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Jantar Publishing Ltd We Were Here
Book SynopsisPoetry from the front lines of the Ukrainian-Russian war
£14.25
Crumps Barn Studio Some things to laugh, cry or talk about
Book Synopsis"We are told there was a time when men were men and women were women You know men dressed in bowler hats or whatever hats of their choice And fine suits And the ladies too, along with their fine modest dresses No hair out of place ..." From genteel ladies and gentlemen sipping tea, to defiant expressions of independence, this is a complete and entertaining examination of one woman's search for the perfect relationship The fifth brilliant prose poetry collection from Beverley GordonTrade Review'I wanted to savour every word and pace my way through, but I couldn't put it down' -- READER REVIEW; 'Finds a way to the deepest corner of the heart' -- READER REVIEW; 'Could not put it down the poems are beautifully written ... really touched me. 5 stars this is a poetry book I will keep for life' -- Emma Fitzgerald, book reviewer
£7.59
And Other Stories Autobiography of Death
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation PrizeI thought to myself that I needed to sing death, perform a rite for death, write death, then bid farewell to it. The way to send death away was to sing with my own death all the death in the sky and on the ground.'The title section of Kim Hyesoon's visceral Autobiography of Death consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea's violent contemporary history, but also unveil what Kim calls the structure of death, that we remain living in'. Autobiography of Death at once re-enacts trauma and narrates death how we die and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors, the plural you' speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with Face of Rhythm', a poem about individual pain, illness, and meditation.
£13.49
Nine Arches Press Life expectancy begins to fall
Book SynopsisIs your retirement plan dying in the climate wars? Are you getting on with things in the meantime? Life expectancy begins to fall is a book of poems about how it feels to normalise an apocalypse. It is not a call to arms, it is a poet's book about the weight we all carry uncompromisingly curious, emotional and authentic.
£10.79
The Conrad Press Words are Friends
Book SynopsisA poetry collection
£10.44
Northside House Limited Cedar
Book SynopsisCedar: A Captivating Verse-Documentary Unveiling the Modern Lebanese Experience Delve into the tapestry of the modern and contemporary Lebanese experience with Cedar by Omar Sabbagh.
£10.79
The Conrad Press Roots
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£10.44
Smokestack Books Eating Thistles
Book Synopsis
£7.59
W. W. Norton & Company Enormous Morning
£21.84
Andrews McMeel Publishing The Book of Healing: Selected Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisFrom bestselling author, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian comes a collectible treasury of her most beloved poetry and prose. Selected by the author and organized by topic, the pieces in this collection address themes such as letting go, understanding self-worth, and stepping into your own power.Perfect for readers looking to overcome pain, heal from trauma, and rebuild a strong sense of self, The Book of Healing contains Najwa’s favorite pieces from her three bestselling books—Mind Platter, The Nectar of Pain, and Sparks of Phoenix.Beautifully packaged with foil-stamping and a ribbon marker, this gift-worthy selection of poems gets straight to the heart of Najwa’s message. A keepsake or a broad introduction, The Book of Healing is a worthy companion for anyone looking to cultivate emotional resilience.
£14.39
Alma Books Ltd The Canterbury Tales: Fully Annotated Edition:
Book SynopsisAssembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper. The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and deception of `The Miller's Tale' and the story of chivalry and courtly romance told by the Franklin. Unfinished at the time of his death, The Canterbury Tales are here presented in their original Middle-English. This edition contains a wealth of material and over 3,000 notes which will help all students of Chaucer's masterpiece.Trade Review…that I may dare, in wayfaring To stammer where old Chaucer used to sing. -- John Keats, Endymion
£7.59
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Staying Alive
Book SynopsisStaying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times, whether for consolation in loss or affirmation in love, or when facing other extremes and anxieties. Staying Alive includes many of the great modern love poems and elegies, but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle, taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems. A strong poem is not just for crisis. Such a poem is there for all times, helping us face or embrace daily change and disruption. It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening, when the poem's importance is in helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry. It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing. The first in a series, Staying Alive was followed by a sequel, Being Alive (2004), a companion anthology, Being Human (2011), and by a fourth volume, Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive (2020). These anthologies have been welcomed not only by poets but by a wide range of well-known people respected for their work in fields other than poetry – all avid readers of poetry. They want to recommend these books above all other anthologies of contemporary poetry.Trade Review‘These poems distil the human heart as nothing else… Staying Alive celebrates the point of poetry. It’s invigorating and makes me proud of being human’ – Jane Campion ‘Truly startling and powerful poems’ – Mia Farrow ‘Staying Alive is a blessing of a book. The title says it all. I have long waited for just this