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Aurora Metro Publications Judgement
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Poetry Wales Press Beware Falling Tortoises
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£5.60
BOA Editions Quilting
Book SynopsisBrilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton''s personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
£12.34
Ivan R. Dee Six Characters in Search of an Author Plays For
Book SynopsisRobert Brustein's highly acclaimed adaptation of Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality which follows a group of characters who try to fashion their life stories into acceptable drama. Plays for Performance Series.Trade ReviewIngenious...a striking re-imagining of Six Characters that heightens the play's theatricality even as it grounds it in the mundane.... It keeps faith with Pirandello's case for the peculiarly irresistible power of illusion. * The New York Times *
£10.24
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Hippolytus
Book SynopsisThis is an English translation of Euripides'' tragedy Hippolytus about how Phaedra unsuccessfully fights her desire for Hippolytus, while he risks his life to keep her passion secret. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays. No play of Euripides is more admired than Hippolytus. The tale of a married woman stirred to passion for a younger man was traditional, but Euripides modified this story and blended it with one of divine vengeance to create a masterpiece of tension, pathos, and dramatic power. In this play, Phaedra fights nobly but unsuccessfully against her desire for her stepson Hippolytus, while the young man risks his life to keep her passion secret. Both of them, constrained by the overwhelming force of divine power and human ignorance, choose to die in order to maintain their virtue and their good names.
£12.34
Crocus Books So
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£9.45
Mantle Community Arts Ltd The Geometry of Distance
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£6.07
Flapjack Press Planet Young
Book SynopsisGerry Potter's first collection of domestic/fantastic theatre-verse. Biographical, confessional and rich with spell-weaving imagery, Planet Young is a magical history tour, thrusting you forever forward through Liverpool's Scottie Road before brake-slamming and horn-pounding into a wider world.Trade ReviewPraise for the author: "Enormous talent." Gay Times; "A compelling advocate." The Independent; "Enviable panache and style." Angela Heslop, BBC Radio; "Everything poetry should be, and all too often isn't." Time Out; "A comrade in words - and what a comrade." Rosie Garland, poet & author; "Gerry is about intelligence and argument and politics and protest. So must we all be." Roger Hill, broadcaster & writer; "Intelligent, humane and searching poetry that makes us all ask who we are and who we want to be." Dr Jo Bell, National Poetry Day Director
£9.50
The Poetry Translation Centre Poems
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£5.63
Salmon Poetry Cohort
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£9.50
Smokestack Books Espada M His Hands Were Gentle Selected Lyrics of
Book SynopsisHis Hands Were Gentle brings together, for the first time in both Spanish and English, the best of Víctor Jara''s lyrics, from early songs like ''El arado'' (''The Plow'') to ''Estadio Chile'' (''In the Stadium''), written in the hours before his execution. With a Preface by the actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson. Click on Extracts above to read the Preface in full, for free.For me, Victor was everything an activist-musician should be. Emma Thompson As long as we sing his songs, as long as his courage can inspire us to greater courage, Víctor Jara will never die. Pete Seeger, American folk-singer Víctor Jara (1932-73) was a legendary Chilean singer, songwriter, guitarist and theatre director. A leader of the New Song Movement, in the aftermath of the military coup of 1973, Jara was arrested, imprisoned and executed. Martín Espada has published more than fifteen books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including the poetry collection Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas (Smokestack, 2008).
£8.50
Lautus Press At Home
Book SynopsisA collection of poems by well-known and some less well-known poets, in which we invite people to share in the familiarity and security of being At Home, with some black and white illustrations.Table of ContentsIt is a collection of over 60 poems by poets as wide ranging as Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Margaret Atwood, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay, Esther Morgan, Hugo Williams and Pablo Neruda. And there are about twenty-five beautiful wood engravings by artists including Howard Phipps, Anne Hayward, Anita Klein, John O’Connor and Miriam Macgregor.
£9.50
CB Editions At Maldon
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£8.54
The Poetry Translation Centre HistoryGeography
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£6.00
Ron Papandrea Spinning Spider Haiku of Ron Papandrea
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£10.28
Lost Horse Press 88 Maps
Book Synopsis88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4th full-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around in the New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's about the times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and laughing and telling stories. And it's about looking at all our real and figurative cul-de-sacs and saying no. It's a collection of praise songs, mini-essays, challenges to rampant development and the injustice of market-crashed home foreclosures, and narratives commemorating the last best places, and 21st century fables.
