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Lulu.com Poems by William Cullen Bryant
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£22.28
Austin Macauley Publishers If Cows Could Fly
Book SynopsisEver seen a flying cow, a horse that knits, or an eel that rides a bike? Well, welcome in to a world where your fantasy and imagination can bring them all to life. This set of humorous poems, mainly concerning the strange things animals may get up to, are suitably illustrated by the author''s whimsical drawings.
£18.69
Austin Macauley Publishers Enter the Darkness
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Ottilie Rose A Collection of Poems
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£9.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Sun and Her Flowers
Book SynopsisRupi Kaur performs the first-ever recording of the sun and her flowers, her second #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose. This production was recorded in 2021 along with the brand-new audio edition of milk and honey and the debut audio recording of home body. Divided into five chapters, this volume is a journey through the life cycle of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.
£999.99
Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Iliad
Book SynopsisDating from around the 8th century BC, The Iliad is a prime example of an epic narrative poem and is one of Western literature''s oldest works. It tells the story of the weeks during the Trojan war when King Agamemnon and the hero warrior Achilles were at loggerheads. With dramatic flashbacks to previous events during the war and, allusions to what is to come, The Iliad provides an almost complete overview of the events of the Trojan War. Written originally in Homeric Greek, it has been translated numerous times and into many different languages.This edition features a striking graphic cover design, bringing the classic work to new readers.
£9.49
Edinburgh University Press Allegorising Thought on the Shakespearean Stage
Book SynopsisExplores Shakespeare's use of allegory as a privileged tool for making visible the inner workings of his characters' minds
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Harryette Mullen Her SilverTongued Companion
Book SynopsisThe first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day
£106.25
Edinburgh University Press Harryette Mullen Her SilverTongued Companion
£24.30
Holly McComish If Tits Could Talk
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£999.99
AuthorHouse To Feel the Song of Seasons
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£17.83
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties
Book SynopsisThis collection contains major works by some of the most important playwrights to emerge during the late fifties and early sixties, many of them collectively labelled Angry Young Men, most of them associated with the Royal Court Theatre.Trade ReviewRoots - 'it has an urgent topicality. Wesker is writing about the freedom of the mind: the lifetime challenge of thinking for yourself and shaking off the prejudices of your class' Sunday TimesTable of ContentsRoots; Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; Loot; Early Morning; The Ruling Class
£17.09
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Good Soul of Szechuan
Book SynopsisTranslated by David Harrower, this version of Brecht's parable play is based on a previously unpublished version of the play.
£13.93
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Book SynopsisA Student Edition of McDonagh's dramatic engagement with Republican paramilitaries, first produced by the RSC in 2000.
£10.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Stephens Plays 2
Book SynopsisStephens Plays: 2 brings together four major plays by this award-winning playwright from the first decade of the twenty-first century and the short play Sea Wall, frist produced at the Bush Theatre in October 2008. The collection features an introduction by the author.Trade Review'It's only half-an-hour long, but Simon Stephens's one-man play Sea Wall packs an enormous emotional punch... The ever-exciting playwright Simon Stephens...has a pitch-perfect ear for narrative and holds back crucial plot details, while spinning off both into inconsequential and amusing anecdotes and existential angst... A spellbinding reminder of the power of story-telling in all its glorious simplicity.' ' Alice Jones, Independent, 13.8.09 Sea Wall lasts only half as long at 30 minutes but, paradoxically, contains more by leaving more out...Stephens's protagonist...circles round the issues of God and bereavement but never addresses either directly for more than a second or two.' Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times, 9.8.09 'Sea Wall [is] one of the most devastating 30 minutes that you are ever likely to experience in the theatre. This monologue drenched in grief, told by a man who has lost everything, is not easy viewing: every word settles into your bones and grows cold there...The extraordinary power of Sea Wall is that it is concerned with both the domestic and the majestic. "Why" is the unspoken question that resonates around the theatre. Stephens offers no answer, but he realises that it is our need to know that makes us human.The extraordinary power of Sea Wall is that it is concerned with both the domestic and the majestic. "Why" is the unspoken question that resonates around the theatre. Stephens offers no answer, but he realises that it is our need to know that makes us human.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 12.8.09 'It's a delicate wisp of a thing, like a curl of cigarette-smoke exhaled in a moment of mournful reverie. After contact with it, sure enough, your eyes are welling up, and you're starting to choke... Stephens's writing...has a rich feel for the embarrassments, detours, short-cuts and comic self-deprecations of everyday speech.' Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph, 7.8.09 'He writes so passionately and soulfully for ordinary people who are in really difficult predicaments. People who are violent, or whatever, can have immense humanity in them as well - Simon writes about that very well.' Daniel Mays, actorTable of ContentsOne Minute; Country Music; Motortown; Pornography; Sea Wall
£29.22
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC B for Baby
Book Synopsis''It was like we were two children - two innocent children just... playing'' Mrs C wants a baby not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdresser''s scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and ''a big head of dirty auld curls''. All of them want their own place in the world. And if they can''t find it, they''ll create one of their own. The play follows B and D in the care home where they are residents, and where Mrs C is a carer, on their special - ''very fecking special'' - journey towards happiness. B for Baby is a tender, sharp-witted new play set in a residential care home for people with severe learning disabilities. Treating this taboo subject with humanity and humour, the piece''s acuity and generously compassionate portraits result in a moving, if at times uncomfortable, drama. Poignantly exploring forbidden topics, B for Baby invites the reader or audience to rediscover the power and joy of make-believe. The play was
£10.79
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Belong
Book Synopsis''Supporters keh. Forget this country. How many year have you lived here...? Your English is better than the Queen''s and they still call you...''When Kayode''s election campaign for a seat in parliament fails, the Nigerian born MP falls into a pit of depression. Angry and confused, he blames his loss on his ethnicity, despite being beaten by another black candidate. His subsequent remarks to the press force him into hiding. Disgraced and, according to his friend, ''in need of a holiday'', he returns to his native Nigeria hoping to escape politics. But here he meets his adopted brother, who is deeply involved in the corrupt politics of his homeland. Kayode''s determination to change things emerges with fierce vehemence, as he becomes dangerously involved in a political power struggle. Bola Agbaje''s satirical new play questions our notion of home. It examines what it is to be both a British and African citizen, and what happens when corruption in the two nations seems impossi
£13.93
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mudlarks
Book SynopsisMudlarks is a tragic, beautifully realised play about three young men trapped at the wrong end of the river. On the muddy banks of the Thames, downstream from the bright lights of London, three boys hide from the police after a night of recklessness. Over the course of the freezing night their fears, secrets and dreams emerge, collide and combust revealing the desperate frustration of lives barely led but already ravaged. As morning dawns, their options diminish and just two questions remain: do they have the power to determine their own fates, or are they destined to sink into the mud?Mudlarks heralds the arrival of an urgent new voice in British theatre. Essex-born Vickie Donoghue''spowerful debut exposes the culture she grew up with and sees on a daily basis. With brutal honesty she explores teenagers'' impulse to dream, and its futility in a reality that has no space for dreamers.Trade ReviewDonoghue’s remarkably accomplished play … her sharp ear for dialogue maintains a beautiful tension between comedy, tragedy and a desolate lyricism -- Jane Shilling * Telegraph *Donoghue’s small but distinctive debut play sings with promise -- Lyn Gardner * Guardian *This is a play that believes in the transporting, if not transforming power of words; its language is fluid – rough and broken then racing to an unexpected poetry. -- Griselda Murray Brown * Financial Times *
