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Faber & Faber Collected Poems
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Running Press Book Publishers Make Your Own Magic
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£15.29
Taylor & Francis Ltd New Songs from a Jade Terrace
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LEGARE STREET PR Un autre monde
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LEGARE STREET PR The Burgess Nonsense Book Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess ..
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Cambridge University Press Translating Virgil
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LEGARE STREET PR Lyrical Ballads
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LEGARE STREET PR Selected Poems Of Robert Browning
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Omnidawn Publishing Tell it Slant
Book SynopsisPoems that consider doubleness and truth-telling through the voice of an Asian American poet, while referencing a range of writers and pop culture figures. Emily Dickinson begins one of her poems with the oft-quoted line, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant." For Asian Americans, the word “slant” can be heard and read two ways, as both a racializing and an obscuring term. It is this sense of doubleness—culminating in the instability of language and an untrustworthy narrator—that shapes, informs, and inflects the poems in John Yau’s new collection, all of which focus on the questions of who is speaking and who is being spoken for and to. Made up of eight sections, each exploring the idea of address—as place, as person, as memory, and as event —Tell It Slant does as Dickinson commands, but with a further twist. Yau summons spirits who help the author “tell all the truth,” among whom are reimagined traces of poets, movie stars, and science fiction writers, including Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey, Philip K. Dick, Li Shangyin, and Elsa Lanchester. Trade Review"Yau’s charming latest reflects on a lifetime of making art from the periphery. Playing on the eponymous phrase, Yau explores artistic process and the limits of communication, all under the specter of anti-Asian hate and racism. Many poems make overt reference to painting and painters, suggesting Yau’s strong association with poetry and painting as primarily imagistic and often abstract art forms: . . . This wise and sometimes ominous collection shines." * Publishers Weekly starred review *“Emily Dickinson famously brought her poetic attention to two slanted things: light ('a certain slant of') and truth ('tell all the…but tell it…'), it is part of Yau’s far-reaching genius to remind us that both light and truth depend on perception, as he turns a racist slur (slanted eyes) into the sign by which we recognize the trustworthy phenomenologist. In this latest collection, Tell It Slant, Yau—following his inclination—holds the mirror up to vision itself: watchful of his own watching, noting what poetry sees, involved in close observations which are endlessly productive of lively and original insights, creatively sampling the doxa, and always returning to ekphrasis, 'scout[ing] the path the painter has left for us to follow,' the poet has given us his most tender, open, resonant, and beautiful book yet. My slant? I think we are astonishingly lucky to add Yau to the list of our great American poets at this moment, when we most need his work to help us recognize that gradual and constant dazzle which is the transformational capability of attention.” -- Laura Mullen“In this innovative and lyrical new book, Yau employs serial variations and pantoums in which the repetitions become a form of mesmerizing insistence. Using voices that revel in the multiple and shadowy selves inside the self, and that implicate the reader through indirection and surprise, where a reader may smile and wince at the same time, Yau has written a set of remarkable poems.” -- Arthur Sze
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Describe the Night
Book SynopsisRajiv Joseph (born June 16, 1974) is an American playwright. He was named a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,[1] and he won an Obie Award for Best New American Play for his play Describe the Night.Trade Review‘Joseph writes sly, funny dialogue laced with jolts of lyricism. He has a distinctive voice with mordant humor and adventurous tonal range!’ * The Hollywood Reporter *
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Simon & Schuster Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ?Heartbreaking...Go read the book, everyone.? Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process.?These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I've spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness,? says Fox. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you'll read all year.