kind of setting down of poems - and the way they work together is wonderful - all come together to talk at the same table. Has there ever been such a passionate anthology? These are poems that hunt you down with the solace of their recognition' – Anne Michaels ‘Staying Alive is a book which leaves those who have read or heard a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive’ – John Berger ‘Staying Alive is a magnificent anthology. The last time I was so excited, engaged and enthralled by a collection of poems was when I first encountered The Rattle Bag. I can’t think of any other anthology that casts its net so widely, or one that has introduced me to so many vivid and memorable poems’ – Philip Pullman ‘Usually if you say a book is “inspirational” that means it’s New Agey and soft at the center. This astonishingly rich anthology, by contrast, shows that what is edgy, authentic and provocative can also awaken the spirit and make its readers quick with consciousness. In these pages I discovered many new writers, and I’ve decided I’m now in love with our troublesome epoch if it can produce poems of such genius’ – Edmund White ‘A vibrant, brilliantly diverse anthology of poems to delight the mind, heart and soul. A book for people who know they love poetry, and for people who think they don’t’ – Helen Dunmore 'Staying Alive is a wonderful testament to Neil Astley's liftetime in poetry, and to the range and courage of his taste. It's also, of course, a testament to poetry itself: to its powers to engross and move us, to its ability to challenge and brace us, and to its exultation. Everyone who cares about poetry should own this book.' - Andrew Motion ‘When you choose your book for Desert Island Discs, this should be it. Staying Alive proves that poetry is the most sustaining and life-affirming of literary forms. A triumph’ – Helena KennedyTable of ContentsVarious 18 Poets on poetry Neil Astley 19 Introduction Mary Oliver 28 Wild Geese 1 Body and soul Denise Levertov 31 Living Andrew Greig 31 Orkney / This Life Alistair Elliot 32 Northern Morning Raymond Carver 33 Happiness James Merrill 33 My Father’s Irish Setters Vernon Scannell 35 Legs Lucille Clifton 36 homage to my hips Gwen Harwood 36 Naked Vision Thom Gunn 37 The Hug Tess Gallagher 38 The Hug Elizabeth Bishop 39 Chemin de Fer Alden Nowlan 40 He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded Les Murray 41 An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Michael Longley 43 A Prayer Carol Ann Duffy 43 Prayer Czesław Miłosz 44 Encounter Rainer Maria Rilke 44 from The Tenth Duino Elegy Denise Levertov 45 Variation on a Theme by Rilke Gjertrud Schnackenberg 46 from A Gilded Lapse of Time Kevin Hart 47 Dark Angel Nina Cassian 48 Temptation Sylvia Plath 48 Poppies in October Osip Mandelstam 49 ‘Eyesight of Wasps’ David Constantine 49 The Wasps Charles Simic 50 The Old World Robert Bly 50 Watering the Horse Chase Twichell 51 Saint Animal Carol Rumens 51 Jarrow Stephen Dobyns 52 Where We Are 2 Roads and journeys Robert Frost 55 The Road Not Taken James K. Baxter 55 The Bay Elizabeth Garrett 56 Tyranny of Choice Stevie Smith 57 Not Waving but Drowning Simon Armitage 57 Poem Carl Sandburg 58 Choose Vladimír Holan 58 Meeting in a Lift E.E. Cummings 58 ‘i thank You God for most this amazing’ Dennis O’Driscoll 59 You Brendan Kennelly 60 Begin Louis MacNeice 60 Entirely Adrienne Rich 61 Integrity Galway Kinnell 63 The Bear Delmore Schwartz 66 The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me John Berryman 67 from Dream Songs Tracey Herd 67 from Some mangled dream songs for Henry Freda Downie 68 Window Miroslav Holub 69 The door Kapka Kassabova 70 The Door Robert Frost 71 Directive Gillian Allnutt 72 The Road Home Robert Frost 73 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Louis MacNeice 74 Snow Paul Muldoon 74 History Maura Dooley 75 History Vladimír Holan 75 Snow Lawrence Sail 76 The Cablecar Galway Kinnell 77 That Silent Evening Mary Oliver 78 The Journey Helen Dunmore 79 When You’ve Got Muriel Rukeyser 80 Yes Stephen Dunn 81 Happiness Michael Donaghy 81 Machines Tomas Tranströmer 82 Alone Menna Elfyn 83 Couplings William Stafford 84 Traveling through the Dark John Burnside 84 Penitence W.N. Herbert 86 Slow Animals Crossing Elizabeth Bishop 87 The Moose Thomas Lux 92 Wife Hits Moose 3 Dead or alive Jaan Kaplinski 95 ‘To eat a pie and to have it…’ Louise Glück 95 Trillium Elizabeth Daryush 96 ‘I saw the daughter of the sun…’ Frieda Hughes 97 Stonepicker Marin Sorescu 97 The Arrow Christopher Logue 98 Be Not Too Hard Charles Simic 99 Modern Sorcery Vona Groarke 99 Tonight of Yesterday Hayden Carruth 100 Sonnet James Wright 100 Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm William Empson 101 Missing Dates Weldon Kees 101 Villanelle Gjertrud Schnackenberg 102 Signs Galway Kinnell 103 from When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone Brendan Kennelly 103 My Dark Fathers Kit Wright 104 Hoping It Might Be So Charles Wright 105 Clear Night Robert Bly 106 Defeated Theodore Roethke 106 The Waking Kapka Kassabova 107 Mirages Eibhlín Nic Eochaidh 108 How to kill a living thing Anne Michaels 109 from Sublimation Chase Twichell 110 Horse Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 111 Swineherd Kathleen Jamie 111 The way we live Connie Bensley 112 Apologia Rosemary Tonks 113 Addiction to an Old Mattress Fleur Adcock 113 Things Elma Mitchell 114 Thoughts After Ruskin Elizabeth Bartlett 115 Themes for Women Maura Dooley 116 What Every Woman Should Carry Ruth Fainlight 116 Handbag Jenny Joseph 117 Warning Theodore Roethke 117 Dolor Elizabeth Bishop 118 One Art Louise Glück 119 Lamium May Sarton 119 A Glass of Water Stephen Dunn 120 Sadness Stephen Dunn 121 Sweetness Alden Nowlan 122 The Execution James Wright 123 A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack Bertolt Brecht 124 Epistle on Suicide Stevie Smith 124 Harold’s Leap Anne Sexton 125 Her Kind Tracey Herd 126 Anne Sexton’s