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Faber & Faber Plaques and Tangles
Book SynopsisI do not accept there is anything wrong with me.Days before her wedding Megan discovers she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer''s. Years later she''s offered a genetic test. But if she''s got the gene does she really want to know?Megan, 21. Megan, 47. Megan, 32. Megan, 27.One woman lurches through time while her young family deal with the consequences.I can''t think. But I still feel. And most of the time I feel scared. Scared because it''s too soon. I haven''t finished yet.Plaques and Tangles by Nicola Wilson premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2015.
£9.49
Pan Macmillan Pablo Picasso's Noël
Book Synopsis'A sweet winter light blushedas Pablo Picasso walked his dogunder the cypress treesand the bell of the old chapel guessed at the hour.It was Christmas Eve.'Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's new Christmas poem, Pablo Picasso's Noel follows the famous painter as he moves through a small town in the south of France on Christmas Eve, drawing the residents and the festive scenes he encounters. Accompanied by his small dog, he brings delight as he sketches wherever he goes. A wonderful, moving new poem capturing both the magic of Christmas and artistic inspiration.Beautifully illustrated and produced in a gorgeous small format, this is an irresistible festive gift and Christmas stocking must-have for all book lovers.Trade ReviewDuffy’s spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhood -- Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *
£999.99
Harvard University Press In Praise of Annada: Volume 1
Book SynopsisIn Praise of Annada, Bharatchandra Ray’s long narrative poem dedicated to the glory of Annada, translated here into English for the first time, is a major achievement and a treasure of Bengali literature. This volume describes the origins of the goddess, the building of her city and temple, and the spread of her worship.
£26.96
Princeton University Press Leopardi
Book SynopsisFeatures translations of poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) that render into modern English verse - the work of a writer who is regarded as one of the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1998 Poetry in Translation Award, PEN American Center "[Leopardi's] contribution to 19th-century European poetry second only to Baudelaire's ... there's plenty to be grateful for in this lucidly translated selection... "--Boston ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Giacomo LeopardiTranslator's Introduction: "Attempts and Preludes"Infinitive3Sunday Evening5To the Moon9Dream11The Life of Solitude17Sappho's Last Song23Chorus of the Dead27To Silvia31The Solitary Thrush35Memories39The Clam after the Storm49Saturday in the Village53Night Song of a Nomadic Shepherd in Asia57To Himself67The Setting Moon69Broom or The Flower of the Desert73
£23.75
Harvard University Press My Secret Book
Book SynopsisPetrarch was the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book reveals a remarkable self-awareness as he probes and evaluates the springs of his own morally dubious addictions to fame and love.Trade ReviewAs a work of autobiography—or, rather, of literary self-fashioning—Petrarch’s Secretum evokes many comparisons but admits few equals…Nicholas Mann is to be applauded for having produced a volume that at last does full justice both to the elegance of Petrarch’s prose and to the sophistication of his thought…There can be no doubt that Mann’s volume is a jewel in the crown of Petrarchan scholarship. It deserves to be cherished by readers for generations to come. -- Alexander Lee * Renaissance Quarterly *It’s the careful, hard-working crew at Harvard University’s I Tatti Renaissance Library who produced the best translation of 2016 with this meticulously-rendered and marvelously sensitive scholarly edition of Petrarch’s most quietly astonishing work, a work of plaintive and rigorous self-examination cast in the form of a dialogue with St. Augustine. The I Tatti Library has been uniformly excellent, but even so, this volume stands out. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *
£999.99
Random House USA Inc The Heidi Chronicles
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£999.99
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Odisea / The Odyssey
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£14.71
Nrdica Libros El viento comenzó a mecer la hierba
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£18.44
Ediciones Ctedra Las bicicletas son para el verano Bicycles are
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£14.72
Ediciones Ctedra Un Rio Un Amor Los Placeres Prohibidos A River A
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£13.97
Carnegie-Mellon University Press The Incognito Lounge
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£14.40
Debolsillo El amor, las mujeres y la vida
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£12.95
Galileo Publishing God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot
Book SynopsisCohen's beautiful poem connecting God and magic.