£15.15
Smokestack Books Romiosini
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Colenso Books The fruitful discontent of the word a further
Book SynopsisA selection of mainly late poems by Lawrence Durrell which were not included in COLLECTED POEMS 1931-1974, but appeared only in prose works and have not been collected before. Poems drawn from SPIRIT OF PLACE, SICILIAN CAROUSEL, THE AVIGNON QUINTET and CAESAR'S VAST GHOST. Edited by Peter Baldwin.
£10.00
Flapjack Press As in Judy
Book SynopsisBehind the scenes in the life and mind of the award-winning poet, novelist, groundbreaking performance artist and singer with The March Violets, Rosie Garland (as in Judy). Adult poetry / LGBT+Trade Review"A national treasure." - Dead Good Poets Society
£8.00
Flapjack Press Vaudavillain
Book SynopsisVaudavillain is the first time punk poet Thick Richard's words have been securely trapped in a book - a cornucopia of political and personal vitriol, acerbic humour and points well-made. Illustrated throughout by the author. His words are rattling and brilliant and shoot life back at you in all its futility and chaos and wonder. - Kate Tempest
£9.49
Chronos Publishing A Perfect Little Gift
Book SynopsisA selection of poetry and prose from 50 years of writing. A unique, observational view of life in a quirky and sometimes whimsical manner. Here Tony gives us a brief glimpse into his mind and the humour that shapes his life as he shares his deepest thoughts, loves and fears.Looking at life, death and love in his own special way, Tony has captured his own personal journey and those who have inspired him to write in this summary of half a century.
£6.99
Banipal Books A Boat to Lesbos And Other Poems
Book SynopsisA Boat to Lesbos, by Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah, was written as Syrian refugees endured frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages they suffered, seen through the eye of history, the poetry of Sappho and the travels of Odysseus.
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Smokestack Books Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio
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Cambridge University Press AntiRacist Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis Element argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. It advances teaching Shakespeare through race and anti-racism in order to expose students to the unequal structures of power and domination that are systemically reproduced within society, culture, academic disciplines, and classrooms.Table of Contents1. Why an Anti-Racist Shakespeare?; 2. Shakespeare's Racial Invisibility; 3. Conceptualizing and Designing an Anti-Racist Shakespeare Course; 4. Building Shakespearean Communities; 5. The Salience of Shakespeare; 6. The Ongoing Work of Anti-Racist Shakespeares.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press Creative Classical Translation
Book SynopsisThis Element surveys transmissions of ancient Greek and Latin texts into anglophone literatures. Creativity through translation is a defining feature. It explores numerous textual manifestations and reasons for invention, along with integrations of thinking on classical translation over the centuries, helping shape present-day translation studies.Table of Contents1. By way of the classics; 2. Conductors of homer; 3. American arrangements; 4. Paratextual possessions; References.
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Cambridge University Press Intertextuality in Plinys Epistles
Book SynopsisEssential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality, in the generic enrichment of Latin epistolography and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. The book also serves as an advanced introduction to Latin prose poetics.Table of ContentsIntroduction Margot Neger and Spyridon Tzounakas; Part I. Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Pliny's Letters: 1. Pliny, Man of Many Parts (Lucretius, Cicero, Valerius Maximus, Tacitus) Christopher Whitton; 2. Intertextuality in Pliny Epistles 6 Roy Gibson; 3. Discourses of Authority in Pliny, Epistles 10 Alice König; Part II. Models and Anti-Models: Pliny's Interaction with Oratory and Natural History; 4. Oratorical Speeches and the Political Elite in the Regulus Cycle Matthew Mordue; 5. Again on Corinthian Bronzes and Vases and on the Use of Cicero's Verrine Orations in Pliny's Works Stefano Rocchi; 6. The Elder Pliny as source of inspiration: Pliny the Younger's reception of the Naturalis Historia and his uncle's writing by the light of a lamp (lucubratio) Judith Hindermann; Part III. Pliny and Seneca: Discourses of Grief and Posthumous Reputation; 7. Pliny's Seneca and the Intertextuality of Grief Michael Hanaghan; 8. Intertextuality and Posthumous Reputation in Pliny's Letter on the Death of Silius Italicus (Plin. Ep. 3.7) Spyridon Tzounakas; Part IV. Pliny's Villas and their Poetic Models: 9. The Villa and the Monument: Horace in Plin. Ep. 1.3 Alberto Canobbio; 10. The Villas of Pliny and Statius Christopher Chinn; Part V. Pliny Turns Nasty: Satire and the Scoptic Tradition; 11. A Busy Day in Rome: Pliny Ep. 1.9 Satirized by Horace Sat. 1.9 Ábel Tamás; 12. Putting Pallas out of Context: Pliny on the Roman Senate voting Honours to a Freedman (Ep. 7.29 and 8.6) Jakub Pigoń; 13. Risus et indignatio: Scoptic Elements in Pliny's Letters Margot Neger; Part VI. Final Thoughts: Discourses of Representation and Reproduction; 14. Pliny's Calpurnia: Filiation, Imitation, Allusion Ilaria Marchesi.
