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Josef Weinberger Plays M Butterfly Acting Edition for Theater
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£10.44
Wordsworth Editions Ltd Macbeth
Book SynopsisEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the appalling emotional and psychological effects on both Lady Macbeth and himself. The cruel ironies of their destiny are conveyed in poetry of unsurpassed power. In the theatre, this tragedy remains perennially engrossing.
£5.62
Carcanet Press Ltd New York Poets: An Anthology
Book SynopsisFor the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competing and encouraging each other's radical experiments with language and form. Much of their work reflects their participation in the creative energies of the New York art scene, 'the floods of paint', to quote James Schuyler, 'in whose crashing surf we all scramble'. Believing that anything could be material for a poem, they transformed American poetry with their irreverent wit and daring. Mark Ford's anthology is an essential introduction to four poets whose work has influenced poetry around the world. It includes detailed background information and a substantial bibliography.Table of ContentsFrank O'Hara John Ashbery Kenneth Koch James Schuyler
£13.46
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Harold Pinter Writers Lives S
Book SynopsisA biography of one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. It offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and language common to his life and creative output.Trade Review"William Baker's Harold Pinter affords readers with a comprehensive, career-spanning analysis of the Nobel Laureate's life and art. A deft and eminently rewarding exploration of one of postwar literature's great masters, Baker's study will become the standard-bearer for our understanding and enjoyment of Pinter's time-eclipsing work." - Professor Ken Womack, Penn State University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction and Acknowledgements; 1. Growing Up; 2. Ireland, Precarious Existence and Marriage; 3. Early Plays; 4. Success; 5. Turning Points; 6. The 1970s and 1980s; 7. The 1990s and Beyond: Political Engagement; 8. Conclusion: Cancer, The Nobel Prize, Mutations of Mortality, Poetry; Bibliography; Index.
£18.74
Red Hen Press Vampire Planet
Book SynopsisRon Koertge wants to do nothing but delight. Armed with wit and brains, he introduces readers to Dr. Frankenstein's frustrated fiancée and gives an alternate reading to the Bible story about Lot's nameless wife. He rues the loss of a favorite pair of underpants, attends a bachelor party where Mr. Magoo makes an appearance, and suggests what cheerleaders will be like in the future. Bashful, one of the seven dwarfs, spills the beans about Snow White. Death comes home from a business trip to his favorite meal, and Epeius—who designed the Trojan horse—turns out to be a better architect than a warrior. Saint George muses about girls, and on her honeymoon Mrs. Mark Trail wishes her husband would take his eyes off that moose get down to business. In a sestina, Ron probes the psyches of the Hardy boys. A half dozen charming couplets tell about an experience at a local car wash, and a domestic reveals the secret life of clothes. Like Reverend Ike and John Lennon said, "Whatever gets you through the night"—this book will do that and carry you right into the next day. Guaranteed.
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare and Feminist Theory
Book SynopsisMarianne Novy is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and has been teaching Shakespeare from a feminist perspective there since 1971.Trade ReviewUsing close reading, social context, and some intriguing nuggets of performance history, Novy's book is as illuminating as it is readable. It is also rendered all the more urgent by her inclusion of current gender issues. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Likeness and Difference 3. Desire 4. Marriage 5. Motherhood 6. Language 7. Between Women 8. Work Bibliography Index
£24.69
Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Scorched Revised
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£20.39
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Complete Poems
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£11.69
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Essential Odyssey
Book SynopsisAn abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey". It offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.
£11.39
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Four Tragedies Electra Philoctetes Ajax The Women
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn these new translations Meineck and Woodruff have struck a near-ideal balance between accuracy and readability, formality and colloquialism. Their versions are simply a pleasure to read, conveying with remarkable vividness the powerful characterizations and poetic variety of the originals. The addition of succinct but illuminating notes makes this an exemplary volume for anyone interested in Sophocles' dramatic art. --Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Department of Classics, Wesleyan University[T]his sequel to the same pair's well-received translation of the Theban plays hits an appropriate mean . . . a text that I could happily adopt for teaching. --Malcolm Heath in Greece and RomeTable of ContentsIntroduction; Notes on the Translations; Map: Sophoclean geography; House of Pelops Family Tree; Ajax; Women of Trachis; Electra; Philoctetes; Endnotes.