£21.59
McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Seventh Town of Ghosts
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New York University Press The Rules of Logic
Book SynopsisA classic textbook on the study of logicIn the Muslim East, logic was an integral part of the syllabus of schools and found to be especially helpful for legal studies. It was at this time that The Rules of Logic was composed by Najm al-Din al-Katibi, a scholar of the Shafi?i school of law.The Rules of Logic is the most widely read introduction to logic in the Arabic-speaking world. It has probably enjoyed a longer shelf-life than any other logic textbook ever written, having been in use by madrasah students from the early eighth/fourteenth century up until the present day. Building on the theories of Avicenna, al-Razi, and other pioneers of logic, al-Katibi discusses the many pitfalls of building arguments and setting out unambiguous claims in natural language. The enduring nature of the text is a testament to al-Katibi and his impact on concepts of formal discourse and argument. This new translation of The Rules of Logic brings to both an Ara
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain: Three
Book SynopsisRemarkable products of a nation deeply implicated in the Atlantic slave trade, the seventeenth-century Spanish plays Juan Latino, The Brave Black Soldier, and Virtues Overcome Appearances appear together in English for the first time in this volume. The three protagonists not only defy the period’s color-based prejudices but smash through its ultimate social barrier: marriage into the white nobility. Michael Kidd’s fluid translations and extensive critical introduction, bibliography, and glossary are enhanced by Hackett’s title support webpage. Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain is essential reading for students of theater history, Spanish literature, and the African diaspora.Trade Review"Kidd’s book on Black protagonists in early 17th century Spain is a remarkable introduction to a little-known world of drama that explores the racial realities of a society of Christians, Muslims, and Africans. His three specimen plays include the slave Juan Latino, a Black scholar, whose learning earns him a noble white wife and a university chair. Juan de Merida is The Brave Black Soldier who captures Prince William of Orange, thus ending the war in Flanders. He is a free man and wins his woman. Filipo, the accidental prince of Virtues Overcome Appearances, is an aberration, the result of coitus during which his father, Lisandro, imagines the Ethiopian Queen Saba. Filipo, the Black prince, is immured until he frees himself and proves his worth by his virtue. The play ends with his becoming the king and acting like an absolute monarch. Kidd’s scholarly commentary is illuminating and his analyses are a great aid in understanding the complexities of the racial content of the plays. I found this an extraordinary eye-opening read that will be exciting to use in a classroom." —Lee A. Jacobus, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Connecticut
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LEGARE STREET PR The Poems of Max Ehrmann
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LEGARE STREET PR The Storm Cloud Of The Nineteenth Century
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Legare Street Press Deutschland ein Wintermärchen
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LEGARE STREET PR The Golden Threshold
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Aiora Press Ballad for the Unsung Poets of the Ages: Selected
Book Synopsis"That one came alone, from some place else. He came slowly, following his own path. A white angel with jet-black wings!"Kostas Karyotakis is the poet most emblematic of the turbulent interwar period in Greece. Though traditional in form, usually with end-rhyme and regular metres, Karyotakis' poetry is modern in content, often pessimistic and bitingly satirical. His writing combines reverie with sarcasm, a stifling sense of everyday reality with poignant irony. This is verse that is both piercing and resonant.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Poems 20162024
Book SynopsisPoems 2016-2024 is effectively volume two of Prynne's Poems (2015) but this supplementary edition is bigger than his previous life's work retrospective, bringing together the complete texts of 36 collections from the late and most productive period of Prynne's writing, all previously only available in limited editions.
£999.99
Arrowsmith Press The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg
£18.99
Acair Weaving Songs
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Faber & Faber Alma Mater
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£10.44
Simon & Schuster Changing with the Tides
Book SynopsisTikTok poet Shelby Leigh presents a moving and inspirational collection of poetry about growing up and embracing all the beauty life has to offer. The perfect gift for fans of Rupi Kaur, Connor Franta, and Cleo Wade.Shelby Leigh breaks up her poignant and reflective poetry collection into two themes: the anchor and the sail. While the anchor explores issues of insecurity, heartbreak, and anxiety, the sail focuses on healing and hope after the storm.With an emphasis on self-empowerment, changing with the tides is an evocative and celebratory set of poems for anyone who dreams of following their heart and embracing their true self.Trade Review“Shelby has done it again! This collection is absolutely stunning. I loved the story it told and how it showed the growth and healing she has gone through and is still going through. There is so much to take away from this collection and I recommend it to anybody who loves poetry, especially the writing of poets like Nikita Gill or Amanda Lovelace.”—Catarine Hancock, author of shades of lovers “changing with the tides is one of those poetry collections that speaks to those who have always seen softness and strength as synonymous. Shelby's ability to write about emotional trauma with such delicacy is truly remarkable. Her sensitivity comes through in every word—making the reader feel like Shelby isn't only sharing her own personal experiences but is being mindful of the reader's comfort. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is coping with anxiety or looking for some healing words without having to read something heavy. Thank you, Shelby, for striking such a graceful balance with your poetry.”—Marya Layth, author of Driftwood “This book is full of tender sincerities that touch on issues such as anxiety, insecurity, and loss. Leigh's words move through the process of healing in a way that ultimately left me feeling uplifted and seen.”—Amanda Linsmeier, author of Our Wild Magic