£14.21
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mess and Youre Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy
Book SynopsisMess: Josephine is putting on a play - Boris and Sistahl help. It''s about anorexia; but don''t let that put you off - they are used to the big issues - and today they will tackle a particularly thin elephant in the room. Obsessed with obsession, addiction, and not wanting to get out of bed, Mess is a play with songs from The Stage''s 2010 Best Solo Performer Award winner Caroline Horton.You''re Not Like the Other Girls, Chrissy: January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane, an eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket to England to be reunited with her fiancé. Whilst she waits, this gloriously irrepressible mademoiselle recounts the story of her love affair with Cyril, a tongue-tied English teacher from Staffordshire. You''re Not Like Other Girl''s Chrissy is a fond, comical and ultimately poignant portrait of one woman''s experience of love and war. This programme text coincides with China Plate Theatre''sTrade ReviewGathers in both charm and emotional engagement until even a hardened hack may be on the brink of tears. Winsome in all the best ways, this Horton may not be hearing a "Who?" for very long * Financial Times *A wryly self-deprecating piece -- Neil Cooper * Herald *Exquisite in its sensitivity * Scotsman *A touching insight into the cruel grip of an eating disorder and a sense of the near impossibility of curing it in anything but the most patient and painstaking way. -- Mark Fisher * Scotland on Sunday *[Mess] comes perilously close to genius and announces Horton as a major, major talent. * Time Out *Simple and heartfelt … feels like a real labour of love (on You're Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy) -- Lyn Gardner * Guardian *One of the oddest, funniest, saddest pieces of theatre I’ve seen in some time ... Mess could be worthy and unwatchable but it’s not. Rather it is informative and witty and constantly prods away at the strangeness of its subject matter ... packed with insights. -- Alice Jones * Telegraph *Table of ContentsMess You're Not Like Other Girls, Chrissy
£13.93
Pearson Education Limited The Dunciad revised first edition
Book SynopsisThe Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this authoritative edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. Accessibly presented on the same page as Pope's text are explanatory notes, written in a style adapted to the needs of undergraduate readers, but still comprehensive enough to address the interests of scholars. The many books and pamphlets to which Pope refers have been examined in detail, and the commentary takes advantage of the fifty years' scholarship on literary, bibliographical, cultural and political aspects of the period which has accumulated since James Sutherland's The Dunciad, volume five of the Twickenham Edition. A substantial introduction offers a stimulating
£36.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Complete Poems of John Donne
Book SynopsisThe Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne's output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to exercise his rhetorical capabilities according to context and occasion. This edition aims to present the text of all his known poems, from the epigrams, songs and satires written for fellow young men about town, to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. The Longman Annotated English Poets series traditionally aims to present poems in chronological order; in this edition, however, the principle has been observed only within generic sections. This organisation reproduces the manner in which Donne's original readers first encountered the poems in the various manuscripts of his elegies and satires that circulated in Donne's lifetime. Volume One contains Table of ContentsEpigramsHero and Leander Pyramus and Thisbe Niobe Naue Arsa (A Burnt Ship) Caso d’un Muro (Fall of a Wall) Zoppo (A Lame Beggar) Calez and Guyana Il Cavaliere Giovanni Wingfield A Self-accuser A Licentious Person Antiquary The Ingler Disinherited The Liar Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus Phryne An Obscure Writer Klockius Martialis Castratus (Raderus) Ralphius Ad Autorem (Joseph Scaliger) Ad Autorem (William Covell) Verse letters to Friends To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Zealously my Muse’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Muse not’) To Mr Christopher Brooke To Mr Ingram Lister(‘Of that short roll of friends’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘At once from