£13.29
City Lights Books City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
Book Synopsis Printer''s ink is the greater explosive.Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone Worldand within a year, he had brought out two more volumes, translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then, poems by Kenneth Patchen. But it was the success and scandal of Number Four, Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956), that put City Lights on the map, positioning the Pocket Poets Series at the forefront of the literary counterculture. A landmark sixtieth retrospective celebrating 60 years of publishing and cultural history, this edition provides an invaluable distillation of the energetic, iconoclastic and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes, including the work of Ginsberg, KTrade Review"[A] book you can’t help but cherish.”—Times Literary Supplement "The true marvel of the City Light Pocket Poets Anthology is its reappearance in its 60th year. That represents a venerable tradition (and a long run) for an avant-garde that often mutates too quickly for continuity … just as Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems became the best-selling poetry book of a generation, Ferlinghetti’s own A Coney Island of the Mind, with its insouciant bravado and cheer, has passed the million sales mark. That’s a rare occurrence in these United States. So is the Pocket Poets Series.”—John Tytell, Los Angeles Review of Books "The 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology is the kind of collection the publisher has produced for years. It keeps the brand alive and necessary, and wow, there are some special treats, like poems by Pablo Picasso. Its old news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who edited this, has been looking at art with devastating erudition since the middle of the last century. As anthologist, he has lost none of his edge, and so he gives us a fabulous stew of the familiar, in Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, and other beats mixed in with Marie Ponsot, has earned more attention than she usually receives — There is so much more in this blazing gift of a volume that provides another example of the range of the City Lights endeavor. Allen Ginsberg. Gregory Corso. Diane di Prima. Check. Check. Check. Plus imported and domestic surprises. Pocket Poets has always been a project that enabled people to carry fine poems comfortably in their clothes, next to skin, so that this great stream of poetry could seep right in.”—The Rumpus “Open the book anywhere and you will be sure to find an unexpected delicacy that gives rise to political memories, trips to distant places, or spiritual quests … Ferlinghetti has once again given us the opportunity to walk the streets with laughter, satire, ferment, sadness, joy, dissidence, and love tucked in our pockets.”—R.I. Sutherland-Cohen, Beat Scene "San Francisco’s City Lights Books began publishing the Pocket Poets Series in 1955. Speaking of his intentions for the series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes, 'I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment.' Consistent with this philosophy, the new 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology includes not only the familiar names associated with a particular San Francisco literary scene (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti himself, others), but writing and writers from across the years and oceans. Readers possessing only anecdotal familiarity with City Lights Books will find an unexpected breadth of artistic sensibility within the Anthology, and no doubt several fine poems by previously undiscovered writers. Recommended for established fans of the press and newcomers alike.”—Toad Suck Review"[A] book you can’t help but cherish.”Times Literary Supplement "The true marvel of the City Light Pocket Poets Anthology is its reappearance in its 60th year. That represents a venerable tradition (and a long run) for an avant-garde that often mutates too quickly for continuity just as Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems became the best-selling poetry book of a generation, Ferlinghetti’s own A Coney Island of the Mind, with its insouciant bravado and cheer, has passed the million sales mark. That’s a rare occurrence in these United States. So is the Pocket Poets Series.”John Tytell, Los Angeles Review of Books "The 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology is the kind of collection the publisher has produced for years. It keeps the brand alive and necessary, and wow, there are some special treats, like poems by Pablo Picasso. Its old news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who edited this, has been looking at art with devastating erudition since the middle of the last century. As anthologist, he has lost none of his edge, and so he gives us a fabulous stew of the familiar, in Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, and other beats mixed in with Marie Ponsot, has earned more attention than she usually receives — There is so much more in this blazing gift of a volume that provides another example of the range of the City Lights endeavor. Allen Ginsberg. Gregory Corso. Diane di Prima. Check. Check. Check. Plus imported and domestic surprises. Pocket Poets has always been a project that enabled people to carry fine poems comfortably in their clothes, next to skin, so that this great stream of poetry could seep right in.”