Poetry / Poems
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Assembly of Rivals: Delhi Lucknow and the Urdu
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£36.57
Westland Publications Limited One man: two executions
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£11.24
HarperCollins India Ek Kapurush Ke Geet: Lekhan se Nirwasan Kaal ki
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£11.99
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Throb of Silence
Book SynopsisEven though the modern world mutilates and murders, it is not yet a lost hope or an ineffectual memory of the sweet past. Thamizhachiâs alternative reality of Vanapechi comes alive in poetic epiphanies.
£15.50
Juggernaut Publication Acrobat: Poems
Book SynopsisAn outstanding book of poetry Nabaneeta Dev Sen was one of the foremost Bengali writers of her generation a poet, a novelist, a scholar, a humorist, a playwright. For the first time comes a translation of her poetry into English that gathers some of the deepest, most beautiful and revealing work she ever created. These luminous poems explore the joys and agonies of first love, motherhood, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. And it shows Dev Sen a fiery feminist, formidable academic and political activist at her most human, most intimate. Stunningly translated with lightness and lyricism by her daughter Nandana Dev Sen, this radiant collection is at once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic.
£15.99
Juggernaut Publication Our Freedoms
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by prominent Indian voices reflecting on the concept of freedom in the face of challenges. The book is described as inspiring, thought-provoking, and timely.
£19.99
Sandorf Passage Closed Season
£14.60
Paramount Publishing Enterprise The Best of Anonymous Quotes
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£6.64
University Press Ltd ,Bangladesh Nightfall: A Book of Selected Poems
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£7.49
Kite Group Ltd Cain: Prose - Poetry: 2022
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£27.00
Vajra Books Castleford to Kathmandu :: Poems in progress...
Book SynopsisGreta Rana's unpublished collection of poems, inspired by personal loss and conflict, draws parallels between her hometown and Nepal. Compiled from notes found after her father's death, the poems reflect on commonalities in the two places.
£11.52
Quixote's Cove An Archive
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£9.79
Europe Books THE BALLAD OF BLOODY SUNDAY DERRY 30 JANUARY 1972
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£19.32
aP (anonymous Publishing) Goodnight Sweet Thing
Book SynopsisGoodnight Sweet Thing brings together a compelling second collection of poetry by artist and filmmaker Cristine Brache. Through concise, powerful lyricism, Brache unapologetically reconstructs her inner life. With poems about mortality, power dynamics, and constructs of the female body and psyche, Goodnight Sweet Thing introduces a fresh and distinctive voice to contemporary poetry, offering readers a complex portrait of Brache's core and vision. The book also includes her out of print debut poetry collection, Poems, previously published by Codette.
£23.75
Unbidden Tongues Unbidden Tongues 6 Reading the New York Times
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£7.46
White Goat Press From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler
Book SynopsisThe first Yiddish/English bilingual edition of one of Yiddish literature's most vital post-war poets. Born in the Ukrainian town of Haysin and raised in Crimea, Yosef Kerler was perhaps the only Yiddish poet to publish poetry written in the gulag. He would later become one of the first prominent refuseniks. This collection proves strikingly timely, with the poet's complicated relationship to his "cradle-land" echoing throughout, in poems of Ukrainian forests and folk heroes, of the Vorkuta Gulag and Babi Yar.
£19.76
Flood Editions Reveille
£19.26
Changes OSSIA
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£17.09
Changes GLIB
£19.00
HarperCollins Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain The New Poems
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart Poems for Men
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Essential Rilke
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£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Collected Poems
£15.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc XX
Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize finalist A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets—a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath’s astonishing sequence of one hundred poems—one per year—written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, XX turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin—its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.Elegiac and celebratory, deeply tragic and wickedly funny, XX is a unique collection fro
£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Chasing Utopia
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£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc LAST TROUBADOUR New and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA haunting and intimately observed new collection from David St. John, a poet of soaring imagination and passionate candor In The Last Troubadour, David St. John has given us a collection of new and selected poems of astonishing beauty, precise and keenly observed but also touched with sensuality and deep feeling. Nothing is too small to escape notice (in “Guitar” St. John reflects on the beauty of that word) or too large to be explored-the suicide of a friend, the illness of a lover, or the texture of longing and desire. A sharp observer of landscapes within and without, St. John directs his empathetic gaze and vivid, inventive voice to investigating both the darkest and the most inspiring parts of being human, the small moments between friends and lovers as well as the groundswells that alter lives. At times lyrical, sometimes conversational, occasionally wry and playful, St. John’s poetry reveals an expansive vision animated by “intimacy and subtlety, and by a disturbing force, the work of an urgent sensibility and a true ear.” (W.S. Merwin) The beauty, music, and artistry of David St. John’s widely admired work is fully on display in this masterful collection.