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World Poetry Books Hers
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Ohio University Press Loving Mountains Loving Men Memoirs of a Gay
Book SynopsisAppalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas in search of greater freedom. Jeff Mann tells his story as one who left and then returned, who insists on claiming and celebrating both regional and sexual identities.Trade Review“It is hard to overstate the importance of Jeff Mann’s Loving Mountains, Loving Men for hillbilly queers. So many of us were raised with the false dichotomy that we could be culturally Appalachian and give up our gayness, or we could be culturally gay and give up our mountain ways. In his beautifully crafted essays, Mann delivers the joyous news that identity is not a matter of either/or but both and.”“Gay Appalachian writers existed before Jeff Mann, but few could be out. Jeff knocked open the door. Mann’s essays and poems, his honesty and courage, have inspired, emboldened, affirmed, and electrified countless LGBTQ Appalachians after him. Jeff Mann is the godfather of queer Appalachian literature, and Loving Mountains, Loving Men is an urtext.”"Mann’s groundbreaking memoir has not aged in the nearly two decades since its first publication. His seamless mixture of prose and poetry continues to inform with relevance and insight what it means to be a gay man in Appalachia. Although Mann’s talent as a poet is notable not only in the poems but also in the prose, I am reminded rereading the collection that he’s also a truly gifted storyteller who transforms memoir into a page turner blending ‘loveliness and ferocity.’”“With a nod to deconstruction, Jeff Mann artfully explodes socially constructed identity binaries, in his case that of being both a proud Appalachian and a gay man. He weaves the story of his life with poetry and prose, revealing vulnerability and fierceness. As an educator, I have witnessed the profound impact of Loving Mountains, Loving Men on all of my students, but in particular, my gay students.”“A unique testimonial to the role of place in defining the self. No other author considered here captures both the pains and joys of being Appalachian so adeptly." * Journal of Appalachian Studies *“The sheer beauty of the prose in the memoir and the language of the poetry is incredible. This is one of the great watershed books of Appalachian literature. Its contribution to the fields of Appalachian studies and gay/gender studies is significant.”“A persistent theme is the familiar Appalachian love of the land and of traditional folkways. Through Mann’s eyes, we see those features, and Appalachian masculinity, anew.” * West Virginia History *
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Random House USA Inc Uyghur Poems
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented collection of poems spanning the rich two-thousand-year cultural legacy of the Uyghur people of Central Asia. EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY POCKET POETS.The Uyghurs have a long and glorious history of poetry, dating from the oral epics of the second century BCE through the elegant love poetry of the medieval period and up to the present moment—and much of it has never before been translated into English. Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificent natural landscapes at the heart of the Silk Road region, with its endless steppes, soaring mountain ranges, and vast deserts, as well as its turbulent history. Turkic, Sufi, and Persian influences have shaped the poetic tradition over the centuries, and more recently the modernism of the twentieth century left its mark as well. In the face of the systematic persecution of the Uyghurs in China today, which has driven many of their poets into exile, Uyghur Poems is not only a remarkable one-volume
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Harvard University Press Miracles of the Virgin. Tract on Abuses
Book SynopsisNigel of Canterbury's Miracles of the Virgin, the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary, features lively tales illustrating her boundless mercy. Tract on Abuses rails against ecclesiastical corruption. Alongside authoritative editions of the Latin texts, this volume offers the first translations of both works into English.Trade ReviewOffer[s] a fascinating amalgam of devotion, imagination, and wonder…Ziolkowski is to be congratulated for his skillful and meticulous work in bringing these little-known works to a contemporary readership. There is no doubt that many of today’s monastic readers will find these Marian miracles as fascinating and enchanting as did their medieval counterparts. -- Robert Nixon, O.S.B. * American Benedictine Review *
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Aurora Metro Publications Dark Tales in Winter: adapted for the stage
Book SynopsisDARK TALES IN WINTER adapted for the stage by Matt Beames & Hannah Torrance A mysterious door that will not close... A haunted railwayman at his lonely post... A chilling presence haunts a quiet household... A black cat reveals a grim secret... A collection of four classic ghost stories by masters of the genre, each newly adapted for the stage. Each tale can be enacted by a single performer and together they make for a chilling evening of ghostly tales. Features: The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens The Shadow by E. Nesbit The Black Cat by Edgar Allen PoeTrade Review"These Dark Tales in Winter have been put together for a thrilling evening of entertainment, certainly a striking contrast to shows typical of the festive period." - What's On.