—The Rumpus Open the book anywhere and you will be sure to find an unexpected delicacy that gives rise to political memories, trips to distant places, or spiritual quests Ferlinghetti has once again given us the opportunity to walk the streets with laughter, satire, ferment, sadness, joy, dissidence, and love tucked in our pockets.”R.I. Sutherland-Cohen, Beat Scene "San Francisco’s City Lights Books began publishing the Pocket Poets Series in 1955. Speaking of his intentions for the series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes, 'I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment.' Consistent with this philosophy, the new 60th Anniversary Edition of the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology includes not only the familiar names associated with a particular San Francisco literary scene (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti himself, others), but writing and writers from across the years and oceans. Readers possessing only anecdotal familiarity with City Lights Books will find an unexpected breadth of artistic sensibility within the Anthology, and no doubt several fine poems by previously undiscovered writers. Recommended for established fans of the press and newcomers alike.”Toad Suck ReviewTable of ContentsCity Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 40th Anniversary edition, published in 1995, contained a selection of three poems each from every Pocket Poet book published in the series, up through Number 52. This edition picks up where that left off, including all of the above, and adding three poems each (selected again by Ferlinghetti, series editor) from the titles/poets published in the series since then: Number 53 SAVE TWILIGHT Julio Cortázar Number 54 ORPHIC SONGS Dino Campana Number 55 FRONT LINES Jack Hirschman Number 56 NINE ALEXANDRIAS Semezdin Mehmedinovic Number 57 THE LANGUAGE OF SAXOPHONES Kamau Daáood Number 58 STATE OF EXILE Cristina Peri Rossi Number 59 TAU Philip Lamantia Number 60 WHEN I WAS A POET David Meltzer
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
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£13.49
Currency Press Pty Ltd Hotel Sorrento
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£13.49
John Wiley & Sons Poetry Comes Up Where It Can
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£12.56
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada The Best of Chief Dan George Poems
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£13.29
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Bacchae
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£12.34
Faber & Faber The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
Book SynopsisEdward Lear was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussycat. This complete edition of Lear''s nonsense verse - including the limericks, longer verses, alphabets and his own illustrations - is lovingly restored and beautifully presented, for adults and children to enjoy together.
£9.49
Samuel French Ltd Gasping
Book SynopsisThe first play written by the popular author of Popcorn, Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way to make money where none has existed before gives him. Philip, a pushy workaholic executive, suggests selling designer air. Perrier for the nostrils becomes the marketing phenomenon of the decade and millions are quickly made. People start hoarding for a rainy day and oxygen supplies run low. The Third World is plundered, creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots.3 women, 3 men
£10.99
Harvard University Press Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus
Book SynopsisSophocles (497/6–406 BC), considered one of the world’s greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and legend. Seven complete plays are extant, including Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. Among many fragments that also survive is a substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers.Trade ReviewSir Hugh is providing, that is, what Nabokov, in rendering Eugene Onegin, called a metaphrase—a scrupulous, bare explanation of the original… Plainspun prose indeed, but attractively diaphanous. We can be pretty sure that these were the exact lexical intentions of Sophocles… Reading the seven Sophocles plays in the new Loeb version only confirms his impenetrable greatness. -- Donald Lyons * New Criterion *Hugh Lloyd-Jones was a very natural choice of editor… He gives a 22-page introduction on Sophocles’ life, together with a very brief consideration of the seven plays and a short guide to further reading. * Greece and Rome *
£23.70
Harvard University Press Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea
Book SynopsisEuripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.Trade ReviewA well-executed and stimulating production. * Classical Review *An excellent 48-page general introduction… The translation…is close to the Greek and reads fluently and well. All in all this is an excellent little volume. * Greece and Rome *Both experts and generalists will benefit from the work of this experienced Euripidean scholar. -- John E. Thorburn * Religious Studies Review *
£23.70
Harvard University Press Lyric Poetry. Etna
Book SynopsisPietro Bembo (1470-1547), scholar and critic, was one of the most admired Latinists of his day. The poems in this volume come from all periods of his life and reflect both his erudition and his wide-ranging friendships. This volume also includes the prose dialogue Etna, an account of Bembo’s ascent of Mt. Etna in Sicily during his student days.Trade ReviewChatfield has provided a useful life, a brief commentary on each work, and textual, metrical, and the occasional substantive note, with a bibliography and index. The pages are bright and uncluttered. There is a generous holding back of the facing Latin text in order to allow the English to catch up, so that the original is always next to its translation...Even in translation, Bembo has a voice of his own. It sounds through the English in his thoughts, moods, and modes; he can be lyrical, didactic, epigrammatic, and epic. -- Marcia Karp * Sixteenth Century Journal *
£25.46
Faber & Faber Ted Hughes New Selected Poems 19571994 Faber
Book SynopsisThis volume replaced Ted Hughes''s Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes''s writing life, and some new work. Another notable feature is the inclusion of poems from his books for younger readers, What is the Truth? and Season Songs.
