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Poetry Books
Pighog Postcards from the 7th Floor
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£12.75
The Waywiser Press The Names of Things
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£999.99
Candlestick Press Ten Poems About Sheep: Volume One
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£8.90
Eyewear Publishing I Speak Home
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£6.83
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Earth Shattering: Ecopoems
Book Synopsis"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air, felling trees and forests), there are poems here to alert and alarm anyone willing to read or listen. Other poems celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink. Earth Shattering's words of warning include contributions from many great writers of the past as well as leading contemporary poets from around the world, ranging from Wordsworth, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy, Rilke and Charlotte Mew to Wendell Berry, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin and Gary Snyder. This is the first anthology to show the full range of ecopoetry, from the wilderness poetry of ancient China to 21st-century native American poetry, with postcolonial and feminist perspectives represented by writers such as Derek Walcott, Ernesto Cardinal,Oodgeroo and Susan Griffin. Ecopoetry goes beyond traditional nature poetry to take on distinctly contemporary issues, recognising the interdependence of all life on earth, the wildness and otherness of nature, and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature. The poems dramatise the dangers and poverty of a modern world perilously cut off from nature and ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power. As the world's politicians and corporations orchestrate our headlong rush towards Eco- Armageddon, poetry may seem like a hopeless gesture. But its power is in the detail, in the force of each individual poem, in every poem's effect on every reader. And anyone whose resolve is stirred will strengthen the collective call for change.Trade ReviewAny poetry anthology, in any field, inevitably owes something to those anthologies that have gone before it. But with Earth Shattering, Neil Astley has set out to do something rather different – not just moving us well beyond the canon of "nature poetry" (which a number of other anthologies have also sought to do over the last few years), but by digging much deeper into the complexities of the historical relationship between humankind and the living Earth that sustains us, reflected in a highly contemporaneous and politically aware way. That will certainly appeal to environmental activists who will already be familiar with many of the poets featured in Earth Shattering. But they will discover a whole lot more than this in this astonishingly eclectic and wide-ranging anthology. -- Jonathon Porritt * Sofia *
£17.00
Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Junction: Selected Poems
Book SynopsisLithuania's Tomas Venclova is one of Europe's greatest living poets. His work speaks with a moral depth exceptional in contemporary poetry. Venclova's poetry addresses the desolate landscape of the aftermath of totalitarianism, as well as the ethical constants that allow for hope and perseverance. "The Junction" brings together entirely new translations of his most recent work as well as a selection of poems from his 1997 volume "Winter Dialogue".Trade ReviewEvery major poet has an idiosyncratic inner landscape against which his voice sounds in his mind… [Venclova’s] landscape is that of the Baltic in winter, a monochromatic setting dominated by damp and cloudy hues – the light of the skies condensed into darkness. -- Joseph BrodskyVenclova is a lyric poet of magisterial allure, committed to philosophical meditations… Part exile, part seer, he is the artist as witness and a living example of a literary elite that evolved in crisis yet remained true to the dictates of art. -- Eileen Battersby * The Irish Times *If in Venclova's volume, Winter Dialogue, there is a concern with endurance, and a search for absolutes in the face of adverse conditions both in Lithuania and in exile, in his most recent work, The Junction, we find the figure of a poet returning from exile, surveying what has occurred, what buildings still stand, and the fates of those one loved. And while these poems are filled with melancholy at the passage of time, there is also a sense of affirmation. For despite everything, each element that is salvaged constitutes a form of victory - a testimony to all that can be, and is, preserved from the vicissitudes of History. -- Ellen Hinsey
£9.95
Carcanet Press Ltd Can You Hear Bird
Book SynopsisAfter John Ashberry's "Flow Chart" (1991), "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992) and "And the Stars were Shining" (1994), this work provides an A-Y of poems, moments in which voices, images and tones come in for his attention. The poems are generally short, except for "T" when "Tuesday Evening" occurs.