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Columbia University Press The Fragrant Companions
Book SynopsisThe Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. It is at once an unconventional romantic comedy, a barbed satire, and a sympathetic portrayal of love between women.Trade ReviewThis engaging translation makes available in lively English the maverick playwright Li Yu’s playful and convention-defying account of romantic love between two women almost four hundred years ago. Resonating with conversations about sexuality and gender identity in our contemporary social world, this adept translation not only is poised to become indispensable reading in a range of undergraduate courses but also would lend itself well to stage adaptation. -- SE Kile, University of MichiganThis expert and highly readable translation takes readers into the world of Chinese opera by presenting a new classic, rich in literary quality, delightful in its panorama of life in seventeenth-century China, and unique in its portrayal of female same-sex romance. Li Yu is an author who deserves a worldwide readership, and this volume is a welcome addition to the growing corpus of translations of his works. -- Keith McMahon, author of Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to QingThe Fragrant Companions epitomizes the premodern Chinese literary fantasy of utopian polygyny with a satirical twist. Desire between women is shown to be subversive even as it smooths the operation of a male-headed, polygamous union. Li Yu's wit fully comes alive in this elegant and entertaining translation. -- Tze-lan Deborah Sang, author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern ChinaA wonderful and long-awaited addition to the world canon of queer literature! Beautifully and accessibly rendered with a view toward stage production, Roddy and Wang’s translation of Li Yu’s female same-sex love story The Fragrant Companions is sure to intrigue academics, undergraduates, general readers, and theater professionals alike. -- Patricia Sieber, coeditor of How to Read Chinese DramaThis felicitous translation of The Fragrant Companions, with a comprehensive introduction, makes Li Yu’s most popular play accessible and should inspire stagings of the play across the English-speaking world. A lively translation with strong scholarly underpinnings, it is a tremendous achievement. -- Sophie Volpp, author of The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775Neatly dealing with both the passionate love between two intelligent and talented women and the Chinese examination-system, The Fragrant Companions is a rich and rewarding play that is approachable and yet also intriguingly different from much Western drama. -- M.A. Orthofer * Complete Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Women in Love and the Business of Men in Li Yu’s Chuanqi DramaDramatis PersonaeThe Relationship Between Role Types and CharactersNote on Editions of LianxiangbanList of ScenesThe Fragrant CompanionsAppendix: Modes and TunesNotesSelected Works on Li Yu and Same-Sex Love in Classical Chinese Fiction and DramaIndex
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Momentum Books Where Is My Home?: Selected Short Poems Of Rainer
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Unfolding
Book SynopsisBoth a galvanizing wake-up call and a tender lullaby.” — Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed“What I love about Arielle’s writing is that she takes readers on this journey step by step, filled with wisdom and grace.Trade Review“There is an enduring honesty in Estoria’s words that is hard to come by. She welcomes you into places within herself that always seem to serve as portals to our own homecoming. With poetry and reflection, Estoria reminds us of the imperative of our unfolding in a world that wants us to remain small.” — Cole Arthur Riley, New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh "If loving and embracing yourself for who you are feels impossible, pick up this book! Arielle invites you to step into your power through her inspiring prose and beautiful reflections." — Jenna Kutcher, New York Times bestselling author of How Are You, Really? “Arielle’s words are a balm. Somehow they soothe, but also light the fire for growth. That's an achievement.” — Jedidiah Jenkins, New York Times bestselling author of To Shake The Sleeping Self and Like Streams to the Ocean "Open up to any page and discover inspiration, honesty, and wisdom. The Unfolding will leave you feeling uplifted and open to discovering more about yourself." — Justina Blakeney, author of The New Bohemians and founder of Jungalow "With the beauty, honesty, and transparency of a true artist, Arielle invites us to shed what no longer serves us