£15.29
Faber & Faber Serious Concerns
Book SynopsisWendy Cope''s first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as ''Bloody Men'', ''Men and Their Boring Arguments'', ''Two Cures for Love'', ''Kindness to Animals'' and ''Tumps'' (Typically Useless Male Poets).
£10.44
Samuel French Ltd 84 Charing Cross Road
Book SynopsisThis wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff (played on Broadway by Ellen Burstyn) first writes Marks & Co. and ends in 1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of so many old volumes to Helen who has shown her gratitude through the years by sending care packages to the staff of Marks & Co.
£12.80
Faber & Faber Beowulf A New Translation
Book SynopsisComposed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift.The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels between this story and the history of the twentieth century, nor can Heaney''s Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light of his Northern Irish upbringing. But it also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating.
£11.69
Faber & Faber David Hare Plays 1
Book SynopsisThis first volume of David Hare''s plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of ''one of the great post-war British playwrights'' (Independent on Sunday).The volume also includes the plays Slag, Teeth ''n'' Smiles, Knuckle and Licking Hitler, and is introduced by the author.
£17.09
Samuel French Ltd The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Book SynopsisPeter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy embark on a magical mystery tour to the Land of Narnia through the wardrobe. There they encounter the wicked White Witch, representing the forces of evil, and the King of the Beasts, Aslan the lion, representing all that is good and right. The White Witch is destroyed, allowing good to triumph over evil in the time-honoured way.
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Faber & Faber Birthday Letters Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisTed Hughes''s Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes''s only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. ''To read [Birthday Letters] is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping.'' Seamus Heaney ''Even if it were possible to set aside its biographical value . . . its linguistic, technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future. Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greate
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Faber & Faber 101 Sonnets
Book SynopsisPoets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has devised an anthology that is both a sharing of personal favourites and a celebration of high moments in the sonnet''s history. His introduction and wonderfully insightful notes provide a history and commentary that will prove illuminating to the casual reader and indispensable to the student or aspiring sonneteer.