£9.49
Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y. The Tempest New Folger Library Shakespeare
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£7.99
HarperCollins India Rumi: A New Translation
Book SynopsisJalaluddin Rumi's timeless poems blend beauty and insight, resonating with modern audiences. Farrukh Dhondy's translations capture the essence and religious context of Rumi's work while adding a contemporary touch.
£15.99
The Chinese University Press Ouroboros
Book SynopsisDrawn from International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, Ouroboros is a chapbook of poetry by Aase Berg presented in Swedish, English, and Chinese. Ouroboros is also available, along with the chapbooks of other internationally renowned poets, in Islands or Continents (Eighteen-volume Set). Selected poems from this volume are featured in the anthology Islands or Continents: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013.
£5.92
Random House USA Inc The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project Ten
Book SynopsisTwo classic plays in a single volume: One of the most-performed theater pieces in America about the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard and the town in which it happened, joined by an essential and moving sequel to the original play.A terrific piece of theater, history, and life.... Nothing short of stunning.... A theatrical and human event.” —New York magazineOn October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of the town, the event was deeply personal. In the aftermath, Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its citizens. From the transcripts, the playwrights constructed an extraordinary chronicle of life in the town after the murder. In The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, the troupe revisits the town a decade after the tragedy, finding a community grappling with its legacy and its place in history. The two plays together comprise an epic and deeply moving theatrical cycle that explores the life of an American town over the course a decade.
£13.29
Suhrkamp Verlag Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
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£8.55
New Directions Publishing Corporation Elegiac Feelings American
Book SynopsisA collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.Trade Review"In terms of language Corso always seems to me the most interesting of the Beats . . . extracting all the power from standard syntax and rhetoric, maintaining the Beat anti-academicism .. . . Put this together with the experimentalism and relevance of the Beat outlook, and you have poetry that not only shares our experience but creates it. " -- Hayden Carruth
£999.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
Book SynopsisPublished in 1965, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness assembles ten years' work of Bob Kaufman, celebrated in San Francisco as the original Beat and in France as the American Rimbaud.Trade Review"Perhaps the best of the beat poets of the 1950s." -- The National Observer"Mr. Kaufman has a genuine lyric talent and his poetry, at its best is sensuous, exciting, and charged with vitality." -- Publishers Weekly
£9.99
Tuttle Publishing Cultivating the Empty Field The Silent
Book SynopsisThe 12th-century Zen Master Hogngzhi articulated the meditation method known as "Shikantaza" ("just sitting"). This translation of his poetry includes an introduction, lineage charts, and information on the Chinese influence of Japanese Soto Zen.Trade Review"This is a work of outstanding inspiration. I never get tired of reading it." ---Sojun Mel Weitsman, founder and abbot of Berkley Zen Center
£12.34
Louisiana State University Press Transfigurations Collected Poems
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Jay Wright's previously published collections of poetry, including The Homecoming Singer and Transformations. It reveals the consistency of his theme - the spiritual or intellectual quest for personal development in the African American past and present.
£25.95
Twisted Spoon Press A Ballad for Metka Krasovec
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£9.02
Goose Lane Editions To Live and Die in Scoudouc
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1974, Mourir á Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective vision. The poems were lyrical, referentially modern, and steeped in the rhythms and forms that had emerged from the Americas, Europe, and India. Now, more than 40 years later, Herménégilde Chiasson is considered to be the father of Acadian modernism, and Mourir á Scoudouc is widely regarded as one of the foundational works of modern Acadian literature. Several of the poems, including the oft-anthologized long poem, "Eugénie Melanson," have now achieved iconic status, appearing frequently in books, magazines, and films in French and in English. To Live and Die in Scoudouc is the first English edition of this seminal collection. It replicates Chiasson's design of the 2017 edition and features his own photographs as well as his new introductory essay. Although several of the poems have been previously translated, To Live and Die in Scoudouc features fresh renditions by Jo-Anne Elder, who worked closely with Chiasson on the translations.