Last Letter to God Robert Frost 128 My November Guest Edward Thomas 128 She Dotes R.S. Thomas 129 The Cry Vachel Lindsay 130 The Leaden-Eyed Ezra Pound 130 And the Days Are Not Full Enough Douglas Dunn 130 A Removal from Terry Street 4 Bittersweet Matthew Sweeney 133 Tube Ride to Martha’s Peter Reading 133 from Ukulele Music Ken Smith 135 Against the grain Wislawa Szymborska 135 The One Twenty Pub Izet Sarajlic 137 Luck in Sarajevo Michael Longley 137 All of These People Muriel Rukeyser 138 Waking This Morning Douglas Dunn 138 I Am a Cameraman Philip Gross 140 from The Wasting Game Leontia Flynn 143 Brinkwomanship Ken Smith 144 Here U.A. Fanthorpe 144 The Unprofessionals Stewart Conn 145 Visiting Hour Carole Satyamurti 145 from Changing the Subject Nick Drake 150 The Cure Charles Simic 150 Past-Lives Therapy Adrienne Rich 151 Diving into the Wreck Richard Wilbur 153 April 5, 1974 Michael Longley 154 At Poll Salach Edward Thomas 154 Thaw Michael Longley 154 Thaw Fleur Adcock 155 Kissing Leland Bardwell 155 How my true love and I lay without touching Basil Bunting 156 ‘You idiot!…’ Randall Jarrell 157 90 North E.J. Scovell 158 Listening to Collared Doves David Constantine 159 Watching for Dolphins Jo Shapcott 160 Goat Peter Didsbury 161 The Drainage Helen Dunmore 162 Three Ways of Recovering a Body Ted Hughes 163 Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days Sylvia Plath 164 Mushrooms Derek Mahon 166 A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford John Burnside 167 Unwittingly 5 Growing up Ken Smith 171 Being the third song of Urias Sujata Bhatt 172 White Asparagus Alden Nowlan 173 It’s Good To Be Here Kathleen Jamie 174 Ultrasound Helen Dunmore 178 Safe period Kona Macphee 178 IVF Jane Duran 180 Miscarriage Maura Dooley 181 Freight Sharon Olds 181 First Birth Sharon Olds 182 Her First Week Anne Stevenson 183 The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument Gavin Ewart 184 Sonnet: How Life Too Is Sentimental Anne Stevenson 184 Poem for a Daughter Ellen Bryant Voigt 185 Daughter Adrian Mitchell 186 Beattie Is Three W.D. Snodgrass 186 from Heart’s Needle Gjertrud Schnackenberg 191 Supernatural Love Brendan Kennelly 193 Poem from a Three Year Old Roger McGough 194 Cinders Kenneth Rexroth 195 A Sword in a Cloud of Light János Pilinszky 197 On the Back of a Photograph Fleur Adcock 197 The Video P.K. Page 197 Young Girls Adrian Mitchell 198 A Puppy Called Puberty Adrian Mitchell 199 A Dog Called Elderly Paul Muldoon 199 Cuba Michael Donaghy 200 My Flu Charles Simic 201 ‘We were so poor…’ Robert Hayden 201 Those Winter Sundays Julia Copus 202 The Back Seat of My Mother’s Car Louise Glück 203 Mirror Image Sylvia Plath 203 Mirror Anne Carson 204 Father’s Old Blue Cardigan Philip Larkin 205 This Be the Verse Caitríona O’Reilly 205 Possession Randall Jarrell 206 A Night with Lions Joseph Brodsky 207 from A Part of Speech Edward Thomas 209 Old Man Randall Jarrell 211 Thinking of the Lost World Paul Muldoon 213 Quoof Hart Crane 214 Forgetfulness Billy Collins 214 Forgetfulness W.S. Merwin 215 Unknown Forbear David Scott 216 Groundsmen 6 Man and beast Les Murray 218 Pigs Dennis O’Driscoll 218 Experimental Animals Alden Nowlan 219 Weakness Stephen Dobyns 220 Spiritual Chickens James Dickey 221 The Heaven of Animals Nina Cassian 222 Sacrilege Elena Shvarts 223 Remembrance of Strange Hospitality Julie O’Callaghan 224 Federal Case Frank O’Hara 224 Animals Charles Simic 225 ‘The city had fallen…’ Robert Adamson 225 The stone curlew Polly Clark 226 My Life with Horses Seán Ó Riordáin 227 Switch James Wright 227 A Blessing Michael Longley 228 The Horses Seamus Heaney 229 The Skunk Thom Gunn 229 Considering the Snail Fleur Adcock 230 For a Five-Year-Old Ted Hughes 231 Full Moon and Little Frieda Frieda Hughes 231 Birds John Montague 232 The Trout Susan Wicks 233 Night Toad Sheila Wingfield 233 A Bird John Kinsella 234 Emu Hunt Lavinia Greenlaw 234 Night Parrot Ted Hughes 235 The Thought Fox Michael Longley 236 Swans Mating Michael Ondaatje 236 The Strange Case Selima Hill 237 Cow Katrina Porteous 238 Seven Silences Jo Shapcott 239 Lies Vicki Feaver 240 Glow Worm Jorie Graham 241 Salmon Richard Murphy 242 Seals at High Island Chris Greenhalgh 243 Of Love, Death and the Sea-Squirt Caitríona O’Reilly 244 Octopus Pablo Neruda 245 Fable of the mermaid and the drunks Stephen Knight 245 The Mermaid Tank Edwin Morgan 246 The Loch Ness Monster’s Song Gwendolyn MacEwen 247 The Death of the Loch Ness Monster Seamus Heaney 248 Oysters 7 In and out of love Paul Durcan 250 My Belovèd Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout Deborah Randall 251 Finney’s Bar Tracy Ryan 252 Bite Selima Hill 252 Desire’s a Desire Marge Piercy 253 Raisin Pumpernickel C.K. Williams 254 Love: Beginnings Pauline Stainer 255 The Honeycomb Michael Longley 255 The Linen Industry Sharon Olds 256 Last Night János Pilinszky 257 Definition of Your Attraction Michael Ondaatje 257 The Cinnamon Peeler Sharon Olds 259 True Love W.H. Auden 259 Lullaby Julia Copus 261 In Defence of Adultery Rita Ann Higgins 261 The Did-You-Come-Yets of the Western World C.K. Williams 263 The Mistress Sharon Olds 263 Ecstasy D.H. Lawrence 264 New Year’s Eve Salvatore Quasimodo 265 Only if Love Should Pierce You Jo Shapcott 265 Muse Jo Shapcott 266 Life Philippe Jaccottet 267 Distances David Constantine 268 ‘As our bloods separate’ Judith Wright 268 Woman to Man Gjertrud Schnackenberg 269 Snow Melting Esta Spalding 270 August Kevin Hart 274 The Room Selima Hill 274 Don’t Let’s Talk about Being in Love Katie Donovan 275 Yearn On Carolyn Kizer 276 Bitch Eleanor Brown 277 Bitcherel Katherine Pierpoint 278 This Dead Relationship Stephen Dunn 280 Each from Different Heights Rosemary Tonks 280 Badly-Chosen Lover Anne Stevenson 281 After the End of It János Pilinszky 282 Relationship Louise Glück 282 Hesitate to Call Nina Cassian 282 Lady of Miracles Fleur Adcock 283 Advice to a Discarded Lover Kit Wright 284 The All Purpose Country