£14.24
Carcanet Press Ltd Swarm
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£8.95
Poetry Wales Press One Act Wales
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£8.50
Nick Hern Books Terrorism
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia. A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life: office workers bickering, a couple committing adultery, grannies complaining about their husbands. But the scenes unfold to reveal the mistrust and dysfunction that have become the norm, in Russia and elsewhere. Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers was first performed, in this English translation by Sasha Dugdale, at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2003.Trade Review'A play with this title has an obvious resonance right now. But the extraordinary thing about this deft and brilliant piece by Siberia's Presnyakov Brothers is the way it extends... This is a play about the breakdown of society in contemporary Russia. What astonishes is the cool, sardonic wit that the Presnyakov brothers bring to their task... beautifully realised in Sasha Dugdale's translation... Russian society may be in disarray, but, on the evidence of this and the recent work of Vassily Sigarev, a sense of dislocation yields first-rate drama' * Guardian *'A bitter, funny, penetrating look at the toxic effects of living with fear... Terrorism shrugs off more ideas in quarter of an hour's wit than most political debating plays do in an evening' * Observer *
£11.39
University of California Press Its go in horizontal
Book SynopsisIncludes sequential and serial poems which demonstrate ideas and inventions in writing, and how one writing invention leads to the next.Trade Review"Scalapino is shown in this welcome overview to have developed a distinctive idiom." Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsCollected in Considering how exaggerated music is From hmmmm in The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs Instead of an Animal From This eating and walking at the same time are associated all right Considering how exaggerated music is How Phenomena Appear to Unfold: Note on My Writing that they were at the beach From that they were at the beach -- aeolotropic series A Sequence From Chameleon Series From The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion/A Trilogy From the Five Series Poem way, 3 Series in Sequence Bum Series The Floating Series Delay Series How Phenomena Appear to Unfold Fin de Siecle 1 Fin de Siecle 2 Fin de Siecle 3 From Crowd and not evening or light From New Time From The Front Matter, Dead Souls The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence From Resting lightning that's night, Friendship Zither & Autobiography From Zither From The Tango From It's go in / quiet illumined grass /land Day Ocean State of Stars' Night From 'Can't' is 'Night' From The Forest is in the Euphrates River -- From DeLay Rose Acknowledgments
£20.70
University of California Press De Rerum Natura The Nature of Things
Book SynopsisPresents a readable translation of a poem that is crucial to the history of ancient thought. This title offers an elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology. It argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas.Trade Review"[A] fresh, musical rendering." BookforumTable of ContentsTranslator's foreword the nature of things Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI
£22.50
Poetry Wales Press The Treekeeper's Tale
Book SynopsisLyrical, resonant, strange and imaginative, these poems echo in the mind and leave an indelible impression of the mysterious atmosphere of the redwood trees in California. The collection points towards another facet of the poet''s gift, an intense feeling for the natural world, allied with a personal response to historical incidents and to other lands.
£9.49
University of California Press Calligrammes
Book SynopsisApollinaire - Roman by birth, Polish by name, Parisian by choice - died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless, he became one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the work of the Surrealists. This title presents Apollinaire's poems.Trade Review"Greet's English is an excellent guide to Apollinaire's French. A modern classic long overdue in this form." * Los Angeles Times *“What we have in these poems, instead of politics, is a subjective and affective chronicle in which the wilder imaginative flights are constantly pinned down by immediate detail. A consistent governing sensibility expands then retracts with impressive suppleness - it's rather like a genie returning to its bottle.” * The Guardian *"This impressive edition presenting the original French texts facing the English translations deserves high praise on numerous counts. The successful duplication in English of the complex typography of these word-drawings is in itself a feat. . . . The enduring value of this edition will derive from its completeness and the tools it offers the competent but inexpert reader of French for fuller understanding of Apollinaire's rich, but often abstruse vocabulary and imagery." * CHOICE *"The reader new to Apollinaire will be led into the fascinating labyrinth, the specialist will find it both stimulating and invaluable as a work of reference. . . . This is an authoritative and complete edition and will remain so for a long time to come." * Modern Language Review *"Any study, any appreciation, not only of French poetry early in [the 20th] century but of French painting—Picasso, the Cubists, Delaunay—and of Apollinaire's personal vision can begin with this excellent book." * The Antioch Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Ondes Waves Etendards Banners Case d'Armons Flutchel Lueurs des Tirs Flash of Gunfire Obus Couleur de Lune Moon-Colored Shells La Tete Etoilee The Starry Head Commentary Select Bibliography
£27.00