hence’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘All hail, sweet poet’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘Pregnant again’)To my Lord of Derby To Mr Beaupré Bell (1) To Mr Beaupré Bell (2) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘Haste thee, harsh verse’) To Mr Samuel Brooke To Mr Everard Guilpin To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Kindly I envy thy song’s perfectïon’) To Mr Ingram Lister(‘Blest are your north parts’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Like one who in her third widowhead’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’) The Storm The Calm To Mr Henry Wotton(‘Here’s no more news than virtue’) To Mr Henry Wotton(‘Sir, more than kisses’) Henrico Wotton in Hibernia Belligeranti To Sir Henry Wotton at his Going Ambassador to Venice Amicissimo et meritissimo Ben. Ionson in ‘Vulponem’ To Sir Henry Goodyer To Sir Edward Herbert at Juliers Upon Mr Thomas Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ In eundem MacaroniconA Letter Written by Sir Henry Goodyer and John Donnealternis vicibus To Mr George Herbert with my Seal of the Anchor and Christ To Mr Tilman after he had Taken Orders De libro cum mutuaretur impresso, ... D. D. Andrews Love Lyrics (‘Songs and Sonnets’)Air and Angels The Anniversary The Apparition The Bait The Blossom Break of Day The Broken Heart The Canonization Community The Computation Confined Love The Curse The Damp The Dissolution The Dream The Ecstasy The Expiration Farewell to Love A Fever The Flea The Funeral The Good-morrow Image and Dream The Indifferent To a Jet Ring Sent to me Lecture upon the Shadow The Legacy Love’s All (Love’s Infiniteness) Love’s Deity Love’s Diet Love’s Exchange Love’s Usury A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day The Message Mummy (Love’s Alchemy) Negative Love The Paradox Platonic Love (The Undertaking) The Primrose The Prohibition The Relic Song: ‘Go and Catch a Falling Star’ Song: ‘Sweetest Love, I do not Go’ Spring (Love’s Growth) The Sun Rising The Triple Fool TwickenhamGarden A Valediction Forbidding Mourning A Valediction: Of my Name in the Window A Valediction: Of the Book A Valediction: Of Weeping The Will Witchcraft by a Picture Woman’s Constancy Love ElegiesThe Bracelet The Comparison The Perfume Jealousy Love’s Recusant Love’s Pupil Love’s War To his Mistress Going to Bed Change The Anagram To his Mistress on Going Abroad His Picture On Love’s Progress Autumnal SatireSatyre 1(‘Away, thou changeling, motley humorist’) Satyre 2(‘Sir, though (I thank God f 2. Annunciation 3. Nativity 4. Temple 5. Crucifying 6. Resurrection 7. Ascension To Mrs Magdalen Herbert: Of St Mary Magdalen Upon the Annunciation when Good Friday Fell upon the Same Day Sonnet: ‘Oh, to vex me’ A Litany Resurrection(imperfect) Divine Meditations 1. ‘Thou hast made me’ 2. ‘As due by many titles’ 3. ‘Oh might those sighs and tears’ 4. ‘Father, part of his double interest’ 5. ‘O my black soul!’ 6. ‘This is my play’s last scene’ 7. ‘I am a little world’ 8. ‘At the round earth’s imagined corners’ 9. ‘If poisonous minerals’ 10. ‘If faithful souls’ 11. ‘Death, be not proud’ 12. ‘Wilt thou love God’ Holy Sonnets 1. ‘As due by many titles’ 2. ‘O my black soul!’ 3. ‘This is my play’s last scene’ 4. ‘At the round earth’s imagined corners’ 5. ‘If poisonous minerals’ 6. ‘Death, be not proud’ 7. ‘Spit in my face’ 8. ‘Why are we’ 9. ‘What if this present’ 10. ‘Batter my heart’ 11. ‘Wilt thou love God’ 12. ‘Father, part of his double interest’ Verses translated for Ignatius his Conclave Good Friday: Made as I was Riding Westward that Day To Mr George Herbert with my Seal of the Anchor and Christ Sonnet: ‘Since she whom I loved’ To Christ Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney andthe Countess of Pembroke his Sister At the Seaside, going over with the Lord Doncaster into Germany, 1619 The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremellius Hymn to God my God in my Sickness Wedding Celebrations Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn An Epithalamion on the Lady Elizabeth and Frederick, Count Palatine Eclogue and Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset Verse epistles to Patronesses To Lady Bedford at New Year’s Tide To the Countess of Bedford(‘Reason’) To Mrs Magdalen Herbert(‘Mad paper, stay’) To the Countess of Bedford(‘You have refined me’) To the Countess of Bedford(‘Honour is so sublime perfection’) To the Countess of Huntingdon To the Countess of Bedford(‘To’ve written then’) To the Honourable Lady the Lady Carey To the Countess of Bedford(‘Your cabinet my tomb’) To the Countess of Bedford (begun in France) To the Countess of Salisbury CommemorationsElegy: To the Lady Bedford(‘You that are she’) An Elegy upon the Death of Lady Markham An Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Bulstrode: ‘Death, I recant’ Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode[by Lady Bedford] Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Bulstrode: ‘Language, thou art too narrow’ Elegy on Prince Henry Obsequies to the Lord Harington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford A Hymn to the Saints and Marquis of Hamilton The AnniversariesTo the Praise of the Dead and ‘The Anatomy’[by Joseph Hall] The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World A Funeral Elegy The Harbinger to the Progress[by Joseph Hall] The Second Anniversary: Of the Progress of the Soul A Probable AttributionIgnatius Loyolae _ðoèÝùóéò DubiaSappho to Philaenis The TokenVariety