£10.44
Nick Hern Books Superhoe: the hit stage play behind major BBC TV
Book SynopsisThe hit stage play behind major BBC TV drama series Mood. Sasha Clayton is twenty-four and living with her mum, stepdad, and irritating little sister, in Plaistow, East London. She's gone from being the most popular girl at school, to spending most of her time on her own in her bedroom scrolling through social media. She may not have a job or a flat, and, admittedly her boyfriend's not answering her calls – but she's got talent and a dream. When she releases her first EP everything's going to change. Nicôle Lecky's play Superhoe was first staged in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2019, performed by its author and directed by Jade Lewis. It was the first collaboration between Talawa Theatre Company and the Royal Court. The play was adapted by Nicôle Lecky into the six-part BBC television drama series Mood, first broadcast in March 2022.Trade Review'Fiercely clever... equal parts brutally funny and brutally sad... for a story of loneliness, isolation and entrapment, Superhoe is also beautiful and hopeful' * The Stage *'A vivid and touching portrait of millennial angst' * Telegraph *'A terrific piece by rising star Nicole Lecky, full of wit, truth and blazing feeling... smart, of the moment, and very funny' * Metro *'An engaging and hyper-provocative solo piece that shines a light on the perils new generations face' * Broadway World *'A frank, funny, and at times devastating piece which explores class, familial relations, and making ends meet with only your phone' * WhatsOnStage *'Nicole Lecky is a revelation… smart, sweary, authentic and provocative' * Evening Standard *'Astute, aggy and punctuated with rap, Superhoe pins down the financial difficulties of young adults' * Guardian *'Nicôle Lecky is a serious name to watch… this thrilling monologue is clearly the work of somebody who will go very, very far indeed' * Time Out *
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Faber & Faber Making Love to Marilyn Monroe The Faber Book of
Book SynopsisMaking Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse presents a variety of candidly sexual verse through the centuries from Catullus and Chaucer to modern poets like T.S. Eliot, Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney, James Fenton, Kit Wright, Craig Raine and Wendy Cope. Here the bawdy goes hand in hand with emotional, intellectual, confessional, and satirical touching tributes to that perennially fascinating subject - sex.
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Faber & Faber The Waste Land Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisPublished in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilization between the two World Wars.
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Faber & Faber The Whitsun Weddings Faber Modern Classics Faber
Book SynopsisThe most cherished of poets, Philip Larkin is a writer with an unrivalled ability to touch readers with his evocations of English life. The Whitsun Weddings, his first volume with Faber and Faber, was published in 1964. This Faber Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Alan Johnson MP.''Larkin, with his (in the best sense) provincial eye, and his unparalleled ear, is the supreme writer of post-war England.'' Telegraph''Larkin''s originality is palpable . . . Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom? And let it be emphasised that Larkin is never ''depressing''.'' Martin Amis
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Faber & Faber Oswald A Thing in the Gap Stone Stile
Book SynopsisPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald''s first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely musical style, and her breath-taking gift for visionary writing.''The poetry of Alice Oswald arrives like a zephyr . . . a fresh and exciting first collection.'' Kathleen Jamie, Times Literary Supplement''an inspired debut of lightly-worn wisdom and verbal panache.'' John Fuller''Alice Oswald throws the windows of the imagination open; she places a fingertip on the pulse of tradition, and proves it is still very much alive.'' The Times
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Faber & Faber W H Auden Prose Volume 3 19491955
Book SynopsisThis is the fifth volume to be published in the ongoing complete edition of Auden''s works, under the editorship of Edward Mendelson. It includes the essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 -- when he wrote his first book of criticism, The Enchafèd Flood -- and December 1955, shortly before he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and began the series of lectures that he published, with much else, in The Dyer''s Hand.The texts throughout this edition are, wherever possible, newly edited from Auden''s manuscripts, and the notes report variant readings from all published versions.Trade Review"'The Complete Works, edited with elegant scruple by Edward Mendelson, is the only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him.' Boston Book Review"
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Samuel French Ltd Among the Dead
Book SynopsisAna is a Korean American who travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father''s ashes. Luke is a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944. Number Four is the name of a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter. Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea, mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy. Among the D
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Pan Macmillan Twelfth Night
Book SynopsisShakespeare’s gentle melancholy, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, has long made Twelfth Night a favourite with Shakespearian audiences.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is illustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert, and includes an introduction by Dr Robert Mighall.Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon Malvolio, the countess's steward, confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity.Trade ReviewEvery generation continues to be in his debt. Shakespeare’s plots, which are brilliantly polyvalent, continue to inspire ceaseless adaptations and spin-offs. His unforgettable phrase-making recurs on the lips of millions who do not realise they are quoting Shakespeare * Guardian *
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The Islamic Texts Society Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology
Book SynopsisSufi Poems is a selection of poems from the golden period of Sufism especially chosen and translated from the Arabic by the distinguished scholar Dr Martin Lings. Dr Lings is the author of numerous best-selling works on Sufism and is a published poet in his own right. Including poems here translated for the first time, Sufi Poems brings together selections from the giants of Sufism; for example, Rabia, Hallaj, Ibn al-Farid and Ibn Arabi. Sufi Poems is published as bi-lingual Arabic-English edition, which will be of interest to all those wishing to read the original Arabic and will also be helpful for university students of Arabic.