University of California Press The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Book SynopsisThe author (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected his most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work.Trade Review"An ideal choice of the poet." -- Benjamin Ivry Forward NewspaperTable of ContentsForeword 2013 by C. K. Williams Foreword 1996 by Chana Bloch PART ONE edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell From Now and in Other Days (1955) God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner's House in Jerusalem Autobiography, 1952 The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose Six Poems for Tamar Yehuda Ha-Levi Ibn Gabirol When I Was a Child Look: Thoughts and Dreams From We Loved Here From Two Hopes Away (1958) God's Hand in the World Sort of an Apocalypse And That Is Your Glory Of Three or Four in a Room Not Like a Cypress Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass Half the People in the World For My Birthday Two Photographs Poems for a Woman Children's Procession Ballad of the Washed Hair Sonnet from the Voyage The Visit of the Queen of Sheba From In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains From Poems, 1948-1962 As for the World In the Middle of This Century Farewell, Such as Sorrow Jerusalem Before And as Far as Abu Ghosh You Too Cot Tired The Place Where We Are Right Mayor Resurrection From Summer or Its End In the Full Severity of Mercy Too Many Poem for Arbor Day Jacob and the Angel Here Elegy on an Abandoned Village The Elegy on the Lost Child From Now in the Storm, Poems 1963-1968 Jerusalem, 1967 The Bull Returns A Luxury To Bake the Bread of Yearning National Thoughts A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention Elegy Threading Now in the Storm Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela PART TWO edited and translated by Chana Bloch From Not for the Sake of Remembering (1971) Jews in the Land of Israel Wildpeace The Way It Was Instead of Words Gifts of Love Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires Psalm From Behind All This a Great Happiness Is Hiding (1976) Seven Laments for the War-Dead Like the Inner Wall of a House Love Song I've Grown Very Hairy A Dog After Love A Bride Without a Dowry The Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail To a Convert My Father in a White Space Suit A Letter of Recommendation On the Day I Left A Letter In a Leap Year A Quiet Joy A Mutual Lullaby From Songs of Zion the Beautiful From Time (1978) Songs of Continuity At the Monastery of Latroun When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once To My Love, Combing Her Hair The Diameter of the Bomb When I Banged My Head on the Door You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks Advice for Good Love You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain A Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem When a Man's Far Away from His Country The Eve of Rosh Hashanah I've Already Been Weaned In the Garden, at the White Table From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home Near the Wall of a House From A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers (1980) You Can Rely on Him You Mustn't Show Weakness Lost Objects Forgetting Someone "The Rustle of History's Wings," as They Used to Say Then 1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma'ayan Harod An Eternal Window There Are Candles That Remember On the Day My Daughter Was Born No One Died All These Make a Dance Rhythm In the Morning It Was Still Night A Child Is Something Else Again When I Have a Stomachache I Feel Just Fine in My Pants Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews Ecology of Jerusalem In the Old City Tourists An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion A Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve The Parents Left the Child Love Is Finished Again End of Summer in the Judean Mountains Relativity Poem Without an End A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers From The Hour of Grace (1983) 1924 Half-Sized Violin A Pace Like That The Box The Last Word Is the Captain Statistics The Hour of Grace What a Complicated Mess I Lost My Identity Card On Mount Muhraka Summer Begins Hamadiya At the Seashore On Some Other Planet You May Be Right Autumn Rain in Tel Aviv A Flock of Sheep Near the Airport Almost a Love Poem They Are All Dice A Precise Woman Jasmine Kibbutz Gevaram History The Real Hero At the Maritime Museum Try to Remember Some Details A Man in His Life From From Man Thou Art and Unto Man Shalt Thou Return (1985) My Mother Comes from the Days Now She's Breathing My Mother Died on Shavuot The Body Is the Cause of Love Orchard Late Marriage Inside the Apple North of Beersheba I Guard the Children North of San Francisco Fall in Connecticut Sandals Jerusalem, 1985 Evidence The Course of a Life From The Fist, Too, Was Once the Palm of an Open Hand, and Fingers (1989) What Kind of Man The Greatest Desire Two Disappeared into a House I Know a Man Between Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains At the Beach The Sea and the Shore Autumn Is Near and the Memory of My Parents Yom Kippur Beginning of Autumn in the Hills of Ephraim Ruhama Huleikat- The Third Poem about Dicky The Shore of Ashkelon Fields of Sunflowers First Rain on a Burned Car We Did What We Had To Notes Acknowledgments Index of Titles
£18.90
Nick Hern Books Don Juan
Book SynopsisDrama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Molière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish. Set in Sicily, Moliere's play retells the famous myth of Don Juan, the womaniser with no morals and a scorn for religion. It charts his relationship with his servant Sganarelle, his romantic philandering, his false conversion and his ultimate punishment. Don Juan was first performed in 1665 in the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, with Molière playing the role of Sganarelle. This version in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.