and Western Self Pity Song James McAuley 286 Because P.K. Page 287 Cross Conrad Aiken 288 The Quarrel Kapka Kassabova 289 And they were both right Micheal O’Siadhail 290 Between W.B. Yeats 290 When You Are Old Kate Clanchy 291 Spell Zbigniew Herbert 291 Conch W.H. Auden 292 ‘O tell me the truth about love’ Meg Bateman 293 Lightness James Fenton 294 In Paris with You 8 My people Jaan Kaplinski 297 ‘The East West border…’ Kona Macphee 297 My People Anna Akhmatova 298 Our Own Land Richard Wilbur 299 A Summer Morning Stuart Henson 299 The Heron Jo Shapcott 300 A Letter to Dennis Tony Harrison 301 Turns David Constantine 301 The Door Peter Reading 302 from Going On Peter Didsbury 303 In Britain Anne Rouse 304 England Nil Joanne Limburg 304 Barton-in-the-Beans Esther Morgan 305 The Reason Philip Pacey 306 Charged Landscape: Uffington Edward Thomas 307 The Combe Norman Nicholson 307 Windscale John Heath-Stubbs 308 The Green Man’s Last Will and Testament Robyn Bolam 309 Kith G.F. Dutton 310 passage Roddy Lumsden 311 An Outlying Station Peter Reading 311 from Evagatory Ken Smith 315 After Mr Mayhew’s visit Roy Fisher 315 The Nation Kit Wright 316 Everyone Hates the English Andrew Salkey 317 A song for England Tom Leonard 317 The Voyeur W.N. Herbert 318 The King and Queen of Dumfriesshire R.S. Thomas 319 Reservoirs Harri Webb 319 Synopsis of the Great Welsh Novel Bernard O’Donoghue 320 Westering Home Gillian Clarke 321 Overheard in Co. Sligo Patrick Kavanagh 321 Inniskeen Road: July Evening Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 322 The Language Issue Colette Bryce 323 Break Seamus Heaney 323 The Toome Road Paul Muldoon 324 The Sightseers Charles Simic 324 Dream Avenue E.E. Cummings 325 ‘ “next to of course god america i” ’ Langston Hughes 326 I, Too Fred Voss 326 Making America Strong Imtiaz Dharker 327 They’ll say, ‘She must be from another country’ Jackie Kay 329 In my country Shirley Geok-lin Lim 329 Modern Secrets Moniza Alvi 330 Exile Sophia de Mello Breyner 331 Exile Jane Griffiths 331 Emigrants Grace Nichols 332 Epilogue Carol Ann Duffy 332 In Your Mind Sophia de Mello Breyner 333 Homeland Jo Shapcott 333 Motherland Anna Akhmatova 334 ‘That city that I have loved’ Anne Michaels 335 from What the Light Teaches Czeslaw Milosz 336 My Faithful Mother Tongue Adam Zagajewski 337 Betrayal Glyn Maxwell 338 We Billion Cheered C.P. Cavafy 339 Waiting for the Barbarians W.H. Auden 340 Gare du Midi Weldon Kees 340 The Coming of the Plague George Szirtes 341 Death by Meteor Jamie McKendrick 342 Ancient History 9 War and peace Kate Clanchy 345 War Poetry Carl Sandburg 345 Grass Miroslav Holub 346 The fly Wilfred Owen 347 Anthem for Doomed Youth Freda Downie 347 For Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon 348 Everyone Sang Isaac Rosenberg 348 Returning, we hear the Larks Edward Thomas 349 As the team’s head-brass Michael Longley 350 Ceasefire Paul Durcan 351 The Bloomsday Murders, 16 June 1997 Gwendolyn MacEwen 352 from The T.E. Lawrence Poems Keith Douglas 354 Vergissmeinnicht Mairi MacInnes 355 The Old Naval Airfield Geoffrey Hill 356 September Song Bertolt Brecht 356 There is no greater crime than leaving W.H. Auden 357 September 1, 1939 Bruce Weigl 360 On the Anniversary of Her Grace Carolyn Forché 361 Selective Service James Fenton 361 Cambodia Jo Shapcott 362 Phrase Book Robert Graves 363 The Persian Version Tony Harrison 364 Initial Illumination Ingeborg Bachmann 365 Every Day César Vallejo 366 from Spain, take away this cup from me Wislawa Szymborska 367 The End and the Beginning Thomas Lux 368 The People of the Other Village 10 Disappearing acts Frances Horovitz 371 Rain – Birdoswald Michael Longley 371 Björn Olinder’s Pictures Thomas Blackburn 372 Now Light Congeals Charles Simic 372 Psalm Dennis O’Driscoll 373 Someone Philip Larkin 374 Aubade Jaan Kaplinski 375 ‘Death does not come from outside…’ A.E. Housman 376 ‘Good creatures…’ Carolyn Kizer 376 Thrall Tony Harrison 377 Bookends (I) Ellen Bryant Voigt 378 For My Mother Dylan Thomas 379 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Anon 379 ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’ W.H. Auden 380 Funeral Blues Michael Hartnett 381 Death of an Irishwoman Michael Longley 381 Water-burn Miroslav Holub 382 The dead Gösta Ågren 382 Death’s Secret G.F. Dutton 383 Death in October David Constantine 383 ‘Pity the drunks’ David Scott 384 Scattering Ashes Thom Gunn 384 The Gas-poker David Constantine 386 Boy finds tramp dead John F. Deane 387 On a Dark Night Pamela Gillilan 388 Four Years Caroline Smith 388 Metamorphosis Liz Lochhead 389 Sorting Through Alden Nowlan 389 This Is What I Wanted to Sign Off With Tess Gallagher 390 Wake P.K. Page 390 About Death Howard Nemerov 391 The Vacuum Jeanne Willis 392 Inside Our Dreams Thom Gunn 392 The Reassurance Theodore Roethke 392 She Brendan Kennelly 393 A Glimpse of Starlings Pablo Neruda 394 Dead Woman Tess Gallagher 395 Yes Andrew Motion 395 Close Sophia de Mello Breyner 396 Inscription E.E. Cummings 397 ‘Buffalo Bill ’s’ Billy Collins 397 The Dead Tadeusz Rozewicz 398 Proofs Anne Carson 398 On Walking Backwards Stephen Dobyns 399 Cemetery Nights Stephen Dunn 400 Father, Mother, Robert Henley who hanged himself in the ninth grade, et al Vladimír Holan 400 Resurrection Charles Causley 401 Eden Rock Jo Shapcott 402 When I Died Dana Gioia 402 All Souls’ Philippe Jaccottet 403 from Lessons August Kleinzahler 405 Where Souls Go Brad Leithauser 405 A Mosquito Louise Glück 406 The Wild Iris Derek Mahon 407 Antarctica Paul Muldoon 407 Why Brownlee Left Matthew Sweeney 408 Sleep with a Suitcase Derek Mahon 409 As It Should Be Amanda Dalton 409 How to Disappear Vona Groarke 410 Folderol Weldon Kees 411 Robinson Sophia de Mello Breyner 411 Night and the House Miroslav Holub 412 Distant Howling 11 Me, the Earth, the Universe János Pilinszky 414 Homage to Isaac Newton Robin Robertson 414 New Gravity Adam Zagajewski 414 Moment Yannis Ritsos 415 Morning Moniza Alvi 415 The