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Archetype Thirty Poems of Hafiz of Shiraz
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Interlink Publishing Group, Inc I Don't Want This Poem To End: Early and Late
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Tragedy of Mariam
Book SynopsisKaren Britland is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar
Book SynopsisFrom the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members—including, among others, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.Trade Review"This is a wonderfully supple and idiomatic modern translation of the most important account of the legendary Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer and his family in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. Crawford's version is vivid, clear, and exciting, tracing the intrigues, killings, battles, and magic that shape the lives of Sigurd's kindred. Coupled with it is the brilliant sequel, the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok. Rarely translated into English before, the saga tells of Sigurd's daughter and her husband, the unparalleled Viking king and hero, Ragnar, who is also a dragon-slayer. Lively and fresh, with gripping dialogue and intense scenes of action, the saga has long deserved to be better known. In Jackson Crawford it has found the perfect translator." —Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval European Literature, University of Oxford
£42.50
Beacon Press New and Selected Poems Volume One
Book SynopsisMary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet''s first eight books.Mary Oliver''s perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. Do you love this world? she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Do you cherish your humble and silky life? She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it''s done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive. She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world as if for the second time/the way it really is. Oliver''s passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.
£15.29
Random House Publishing Group Purgatory Modern Library Modern Library Classics
Book SynopsisA new translation by Anthony Esolen Illustrations by Gustave Doré Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic poem of all time—presenting Dante’s brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. In this second and perhaps most imaginative part of his masterwork, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in a continuation of his difficult ascent to purity. Anthony Esolen’s acclaimed translation of Inferno, Princeton professor James Richardson said, “follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. It is living writing.” This edition of Purgatory includes an appendix of key sources and extensive
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Beacon Press New and Selected Poems Volume Two
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£15.29
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Theory and Practice of Rivers
Book SynopsisFilled with “moving water” and intuitive leaps, The Theory and Practice of Rivers is an elegy for Harrison’s sixteen-year-old niece. This new edition of The Theory and Practice of Rivers, by Jim Harrison, returns to print—as a stand-alone volume—a classic poetry title. In a heartfelt and powerful introduction, Rebecca Solnit calls this collection both elegy (inspired by the death of his sixteen-year-old niece) and “loose memoir” (filled with language that leaps intuitively across subjects, recalling various experiences, place, and memories). Beautifully adrift in the long poem sequence seated at the heart of this book, The Theory and Practice of Rivers is filled with “moving water, the search for consolation and meaning in the sublime rightness of wild landscape” (Outside). Harrison speaks to the rivers and leaps in all of us, leaving us profoundly changed.
£15.19
Bloodaxe Books Ltd My Secret Life
Book SynopsisKrisztina Tóth is one of the leading Hungarian poets of the generation who began publishing in the late 1980s. My Secret Life is the first book of Krisztina Tóth's poetry in English translation. The poems were selected by her from three of her nine published collections, with the addition of some new or previously uncollected poems.
£10.80
University Press of America The Divan of H226fez A Bilingual Text
Book SynopsisReza Saberi has produced a new English translation of the complete Divan of Hâfez, using Dr. Parviz N. Khânlari's Edition. The text of The Divan of Hâfez is an authentic translation of all of the poems of Hâfez complete with their Persian originals.Trade ReviewReza Saberi translates the Persian with great accuracy to capture the poetic thought of each sonnet. * Journal Of South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies *Reza Saberi translates the Persian with great accuracy to capture the poetic thought of each sonnet. * Journal Of South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Ghazals Chapter 3 Qasâyed Chapter 4 Masnaviyyât Chapter 5 Sâqinâma Chapter 6 Fragments Chapter 7 Rubâiyyât Chapter 8 Assembler's Introduction, Persian Chapter 9 Assembler's Introduction, English Chapter 10 Glossary
£66.60