and come alive to who we’re meant to be. The Unfolding reminds us that exploration is not our enemy, and that wonder can be found in our wandering." — Danielle Coke, Oh Happy Day! illustrator and activist "What a refreshing, deep breath of a book! Through poetry, art, story, and prose, Arielle beautifully embodies the freedom, invitation, and goodness of full awakening." — Sarah Bessey, New York Times bestselling author of A Rhythm of Prayer and Jesus Feminist “What I love about Arielle’s writing is that she takes readers on this journey step by step, filled with wisdom and grace. This book will help anyone seeking to unfold into their bloom.” — Morgan Harper Nichols, author of All Along You Were Blooming and Peace is a Practice “The Unfolding is a moving, fresh, unique poetry collection and a generous invitation into the mind of the poet. Both a galvanizing wake-up call and a tender lullaby.” — Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed “Arielle is a sage within our generation and she's written a guidebook for anyone who has ever felt lost or needed a reminder that breaking is not the end of the story.” — Hannah Brencher, author of Fighting Forward and Come Matter Here “Arielle gently invites us to explore the uncharted places of our own lives, to face them with courage and vulnerability, and perhaps even discover an unfolding of our own.” — Jo Saxton, author of Ready to Rise "Perfectly balances the raw, unpolished, guttural feelings with the eloquence and refined beauty of one who has mastered poetry. This is a must read." — Propaganda, author of Terraform Yahoo! — "This stunning debut is as tender as you imagine it to be in addition to adding an extra dose of ecstatic joy to remind you how real-life becoming feels. A poetry book full of words to hold sacredly in your soul." "In a voice that is at once gentle and strong, Arielle shows that our process of becoming, while at times uncertain, is as beautiful as a blooming flower.” — Dr. Hillary L McBride, author of The Wisdom of Your Body “In Arielle’s raw recounting of her own journey, she beautifully mirrors our true worth and value that we are invited into remembering and finding home within ourselves.” — Ruthie Lindsey, author of There I Am “Arielle's words are breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring. The Unfolding is like a healing roadmap, nourishment for those who are thirsty for hope, growth and awakening.” — Minaa B., LMSW “Arielle tenderly offers us a richness of grace only seen from the mystics of the old. Her eloquence of story and depth of wisdom lovingly unfolds us into her process, awakening liberation in each of us.” — William Matthews, music director at New Abbey "The Unfolding is a beautiful invitation to come back to yourself, trust your inner wisdom, and just take a breath." — Jamie Varon, author of Radically Content
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Kidsocado دیوان حافظ: غزلیات حافظ Hafez
£37.05
NeWest Press Coconut
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The Poetry Translation Centre The Cartographer
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£7.00
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Visitors
Book SynopsisOn a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stand looking out to sea. Moored off-shore is a huge nowee (boat) then there are two, then more. Who are these visitors? Where are they from? What do they want? Should they be turned awayby forceor welcomed to country? In The Visitors, Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison (Stolen, Rainbow''s End) reimagines the arrival of the First Fleet from a First Nations'' perspective. These senior men, carrying the weight of cultural responsibility in their very human hearts, must decide what action they''ll take toward these unwanted arrivals. A decision, under pressure, that will have repercussionsunforeseeably and forever. Told with wit, charm, and a fierce intelligence, Harrison''s story upends the dominant point of view of this pivotal event. Annotated and with an introduction by Wesley Enoch. ''I do not doubt thatThe Visitorswill take its place alongsideStolenas a touchstone of Australian theatre, and as an essential part of the continuing struggle to make sense of colonisation and multigenerational trauma.''Harriet Cunningham, Sydney Morning Herald
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not a cult LLC Violet in Some Places
Book SynopsisViolet in Some Places is the life of a man enveloped in the raw, nurturing magic of matriarchs. If ever there was a guide toward masculine vulnerability, power through listening, a rosetta stone for empathy— it is here in the silky, poetic prose beautifully woven throughout this empowering collection from Cebo Campbell.