Other Room Miroslav Holub 416 Brief reflection on accuracy Simon Armitage 417 Zoom! Seamus Heaney 418 from Lightenings Ellen Hinsey 418 On the Uncountable Nature of Things Amy Clampitt 420 The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews James Harpur 421 ‘I stretch my arms’ James Merrill 421 A Downward Look Charles Causley 422 I Am the Song Vasko Popa 422 from Games Derek Walcott 423 Earth Sheila Wingfield 423 Waking Ivan V. Lalic 424 Places We Love R.S. Thomas 424 Moorland Robin Robertson 425 Three Ways of Looking at God Kerry Hardie 426 The Avatar Alden Nowlan 426 Sacrament T.S. Eliot 427 Journey of the Magi Wallace Stevens 428 The Snow Man Patrick Kavanagh 428 Sanctity R.S. Thomas 429 Via Negativa Charles Simic 429 To the One Upstairs Tomas Tranströmer 430 Tracks Elizabeth Jennings 431 Delay Norman MacCaig 431 Summer farm Iain Crichton Smith 432 Tinily a star goes down Carol Rumens 432 Star Whisper Gwyneth Lewis 433 from Zero Gravity Jane Cooper 434 Rent Elinor Wylie 435 Full Moon Kapka Kassabova 435 Preparation for the big emptiness Elizabeth Bishop 436 The Shampoo Alice Oswald 437 Mountains Kit Wright 437 The Other Side of the Mountain 12 The art of poetry Philippe Jaccottet 440 from Songs from Below Archibald MacLeish 441 Ars Poetica W.S. Graham 442 The Beast in the Space Alden Nowlan 443 An Exchange of Gifts Helen Ivory 443 Note to the reader: this is not a poem Robert Hass 444 Meditation at Lagunitas Jaan Kaplinski 445 ‘Once I got a postcard…’ Tomas Tranströmer 445 From March 1979 Chase Twichell 446 Animal Languages Vasko Popa 446 The Story of a Story Wallace Stevens 447 Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself Eamon Grennan 448 Detail Rita Dove 448 Ö Mark Strand 449 Eating Poetry Howard Nemerov 450 The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House Robert Lowell 453 Epilogue Galway Kinnell 454 Oatmeal Patrick Kavanagh 455 Consider the Grass Growing Joan Brossa 455 Note Seamus Heaney 456 Postscript Raymond Carver 456 Late Fragment Neil Astley 458 The Sound of Poetry 464 Glossary 471 Further reading 473 Acknowledgements 480 Index of writers 486 Index of titles and first lines
£11.69
Carcanet Press Ltd Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara
Book SynopsisFrank O'Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate ('any time, any place'). This is not the whole O'Hara: he may have scribbled poems on serviettes, but others he worked on with intense concentration, creating sequences that are inexhaustibly nuanced, full of surprise, heartbreak and laughter. There are analogies between his work and that of the painters he championed, Pollock, Kline and de Kooning among them. He is resolutely metropolitan, and his metropolis is New York City. He brilliantly captured the pace and rhythms, quandaries and exhilarations, of its mid-twentieth-century life.Trade ReviewWonderful, original poems' He was an essential contact-man between the worlds of painting and poetry. And he suggested a rich and fascinating dialogue between them.' Eavan Boland. 'O'Hara's hip, glamorous, freewheeling self-celebrations both reflected and helped disseminate a new kind of confidence and daring in American poetry.' Mark Ford.
£11.66
WW Norton & Co The Tempest
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£11.99
Flapjack Press Collected Poems, Volume Two
Book SynopsisHenry Normal's Collected Poems, Volume Two includes all of the poems from This Phantom Breath, The Department of Lost Wishes and Swallowing the Entire Ocean. The poems in This Phantom Breath are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. The Department of Lost Wishes contains more than one hundred poems selected by the author from his early works. The poems in Swallowing the Entire Ocean are concerned with the search for meaning and identity, and other foolhardy adventures.Trade Review"Takes the familiar and sublimely reshapes it ... Marvellous." The Independent ; "The funniest man you've never heard of." The Telegraph ; "Idiosyncratic and effortlessly funny." Radio Times ; "Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit." The Guardian ; "Warm, accessible and never wantonly oblique, but deep beyond measure." Northern Soul ; "Painfully funny ... tender and touching." Write Out Loud ; "The Alan Bennett of poetry." The Scotsman ; "Distinctly funny." Time Out
£17.05
Penguin Books Ltd The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other
Book SynopsisPresents travel writings which chronicle the author's perilous journeys through Japan and also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.Table of ContentsThe Narrow Road to the Deep NorthAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Records of a Weather-Exposed SkeletonA Visit to the Kashima ShrineThe Records of a Travel-Worn SatchelA Visit to Sarashina VillageThe Narrow Road to the Deep NorthMap 1. Central JapanMap 2. Central JapanMap 3. Northern JapanNotes
£8.99
Nick Hern Books Escaped Alone
Book Synopsis“I’m walking down the street and there’s a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I’ve seen before.” Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill's play Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James Macdonald. It was named Best Play at the 2017 Writers' Guild Awards.Trade Review'A light-on-its-feet, elliptical view of apocalypse… this is fantasy intricately wired into current politics. It is intimate and vast. Domestic and wild' * Observer *'Packs a formidable charge: Churchill has now perfected an elliptical style as individual and as powerful as that of Samuel Beckett… created and conveyed with mastery' * Financial Times *'A menacing, joyous, brilliant return... it's hard to imagine you'll come across a more brilliant play this year' * Time Out *'A magnificent show which demands repeated viewing to reveal its full richness' * The Arts Desk *'Packs an amazing amount into a modest frame… this is Churchill at her best' * Guardian *
£10.44
Faber & Faber Woods etc.