£37.99
Sterling Juvenile SingleSentence Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis amusing approach to Shakespeare's classic dramas features the plot of each of the Bard's 39 plays reduced to a single descriptive sentence.
£11.69
Xlibris Spirit Songs Volume One
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£8.49
AuthorHouse Poetry Of A Divine Purpose
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£15.37
Abrams American Wildflowers A Literary Field Guide
Book SynopsisOrganized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowers—perfect for writers, artists, and botanists alike.“The collection as a whole reminds us how lucky we are to share the world with this variety of shape and color, and to open our eyes to what grows on the side of the highway, between cracks in the sidewalk, along the riverbank.” —Boston GlobeWinner of a 2023 American Horticultural Society Book AwardAmerican Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are rural writers with deep regionaTrade Review“A luminous selection of essays, poems, and letters that leap and bound through mood, time and place, with writers of every shape and form from America’s foundation years to the present day” * Financial Times *A sensitive but substantial florilegium of poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present about wildflowers and their place in this world past, present, and future . . . The collection as a whole reminds us how lucky we are to share the world with this variety of shape and color, and to open our eyes to what grows on the side of the highway, between cracks in the sidewalk, along the riverbank. * Boston Globe *“A significant addition to the tradition of writing about plants, this anthology urges us to notice the lessons offered by the tiniest bluet.” * Bookpage, *starred* review *“This anthology offers a rich compendium of classic and contemporary writings inspired by wildflowers . . . a prismatic and dynamic work.” * Publishers Weekly *
£999.99
AuthorHouse Poems Galore for You to Adore
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£18.52
AuthorHouse Lyrically Compelled
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£10.24
Digireads.com The Two Gentleman of Verona
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£999.99
Digireads.com Henry VI Part 1
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£9.36
Blue Light Press At The Edge Of Forever
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£14.95
Blue Light Press Postcards From a Dream
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£12.95
Blue Light Press An Affront to Gravity
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£15.00
Blue Light Press Falling into Flowers
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£18.95
Blue Light Press No Foothold in this Geography
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£13.95
Xlibris Us A Few Leaves
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£23.70
Xlibris A Dreamers Diary
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£23.00
Outskirts Press Sexual Freedom
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£9.45
Outskirts Press Lyrical Foreplay
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£9.31
Outskirts Press Lady Paradox
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£17.05
AuthorHouse The Blessing of Rain and Other Poems
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£19.47
Xlibris Coda
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£14.00
Xlibris Facing Erasure
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£21.85
iUniverse Fifty Confessions
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£15.50
iUniverse On the Wings of a Dove
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£15.37
Xlibris Written on Occasion of. . .
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£21.85
Xlibris Take My Hand and Walk With Me
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£21.85
Xlibris Walking in the Light
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£21.85
Xlibris The Collected Poems Of David Sanders
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£14.00
