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Poetry Books
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers 100 POEMS On Love Faith and Life
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£999.99
Carcanet Press Ltd Catullus: Shibari Carmina
Book SynopsisA Telegraph Best New Poetry Books for Christmas 2021. Carcanet publishes several Catulluses: C.H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, like cage fighting with two opponents,' the translator writes: 'not just A Top Poet, but the schoolgirl I was, trained to show the examiner that she knew what each word meant.' The struggle is intensified by the presence of a third element, something that made Catullus come alive, his 'tormented intelligence and romantic versatility'. 'It eventually happened at a fetish venue in South London, The Flying Dutchman - an echo of Catullus's doomed obsessive love? Someone at life class, knowing I like a drawing challenge, had told me about a Japanese rope bondage (shibari) club called Bound. I asked the management if I could draw there; on arrival I was treated like the Queen Mother. Best of all, the schoolgirl was too young to be let in.' The dynamics of shibari released Catullus from conventional constraints and delivered him to new rigours: 'I found context, metaphor and idiom for Catullus - whom one could glibly define as a bisexual switch from the late Roman Republic when such concepts were meaningless: a stern moralist who splits into an anxious bitchy dominant with the boys, a howling sub with his nemesis, the older glamorous married woman he calls Lesbia (here called Clodia, which might have been her real name).' The poet uses the terminology and forms of social media, a very contemporary idiom which is at once subjected to severe scholarship and tight syntactical discipline. All the crucial language knots are firmed up, the sense of the Latin emerges with Catullus's own laughter restored, along with the other registers of love and loss. Isobel Williams's drawings add immediacy to her versions which 'are not (for the most part) literal translations, but take an elliptical orbit around the Latin, brushing against it or defying its gravitational pull.'
£15.25
Carcanet Press Ltd The Kingdom
Book SynopsisThe Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycott's distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in a way that opens the world afresh. Here are England's towns and countryside, roads and ports and sushi chains, yards and herbs, an airport and a columbarium, and poems that consider art in a time of plague by way of meditation on Titian, Apollinaire and Derek Jarman.Trade Review'The word "quiet" should be applied to the chords and modulations of Draycott's eerie and beautiful poems. She listens, and therefore so do we.' - Sean O'Brien
£10.79
Carcanet Press Ltd The Miraculous Season
Book SynopsisThe dramatic, eccentric, startling poetry of V.R. 'Bunny' Lang, rediscovered and in print for the first time since 1975.
£14.24
Carcanet Press Ltd Come Here To This Gate
Book SynopsisCome Here to This Gate is a three-part collection, focusing variously on caring for an alcoholic father with dementia, the personal and global conflicts that shape our lives, and what happens when imps, ghosts and boggarts have to reckon with the modern world.
£10.79
Carcanet Press Ltd Buntings Honey
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£10.79
Olympia Publishers A Mind that Scares the Night
Book SynopsisDuring his childhood, Marcus decided to love the way of words as an escapism from the harsh reality surrounding him. Encouraged by his grandma to read from encyclopedia and dictionaries, he began to express himself through poetry at the young age of twelve. Finding himself homeless and depressed during his teens, Marcus lost his love for a time.Fortunately, years later, as he tackled his depression, his love was reignited, and he has spent the years thereafter putting his experiences and emotions into his words and he is now ready to share them with the world.
£999.99
Michael Terence Publishing Rana Roo Poetry
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Collins Classics
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
£8.23
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sifting Through the Madness for the Word the Line
Book SynopsisOne of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America.Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski’s life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more.Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative - published posthumously, it’s completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski’s lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty.We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.
£16.14
HarperCollins Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain The New Poems
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ariel
Book Synopsis“Made up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry, Ariel is a masterpiece.” — New York ObserverSylvia Plath''s famous collection, as she intended it.When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to the public, it garnered worldwide acclaim, but it wasn''t the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath''s original manuscript—including handwritten notes—and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem Ariel, which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process o
£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Collected Poems
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Essential Dickinson
£8.67
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Essential Shakespeare
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£11.69
HarperCollins Collected Lyrics Perennial Library
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart Poems for Men
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£16.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Plays of Anton Chekhov
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£16.19
HarperCollins North Point North New and Selected Poems
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£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Essential Rilke
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£13.49
HarperCollins October Palace The
£13.60
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Book of Longing
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£15.29
ECCO Press Let Us Compare Mythologies
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£17.99
HarperCollins Tell the World Teen Poems from Writerscorps
£11.39
HarperCollins Bicycles
£11.99
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd The Ghost Soldiers Poems
Book SynopsisIn this fifteenth collection of poetry, James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous.
£11.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Collected Poems
£15.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Iliad
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£17.99
HarperCollins Star Over Bethlehem
£14.39
HarperCollins The Oedipus Cycle
Book SynopsisSophocles' immortal Oedipus plays personify both the cosmic and the all-too-human forces that wreak emotional and physical mayhem upon the lives of a stricken royal family. This title presents a translation of the entire "Oedipus Cycle".
£12.89
HarperCollins Elektra
Book SynopsisOrestes has returned to his homeland intent on exacting a bloody vengeance upon its rulers: his mother Klytemnestra and his step-father Aegisthus, who together murdered Orestes' father, Agamemnon. The prince's sister, Elektra, has long awaited his return, fueding with Klytemnestra over her mother's moral justifications for killing Agamemnon.
