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Poetry Books
Poetic Matrix Press Kohl and Chalk
£10.25
Trans Uber LLC Looking for Potholes
£6.68
Iguana and Associates Reporting from Night
£9.37
Liquid Light Press Your House Is Floating
£11.20
Ampersand Books I Dont Know Do You
£9.75
Redbat Books The Pariahs Syntax Notes from an Innocent Man
£11.64
Sticking Place Books With the Wind Persian English dual language
£30.00
Daybreak Press Brewing Storms
£7.70
New Academia Publishing, LLC Real and Phantom Pains An Anthology of New Russian Drama
£26.60
Soul Water Rising Legendary A Tribute to Those Who Honorably Serve Devalued Children
£22.00
Christine Mathieu Under the Azure
£14.00
Doreen Valiente Foundation The Charge of the Goddess
£9.99
Sunesis Ministries In the Meantime
£11.52
Chiswick Books I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside
£8.67
Sleeping Mountain Press EMail From The Soul New Selected Leadership Poems
£10.00
Metaflux Publishing Immaterialism 1 Metaflux Metatext
£7.93
P'Rea Press Dark Energies
£16.00
Stroud House Publishing Rebel in High Heels True story about the fearless mom who battledand defeatedthe kingpin of revenge porn and the dangerous forces of conformity
£11.35
Transcendent Zero Press Ends of the Earth Collected Poems of Charles Bane Jr
£8.26
Broadview Press Ltd Pearl: Text and Translation
Book SynopsisThe fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its Language (the North-west Midlands dialect of late-medieval England) and literary allusions (to biblical, mythological, and medieval works) make it difficult for modern readers to understand. This new dual-Language of Pearl provides the original Middle English with a facing-page modern English translation. It includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas, reproduction of the four manuscript Illustrations, a literary sourcebook, and lists of biblical sources, significant liturgical dates, and the concatenation words. Literary and biblical sources for the poem are provided as appendices.Trade Review“A riddling meditation on loss, grief, and the nature of faith, Pearl is a tour de force of language and a masterpiece of poetic form. Jane Beal’s achievement in this edition is to render Pearl accessible to a contemporary audience without evacuating the wonder that the poem inspires or the productive ambiguity through which it creates meaning. The introduction and contextualizing materials will be invaluable to students seeking to understand the poem’s cultural contexts, and Beal’sjudicious editorial work and facing-page translation illuminate Pearl’s slippery language while encouraging engagement with the original Middle English.” — David K. Coley, Simon Fraser University“Jane Beal’s edition and translation of Pearl will be a treasure for both students and scholars. In a thorough introduction that expertly frames the contexts and critical issues surrounding this singularly important poem, Beal also makes a compelling case for the value of having the original Middle English text alongside a student-friendly translation. Her close but graceful translation enriches the study of the poem for those who are not expert in Middle English, and the numerous footnotes that accompany the translation deepen our understanding of the Pearl-poet’s world. The edition also includes reproductions of relevant manuscript images, along with a wealth of key biblical and classical sources informing the poem. Beal’s edition will surely be a welcome addition to many university syllabi as well as an excellent resource for those researching the poetic gem that is Pearl.” — Randy Schiff, University at Buffalo, SUNYTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction A Note on the Text Pearl Appendix A: Literary Sourcebook – Key Passages Parable Parable of the Pearl of Great Price Parable of the Treasure in the Field Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard Descriptions of Pearls From Pliny, Natural History From Albert the Great, De animalibus From Marbod of Rennes, De lapidibus From Bartholomæus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum From The Peterborough Lapidary From Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch (from the Legenda Aurea) The Spring of Narcissus (from The Romance of the Rose) The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice (from King Alfred's Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Walter John Sedgefield) Dante Meets Matilda and Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise (from Dante's Purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII, trans. A. S. Kline) Pygmalion and Galatea (from Ovid's Metamorphoses) The Phoenix of Arabia (from Ovid's Metamorphoses) Origen on the Song of Songs The New Jerusalem (Revelation 21) Appendix B: List of Biblical Source Passages Appendix C: List of Significant Liturgical Dates Appendix D: Chart of Concatenation Words Select Bibliography
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London Assurance