£80.75
Cambridge University Press Playwriting Dramaturgy and Space
Book SynopsisThis Element presents the work of Caryl Churchill, Naomi Iizuka, and Sarah Ruhl as exemplary of the way text-based theatre, both its scripts and productions, now creates and expects a spatialized imaginary and demonstrates the potentials of text-based theatre in an increasingly visual and spatial field of cultural production.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Scene: Plays and Playwrights; 1. Playwriting and Space; 2. Caryl Churchill: Shapeshifting and Superimposition; 3. Naomi Iizuka: Simultaneity and Permeability; 4. Sarah Ruhl: Layering and Flight; 5. Form and Tradition; References.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press Sparta
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Section A: Sparta from contemporary Spartan poetry; 2. Section B: historical inscriptions relating to Sparta; 3. Section C: Sparta in religion and religious festivals; 4. Section D: Spartan institutions in theory; 5. Section E: Spartan institutions in practice. 6. Section F: the Spartan mirage; 7. Section G: contemporary Athenian views of Sparta; 8. Section H: an historical overview; 9. Section K: Sparta and Lakonia.
£19.99
Cambridge University Press The Age of Augustus
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of ContentsPart I. By Sources: 1. Res Gestae Divi Augusti; 2. List of consuls, 31 BC to AD 14; 3. The calendars; 4. Livy; 5. Velleius Paterculus; 6. Tacitus; 7. Augustan poetry; Part II. By Themes: 8. Triumvate to principate; 9. Imperial family; 10. Rome and Italy; 11. Religion; 12. Administration of empire; 13. War and expansion; 14. Conspiracies, scandals, free speech; 15. Maecenas and the arts; 16. Social legislation; 17. Augustan society.
£21.99
Cambridge University Press The Athenian Empire
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of ContentsPart I. The Story of Empire: 1. The formation of the Delian League; 2. The growth, development and changing nature of the Delian League; 3. The Empire from c. 450 to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War; 4. The state of the Empire at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War; 5. Athens and her Empire during the Arkhidamian War; 6. From the Peace of Nikias to the end of the Empire; Part II. An Institutional Survey of the Empire; 7. Tribute (184-97); 8. Other obligations imposed on all allies (198-206); 9. Athenian interference with individual allies (207-34); 10. The benefits of empire for individuals (235-43); 11. Fourth-century retrospectives on the Athenian Empire (244-6).
£15.99
Cambridge University Press Dantes Divine Comedy
Book SynopsisThis essential guide to reading Dante reveals the originality and power of the language of the Divine Comedy. It will enlighten and equip those already familiar with the poem, as well as those approaching it for the first time.