£6.12
Wits University Press Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating: Three
Book SynopsisCupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from one of South Africa's leading playwrights and novelists. The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which the protagonist gets his come-uppance. You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief, traceable throughout Mda's work, that government by those who inherit a revolution is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two, hi-jacked by the smart operators. The Bells of Amersfoort, with its graphic portrayal of the isolation imposed by exile, picks up on the themes of the other two plays, but adds to them the concept of 'healing', both of the soul and of the land, in a lyrical work which holds out more hope than do its companions in this volume. The plays are introduced by Rob Amato, who directed much of Mda's earlier work.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Mother of all Eating You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? The Bells of Amersfoort
£18.00
Penguin Random House Group Beowulf
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£6.89
Carcanet Press Ltd Collected Poems and Verse of the Austen Family
Book SynopsisThis volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, and her nephew James Edward.
£9.99
Taylor & Francis Things Merely Are
Book SynopsisThis book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above all, he agues for a ''poetic epistemology'' that enables us to think afresh the philosophical problem of the relation between mind and world, and ultimately to cast the problem away.Drawing astutely on Kant, the German and English Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, guitars, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the ''mereness'' of things. It is this experience, he shows, that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality. Critchley also argues that this calm defines the cTrade Review'Things Merely Are is very much a manifesto that aims to break the frame of philosophical thinking within the English-speaking tradition. And in the bargain Critchley gives us a fresh reading of Wallace Steven's work that academic literary criticism desperately needs. My hope is that this book is not just a one-trick pony but the opening of a philosophical investigation into literary modernism.' - Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements, Abbreviations of works by Wallace Stevens, Advice to the reader, 1. Or so we say – twenty-one propositions, 2. Poetry, philosophy and life as it is, 3. Sudden rightnesses, 4. Wallace Stevens’s intimidating thesis, 5. The twofold task of poetry, 6. The thing itself and its seasons, Conclusion, Afterword: Calm – on Terrence Malick, Thanks, Notes, Bibliography, Index
£37.99
Alfred A. Knopf The Beauty
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£999.99
Faber & Faber Neil LaBute Plays 2
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£17.09
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Geography III
Book SynopsisWhether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist''s office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one''s lover in the masterfully restrained One Art, Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds grand,'' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech.
£13.50
Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Oresteia of Aeschylus
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£14.25
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Collected Poems
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£16.20
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Poetry of Rilke
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£22.10
Random House USA Inc Goethes Faust
Book SynopsisThe best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann''s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe''s language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.
£12.34
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Playing Shakespeare
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£14.88
Random House USA Inc The Most of Nora Ephron
£31.35
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Beatification of Area Boy Methuen Modern Plays
Book SynopsisSet in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undersirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place.'Witty, wise and uplifting, this is a beautiful play whose message steals up on you and lingers on.' Financial Times.'The play is a protest against the barbarity of greed and oppression; but it is also a celebration of people's irrepressible and indomitable spirit' Sunday Times.
£16.59
WW Norton & Co Modern African Drama
Book SynopsisThe first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya.