Book SynopsisWoods etc. is Alice Oswald''s third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such affinity.Trade Review"'Her poems... are propulsive, forward-pulsing, knitting one line to another. This poet is acutely alive in the world.' The Economist"
£11.69
Faber & Faber selected poems 19231958
Book SynopsisThis selection made by E.E. Cummings himself from eleven books of poems constitutes a comprehensive introduction to his work.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Theban Plays King Oedipus Oedipus at Colonus
Book SynopsisKing Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity''s struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority.Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLINGTrade Review“[Oedipus the King] is Sophocles’ most famous play and the most celebrated play of Greek drama . . . Aristotle cites it as the best model for a tragic plot . . . Freud recognized the play’s power to dramatize the process by which we uncover hidden truths about ourselves . . . Sophocles is more interested in how Oedipus pieces together the isolated fragments of his past to discover who and what he is and in tracing the hero’s response to this new vision of himself.”—from the Introduction by Charles SegalTable of ContentsThe Theban legend; "King Oedipus"; the legend continued; "Oedipus at Colonus"; the legend continued; "Antigone"; notes to "King Oedipus"; notes to "Oedipus at Colonus"; notes to "Antigone".
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Penguin Books Ltd Metamorphoses
Book SynopsisMary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literatureThe most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's). -Ezra Pound Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Here a chaotic universe is subdued into harmonious order: animals turn to stone; men and women become trees and stars. Ovid himself transformed the art of storytelling, infusing these stories with new life through his subtley, humour and understanding of human nature, and elegantly tailoring tone and pace to fit a variety of subjects. The result is a lasting treasure-house of myth and legend. 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 bTrade ReviewThe most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's) -- Ezra Pound
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Penguin Books Ltd The Magpie at Night
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLinton's rhymes speak for our time * Voice *Brilliant . . . the alternative poet-laureate * Time Out *A warrior wordsmith whose couplets take no prisoners * The Times *Let us sing and dance to the expression of the age-old ideals with LKJ -- Fred D'Aguiar
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Methuen Publishing Ltd The Family Pack Brotherinlaw and Other Animals
Book SynopsisAn omnibus edition of Hegley's performance poems, The Brother-in-Law and Other Animals, together with two of his most popular books, Can I Come Down Now Dad? and These Were Your Father's.
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Faber & Faber Beowulf Bilingual Edition
Book SynopsisBeowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel''s mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath. Heaney''s celebrated translation honours what is remote and intuits what is uncannily familiar, at the end of the twentieth century, in this founding masterpiece of English poetry. Now, for the first time, the Old English text - which survived only in a single scorched manuscript, now held in the British Museum - can be read in conjunction with the translation on facing pages.Trade Review"'The whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual in its language. He has made a masterpiece out of a masterpiece.' Andrew Motion, Financial Times"
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Faber & Faber That Face
Book SynopsisWritten when Polly Stenham was nineteen years old, That Face is a savagely funny dissection of the lives of the rich, reissued in Faber Drama''s elegant new series design.You're shaking. It's too much, isn't it? You only like good clean torture.Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother.That Face premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 2007, winning the TMA Award for Best New Play. Polly Stenham won the Charles Wintour Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright.''One of the most astonishing debuts I have seen in more than thirty years.'' DAILY TELEGRAPH''Polly Stenham is a modern successor to Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee . . . an intensely moving, skilfully crafted piece.'' DAILY EXPRESS''Stenham's god-given gift i
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Faber & Faber Medea Faber Drama
Book SynopsisI choose to take back my life.My life.Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she''s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day''s grace. It''s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.Ben Power''s version of Euripides'' tragedy Medea premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2014.
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Faber & Faber In Parenthesis
Book SynopsisIn Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. 'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying masterpiece. It is a book about war that has the power to defeat death.