£14.39
Broadway Play Publishing Inc Fat Pig
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£10.80
Peepal Tree Press Ltd City of Bones
Book Synopsis“City of Bones is a poet’s testament, his vision of time’s past and future. Composed in a language that is highly intelligent, tightly wrought, and buoyant—the inherent lyric quality derives its swing from reggae, blues, jazz, gospel, and spoken-word traditions—it is a road map tarred in civilizational wisdom. This is an astonishingly fine book. If I were to predict a future Nobel Prize winner in literature, it would more than likely be Kwame Dawes.”—Sudeep Sen, author of EroText and editor of The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry“In this book-length journey, Kwame Dawes guides the reader through the many circles of mnemonic hell. His are poems nailed into the white pages with the force of bestial silence; thick-neck poems written by a poet with hands and ear for old bones, for the shattering of breaking time, for the rituals of manhood. Whenever I picked a new book from the shelf, I always hoped it would be exactly this.” —Valzhyna Mort, author of Factory of Tears“This testament is one of the remarkable books of contemporary English-language letters. I celebrate Dawes and his achievement, and in doing so celebrate all those who have a space in his poems and all those who are able to tune into his remarkable music, intellect, and spirit.”—John Kinsella, author of Jam Tree Gully and Firebreaks“Extending Kwame Dawes’s already wide-ranging and prolific body of work, City of Bones is a testament to a complicated past that replays itself in the daily lives of so many Americans today. In the shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment Dawes remixes the works of August Wilson and brings lucidity to our present moment. Unafraid to trouble the waters and make clear why American race relations exist as they currently do, City of Bones sets the record straight and leaves no doubt that the past is ever present and we have not yet overcome. City of Bones should leave no question in the minds of any contemporary reader that Kwame Dawes is one of the most significant poets working today. This is poetry’s ‘Redemption Song.’”—Matthew Shenoda, author of Tahrir Suite“Why read Kwame Dawes? Because he knows how to ‘listen for the calm voice of God.’ Because he will show you how to grieve and not be torn open. Because his poem “The Things You Forget in Jail” shares with us empathy so unlike that of most North American poets at work today. Go back to him because Dawes is in love with ‘music of mint, ginger root, garlic, sweet / onion” of our language, its tormented ‘promise of good earth.’ Why read him? Because words ‘when spoken will soften / your chest.’ Why read Kwame Dawes? Because you cannot stop. Because Dawes is the poet to read when ‘all talking / is over’ and you sit alone in this room.” —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa
£999.99
Forgotten Books Die Entstehung der Rheinromantik Classic Reprint
£25.62
Harvard University Press Agamemnon the Pathetic Despot
Book SynopsisAndrew Porter explores characterization in Homer, from an oral-traditional point of view, through the resonance of words, themes, and back stories from the past and future. He analyzes Agamemnon's character traits in the Iliad, including his qualities as a leader, against events such as his tragic homecoming in the Odyssey.Trade ReviewThe book is successful in its aim of setting out Agamemnon’s characterization in the Homeric poems…Students and scholars will find a lot of value in the close readings of the texts. -- Thomas McConnell * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
£18.86
Graywolf Press If You Have to Go: Poems
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£13.60
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC James Graham Plays 1
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together four of Graham''s most successful and entertaining plays, each representing a relationship with a theatre with which he has worked and introduced by the author. One of the plays, Sons of York, has never before been published, but earned James Graham a nomination for the Empty Space Mark Marvin Award.A History of Falling Things is a gentle love story about a young man and woman forced to confront their fears of the outside world and discover what really matters to their lives. Tory Boyz is a fast-paced, political comedy about prejudice and ambition in Westminster, looking at homosexuality in the British Conservative party, both today and in the past.As Ben, self-employed, skint and emotionally vulnerable, begins to stitch together the patchwork quilt that was the Tax Year 2009/2010, he relives a year that was both hilarious and tragic, all mixed up in one shoe box of receipts. The Man is an affectionate and funny portrait of anTrade ReviewThe prodigiously talented James Graham * British Theatre Guide *Table of ContentsIntroduction, A History of Falling Things, Tory Boyz, The Man, The Whisky Taster, Sons of York