£18.99
WW Norton & Co 1 Henry IV
Book SynopsisThe text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.Table of ContentsPreface A Note on the Text Abbreviated Genealogy of the Mortimers and the House of Lancaster The Text of 1 Henry IV Contexts and Sources COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION Excerpt from the 1598 Quarto ONE PLAY OR TWO? Harold Jenkins – The Structural Problem in Shakespeare’s “Henry the Fourth” Paul Yachnin – History, Theatricality, and the “Structural Problem” in the Henry IV Plays FALSTAFF OR OLDCASTLE? Gary Taylor – The Fortunes of Oldcastle David Scott Kastan – [Reforming Falstaff] ORIGINS Peter Saccio – [Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV] Edward Hall – Henry, Prince of Wales Raphael Holinshed – Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two Houses Anonymous – An Homilee against disobedience and wylful rebellion Raphael Holinshed – The Chronicles of England Samuel Daniel – The Ciuile Wars The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth Criticism John Dryden – The Composition of a Character Samuel Johnson – [Falstaff] Elizabeth Montagu – [Hal, Falstaff, and Taste] Maurice Morgann – An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff John Dover Wilson – The Falstaff Myth Arthur C. Sprague – Gadshill Revisited E.M.W. Tillyard – The Second Tetralogy Henry Ansagar Kelly – [Providence and Progaganda] Graham Holderness – [Tillyard, History, and Ideology] Sigurd Burckhardt – [Symmetry and Disorder] John Wilders – [Knowledge and Misjudgement] Stephen Greenblatt – [Theater and Power] Scott McMillin – [Performing 1 Henry IV] David Scott Kastan – “The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats,” or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? C. L. Barber – [Mingling Kings and Clowns] Michael Bristol – [The Battle of Carnival and Lent] Samuel Crowl – [Welles and Falstaff] Patricia Parker – [Fat Lady Falstaff] Coppélia Kahn – [Masculine Identities] Gus Van Sant – [My Own Private Idaho] Susan Wiseman – [Shakespeare in Idaho] Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin – [Gender and Nation] Christopher Highley – [Defining the Nation] Barbara Hodgdon – [Endings] Selected Bibliography
£13.99
WW Norton & Co Dance Dance Revolution
Book SynopsisAdrienne Rich chose Cathy Park Hong's "audacious" (Los Angeles Times) second book as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets Prize.Trade Review"A polyglot explosion of unique individual and broader social concerns." -- The Believer
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Truth Stage Adaptation Modern Plays
Book SynopsisWilliam de Worde is the Discworld's first investigative journalist. But as he fills his pages with reports of local club meetings and pictures of humorously-shaped vegetables, dark forces are plotting to overthrow the city's ruler, with the help of Mr Tulip and Mr Pin.
£16.59
Harvard University Press Surs Ocean
Book SynopsisSurdas, regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of the sixteenth century to the present, refashioned the narrative of Krishna and his lover Radha into elegant, approachable lyrics. His popularity led to the proliferation, through an energetic oral tradition, of poems ascribed to him, the Sursagar.Trade ReviewThese moving, elegant and accessible poems were hugely popular in their times spawning an oral tradition so vibrant that poems continued to be composed in the tradition started by Sur, under his name, by several other poets as well. -- Pragya Tiwari * India at LSE blog *
£26.96
Harvard University, Asia Center Burying Autumn
Book SynopsisBeheaded for plotting against the Qing empire, poet Qiu Jin would later be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China’s first feminist. Hu Ying studies Qiu’s enduring bond with Wu Zhiying and Xu Zihua, who braved political persecution to keep her legacy alive. In doing so, their friendship fulfilled its ultimate socially transformative potential.