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Faber & Faber Rock n Roll
Book SynopsisThe new and updated edition of ''Tom Stoppard''s extraordinary, epic drama of politics, persecution and protest in twentieth-century Czechoslovakia'' (Evening Standard).Rock ''n'' Roll spans the years from 1968 to 1990 from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock ''n'' roll band comes to symbolise resistance to the Communist regime, and of Cambridge, where the verities of love and death are shaping the lives of three generations in the family of a Marxist philosopher.Rock ''n'' Roll premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2006. It was revived at Hampstead Theatre, London, in December 2023. This edition includes an introduction by the author.''The remarkable thing about the play is that it touches on so many themes, registers its lament at the erosion of freedom in our society and yet leaves you cheered by its wit, buoyancy and belief in the human spirit.'' Guardian''Stunning.'' The Time
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Samuel French Ltd Brideshead Revisited
Book SynopsisThis portrait of the interweaving relationships and fortunes of a desperately charming, if eccentric, aristocratic family and their influences upon Charles Ryder has been faithfully adapted for the stage, preserving all the''sharp wit and candid social commentary of Waugh''s narrative.Large flexible cast
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Canongate Books Transformatrix
Book Synopsis''They call me Jax, though my real name''s EvaThe whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious divaNo.1 on the guest list, top of the chartsWhen I make my grand entrance, the sea of sequins parts...''From Hamburg to Jo''burg, Oslo to Soho, Patience Agbabi follows her critically acclaimed debut collection R.A.W., with Transformatrix, an exploration of women, travel and metamorphosis. Inspired by 90s poetry, 80s rap and 70s disco, Transformatrix is a celebration of literary form and constitutes a very potent and telling commentary on the realities of late twentieth century Britain. It is also a self-portrait of a poet whose honesty, intelligence and wit manages to pack a punch, draw a smile and warm your heart all at once.Trade ReviewAgbabi's lyrics are sweet and precise, her desire fierce...A transformer indeed * * The List * *combining cutting satire and outright celebration. * * The Big Issue * *A testament to the elastic nature of the poetic form. Her poems draw onrap, jive and disco rhythms as much as the formal subtleties of freeverse. Her identity is equally protean: she manages convincingly toembody a drag queen, a jealous husband, an East End wide-boy, a lesbianwho is coming of age and a poetry tutor. The effect is a small kind ofcultural 'payback' - surely if we cannot locate the 'real' her, wecannot pigeonhole her. Agbabi is a fine poet, and her linguistic witcarries satirical fire. * * Daily Telegraph * *A rising star * * The Observer * *
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Silver Press Revolutionary Letters
Book SynopsisBy turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago.Trade Review‘A powerful and ever-urgent call to action...one of di Prima’s best-known, most-loved collections of writing.’ * Frieze *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Our Countrys Good
Book SynopsisAustralia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal...Winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988, and many other major awards, Our Country''s Good premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1988 and opened on Broadway in 1991. ''Rarely has the redemptive, transcendental power of theatre been argued with such eloquence and passion.'' Georgina Brown, Independent It is published here in a new Student Edition, alongside commentary and notes by Sophie Bush.The commentary includes a chronology of the play and the playwright's life and work as well as discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created.Trade ReviewWertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm * The Sunday Times *Highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight. -- Charles Spencer * Daily Telegraph *Wertenbaker's play remains terrifyingly relevant … Wertenbaker scarcely puts a foot wrong. She … expands the argument about the practical wisdom of putting on a play into a wider debate about crime and punishment and, when an actor-convict on the eve of hanging breaks her self-incriminating vow of silence, movingly demonstrates the power of drama to change minds. -- Michael Billington * Guardian *Table of ContentsCommentary Chronology: A timeline of Wertenbaker’s life and works, set alongside key theatrical, social and political events of the period. Contexts: - The 1780s: Attitudes to Crime and Punishment; The First Fleet and the Penal Colony of New South Wales; Theatrical Styles and Conventions; The Recruiting Officer - The 1980s: Attitudes to Crime and Punishment; Theatre Funding; The Royal Court, Max Stafford-Clark and the ‘Joint Stock Method’; The Playmaker - Timberlake Wertenbaker Themes: - Guilt and Innocence; Punishment, Rehabilitation and Redemption; The Value of Theatre; Language, Silence and Voice; Colonialism Dramatic Devices: - Language(s): Regional Dialects; Articulacy and Inarticulacy; The Aborigine - Episodic Structure - Theatrical Style: Multi-roling and Cross-casting; Brechtian Aesthetic - Options for Design Production History - A Timeline Critical Reception - Critical response, recognition and influence - The Play Today Academic Debate: A brief discussion of academic responses to the play Further Study: A bibliography of texts for further study - A discussion of Comparative Literature (by Wertenbaker and others) PLAY TEXT - OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Anita and Me
Book SynopsisTanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Aside from the works published by Oberon, her stage plays include Voices On The Wind (NT Studio), Skeleton (Soho Theatre), On The Couch With Enoch (Red Room - BAC) and The Waiting Room (NT) which won the John Whiting Award. She has also translated Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan for the National Theatre Education Touring and written plays for Theatre Royal Stratford East's Young Actor's Company Brood and Squid. Tanika is an Honorary Fellow at Rose Bruford College and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008 for Services to Drama.Trade ReviewMeera's brilliant novel is a wonderful coming of age story. It's an engaging and funny tale set in a tight knit community about a young girl trying to decide her cultural identity and I look forward immensely to realising it on stage. * Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. *
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Pan Macmillan Leaves of Grass: Selected Poems
Book SynopsisLeaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It was ground-breaking in its subject matter and in its direct, unembellished style. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Professor Bridget Bennett.Whitman wrote about the United States and its people, its revolutionary spirit and about democracy. He wrote openly about the body and about desire in a way that completely broke with convention and which paved the way for a completely new kind of poetry. This new collection is taken from the final version, the Deathbed edition, and it includes his most famous poems such as ‘Song of Myself’ and ‘I Sing the Body Electric’.Trade ReviewThere is no one in this great wide world of America whom I love and honour so much -- Oscar WildeI am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has ever produced -- Ralph Waldo EmersonWhitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman the one pioneer . . . Ahead of Whitman, nothing. Ahead of all poets, pioneering into the wilderness of unopened life, Whitman. Beyond him, none -- D. H. LawrenceHis [Whitman’s] Song of Himself was a song for humanity, too. And in spite of all that has happened since, it still echoes here * Independent *Whitman had a fluid personality that made him able to “merge” invisibly, and with great empathy, with the images of other people and events that lodged in his mind . . . unprecedented assembling of rhythm, sound, language and images * New York Times *[Leaves of Grass is] more about the pandemic of possibility, a fever rush of extraordinary beauty in the face of all the available evidence. -- Colum McCann * The Week *Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Inscriptions