£24.69
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre History
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£21.85
LEGARE STREET PR What is History
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Creative Media Partners, LLC What is History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds
Book SynopsisShakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare's canon. While many of Shakespeare's plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews direct engagement with the religion and its people. This erasure is striking given the popularity of this topic in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. By exploring the limited ways in which Shakespeare uses Islamic and Muslim tropes and topoi, Ambereen Dadabhoy argues that Islam and Muslim cultures function as an alternate or shadow text in his works, ranging from his staged Mediterranean plays to his histories and comedies. By consigning the diverse cultures of the Islamic regimes that occupied and populated the early modern Mediterranean, Shakespeare constructs a Europe and Mediterranean freed from the presence of non-white, non-European, and non-Christian Others, which belied the reality of the world in which he
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Taylor & Francis Authors and Art Movements of the Twentieth
Book SynopsisThis book explores the great influence of twentieth-century artists and art movements on many major writers of the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on four seminal writers who were strongly influenced by very different movements: they are Gertrude Stein and Cubism, William S. Burroughs and Dada, J. G. Ballard and Surrealism, and Douglas Coupland and Pop Art. For these authors the presence and influence of these art movements is not limited to a small cluster of texts, but can be felt much more expansively across their work, infiltrating all manner of multifarious and complex dimensions. These authors are all keen to explore new methods of shifting the signature styles and forms of visual art into the literary world. Alongside these more overt methods of artistic transposition, the authors also often demonstrate a deep philosophical affinity with their chosen movements. This book uproots and examines these kinds of artistic engagements, and also explores the authorsâ own p
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Poems of Lord Byron
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Taylor & Francis Shakespeareâs First Folio Cue Scripts â Romances
Book SynopsisOpening up a new window to see Shakespeareâs words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Romances and Histories in Shakespeareâs First Folio.The book invites readers to approach Shakespeareâs texts the way his actors would have â not studying the complete text and drawing conclusions from it, but working from a Cue Script, where all the lines for a particular character are written, with just a two- or three-word cue as to when they should speak. As an actor himself, Shakespeare knew that his actors would have little time to do more than learn their lines for the next imminent performance â for this reason, he placed in the first lines of every Cue Script a range of crucial information on the characterâs motives and intentions. Studying the cues and following the playwrightâs clues opens up a whole new understanding of the roles, and provides a way of approaching a play that is authentic,
£34.19
Routledge Essays on the Glass Menagerie
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Taylor & Francis Toxic Masculinity on the London Stage 16001610
Book SynopsisThe idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first-century notion, but similar concerns about male behaviour, also often characterised in terms of poisons and poisoning, can be identified in the literature of four hundred years ago, not only in Shakespeareâs Othello and The Winterâs Tale but also lesser-known plays that were popular on the London stage in the 1600s. Poison-related tropes, and the recurrent plot device of a man trying to poison a woman, expressed complex and sometimes contradictory attitudes towards socially unacceptable male behaviour. These plays depict the early modern male as both poisoned and poisoner â poisoned by inherited misogynistic ideas and attitudes, and poisoner of women both literally and metaphorically. Seeing them as enacting problematic situations and raising difficult questions rather than simply offering the moral certitudes of Christianity or the prescriptions of contemporary conduct book, the book points to these plays as evidence of disquiet and anxieties to which we can still easily relate today. The fact that some plays responded to real life events such as familicide is an indicator of this socially responsible role of the theatre, engaging its audience in current issues and controversies. The use of the poison theme in relation to male violence and misogyny shows that the early modern theatre was engaging with such intractable problems in ways that are still thought-provoking today.
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Pan Macmillan Wound is the Origin of Wonder