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Broadview Press Ltd Modern Love
Book SynopsisThe Victorian writer George Meredith completed Modern Love, his most famous poem, in the months following his wife's death in 1861. The series of 16-line sonnets (a stanzaic form Meredith invented) depicts isolated scenes in an unhappy marriage as both partners take lovers. At the time, Meredith's long poem was savaged by critics both for its style and for its "diseased" content. In this century, however, it has received increasingly favorable attention as an extraordinarily powerful exploration of the realities of Victorian marriage. Along with the text itself and an informative introduction, the editor provides a wide range of background materials to help set the work in its historical and literary context.Trade Review“In this superbly edited Broadview edition, Modern Love is made newly available both for course assignment and for the general reader. Well-chosen ancillary materials—contemporary reviews, feminist and anti-feminist polemics, debates about what ‘modern’ poetry ‘could and, more importantly, should represent’—are included to set Meredith’s 50-poem sequence in context. Many of Meredith’s mid-Victorian contemporaries were outraged by his bleakly unillusioned exposure of the innermost precincts of married life. In our own cultural moment, these scenes from a marriage are both classic and timely, probing the misery two modern lovers inflict and suffer with utmost candor and compassion.” — Jane Hedley, Bryn Mawr College author of Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence “… This edition recognizes the significance of Modern Love by allowing it to stand apart. The choice to curate and comment on a just selection of poems originally published alongside the sonnet sequence … is a welcome one; it illuminates Meredith’s poetic range and Victorian literary taste while inviting a next generation of research to celebrate the powerful unorthodoxy of Modern Love. Well-chosen and beautifully contextualized reviews and contemporaneous writings on poetic form and gender ideology draw out the literary and historical dimensions of the poem in this new, soon-to-be integral edition.” — Alicia Williams, Rutgers University “This excellent and necessary edition of George Meredith’s most important poem will be a great help to scholars, teachers, and students. Elisha Cohn’s expert editing and illuminating notes make this complex sonnet sequence accessible and enjoyable both for fans of Meredith and for anyone encountering his work for the first time. The supplementary materials … make a powerful case for the literary and cultural significance of a text that remains provocative in its articulation of the vexed relationship between men and women.” — Anna Barton, University of SheffieldTable of Contents Introduction Modern Love Modern Love In Context Meredith's Poems "Juggling Jerry" (1862) "The Beggar's Soliloquy" (1862) "Ode to the Spirit of The Earth in Autumn" (1862) "Lucifer in Starlight" (1883) Contemporary Reviews from Unsigned Review, Parthenon (1862) from Unsigned Review, Athenaeum (1862) from R.H. Hutton, The Spectator (1862) from A.C. Swinburne, Letter to The Spectator (1862) R.H. Hutton, The Spectator (1862) from Unsigned Review, Westminster Review (1862) from Unsigned Review, Saturday Review (1863) from Arthur Symons, "Meredith's Poetry," Westminster Review (1887) Gender Ideology from Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities (1842) from Caroline Norton, English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854) from The Matrimonial Causes Act (1857) from William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (1829/1862) from J.S. Mill, On the Subjection of Women (1869) Poetics from J.S. Mill, "What is Poetry?" (1833) from Matthew Arnold, "Preface" to Poems (1853) from Arthur Hugh Clough, "Recent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems by Alexander Smith, Matthew Arnold, and Others" (1853) from Gerald Massey, "Poetry—The Spasmodists" (1858) from E.S. Dallas, The Gay Science (1866) from George Meredith, "The Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit" (1877) from William Sharp, Sonnets of this Century (1886) Images
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Ruby Dhal My Hope for Tomorrow (Second Edition)
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2Leaf Press Dolls
Book SynopsisPoems that address the pain caused by gender stereotypes and racial oppression in the American South. Claire Millikin’s poetry collection, Dolls, stages a confrontation of gendered and racial oppression. Working through the motif of the doll, the poems interrogate femininity in the traditional culture of the South, where damaging structures of gender and race are upheld. Millikin centers the book on an elegy for Sage Smith, an African American trans woman who disappeared from Charlottesville in 2012. Through the recurring figure of the doll—an ultra-femme figure who is frozen, damaged, silenced—Millikin protests the conditions of sexism in the area she was born in, offering poised responses to the wound of injustice that still shapes the region. With a reflective introduction by poet and scholar Sean Frederick Forbes, Dolls presents a harsh look at the price of traditional femininity.
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: Faces of the Romantic
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: Wojouh AlMothaqqaf AlRomancy (Faces of the Romantic Intellectual), the well-known Palestinian literary critic and scholar Dr. Faisal Darraj examines the monumental literary duree of Jabra (1919-1994). He delineates the threads that form the world of Jabra, the novelist, short story writer, a translator of Shakespeares tragedies, a literary critic, and a painter.