£26.48
World Poetry Books Rose Fear
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£13.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Taste Of Honey
Book SynopsisReissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover styleTrade Review'Some of Delaney's themes may feel dated but her writing still glitters dangerously and wittily. A Taste of Honey remains a passionate statement about real people trapped in poverty, deprived of ambition and vulnerable to manipulation by the fickleness of others.' Independent, (19 November 2008) 'Brawling, boozing, teenage pregnancy and fractured families: Shelagh Delaney's benchmark drama, first staged by Joan Littlewood in London in 1958, has lost none of its relevance 50 years on... The quirkiness and passion of Delaney's young voice still rings out... It remains passionate and pungent.' The Times, (19 November 2008) 'Its raw eloquence, sometimes almost lyrical, its tough, swaggering humour...its frank brutality and unblinking humanity.' Sunday Times, (23 November 2008)
£14.43
Dramatists Play Service An Enemy of the People Arthur Millers Adaptation
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£11.21
Eyewear Publishing Glenn Gould's Chair
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£12.34
Tangerine Press Inner London Buddha
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£11.40
Read Books Poems by G K Chesterton
£32.29
Messenger Publications Bright Wings, Dappled Things: Poems of Gerard
Book SynopsisTwo Jesuit priests from different centuries and different lands, each with a particular artistic genius, brought together for the first time. Gerard Manley Hopkins is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era, and his poems continue to grow in popularity. This volume contains a selection of poems. Francis Browne is considered one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, and his story is well-known, from the publications of the Titanic photos to the discovery after his death of 42,000 images. This volume brings together the work of these two Jesuit artists in a beutiful and balanced book which will make a really special gift to anyone interested in poetry, photography or both. The book has a lovely nostalgic quality which will appeal to many.
£999.99
Carcanet Press Ltd Beowulf
Book SynopsisAny translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea-crossings, oracular pronouncements and encounters with the monstrous. This version renders the original in readable contemporary English but also keeps as close as it can to the older, alliterative metrical system, so that readers may experience something of the textures and formal properties of the original. An `Afterword’ explains the translator’s formal choices and explores the nature of this epic, with its emphasis on tribe, location and mortality. `McCully captures the special magic and power of the Beowulf poet’s word-pile and life-thoughts.’ (Martin Duffell, Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London)
£14.24
21 Publishing Ltd Nobody
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£22.50
Currency Press Pty Ltd Dons Party
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd At Sea Staring Up
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Faerie Queene Book Five
Book SynopsisPart of a series of Spenser's great work, this title includes general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters. It also features Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser.Trade ReviewThis edition of book 5 of The Faerie Queene is a welcome contribution. Stoll presents a text that will be very useful in the classroom. The decision to make available individual (or in two cases, paired) books of the romance will make it possible for instructors to teach their preferred books of the romance; Stoll's edition of book 5 will certainly increase the likelihood that the Legend of Justice will reappear in undergraduate classrooms, introducing students to a text in which Spenser scholars are increasingly interested. We will all benefit from that. --Andrew Fleck, Sixteenth Century JournalTwo editions of Spenser are both from the same series, published by Hackett Publishing Company, which is providing inexpensive paperback volumes of The Faerie Queene, under the general editorship of Abraham Stoll. The volumes printed this year, books 1 and 5, are edited, respectively, by Carol V. Kaske and Stoll himself. A single volume combining books 3 and 4, edited by Dorothy Stephens, is