Book SynopsisI can’t undo all I have done to myself,what I have let an appetite for love do to me.I have wanted all the world, its beautiesand its injuries; some days,I think that is punishment enough.Maya C. Popa's poems explore the capacity of wonder to reawaken our appetite for the world, at a time that is fraught with the threat of endings, engaging lucidly with the most profound questions we face in our collective responsibilities and our relations with each other.She writes with love and wonder of a world poised at a perilous moment: “My children, will they exist by the time / it’s irreversible?” she asks. “Will they live / astonished at the thought of ice / not pulled from the mouth of a machine?” Popa takes seriously the poet’s duty to pay attention, to seek what Seamus Heaney called “the images... adequate to our predicament”.To read her poems is to pause again and again aTrade ReviewWhitman declared ‘what I assume you shall assume’ and Popa’s audacious reply is to transcend deadlock and reveal beauty wherever her gently subversive lyric freely wanders, with phrases freshly minted in lines whose intensity is as impactful and affirmative as lived experience. -- Daljit NagraBeautiful, musical, imaginative and blink-back playful poems. A very original voice in real lyric conversation with the self, with the other, with life and the creaturely world. A joy of a book. -- Ruth PadelMaya C. Popa’s new book is an astonishment. In ravishing, formally exploratory poems, Popa wields the lyric like a reparative scalpel, evoking wonder and woundedness in equal measure . . . Wound is the Origin of Wonder reflects to us our own historical moment with unusual clarity, even as its lyric exploration of psychic and social landscapes stand outside of time. -- Meghan O'Rourke''Wound Is the Origin of Wonder is stunning for how it miraculously balances tenderness and terror, poems of hovering anxiety and longing that also allow themselves to be turned toward pleasure. I am now, as always, thankful for poems that balance the fullness of the human experience. Maya C. Popa has done that here.' -- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of The Little Devil in America 'I am stuck in an almost life, / in an almost time,’ Maya C. Popa writes in the titular poem from Wound Is the Origin of Wonder. Suspended in the uncanny amber of such a time, such a place, we readers encounter ourselves, endlessly reprocessing our own pasts and worrying our futures as the vast roiling moment corrodes both. Still, Popa insists upon, if not hope exactly, then a world beyond the hopelessness this one inspires: ‘There are still things that cannot be imagined.’ Wound Is the Origin of Wonder is a complex, searching collection, one I will be returning to for years.' -- Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell '"Dear Life," the opening poem of Maya C. Popa’s stunning Wound Is the Origin of Wonder, is worth the price of entry on its own. If I’d stopped there, this book would have given me more than I’d hoped for, but who could stop? Each poem, every single one, startled me with its precision and clarity. At times I gasped. Of course wonder is related to wound, awe to pain, and ‘every bright thing has at its heart a hiddenness / it offers when you’ve just about stopped looking.’ So we keep looking. We keep going. When I reached the end of this book, I wasn’t ready for its spell to be broken, not yet, so I began it again. -- Maggie Smith, author of Goldenrod 'Wound is the Origin of Wonder showcases Popa’s ability to weave together rich internal reflections with finely wrought observations of the natural world. True to its title, Popa’s collection traces the titular emotion all the way back to its origins, shedding light on the wound so that we may look with wonder on the fuller picture that emerges' * Harvard Review *'In Wound Is the Origin of Wonder, Popa's elegant and moving exploration of grief and its causes and manifestations is more nuanced than simply observing that loss and living go hand-in-hand.' * New York Journal of Books *'Subtle and gorgeous... The ecstatic language of these meditations and confessions is animated as much by pain as by joy.' * Publishers Weekly *A reader will leave these poems hungry with the desire to see, to notice wildly – not only as a writer, but as a human being. * Mslexia *
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Pan Macmillan Musical Tables
Book SynopsisFrom the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a collection of more than 125 small, incisively brilliant poems which, in his own words, “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.”Trade Review'America's favourite poet' * Wall Street Journal *‘Billy Collins’ medium is a rare amalgam of accessibility and intelligence. I’d follow this man’s mind anywhere. Expect to be surprised’ -- Michael DonaghyBilly Collins 'puts the "fun" back in profundity' -- Alice Fulton'Chatty, witty, wholly dependable' * Guardian *'Collins remains the most companionable of poetic companions' * The New York Times *'The treat of treats. Unlike the wedding guest waylaid by Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, the reader emerges from encounters with Collins as a wiser and far happier person.' * New Statesman *'A writer . . . fully aware of his work’s power to delight' * The New York Times *‘A poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace’ * New Yorker *‘Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world’ -- Carol Ann Duffy‘Delightfully direct, he won’t lose you in his lyricism but will transport you to a better place’ * The Times *‘The most popular poet in America’ * The New York Times *‘Billy Collins writes lovely poems . . . Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides’ -- John Updike‘Smart, his strings tuned and resonant, his wonderful eye looping over the things, events and ideas of the world, rueful, playful, warm voiced, easy to love’ -- E. Annie Prolux'Imaginative thinking gives this collection its richness.... The work also shows a variety of styles...[that] provide both pleasure and a vivid example of how one's thoughts, when unrestrained, can lead to unexpected destinations' * The Washington Post *‘Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure’ -- Nick Laird
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Austin Macauley Publishers Before Hope Dies
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Forever Child
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Austin Macauley Publishers Cosmic Love
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Austin Macauley Publishers Poems of Life and Love
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Austin Macauley Publishers Monsters
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Austin Macauley Publishers Longwinded
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