Chapter - 1: To Foreign Lands Chapter - 2: Song of Myself Chapter - 3: When I Read The Book Chapter - 4: To The States Chapter - 4: Shut Not Your Doors Unit - 2: Children of Adam Chapter - 1: I Sing the Body Electric Chapter - 2: A Woman Waits for Me Unit - 3: Calamus Chapter - 1: In Paths Untrodden Chapter - 2: Scented Herbage of my Breast Chapter - 3: Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand Chapter - 4: For You O Democracy Chapter - 5: The Base of All Metaphysics Chapter - 6: Recorders Ages Hence Chapter - 7: When I Heard at the Close of Day Chapter - 8: Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me Chapter - 9: I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Chapter - 10: To a Stranger Chapter - 11: This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful Chapter - 12: I Hear it was Charged Against Me Chapter - 13: When I Peruse the Conquer'd Flame Chapter - 14: We Two Boys together Clinging Chapter - 15: No Labor-Saving Machine Chapter - 16: A Glimpse Chapter - 17: What Think You I Take Pen in Hand? Chapter - 18: Sometimes with One I Love Chapter - 19: Song of the Open Road Chapter - 20: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Unit - 4: Birds of Passage Chapter - 1: Pioneers! O Pioneers! Unit - 5: Sea Drift Chapter - 1: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Unit - 6: By the Roadside Chapter - 1: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Unit - 7: Drum Taps Chapter - 1: Beat! Beat! Drums! Chapter - 2: Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Chapter - 3: The Wound-Dresser Chapter - 4: The Artilleryman's Vision Chapter - 5: O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy Chapter - 6: How Solemn as One by One Chapter - 7: As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado Chapter - 8: Spirit Whose Work is Done Unit - 8: Memoirs of President Lincoln Chapter - 1: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Chapter - 2: O Captain! My Captain! Chapter - 3: Hush'd be the Camps To-day Chapter - 4: By Blue Ontario's Shores Unit - 9: Autumn Rivulets Chapter - 1: There was a Child went Forth Chapter - 2: The City Dead-House Chapter - 3: Passage to India Chapter - 4: Prayer of Columbus Chapter - 5: The Sleepers Unit - 10: Whispers of Heavenly Death Chapter - 1: A Noiseless Patient Spider Unit - 11: From Noon to Starry Night Chapter - 1: The Mystic Trumpeter Unit - 12: Annex to Sands at Seventy Chapter - 1: As I Sit Writing Here Chapter - 2: Queries to My Seventieth Year Chapter - 3: Old Salt Kossabone Index - ii: Index of Poem Titles Index - iii: Index of First Lines
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Pan Macmillan Divisible by Itself and One
Book SynopsisI want to sing you early songs. Go deeper.I want to take you back where you began,Find the scraps of you you hid in secretAnd bring them back to life beneath my tongue.Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, more contemplative and metaphysical note running through, it is a book engaged with the big questions and the emotional states in which we live and create. Some of the poems experiment with form, some are free, and yet all are politically and morally conscious. Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world. Taking its bearings - and title - from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others. “Tempest delivers their thoughts gorgeously, rhythmically, but also with clarity and a fierce grace” Observer Trade ReviewA winning wielder of words * Observer *Tempest has forged their own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry world * Independent on Sunday *One of the brightest British talents around * Guardian *[Tempest] has made history, transcending the line between poetry and music * The Telegraph *‘Like the great Philip Larkin, Tempest has an ability to write about big, metaphysical subjects in the most vernacular language, while conjuring a sense of contemporary English life with a handful of chiselled lines . . . shuttles easily back and forth between the mundane and the mythic, the banal and philosophical’ * The New York Times *Dazzling wordsmithery. . . As anyone who has seen them perform will know, they don't just paint pictures with words when they perform, they paint fireworks in the night sky * Metro *Tempest's lyricism is inherently musical . . . the cadence conveys the confidence of a writer who not only knows exactly what they wish to articulate, but more importantly, how to articulate it' * Poetry London *
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 275
Book SynopsisThe January-February 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. This issue includes dark essays on Eastern Europe in 1939, on sentimental ecology, the culture wars, and Byron through selected letters; discovering the radical American poet Steve Malmude with Miles Champion; overhearing the Mexican poet Darío Jaramillo in conversation with God (Richard Gwyn's translations); and new poems by the Pulitzer laureate Carl Phillips. Our vast archive now includes over 270 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd Jonah and Me
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Batsford A Nature Poem for Every Summer Evening
Book Synopsis Poems to celebrate summer. Pour out a long drink, take a seat under a shady tree, and lose yourself in this sublime collection of nature poems for summer. From William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, John Keats to Isaac Rosenberg, some of the finest poets that ever put pen to paper describe the slow, langorous, glowing days of the season. With one entry for every summer day, from 1 June to 31 August, this collection of 92 poems will provide the perfect backdrop to those balmy summer evenings in the garden, from Christina Rossetti's larks hang singing, singing singing over the wheat-fields wide' to Eugene Lee-Hamilton's rich, hot scent of old fir forests heated by the sun', Samuel Palmer's evocative descriptions of summer twilight to Rachel Field's whimsical musings on butterflies. This beautiful and collectable anthology of poems derives from the popular A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year and also features summery poems from Geoffrey Chaucer, Amy Lowell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Blake and many more.
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems from Ireland
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Rivers
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Baking
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Stewed Rhubarb Press Blue A Lament for the Sea
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Eyewear Publishing The May Figures
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Eyewear Publishing Cantadora - Letters from California
Book SynopsisCelebrated poet Linda Ravenswood presents 44 hybrid texts which read as maps, diary entries, manifestos, dream fragments, and lists. Her branching perspective of the 500+ years span of the (so-called) Conquest of Mexico by Cortés and the Spanish army (1521-present) explores reverberations across landscapes & cultures of the American West that are still being navigated. The voices explore past, present, & future histories of those who dwell in the West. Some histories explored include WWII Holocaust survivors of Los Angeles, relocated NDN children of the 19th century, Chontales people of the Yucatán encountering ships of Cortés, border blurring, intersectional feminism, and 21st-century balancing acts of Latinidad. This extraordinary collection is a tour de force of poetic craft, colonial sensitivity, intellect, and conscience.
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Verve Poetry Press MATERINA
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Burning Eye Books Late Shift at the Pickle Factory
Book SynopsisIn Late Shift at the Pickle Factory Mary Dickins presents the reader with an intensely crafted patchwork of stories, reminiscences, observations and whimsy. These poems are tender, sad, joyful, surreal and ridiculous and always characterised by Mary's distinctive blend of wordplay, humour, poignancy and politics. Mary believes that there is nothing stranger, more intriguing and revealing than the everyday life, people and places that we take for granted. She invites you to explore and enjoy this book as part of her poetic legacy drawn from an exuberant and challenging life well lived.Trade ReviewAn understated pathos and a highly politicised mind at work. - Jacqueline Saphra
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