£35.66
Harvard University Press The Annotated Emerson
Book SynopsisEmerson remains one of America’s least understood writers, having spawned neither school nor follower. Those wishing to discover or reacquaint themselves with Emerson’s writings but who have not known where or how to begin will not find a better starting place or more reliable guide than David Mikics in this richly illustrated Annotated Emerson.Trade ReviewMikics's annotations are gracious, helpful, and genuinely illuminating. This is a 'reader's edition' in the truest sense. -- Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillImpressive in its thoroughness… the author's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious. -- Paul Kane, Vassar CollegeDavid Mikics's The Annotated Emerson is the best possible introduction to Emerson's prose and poetry. -- Harold BloomThe #1 essayist and pure prose stylist in U.S. literature is on grand display in this lavish edition of essays, poems, and passages from Emerson's voluminous journals. The neophyte entering the Emersonian universe, as opposed to the scholar, is best served by Mikics's careful annotations and cogent commentary surrounding these selections, though even the most knowledgeable scholar would benefit. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *In his writing, Emerson favored fire imagery, and his own fiery intellect brightens every page of The Annotated Emerson, a wonderful new collection, meticulously annotated by David Mikics...In the lush pages of The Annotated Emerson readers will find that fire still warm, able to illuminate and sear. -- Daniel Dyer * Cleveland Plain Dealer *What a pleasure to have, in The Annotated Emerson, a lovely and helpful version of many of Emerson's bests, gathered and annotated by David Mikics and introduced by Phillip Lopate. This is in no way Emerson lite. These are not shortcuts but rather a welcome frame for Emerson's particular kind of difficulty. The book's introductions curate the voluminous career, and the wide margins of the pages, dappled with thoughtful notes, give the meditations space to unfurl. This is a book that gives us each hope to approach the "new yet unapproachable" Emerson. Any lay reader will find an open door here. Those who already love Emerson and know him well may find a few cherished things missing, but they may also find a few things they didn't know they wanted to find. -- Tess Gallagher * Barnes & Noble Review *Editor Mikics has selected the best known of Emerson's works but also includes excerpts from his journals, selections from lesser-read books, and a number of his poems. The volume is prefaced by a thoughtful foreword by Philip Lopate and a very useful editor's introduction...All in all, this handsome edition will be useful both to newcomers and to Emerson vets. -- Margaret Heilbrun * Library Journal *Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote essays about Shakespeare, John Brown, Stonehenge, Montaigne, best friend Henry David Thoreau, circles, nature, and self-reliance. One of his most famous lines--"the shot heard round the world" from his poem "Concord Hymn"--is still used to describe singular events in sports and history. The Annotated Emerson, edited by David Mikics, an English professor at the University of Houston, explains language and allusions that may be foreign to today's readers. By doing this, Mikics makes a great American essayist, whom Phillip Lopate in his foreword calls a "hero of intellectual labor," readily accessible to a new generation. -- Jan Gardner * Boston Globe *Copiously annotated, richly illustrated and handsomely bound, a volume all lovers not just of literature but of freedom will want on their shelves…[Emerson's] astute observations and generous vision of the world within and without still have much to teach. -- William Yeoman * West Australian *Mikics has put together a handsome edition of Emerson's most popular and enduring work. First-time readers of Emerson will find the collection useful because the annotations reference the common occurrences of Emerson's attention and, along with the illustrations, place Emerson's work in the context of the 19th century. More-experienced readers of Emerson will value the many annotations that reference his journals, letters, and other essays not gathered here. -- R. T. Prus * Choice *
£26.96
Eyewear Publishing American Purgatory
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£10.44
Harvard University Press Greek Iambic Poetry
Book SynopsisThe poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC that the Greeks called iambic is primarily invective.Trade ReviewThese two additions to the Loeb Classical Library [Greek Iambic Poetry and Greek Elegiac Poetry] will be welcomed by readers at all levels. Archolicus, Hipponax, Solon, the Theognidea, and many others are now accessible as never before...The translations, into prose, are wonderfully clear and readable. All traces of translationese have been removed, or more likely were never there. While the revisions are plain, they are always instructive and can be elegant. It will repay students to read these versions not just as a crib, but to compare them carefully with the Greek. There are surprises and delights for the attentive...Gerber has a gift for finding English that shows how the Greek works...The notes are marvels of condensed information...Gerber throughout the notes writes in a clear, concise, and scrupulous style. In effect he had summarized for his readers a great deal of information about current interpretations and problems of dozens and dozens of fragments...Gerber has distilled an impressive amount of scholarship. That feat, together with the excellence of his translations, makes these volumes among the most distinguished of those recently issued. -- H.G. Edinger * Phoenix *The contemporary literalness of Gerber's translations will fo much to make these poems appealing and accessible to undergraduates...Gerber successfully transmits both the letter and the spirit of the Greek, and his eloquent directness will be welcome to both scholars and students. -- Emily Katz Anhalt * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
