Poetry / Poems
Austin Macauley Publishers The Future
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Austin Macauley Publishers Lament for My Hometown
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers Poetry Is My Voice
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£10.79
Austin Macauley Publishers Soundness of Mind
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£5.99
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd. Poems from a Resurrected Heart
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£5.99
Austin Macauley Publishers Beautiful Is the Life...
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Bottled Oddities The Collected Poems of Dawson Hann
£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Ramblings of a Free Man Volume II
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers An Igloo by the Desert Where It Rains
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers The Words That Gave Me Wings
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers A Grief Observed
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£5.99
Austin Macauley Publishers The Letter Box
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£7.59
Austin Macauley Publishers Lines from the Soul
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Titanic Conspiracy Beneath the Waves
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£17.84
Austin Macauley Publishers Virtue and Innocence Are Purity
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Austin Macauley Publishers Our Emotional Complexities
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Austin Macauley Publishers Releasing Emotions
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis Mongolian Epic Poetry
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£62.58
Tommies Guides Little Child
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£11.88
Fourteen Publishing ecdysis
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£9.37
Leamington Books Poems Unpublished
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£9.49
Hawkwood Books Being Human
Book SynopsisA heartfelt collection of poignant poems embracing the core of whatbeing human is, coupled with the innate tendencies to judge and prioritise eachother's significance as human beings.
£9.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Browning Studies Routledge Revivals Being Select Papers by Members of the Browning Society
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£175.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical
Book SynopsisThough Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Rhona Brown explores Fergusson''s poetic output in its immediate periodical context, enabling a new understanding of Fergusson''s contribution to poetry that also enlarges on our understanding of the Scottish periodical press. Focusing on the development of his career in Walter Ruddiman''s Weekly Magazine, Brown situates Fergusson''s poetry alongside contemporary events that expose Fergusson''s preoccupations with the frivolities of fashion, theatrical culture, the economic status of Scottish manufacture, and politics. At the same time, Brown offers fascinating insights into the political climate of Enlightenment Scotland and shows the Weekly Magazine in relationship to the larger Scottish and British periodical milieus. She concludes by exploring reactions to Fergusson''s death in the British periodical presses, arguing that contrary to critical consTrade Review'Characterised by insightful close readings, this book offers an alternative way of reading this most vigorous and interesting poet, challenging existing scholarship and proposing to correct a number of misconceptions. The Fergusson revealed here engaged fully with contemporary culture - news, poems, letters - countering long-held assumptions that his work is backward-looking and nostalgic.' Suzanne Gilbert, University of Stirling, UK 'I felt like I learned something here; I participated almost as closely as imagination makes possible in a past conversation. Words are not enough, wrote one frustrated correspondent honouring [Fergusson's] memory. No, they are not. But they are all we have, and Rhona Brown’s book is a risky and finally successful reminder of that.' Scotia 'The argument of this book is modesty presented, but its implications are far-reaching; Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press should be read by anyone with an interest in the poet and eighteenth-century Scottish culture.' Review of Scottish Culture ’...Brown has told a story and adopted a method that may inspire literary critics to take a step back and consider the wider context in which authors’ works are written and published.’ Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 'Her book is subtly illuminating and satisfying. Any library with good holdings in the area of eighteenth-century poetry should buy a copy.' Scottish Literary Review 'Robelt Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press enhances the reader's understanding of these important and understudied poems by detailing the confluences of time and place and public discourses. This book will become a landmark in studies of the poet.' Wordsworth Circle '... a nuanced, thoughtful and convincing re-examination of a poet often seen merely as a precursor to Burns. It encourages us to re-evaluate Fergusson's work through its magazine contexts, and retrieves him from the vernacular shadow of his popular ScotsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; 1771: 'His first appearance as an author': pastoral, politics and apprenticeship; 1772: 'A new note': Scots vernacular, reputation and recognition; 1773 - January to July: Assurance, 'fecundity and brilliance': Fergusson, unofficial Poet Laureate'; 1773: 'Every day and special days ongoings' in 'Auld Reikie'; 1773 - August to December: 'Into the very blaze of day': Fergusson's literary zenith; 1774: 'Transfigured for all time': literary responses to Fergusson's death; Bibliography; Index.