forthcoming, as is book 6, edited by Andrew Hadfield. The volumes are attractively printed, with notes at the bottom of the page. Each volume includes an introduction, the Letter to Raleigh, a brief 'Life of Edmund Spenser,' textual notes, a glossary, an 'Index of Characters,' and a bibliography. Kaske's introduction to book 1 forms an accessible student guide, touching on a wide range of topics, from versification, genre, and allegory, to 'Spenser's Religious Milieu.' At the same time, there are fresh flashes of insight, no doubt derived from Kaske's long experience of teaching a complex poem. . . . Eschewing 'political and biographical allegory (p. xvi), the notes offer plenty of help to the student seeking to get behind the veil of Spenser's dark conceit, for they emphasize symbolism and historical context, especially literary context or 'sources.' Stoll's edition of book 5 of the Faerie Queene includes a judicious introduction of considerable merit. Not simply well written and learned, it partitions the information in an accessible and interesting way. Stoll is fully attuned to the recent controversies surrounding the Legend of Justice, but he does more than record them for the student reader; he manages to express sympathy for both poet and poem. Students need to hear the historical nature of Spenser's achievement for English literature, and Stoll leads nicely with this topic: book 5 is 'one of the most challenging meditations on justice in English literature' (p. ix). Stoll is as sensitive to the violence of book 5 as he is to its strangeness and beauty. Students will appreciate the short inventory of important works of criticism at the end of each section. The notes are not as full as Kaske's, but perhaps appropriately so. . . . I look forward to having access to the remaining volumes in this series. --Patrick Cheney, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
£14.24
Ariadne Press Professor Bernhardi Other Plays Studies in
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Harvard University Press Selected Ghazals and Other Poems
Book SynopsisMir Muhammad Taqi Mir is widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in the Urdu language. Selected Ghazals and Other Poems offers a comprehensive collection of ghazals and masnavis. The Urdu text, presented here in the Nastaliq script, accompanies new translations of Mir’s poems, some appearing in English for the first time.
£26.96
The Poetry Translation Centre Poems David Huerta
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Anqa Publishing THE NIGHTINGALE IN THE GARDEN OF LOVE THE POEMS
Book SynopsisThis is a translation of the spiritual poems of one of the greatest Ottoman Sufi masters, Mehmed Muhyiddin Üftade (1490-1580). Üftade was born and lived in Bursa, a hugely important spiritual centre at the height of the Ottoman Empire. He was founder of one of its main dervish orders, the Jelvetiyye, through the training of his famous disciple, Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi. In addition, Üftade composed a collection of poems, which express his spiritual quest in simple, direct and wonderfully human language, and these are presented here for the first time in English. Paul Ballanfat''s introduction provides a detailed overview of the main features of Üftade''s life and teachings, and of his cultural background, where sultans were often affiliated to Sufi orders. Particularly prominent in Üftade''s teaching was the thought of the greatest master, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, and of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. Üftade had a direct spiritual connection with both of these extraordinary men and a great venerationTable of ContentsIntroduction by Paul Ballanfat The Poems of Uftade Notes to the poems Bibliography
£14.36
Many Rivers Press The Bell and the Blackbird
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£17.10
University of Massachusetts Press Listen to the Poet: Writing, Performance, and
Book SynopsisYouth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse groups encourage members to share their lived experiences, decry injustices, and imagine a better future. At a time when students may find writing in school alienating and formulaic, composing in these poetry groups can be refreshingly relevant and exciting.Listen to the Poet investigates two Arizona spoken word poetry groups - a community group and a high school club - that are both part of the same youth organization. Exploring the writing lives and poetry of several members, Wendy R. Williams takes readers inside a writing workshop and poetry slam and reveals that schools have much to learn about writing, performance, community, and authorship from groups like these and from youth writers themselves.
£22.75