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Prison Poems of Nikolai Bukharin
Book SynopsisNikolai Bukharin (18881938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting a trial and eventual execution. Remarkably during that time, from March 1937 to March 1938, Bukharin wrote four book-length manuscripts by hand in his prison cell. Seventy years later, The Prison Poems is the last of the four prison manuscripts, which include How It All Began: The Prison Noveland Socialism and Its Culture, to be published, allowing readers to grasp Bukharin's vision in its full extent. Bukharin organized the nearly 180 poems in this volume, written from June to November 1937, into several series. One dealing with forerunners to the 1917 Russian Revolution and another focusing on the Russian Civil War contain commentary not found in the other prison manuscripts. The same is true of the Lyrical Intermezzo poems for and about Anna Larina, his young wife, from whom he was separated by his imprisonment. This first En
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Carcanet Press Ltd Prophecy
Book SynopsisFollowing his acclaimed Pandemonium, Thomas McCarthy’s Prophecy dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods and themes. There are poems on illness and recovery, ageing and creativity. From the community well of his childhood home in County Waterford to the holy well and pilgrim site of St Gobnait’s in County Cork, the poet finds that the act of remembering is an act of making and understanding. `All this / Metaphor and trauma and formal technique / I place in my canvas travel bag’, he writes, beginning his poetic journeys into formal Irish Gardens of Remembrance, field hospitals of the great War, the 1970s university campus of Iowa. `Along with Paul Muldoon,’ suggested Dennis O’Driscoll, McCarthy is `the most important Irish poet of his generation.’Trade Review`His voice – with its idiosyncratic tone and verbal texture – registered firmly as one of the most distinctive and it is now one of the most authoritative among poets of his generation.’ - Dublin Review of Books
£9.99
Enitharmon Press The Breaking Hour
Book SynopsisThis is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. Many of Kevin Crossley-Holland's beautifully wrought, often moving poems inhabit the crossing-places between actuality, memory and imagination; and invoking Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, they journey from Hades to a hellish warzone, and from the high Alps and to the creeks and saltmarshes of north Norfolk.Trade Review'Crossley-Holland uncovers not only words but an entire landscape which haunts and is rich in echoes.' - HELEN DUNMORE, THE OBSERVER
£9.99
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race
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Ediciones Catedra, S.A. Poeta En Nueva York
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Elliott & Thompson Limited The Heeding
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2022 ___ A year of looking, listening and noticing across four unique seasons and thirty-five beautifully illustrated poems. 'Dazzling, moving... A book that will touch many, and be given often: here, take this, you must read this.' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'So vivid... A call out to our elemental relationship with love and nature. Beautiful.' WILLEM DAFOE ___ The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely. The Heeding paints a picture of a year caught in the grip of history, yet filled with revelatory perspectives close at hand: a sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved-one's hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard - the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own. Across four seasons and thirty-five luminous poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes lead us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with fear and pain but beauty and wonder too. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, The Heeding is a profound meditation to a time no-one will forget. At its heart, this is a book that helps us look again, to heed: to be attentive to this world we share and this history we're living through, to be aware of how valuable and fragile we are, to grieve what's lost and to hope for a better and brighter tomorrow. ____ 'The Heeding speaks to us all, guiding us through the emotional journey the nation has gone through during the past year, with humour, pathos and forensically sharp portrayals of people and nature at a time like no other.' Stephen Moss, author of The Robin 'Poignant and exquisite' Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden 'Vivid, beating, aching. The Heeding feels like both a eulogy and a defiant, wild challenge to go on. I loved it.' Josie George, author of A Still Life 'It is rare to find a writer that is able to tease apart the threads that make up the fragile fabric of our loves, hopes and despairs with such care and humility. An exceptionally good book for an exceptionally bad time.' Matt Gaw, author of Under the Stars Trade Review'So powerful, and rich, and true. Every line in The Heeding feels freshly discovered, full of urgency and clarity. This is an exceptionally moving and beautiful book.’ Nick Drake, poet and author of Out of Range ‘A dazzling collection of words and images.’ Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings‘Poignant and exquisite.’ Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden‘It is rare to find a writer that is able to tease apart the threads that make up the fragile fabric of our loves, hopes and despairs with such care and humility. An exceptionally good book for an exceptionally bad time.' Matt Gaw, author of Under the Stars‘Writing that finds light in the dark... Poignant, powerful, pressing.’ Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment‘A raw, dark and tender, visually stunning, emotionally unravelling distillation of the year in which minutes were endless but whole months disappeared. It’s all here.’ Dr Amy-Jane Beer, author of The Flow
£16.75