£43.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Herbert Read
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£137.75
Cambridge University Press Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium
Book SynopsisTheology and Poetry in Early Byzantium examines the kontakia and thought-world of Romanos the Melodist, the sixth-century hymnographer whose vibrant and engaging compositions had a far-reaching influence in the history of Byzantine liturgy. His compositions bring biblical narratives to life through dialogue, encourage a level of participation unparalleled in homiletics and push the boundaries of liturgical expression of theology. This book provides an original analysis of Romanos'' poetry, drawing attention to the coherence of his theology and the performative nature of his rhetoric. The main theological themes which emerge encourage the congregation to enact the life of Christ and anticipate the new creation: restoration of humanity to God, re-creation in the incarnation and life of Christ, and liturgical participation and transformation in that life. By analysing the rhetorical performance of theology in the kontakia, the book provides new insights into religious practice in late antTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On the Passion of Christ; 2. The second Adam: a typology of salvation; 3. The second creation: a new reality for Christians; 4. The second coming: a theology of time and liturgy; On the Resurrection IV: conclusions and beyond.
£33.13
WW Norton & Co Chrome Valley
Book SynopsisFrom the Lincoln Center's inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America
£13.29
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of
Book SynopsisBathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by leading literary figures from 800 BCE 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial offering. With annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature, history and civilization.
£20.89
Austin Macauley Publishers Heartfelt Poems
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Austin Macauley Publishers Fighting Talk
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Austin Macauley Publishers Gilded Tilting
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Memoirs Of An Anxious Person
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£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Poetry from the Waverley Novels and Other Works
Book SynopsisThe original poetry by Walter Scott in the Waverley Novels and other works
£90.00
Orion Publishing Co Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book SynopsisA beautiful collection from one of the great Romantic poets - the perfect introduction.
£7.59
Hodder & Stoughton I Wanted to Quit Too
Book Synopsis** An instant Sunday Times bestseller! **The new book from two-time Sunday Times bestselling poet, Hussain Manawer, I WANTED TO QUIT TOO. Split into five parts - Health, Hustle, Help, Hope and Healing - and featuring exclusive poetrythroughout from award-winning creative, Manawer, this groundbreaking anthology includes short stories and conversations from global household names and hometown heroes including photographer Greg Williams, actress Courteney Cox, actors Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Jay Ellis, YouTuber KSI, rugby union player Maro Itoje, singer-songwriter Sinead Harnett, amongst many others. The book is centred around powerful life lessons, where contributors share their experiences navigating difficult personal circumstances and how when weathering even the toughest storms, instead of giving up they have found the strength to move forwards. It is a powerful celebration of human resilience and love and will offer a vehicle
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Thomas Nelson Publishers When We Talk to God
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Penguin Books Ltd Heroes
Book SynopsisPenguin presents the CD edition of Heroes written and read by Stephen Fry.Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . __________There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes.Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta - who was raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera.Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base Trade ReviewThis is a spirited retelling of stories that Fry clearly knows and loves * The Times *Assured and engaging. The pace is lively, the jokes are genuinely funny, and Fry once again proves himself a master of great learning worn lightly * Guardian *Here, indeed, be monsters, myriad adventures and machinating gods. Fry is a personable and passionate narrator * Mail on Sunday *Just as delightful and difficult to put down as the first. Heroes makes the stories relatable without skimping on the gory details, or sacrificing the truths of the myth. It's rich, it's funny and you'll feel like you've learned a lot * Herald *Fry brilliantly retells the dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales of these heroic men and women in all their grit and glory. Filled with white-knuckle chases and twisted labyrinths, impossible puzzles and blood-curdling monsters * Northern Ireland Homes & Lifestyle *Just as delightful and difficult to put down as the first. It makes stories relatable without skimping on the gory details * Sunday Life *Rich, funny and you'll feel like you've learned a lot along the way * Eastern Daily Press *Tales of fatal flaws, perilous journeys and shining acts of heroism are told with gusto and young and old will be engrossed. The audiobook is an absolute gem too, read by the author who has a winning way of bringing these epic tales to life * Western Morning News *Joyfully informal yet full of the literary legacy. The Greek gods of the past become relatable * Guardian (on 'Mythos') *The best thing he's written since his superb first novel . . . entertaining and edifying * Telegraph (on 'Mythos') *A rollicking good read * Independent (on 'Mythos') *Perfect for the 21st Century. Ebullient, funny, Fry retells the Greek myths with elegance * The Times (on 'Mythos') *A wondrous new immersion in ancient stories we only thought we knew. Brilliant, funny, erudite, inventive, surprising and enthralling -- Richard North Patterson (on 'Mythos')Fry makes the stories relatable without skimping on the wonderful gory details, or sacrificing the traditional truths of the myth * i (The paper for today) *Stephen Fry has created a magnificent book. Humorous, but with serious stories told with wit and erudition. This is a book that will delight readers of all ages. Fry's writing is never less than delightful * Moorlander *Fry is a natural storyteller and his lively retellings make for an entertaining read * Hannah Beckerman, Observer *The comedian and polymath retells age-old Greek myths in dramatic, modernised style * i *One of the nation's favourite intellectuals retells the epic myths of the Greek heroes in his own unique and very enjoyable way * Cambridge Independent *