Book SynopsisDion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created, in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker, two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the National Theatre by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.Trade Review"The dialogue is both funny and flavorsome, helped along here by a few excellent new jokes added by Richard Bean."—Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph "Tickled up with new jokes by farmer’s son and stand-up turned-playwright Richard Bean, both the countryside and play are even funnier than when this play was written in 1841."—Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday"The dialogue is both funny and flavorsome, helped along here by a few excellent new jokes added by Richard Bean."Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph "Tickled up with new jokes by farmer’s son and stand-up turned-playwright Richard Bean, both the countryside and play are even funnier than when this play was written in 1841."Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday
£12.52
Andrews McMeel Publishing Just Remember
£15.82
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ararat
£14.45
W W Norton & Co Ltd Our Dead Behind Us
Book SynopsisIn this collection, Audre Lorde gives us poems that explore "differences as creative tensions, and the melding of past strength / pain with future hope / fear; the present being the vital catalyst, the motivating force—activism."Trade Review"In these poems Lorde reveals a new maturity through language denser and richer than she has used previously. The anger she expresses comes from an awareness of suffering—both current . . . and past . . . —but is balanced by a tenderness born of love." -- Library Journal
£13.50
W. W. Norton & Company The Ages of Gaia A Biography of Our Living Earth Rev Paper
Book SynopsisJames Lovelock proposes that all living species are components of that organism, as cells are components of the human body.Trade Review"This book describes a set of observations about the life of our planet which may, one day, be recognized as one of the major discontinuities in human thought. If Lovelock turns out to be as right in his view of things as I believe he is, we will be viewing the Earth as a coherent system of life, self-regulating and self-changing, a sort of immense living organism." -- Lewis Thomas
£19.00
WW Norton & Co Letters from Maine
Book SynopsisIn poems gathered into three sections under the titles "Letters from Maine," "A Winter Garland," and "Letters to Myself," Sarton's inspiration was a new, brief, and passionate love affair.
£13.50
WW Norton & Co The Search for the Panchen Lama
Book SynopsisAn excellent primer on Tibetan history and ...a chilling picture of the brutality of Chinese repression in Tibet.-Wall Street Journal
£21.91
W W Norton & Co Ltd Blackbird Singing
Book SynopsisThe paperback version of the bestselling Blackbird Singing includes several new poems and lyrics, including Freedom, which McCartney performed in New York City at a benefit concert last fall.
£18.46
WW Norton & Co Against Love Poetry
Book SynopsisA collection of poems about marriage by one of our most celebrated poets.
£14.56
WW Norton & Co Traveling Light
Book SynopsisDark rhyming lyrics about love and impending loss. The poems may shake you, so be forewarned. Alan Cheuse, NPR
£15.42
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Rain in the Trees
£15.75
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Six Plays Methuen World Classics
Book SynopsisA collection of 6 plays from Mikhail Bulgakov, considered by many to be among the foremost Russian playwrights of the first post-revolutionary generation. The plays featured in this collection include "The White Guard", based on his expereinces as a White defending Kiev against the Bolsheviks.
£27.47
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Collected Plays Vol 1 Hay Fever The Vortex Fallen Angels and Easy Virtue
Book SynopsisThe first volume in the Coward Collection, introduced by Sheridan Morley.Table of ContentsHay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue
£29.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rattigan
Book Synopsis"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian)Trade ReviewWinslow Boy:'Rattigan's defiant reiteration of the ancient legal mantra "let right be done", his attack on "the despotism of bureaucracy", his declaration that democracy will be the poorer if smaller injustices are ignored, his faith that the English will triumph over tyranny - all that packs a punch today, as it did when the play had its premiere in 1946.' Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 19.5.09 Winslow Boy: 'A paragon of well-made drama... What a fine piece of craftsmanship this play is. The overall plot is a cunningly laid series of twists and snares.' Patrick Marmion, Daily Mail, 22.5.09 'One of the finest dramatists of the last century, uniting superb technical skills with a deep understanding of both the human heart and the British habit of repressing emotion.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 22.5.09Table of ContentsFrench Without Tears; The Winslow Boy; The Browning Version; Harlequinade
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Terence Rattigan Plays 2 Deep Blue Sea Separate Tables In Praise of Love Before Dawn The Master Playwrights Plays Two v 2 World Classics
Book Synopsis"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian)Table of ContentsThe Deep Blue Sea; Separate Tables; In Praise of Love; Before Dawn
£28.46
Bloomsbury Academic Brecht Collected Plays 1
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists and theatre practitioners of the twentieth century whose work has had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, The Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.Table of ContentsBaal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Play: A Respectable Wedding, The Beggar or the Dead Dog, Driving out a Devil, Lux in Tenebris and The Catch.