£23.70
Harvard University Press Epigrams Volume I Spectacles. Books 15
Book SynopsisIn his epigrams, Martial is a keen, sharp-tongued observer of Roman scenes and events, including the new Colosseum, country life, a debauchee’s banquet, and the eruption of Vesuvius. His poems are sometimes obscene, in the tradition of the genre, sometimes affectionate or amusing, and always pointed.Trade ReviewThe publication of a new edition in the Loeb Classical Library of the poems of Martial—Latin verse and English prose face à face…offers an occasion for thinking about the way Martial’s presence shows itself in English poetry and about the poet in person… A reliable English version is always good to possess and here we have one that gives us access to many a dark and difficult corner of the original Latin. -- Charles Tomlinson * New Criterion *Shackleton Bailey’s is a remarkable achievement, and from now on his ‘Loebs’ will be the best means by which anyone can get to know Martial, as well as the essential first work of reference for scholars. -- P. Howell * Classical Review *
£23.70
Harvard University Press Poems. Letters
Book SynopsisExtant works by Sidonius Apollinaris are three long panegyrics in verse, poems addressed to or concerned with friends, and nine books of letters.
£999.99
Samuel French Ltd A Nice Family Christmas
Book SynopsisIt’s Christmas Eve, and a young newspaper reporter on the brink of being fired has been assigned a last-chance story about a typical family Christmas – his family’s Christmas. He goes home to his recently widowed mother, his crazy uncle, his eccentric grandmother, and his battling siblings and their neurotic spouses, who provide no shortage of material. One by one, we learn each family member’s secrets, problems, and dysfunctions, and when they learn that he’s wr
£14.20
iUniverse They Call Him Immanuel God with Us A Christian Poetry Devotional for Inspiration and Reflection
£18.99
Flapjack Press Raining Upwards
Book SynopsisRaining Upwards is Henry Normal's first all-new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity, and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about. In amongst his work lie some of the most tender, compassionate and moving pieces I have read from a modern poet - Artful Reporter
£8.99
Faber & Faber Government Inspector
Book SynopsisThe news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral satire.David Harrower''s version of Nikolai Gogol''s Government Inspector premiered at the Warwick Arts Centre in May 2011 and transferred to Young Vic, London in June.
£10.44
Samuel French Ltd Grease School Version
Book SynopsisFull Length, Musical/ Characters: 9m, 9f / ABRIDGED VERSION FOR SCHOOL PRODUCTIONSGroups who perform for young audiences or produce musicals with young actors now have an ideal version of GREASE for their needs. Shorter and more suitable in content for teens and subteens, this abridged version retains the fun-loving spirit and immortal songs that make GREASE a favorite among rock and roll fans of all ages. Here is Rydell High''s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding Burger Palace Bo
£21.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Troilus and Cressida
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in award-winning modern covers to inspire Shakespearians of all ages.
£8.54
Faber & Faber Bryony Lavery Plays 1 A Wedding Story Frozen
Book SynopsisA Wedding Story''A spry if wintry comedy about a lesbian, a wedding-day bonk, and a mother who contracts Alzheimer''s... It dares to find failure and frivolity (a sure sign of dramatic honesty) in the face of domestic hell. Funny, frank and churning by turns, this struck me as a lyrical new play about the unlyrical business of coping when real life knocks on the door.'' Daily ExpressFrozen Winner of the TMA Best New Play award and Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best Play.''Bryony Lavery''s big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.'' Guardian''A major play... thrilling, humane and timely.'' The Times''Consistently surprising and even bravely comic... The almost thriller-like promise of the play''s climactic confrontation is like a time-bomb ticking in the back of your head. IndependentIllyriaA young war reporter gets abducted and finds hersTrade Review"'Bryony Lavery's big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.' Guardian Illyria: A young war reporter gets abducted and finds herself in the midst of a cycle of violence, in a land crippled by hate. More Light: 'Triumphant... A startlingly metaphorical play about the creation of art.' Independent"
£25.98