£24.00
Lulu.com Limericks of Edward Lear
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Little, Brown Book Group Other Peoples Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic''s Circle Award''Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music'' Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the WaterOther People''s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night - the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets - is now in print for the first time in the UK, featuring a new introduction from Danez Smith.The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she''s become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the ''high'' and the ''low''. Other People''s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduTrade ReviewHer poems shred me with their intelligence, dark humor and black-hearted vision. Parker is one of this generation's best minds, able to hold herself and her world, which includes all of us, up to impossible lights, revealing every last bit of our hopes, failings, possibilities and raptures -- Danez Smith * T Magazine *Honesty, says one of Morgan Parker's speakers, "is uncomfortable and funny." And how apt, how acrobatic and unflinching Parker is in bearing this thesis out . . . These poems are delightful in their playful ability to rake through our contemporary moment in search of all manner of riches, just as they are devastating in their ability to remind us of what we look like when nobody's watching, and of what the many things we don't - or can't - say add up to. OTHER PEOPLE'S COMFORT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT is hilarious and hard-hitting, and it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music -- Tracy K. SmithThis collection further evidences Morgan Parker's considerable consequence in American poetry. * The New York Times *Fierce, playful and political, Parker's poems celebrate the everyday just as they face off ancestral hurt. . . . Meets prejudice with an unwavering eye. * Guardian *Parker's voice is surprising, ranging from elegiac to conspiratorial to ecstatic; she interrogates both blackness and femininity like ports in a long personal journey, as places to land but also as points of departure. * Vogue *Parker is a poetic superstar * Publishers Weekly *
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Little, Brown Book Group Love and Other Poems
Book Synopsis''It fizzes like a just-opened bottle of soda. It sprints like the Beatles running through a train station. It talks a mile a minute like a person swept away in the druggy lunacy of a serious crush... There have been moments when, for me, its effervescence has failed to rhyme with the despondency of these days. But far more often, Love and Other Poems has felt like a long-awaited remedy'' New York TimesLove and Other Poems is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure - specifically, the twelve months of the year - Alex Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is ''our best invention''. Dimitrov never resists joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.Trade ReviewIf hope were an object, it would be Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems * NPR *Love and Other Poems has felt like a long-awaited remedy * New York Times *It's the kind of surprise that makes you smile and nod, like catching a glimpse of the full moon in the middle of the day * BOMB Magazine *Full of fierce astonishment * O, The Oprah Magazine *In this affecting collection, his most fully achieved thus far, Dimitrov provides the reader with a needed celebration ofpleasures * Publishers Weekly, starred review *'A highly pleasurable, heavily Frank O'Hara-influenced collection in love with moments and New York City and the aesthetics of cyclical ephemerality, full of exuberance and wistfulness, longing and joy' * New York Times *
£10.44
Little, Brown Book Group Obit
Book SynopsisLos Angeles Times Book PrizePEN Voelcker AwardAnisfield-Wolf Book PrizeNew York Times 100 Notable Books Time Magazine''s 100 Must-Read Books NPR''s Best Books National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistNational Book Critics Circle, FinalistGriffin Poetry Prize, ShortlistFrank Sanchez Book AwardAfter her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died (''civility,'' ''language,'' ''the future,'' ''Mother''s blue dress'') and the cultural impact of death on the living. Loss, and the love for the dead, becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the lTrade Review'In Chang's telling, grief shoots off in all directions, killing off dozens of other things: appetite, blame, the deceased's old clothes. Chang sets out to catalogue them all, and does so with rangy metaphysical imagination and terse precision...[a] solemn, gorgeous, understated book' -- Stephanie Sy-Quia * TLS *Chang's new collection explores her father's illness and her mother's death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. A serene acceptance of grief * New York Times '100 Most Notable Books 2020' *Exceptional . . . Chang's poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore * Publishers Weekly, starred review *These are poems that reproduce the logic and feeling of loss?a gift for anyone who has struggled to find words to express grief * NPR *[Obit] is heartbreaking and enthralling. It sings and instructs. It is a world all its own -- Ilya Kaminsky * The Week *Victoria Chang has created something powerful and unconventional. These poems are zinger curveballs * Los Angeles Review of Books *Chang has created a unique poetic construct . . . The feeling of hope is a theme throughout this solid collection, in variations Chang evokes with grace * Booklist *Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums, her work living within surprising spaces and forms, and both exposing and surpassing the possibilities for those structures . . . Chang has the rare poetic talent to follow the edges of dark comedy to find sentiment rather than irony * The Millions *Each poem is a masterwork of compression and compassion * Kenyon Review *