£14.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fast
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£13.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Civil Twilight Poems
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£13.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Come Closer and Listen New Poems
Book SynopsisAn insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets.Trade Review“Simic...has always challenged and delighted his audience with writing that is beautiful and surreal and forces people to consider the validity of their own perceptions.” — Washington Post “One of our finest poets... singularly engaging, eminently sane...” — New York Review of Books “His poetry … is comic and elegiac in equal measure. It has an Old World sensibility…that he pins to a New World lightness of heart.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times
£12.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Summer Snow
Book SynopsisA major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event.Trade Review“It all sounds like mastery, like singular virtuosity attained on a very popular instrument — common American speech.” — New York Times Book Review "Hass personalizes everything, warms everything up. He’s an open book; but he’s also someone whom readers should, in every sense of the phrase, keep their eye on." — New Yorker
£14.30
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Death of Sitting Bear
Book SynopsisSpanning nearly fifty years, the poems gathered here illuminate the human condition, Momaday’s connection to his Kiowa roots, and his spiritual relationship to the American landscape.The title poem, “The Death of Sitting Bear” is a celebration of heritage and a memorial to the great Kiowa warrior and chief.Trade Review“These are the poems of a master poet, born of an age when our ears were not so bent towards digital production. Or should I say, these are the poems of a bear who has walked through several generations and stands before us, breathing clouds into a cold dawn, bearing this book of poetry. The bear’s journey is mythic, a migration through tragedy and beauty, over lands rich with horses and stories. When you read these poems, you will learn to hear deeply the sound a soul makes as it sings about the mystery of dreaming and becoming.” — Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, U.S. Poet Laureate "An admirable capstone to a distinguished literary career, this splendid selection should be a treasure for Momaday’s readers and an excellent introduction for those new to Native American writing." — Library Journal (starred review) “Firmly steeped in Kiowa heritage and indigenous oral storytelling traditions, Momaday breathes in the spirit of the Southwest and breathes out masterful imagery onto the page. The poems beg to be read aloud in order to savor the taste of the language, each word carefully chosen to evoke shape, sound, sight, feeling and history with the weight of its intention. . . . This incredibly personal collection of poems presents deep reflections on the natural world, indigenous history and the nature of humans, animals and God.” — Shelf Awareness (starred review) "[A] generous collection . . . . each poem reflects a lifetime of writing across the intersections of history, identity, and language. This accessible compendium allows readers to savor the life's work of an unparalleled poet." — Booklist "A gem of a collection. . . . Soulful, heartfelt, beautifully constructed, and technically brilliant, this is a book written by one of our most important and unique voices." — Fjords "The single best collection of works from a master of Native letters." — TCJ Student Magazine
£12.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Uncle Shelbys Abz Book A Primer for Adults Only
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£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hell I Love Everybody The Essential James Tate
Book SynopsisAn essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, with a foreword by Terrance HayesCelebrating James Tate’s work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, “No, you can’t do that,” Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the “poet of possibilities,” and this collection records forays into possibilities for American poetry’s future. With a foreword by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers new and old a lasting collection of favorites.
£14.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Battle of Maldon
Book SynopsisThe first-ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, featuring previously unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts.In 991 AD, Vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defense-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, due to it being immortalized in the poem, The Battle of Maldon.Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as a heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship.J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon “the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy.” It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth’s retainers come to retrieve their duke’s body.Leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien’s own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is Tolkien’s bravura lecture, “The Tradition of Versification in Old English,” a wide-ranging essay on the nature of poetic tradition. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he has produced a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been “the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien’s fiction,” most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings.
£22.50
HarperCollins Stages
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£15.99
HarperCollins Good Grief
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£16.52
Penguin Publishing Group Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisThomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from his numerous collections published between 1898 and 1928.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.
£13.53
Penguin Publishing Group Medicine Penguin Poets
Book SynopsisAmy Gerstler has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new collection, Medicine, she deploys a variety of dramatic voices, spoken by such disparate characters as Cinderella's wicked sisters, the wife of a nineteenth-century naturalist, a homicide detective, and a woman who is happily married to a bear. Their elusive collectivity suggests, but never quite defines, the floating authorial presence that haunts them. Gerstler's abiding interests--in love and mourning, in science and pseudo-science, in the idea of an afterlife--are strongly evident in these new poems, which are full of strong emotion, language play, surprising twists, and a wicked sense of black humor.
£21.47
Penguin Publishing Group The Sonnets Penguin Poets
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship and love triangles, but while the former happen chronologically, Berrigan's happen in the moment, with the story buried beneath a surface of names, repetitions, and fragmented experience. Reflecting the new American sensibilities of the 1960's as well as timeless poetic themes, The Sonnets is both eclectic and classical the poems are monumental riddles worth contemplating.
£19.00
Penguin Publishing Group The Narrative Poems Revised Edition The Pelican Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 title
£11.40
Penguin Publishing Group Practical Gods
£18.90
Penguin Publishing Group Ghost Girl Penguin Poets
Book SynopsisSly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler’s new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD of Beethoven symphonies to an earthy exploration of toast. Gerstler’s abiding interests—in love and mourning, in science and pseudoscience, in the idea of an afterlife, in seances and magic—are all represented here. Entertaining and erudite, complex yet accessible, these poems will enhance Gerstler’s reputation as an important contemporary poet.
£18.95
Penguin Publishing Group As Ever Selected Poems Penguin Poets
Book SynopsisThis collection of Joanne Kyger's work reveals her as one of the major experimenters, hybridizers, and visionaries of poetry. Kyger is a poet of place, with a strong voice-delicate, graceful, and never wasteful; her poems explore themes of friendship, love, community, and morality and draw on Native American myth as well as Asian religion and philosophy. Kyger's love for poetry manifests itself in a grander scheme of consciousness-expansion and lesson, but always in the realm of the everyday. Edited with a foreword by Michael Rothenberg, and with an introduction by poet David Meltzer, this book is a marvelous overview of a wonderfully challenging and important poet.
£20.90
Penguin Publishing Group Wind in a Box
£21.47
Penguin Publishing Group Burn Lake
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£21.47
Penguin Publishing Group Culture of One Poets Penguin
Book SynopsisA new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert. Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a culture of one. The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. Culture of One offers further proof of how Notley has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be (The Boston Review).
£18.85
Penguin Random House Group A Woman of Property
£21.47
Penguin Putnam Inc Mesopotopia
£14.52
