets of his generation -- Andrew McMillan, author of PhysicalHaunting, inconsolable, and at the same time a playful, generous in spirit, tender, inimitable book. The poet’s late mother is these pages’ muse and guardian spirit, as poem after poem Vuong redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is for. But from all of this intersection of tragedy and tenderness, true wisdom comes: Vuong teaches us not just how to grieve, but how to live -- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf RepublicThis summer, I'll be packing his poetry collection... I'm looking forward to being still and having the space to read and reread his powerful words -- Dua LipaThese 28 accomplished poems explore grief, trauma, family... Language itself, in all its power and violence, falls under Vuong's incomparable scrutiny * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022* *Tender and heartbreaking... Delving back into the visceral themes that made his 2019 novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous a revelation, Vuong traverses the intensely personal and the broadly political with grace and courage * TIME *Vuong's poems passionately and inventively articulate the difficulties of understanding and accepting selfhood alongside the varieties of life beyond it * Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year* *There's something about Vuong's writing that demands all of your lungs. The succinct line arrangement and absence of full stops in poems... force you to breathe heavy * Observer *Not since Emily Dickinson has poetry found such an oceanic openness of the self's quiet laceration and cautious resilience. In Time Is A Mother Ocean Vuong's words are bullets travelling through the page and hitting us with debris resembling our memory of art, love, grief and acts of survival... We find ourselves being salvaged and released into a world where a word, a turn of phrase, or a line makes a difficult moment bearable. There is a violent process of fermentation in Vuong's poems that keeps poetry pungent, truth-seeking and unerasable -- Kit Fan, author of Diamond HillVuong writes with such a sensitive scrutiny, breathtaking in its expression * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *
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Carcanet Press Ltd A Wild Goose Chase
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Pushkin Press Poems to Night
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Faber & Faber Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Book SynopsisWhen a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge . . .This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems in the English language. Simon Armitage''s version is meticulously responsive to the tact, sophistication and dramatic intensity of the original. It is as if, six hundred years apart, two poets set out on a journey through the same mesmeric landscape physical, allegorical and acoustic in the course of which the Gawain poet has finally found his true translator.The poem''s key episodes have been visualised into a series of bold, richly textured screen-prints by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. They are reproduced here, alongside Armitage''s revised text, to create a special edition of this marvellous classic.
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Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisThis elegant hardback edition presents Emily Dickinson''s best loved poetry, featuring a silver-embossed cover design, gilded page edges and beautiful patterned endpapers. A deeply personal collection of poetry, the raw emotion and mastery of Emily Dickinson''s poems cannot be denied. Her unique style, with its short lines, unusual punctuation and succinct nature, is quite unlike anything else.This collection of over 250 poems feature a range of subject matters, from love and death to beauty, isolation and the nature of time. There is something for everyone in this selection of poetry from one of America''s most accomplished writers.Includes: • ''Hope is the thing with feathers'' • ''Because I could not stop for Death'' • ''Success is counted sweetest'' • ''Wild Nights- Wild Nights!''This elegant pocket-sized gift edition is presented with a silver embossed cover design, beauti
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Bonnier Books Ltd Every Day is a Fresh Beginning The Number 1
Book Synopsis'A soothing collection to comfort and inspire in those quieter moments of reflection and searching' Cecelia AhernEvery Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life is a stunning collection of poetry chosen by Aoibhín Garrihy to uplift and inspire, delight and comfort. These powerful verses will guide you through the stresses of modern life, touching on themes such as friendship, love, home, parenting, and grief. With lines of classic and contemporary wisdom taken from a wide range of poets including Emily Bronte, W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Anne Casey and Jan Brierton, this anthology will bring joy to every reader.'It's mind-blowing how ordinary words in the hands of poets can create such powerful magic. As a lover of language Aoibhín has gathered the most beautiful collection of poetry. Now I just need her to read it to me every night!' Kathryn Thomas
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems Rossetti
Book SynopsisA captivating selection of enduring verse by one of the Victorian era's most beloved poetsChristina Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse forms. Weaving connections between love and death, triumph and loss, heavenly joys and earthly pleasures, Rossetti's poems startle the imagination with their extraordinary truth, beauty, and intensity. This first fully annotated collection, based on the definitive texts, brings together love lyrics, sonnets, hymns, ballads, the vast body of her devotional poetry, and fantasy poems like Goblin Market, Rossetti's terrifyingly vivid verses for children.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
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Penguin Books Ltd Shakespeares Sonnets
Book Synopsis''Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?Thou art more lovelyand more temperate . . .''Shakespeare''s 154 sonnets contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, dealing with eternal themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by time. This new edition collects them in a pocket-sized volume, perfect for gifting. William Shakespeare was born some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and died in 1616. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world''s pre-eminent dramatist.