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Little, Brown Book Group Promises of Gold
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD''[Promises of Gold] has put Olivarez at the forefront of not only first-generation poetics, but of all poetry. This one here is for us -- the ones who hide garden shears in their poems'' Javier ZamoraLove is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often mishandled, misrepresented, or narrowly defined. In the words of José Olivarez: ''How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love -- but what about our friends? Those homies who show up when the romance ends to help you heal your heart. Those homies who are there all along -- cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.''Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how ''a promise made isn''t always a promise kept,'' as Olivarez lays bare the ways in which ''love is complicated by forces larger thTrade Review"My people I am poly with the tortillas" might be my favorite single sentence I have ever read in a poem. Get the book for that line alone. Promises of Gold is a heartfelt and hilarious series of odes to the large and small joys of life. It is also a battle rap and a clapback to all the death-making institutions we live under at every level. I could call this book soft and I would only be telling a half-truth. This is a collection that delights in the softness of every kind of love from familial to homie to culinary to romantic. But this is also a book that is hard on colonizers, and cruel billionaires, and capitalist exploitation. This book shines bright as the gold that got us into all this colonial mess. -- Nate Marshall, author of FINNAVisceral and moving -- Kate Baer, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of What Kind of WomanIn his preface, José Olivarez writes: "despite my best efforts, I am who I am". And what we see unfold through the book, who we see José is through his writing, is someone who is charting a journey of complicated love - sometimes specific, sometimes funny, sometimes cutting, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, sometimes soft, sometimes yearning - but always, love. A love built in honesty, a love built without myth or fable. This book pushes us to think beyond love as we've known it, as the overly romantic always lighthearted love that's been sold to us for generations. Instead, it shows us a map into loving at the end of the world, in isolation, in fear, when our backs are cornered to the wall. And still then, Olivarez chooses to love, to hope, to dream. This book is a necessary dream, one that is a gift to the world -- Fatimah Asghar, author of When They Come For UsThe truth is: Technically, I don't understand poetry. I never have. I miss everything in it. It's a language I can't process. And, for me anyway, that's what makes Jose special. Because when he writes poetry, I don't need to understand it - at least, not in the traditional sense - because I FEEL it. I feel his words under my fingertips like velvet. I feel his words in my chest like I'm looking at a painting that moves me in a way I can't fully explain. And, again, for me anyway, that's more important -- Shea Serrano , NYT Bestselling author of The Rap Year BookOut of Calumet City, weighing in at around 160 plus Promises of Gold, in both English and Spanish, the one that's poly with his tortillas, the masterfully playful, the uniquely imaginative, the one that bets everything he has on his people, the one, the only, José Olivarez is the undisputed Mexican champ. The cypher that straddles between dólares and dolores, this quintessential second collection has put Olivarez at the forefront of not only first generation poetics, but of all poetry, in and outside the stringent confines of academia. This one here is for us -- the ones who hide garden shears in their poems -- Javier Zamora, author of The New York Times bestselling memoir, Solito
£15.29
Little, Brown Book Group Natural Burial Ground
Book Synopsis''Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don''t make enough of'' Max PorterIn his beautiful, evocative new collection, Natural Burial Ground, Will Burns explores his deep interest in place and the natural world to excavate the emotional impact of grief and loss. Natural Burial Ground is by turns melancholy and musical, haunting and deeply empathetic, a collection that wrestles with the scope and heft of elegy, while retaining the poet''s world-weary humour and range of imagery.There is throughout a sense of ''home'' as unsettled, or unsettling - the landscapes of the Home Counties and of the Channel Islands - the very concept of islands themselves, becoming changed, haunted, in the wake of human experience.Time seeps into the soil of Natural Burial Ground. Reckoning with profound grief, and a country rife with ''Restrictions, recriminations . . .'' - the poet finds the past visible everywhere on these grounds, where pl
£10.44
John Murray Press A Length of Road
Book SynopsisA memoir about love and loss, fatherhood and masculinity, class and belonging.
£11.69
Edinburgh University Press Poetry in the Mind
Book SynopsisPoetry in the Mind is the first book-length cognitive analysis focused entirely on 21st century poetic texts and their conceptual effects. Addressing central poetic notions or features of poetic style from an innovative cognitive perspective, the book sheds new light on established ideas about poetic creativity and language.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Whiteness Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe first study to consider how Whiteness pervades and is challenged in contemporary British and US Absurdist poetry.
£81.00
Orion Publishing Co William Blake
Book Synopsis'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings' William BlakeThe best of William Blake's poems in a beautiful new gift edition
£6.99