£9.37
HarperCollins Oedipus the King
Book SynopsisWith a plague ravishing Thebes, it falls upon Oedipus, the king, to discover its cause. Yet in consulting the blind prophet Tiresias, Oedipus uncovers not only the roots of the gods' displeasure but also a dreadful secret about his own past.
£9.37
HarperCollins Publishers Inc XX
Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize finalist A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets—a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath’s astonishing sequence of one hundred poems—one per year—written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, XX turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin—its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.Elegiac and celebratory, deeply tragic and wickedly funny, XX is a unique collection fro
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Harpers Anthology of 20th Century Native American
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Chasing Utopia
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£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc LAST TROUBADOUR New and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA haunting and intimately observed new collection from David St. John, a poet of soaring imagination and passionate candor In The Last Troubadour, David St. John has given us a collection of new and selected poems of astonishing beauty, precise and keenly observed but also touched with sensuality and deep feeling. Nothing is too small to escape notice (in “Guitar” St. John reflects on the beauty of that word) or too large to be explored-the suicide of a friend, the illness of a lover, or the texture of longing and desire. A sharp observer of landscapes within and without, St. John directs his empathetic gaze and vivid, inventive voice to investigating both the darkest and the most inspiring parts of being human, the small moments between friends and lovers as well as the groundswells that alter lives. At times lyrical, sometimes conversational, occasionally wry and playful, St. John’s poetry reveals an expansive vision animated by “intimacy and subtlety, and by a disturbing force, the work of an urgent sensibility and a true ear.” (W.S. Merwin) The beauty, music, and artistry of David St. John’s widely admired work is fully on display in this masterful collection.
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Scribbled in the Dark Poems
Book SynopsisFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems—an American master at the height of his talent The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer’s pen.Trade Review“Simic...has always challenged and delighted his audience with writing that is beautiful and surreal and forces people to consider the validity of their own perceptions.” — Washington Post “Image by image, Simic composes miniature masterpieces, offering what appears as a seemingly effortless study in language’s cinematic possibilities.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
£12.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fast
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Essential Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisThe essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates“Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . .Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely private; like Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she is the great poet of inwardness, of the indefinable region of the soul in which we are, in a sense, all alone.” —from the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Civil Twilight Poems
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Come Closer and Listen New Poems
Book SynopsisAn insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets.Trade Review“Simic...has always challenged and delighted his audience with writing that is beautiful and surreal and forces people to consider the validity of their own perceptions.” — Washington Post “One of our finest poets... singularly engaging, eminently sane...” — New York Review of Books “His poetry … is comic and elegiac in equal measure. It has an Old World sensibility…that he pins to a New World lightness of heart.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Summer Snow
Book SynopsisA major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event.Trade Review“It all sounds like mastery, like singular virtuosity attained on a very popular instrument — common American speech.” — New York Times Book Review "Hass personalizes everything, warms everything up. He’s an open book; but he’s also someone whom readers should, in every sense of the phrase, keep their eye on." — New Yorker
£13.78
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Death of Sitting Bear
Book SynopsisSpanning nearly fifty years, the poems gathered here illuminate the human condition, Momaday’s connection to his Kiowa roots, and his spiritual relationship to the American landscape.The title poem, “The Death of Sitting Bear” is a celebration of heritage and a memorial to the great Kiowa warrior and chief.Trade Review“These are the poems of a master poet, born of an age when our ears were not so bent towards digital production. Or should I say, these are the poems of a bear who has walked through several generations and stands before us, breathing clouds into a cold dawn, bearing this book of poetry. The bear’s journey is mythic, a migration through tragedy and beauty, over lands rich with horses and stories. When you read these poems, you will learn to hear deeply the sound a soul makes as it sings about the mystery of dreaming and becoming.” — Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, U.S. Poet Laureate "An admirable capstone to a distinguished literary career, this splendid selection should be a treasure for Momaday’s readers and an excellent introduction for those new to Native American writing." — Library Journal (starred review) “Firmly steeped in Kiowa heritage and indigenous oral storytelling traditions, Momaday breathes in the spirit of the Southwest and breathes out masterful imagery onto the page. The poems beg to be read aloud in order to savor the taste of the language, each word carefully chosen to evoke shape, sound, sight, feeling and history with the weight of its intention. . . . This incredibly personal collection of poems presents deep reflections on the natural world, indigenous history and the nature of humans, animals and God.” — Shelf Awareness (starred review) "[A] generous collection . . . . each poem reflects a lifetime of writing across the intersections of history, identity, and language. This accessible compendium allows readers to savor the life's work of an unparalleled poet." — Booklist "A gem of a collection. . . . Soulful, heartfelt, beautifully constructed, and technically brilliant, this is a book written by one of our most important and unique voices." — Fjords "The single best collection of works from a master of Native letters." — TCJ Student Magazine
£17.46
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Our Town
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£999.99
HarperCollins Earth Keeper
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£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dearly
Book SynopsisA new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret AtwoodIn Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood’s fiction—including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, among others—she has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry. This co
£15.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Uncle Shelbys Abz Book A Primer for Adults Only
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£12.34