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Orion Publishing Co Collected Poems Dylan Thomas Everyman S
Book SynopsisThe definitive edition of Dylan Thomas''s five published volumes of poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS AND ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP.Dylan Thomas wrote passionately about life in all its moods and moments: from the first thrilling moments of childbirth to the darker moments of death and loss. COLLECTED POEMS is introduced by the poet himself with a passionate seashore ''Prologue'', in which the self-styled Noah of poetry builds his ark against ruin. This edition includes his last, unfinished poem ''Elegy'', and the opening of ''In Country Heaven'' - an ambitious project conceived after the dropping of the atom bomb.
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The 87 Press Dear Diaspora
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Verve Poetry Press time difference
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Verve Poetry Press Feral
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Verve Poetry Press FLOW
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And Other Stories Phantom Pain Wings
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Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Coal
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Vintage Publishing Wrong Norma
Book SynopsisWrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years'Effortlessly readable... Fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a big fan... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism' TEJU COLEAs with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like the New Yorker and the Paris Review.Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this:Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word "idea", the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them "wrong".Trade ReviewUncompromisingly intelligent, while being effortlessly readable, and – a word critics don’t often use about Carson – fun * Daily Telegraph *I'm a big fan of her work... There's a joy in encountering a mind that takes nothing for granted... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism -- Teju Cole, author of TremorShe is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote -- Susan Sontag, author of Against InterpretationCarson applies the habits of classical scholarship, the linguistic rigor, the relentless search for evidence, the jigsaw approach to scattered facts, to the trivia of contemporary private life * New York Magazine *Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today -- Michael Ondaatje, author of The English PatientHer work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. The poems play with character and plot, myth and magic; they are rich with attitude and wit and the undertow of grief. If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius -- Colm Tóibín, author of BrooklynI haven’t discovered any writing in years that’s so marvelously disturbing. I just feel so happy that she’s around -- Alice Munro, author of Dear LifeStrikes a range of scintillating, strangely affecting, and largely unconnected scenes… Each prose poem displays a precision, an attentiveness to the mildest of incidents as well as the most monumental of aftershocks * Skinny *
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Penguin Books Ltd Stung with Love Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Book SynopsisMore or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry—among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance—that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.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 b
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Faber & Faber England39s Green
Book SynopsisZaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light. In the poems of England's Green, we are invited to look at the place and the language we think we know, and we are made to think again. With everything so newly set, we are alert, as the poet is, to the 'dark missing / step in a stair', entering this new world with bated breath. By such close attention to the parts, the poems have a genius for invoking absence, whether that be a missing father, the death of a mother or a path not taken. Fully formed, they share a centre of gravity: migrations, memories, little transgressions and disturbances, summoned and contained in small gestures - a hand held, the smell of a newly bred rose or the scratch a limpet makes to mark its home.'Zaffar Kunial is a poet whose work thrills me, who makes you return
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Arcturus Publishing The Poems of H. P. Lovecraft
Book SynopsisH. P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in the US in 1890. Influenced by various literary interests, first in the Tales of Arabian Nights, then Greek mythology and also Gothic tales told to him by his grandfather, Lovecraft mixed these together with an interest in science and gave voice to his ideas in a series of dark tales of fantasy and horror. He died in 1937, but his legacy lives on in a body of work that has inspired countless films, TV series, board games and toys, as well as the work of many other writers.
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Canongate Books The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems
Book SynopsisTHE BEST OF THE BEST OF BUKOWSKIThe Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death.The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both long-time fans and those just discovering this unique and important American voice.Trade ReviewLikely to stand as the definitive volume of Bukowski's poems * * New York Times Book Review * *He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels -- LEONARD COHENThe best poet in America -- JEAN GENETA laureate of American low life * * Time * *Bukowski wrote poetry as minimal as a bullet. He could be funny and heartbreaking in the same sentence * * Sunday Herald * *This bulbous collection contains a frankly astonishing amount of poems - it's a paperback of such great dimensions that it could be wood-paneled and used as a small bar * * Dazed and Confused * *Extraordinary: unsentimental, vigorous and profound * * Good Book Guide * *
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd The Beginning of a Journey
Book SynopsisThis stunning new collection draws together poems written by Earl Lovelace in his early career,from the period between 1956 and 1966. Readers will delight in Lovelace's acute sense of poetry's rhythms, and his poet's capacity to produce stunning visual/aural images.
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Verve Poetry Press How to Leave a Body
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Papillote Press Renewal
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Pillow Thoughts
Book SynopsisPillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Rumi The Book of Love
Book SynopsisThe definitive collection of America's bestselling poet. Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.Trade Review"Another perfect gem from the master translator of Rumi's poetry." -- Roger Housden, author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life and Chasing Rumi "It's a mystery how heart can come into apparently simple English." -- Robert Bly, National Book Award-winning poet and translator
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