£28.46
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Brecht Collected Plays
Book SynopsisOne of a series of eight, this volume features the plays The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and Mr Puntila and his Man Matti. It also contains extensive notes, as well as variant versions and relevant texts by Brecht himself.Table of ContentsGood Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
£27.47
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays Vol 7 Methuen World Classics 7 Quadrille Peace in Our Time Tonight at 830 v7
Book SynopsisThe Seventh Coward volume, including four pieces from the Tonight at 8.30 sequence.Table of ContentsQuadrille; 'Peace in Our Time'; Tonight at 8.30 (iii)
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays Vol 2 World Classics Two The Rehearsal Becket Eurydice and the Orchestra v2
Book SynopsisThis selection of plays includes some of Jean Anouilh's most enduring plays: "The Rehearsal"; "Becket"; "The Orchstra: A Play Within a Concert"; and "Eurydice".Table of ContentsThe Rehearsal; Becket; The Orchestra; Eurydice
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Peter Pan Or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up A Fantasy in Five Acts Modern Plays
Book SynopsisJ. M. Barrie's classic tale adapted for the stage in this version by Trevor Nunn and John Caird for the Royal National Theatre's production in 1997.Trade ReviewLovingly rendered account of a great story. Sunday Express, Mark Shenton, 16/12/2007
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Brecht Plays Antigone of Sophocles The Days of the Commune Turandot or the Whitewashers Congress by Brecht Bertolt Author ON Aug262004 Paperback
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of Brecht's last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. It contains 'The Antigone of Sophocles', 'The Days of the Commune', 'Turandot or The Whitewashers' Congress'.Table of ContentsThe Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jingo
Book SynopsisTerry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wilt shire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld se ries and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie.Trade Review" 'Both his inventiveness and his moral shrewdness seem inexhaustible' A. S. Byatt Daily Mail"
£16.59
Faber & Faber Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks
Book SynopsisI'm just very very horny.I don't know how else to put it.Saoirse Murphy moves from one chaotic world to another. From her Catholic school in Dublin to a new exciting life in London. She's had a taste of freedom and she's making the most of it; but underneath it all she's struggling to manage big secrets, and there's only one person she can talk to.Sarah Hanly's Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in October 2021. It is co-produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Her monologue Shower was staged at the Abbey as part of the Dear Ireland series, 2020. She was awarded the 2019 Pinter Commission.
£9.99
Penguin Books Ltd Climate
£14.50
Random House USA Inc Collected Earlier Poems of Anthony Hecht
Book Synopsis THE VENETIAN VESPERS (1979)“In its clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness, Anthony Hecht’s poetry goes from strength to strength. The Venetian Vespers is at once an intense corroboration and an ample extension of his subtle, supple talents. Nothing humane is alien to him… There is a handful of short poems that are fostered alike by beauty and fear. But it is the four long poems that confirm Hecht as a poet of the widest apprehensions and comprehension, and this without the gigantism that so haunts American poetic ambition.” —Christopher Ricks, The New York Times Book Review MILLIONS OF STRANGE SHADOWS (1977)“The high artistry of Anthony Hecht has been to nurture his own gift, and to work at it with the deliberateness and steadiness that it deserved from him... Emotional intensity and formal power were combined in Hecht from his beginnings… The thirty poems in Million
£19.79
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Great Fires Poems 19821992
Book SynopsisJOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of 'silence, exile, and cunning' could not have been managed without a show of strictness well beyond the reach of the theater of the coy. The 'far, stubborn, disastrous' course of Jack Gilbert's resolute journey--not one that would promise in time to bring him home to the consolations of Penelope and the comforts of Ithaca but one that would instead take him ever outward to the impossible blankness of the desert--could never have been achieved in the society of others. What has kept this great poet brave has been the difficult company of his poems--and now we have, in Gilbert's third and most silent book, what may be, wh
£15.19
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Selected Poetry
Book Synopsis“Perfection is a rare accomplishment, particularly in American poetry, and the perfection of much of Hollander’s work makes it essential reading for anyone who genuinely cares for the craft of poetry. But in our fallen world we seem fated to value power of perfection, and John Hollander’s poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment.”Vernon Shetley, The New Republic
£17.10
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group I Praise My Destroyer Poems
Book SynopsisIn her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that 'honor all life/wherever and in whatever form/it may deal.' Imbued with ravishing imagery, these exuberant and lyrical explorations of aging, longing, and death demonstrate Ackerman's full engagement with every aspect of life's process. Ackerman muses on the confines of therapy sessions, where she intersects 'twice a week/in a painstaking hide-and-seek/making do with half-light, half-speak'; relishes the succulent pleasure of eating an apricot, with its 'gush of taboo sweetness'; and imagines the 'unupholstered voice, a life in outline' in her stunning elegy to C. S. Lewis. Whimsical, organic, and wise, the poems in I Praise My Destroyer affirm Ackerman's place as one of the most enchanting poets writing today.
£11.19
