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Poetry Books
Faber & Faber Weeds and Wild Flowers
Book SynopsisWeeds and Wild Flowers is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. Within its pages everyday flora take on an extraordinary life, jostling tragically at times, at times comically, for a foothold in a busying world. Stunningly visualised and skilfully animated, this imaginative collaboration beckons us toward a landscape of botanical characters, and invites us to see ourselves among them.
£15.29
Faber & Faber Selected Poems of Stephen Spender
Book SynopsisStephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, with whom he was to develop a poetics of engagement, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm of 1930s Europe. He visited Spain during the Civil War, in 1937, where he assisted the Republican cause with propaganda activity. His post-war memoir World within World was recognised as one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 1940s, distilling a distinctively personal, humanistic socialism. His poetry has been praised for its exploratory candour, its personal approach to the stresses of modernity, and its exact portraiture of social and political upheaval. Grey Gowrie''s new selection offers a timely and incisive revaluation of Spender''s substantial poetic corpus.
£15.29
Faber & Faber Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett
Book SynopsisIt was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett''s poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as well as the first critical edition. It establishes a significant new canon, and the commentary draws on a wide range of published sources, manuscripts and Beckett''s extensive correspondence. The notes place each poem in context, detailing the history and circumstances of its composition; they indicate significant variants and help explain obscure turns of phrase and allusions (frequently sourced to Beckett''s notebooks); they also identify resonances between poems and across Beckett''s work as a whole. The commentary is written in a lively and engaging style and is intended equally for the general reader, the student of modernism and the Beckett specialist.
£21.25
Faber & Faber Seeing Stars
Book SynopsisSimon Armitage''s new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie-worshipers at a Northern sculpture farm; the soap-opera supremacists at their zoo-wedding; the driver who picks up hitchhikers as he hurtles towards a head-on collision with Thatcherism; a Christian cheese-shop proprietor in the wrong part of town; the black bear with a dark secret, the woman who curates giant snowballs in the chest freezer. Celebrities and nobodies, all come to the ball.The storyteller who steps in and out of this human tapestry changes, trickster-style, from poem to poem, but retains some identifying traits: the melancholy of th
£11.69
Faber & Faber Moonlight
Book Synopsis''A dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes.''Sunday Times''A deeply poignant, raffishly comic, emotion-charged study of the gulf between parents and children and the anguish of approaching death... Beckett, the poet of terminal stages, inevitably comes to mind. What instantly moves one is Pinter''s image of a man confronting death in a spirit of rage, fear and uncertainty... The piss-taking Pinter humour and the undercutting of verbal pretence are all there. But what makes this an extraordinary play is that Pinter both corrals his familiar themes - the subjectiveness of memory, the unknowability of one''s lifelong partner, the gap between the certain present and the uncertain past - and extends his territory. He shows, with unflinching candour, that in an age shorn of systems and beliefs we face death''s dateless date in a state of mortal terror.''Guardian''Pinter has written few more fascinating plays.'' T
£9.49
Faber & Faber District and Circle
Book SynopsisIncluding a number of prose poems and translations, this book offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language.
£11.69
Faber & Faber Selected Poems 19682014
Book SynopsisSelected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who ''began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso'' (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as ''one of the era''s true originals'', Muldoon seems determined to escape definition yet this volume, chosen by the poet himself, serves as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual high jinx and emotional honesty. Among his many honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Shakespeare Prize ''for contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European inheritance.''
£15.29
Faber & Faber Another Time Faber 90th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisAnother Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times, and they show greater variety of tone and technique than in any previous book of Auden''s. Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form, including the text of two poems in particular - ''Spain 1937'' and ''September 1,1939'' - that he later altered or repudiated.This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber''s publishing over the decades.
£12.34
Random House USA Inc A Raisin in the Sun
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£8.06
Princeton University Press I Was Working
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£13.49
Beacon Press Thirst
Book SynopsisThirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet''s work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
£14.40
New Directions Publishing Corporation How to Paint Sunlight New Poems
Book SynopsisIn his introduction to this collection of poems, Lawrence Ferlinghetti says "All I have ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life", and for 50 years he has been doing just that, illuminating both the everyday and the unusual in a way which is universally accessible.
£11.39
New Directions Publishing Corporation Thirty Poems
Book SynopsisA deluxe edition of the Swiss master’s best poems.Trade Review"The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser’s work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be? If Emily Dickinson made cathedrals out of em dashes and capital letters and the angle of winter light, Walser accomplished the feat with, well, ladies’ feet and trousers and little emotive words like joy, uncapitalized…the two worked out in hoarded words a kindred kind of literature." -- Rivka Galchen - Harper's Magazine"The single most underrated writer of the 20th Century." -- The Los Angeles Times"The poems also give us Walser's manner in concentrated miniature, and it could be that rhyme - joining the disparate, cultivating the arbitrary - is at the heart of what he is doing. They are odd, whimsical, insouciant things, exhilarating in their ability to be what they are." -- The Times Literary Supplement
£16.14
Seagull Books London Ltd Tahrir Tales
Book SynopsisThe ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfolded in Egypt from the last days of Hosni Mubarak's regime through Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's ascendance to the presidency, the plays present a picture of Egypt in the midst of epochal change, with all the attendant fear, hope, and uncertainty. Ranging from naturalism to documentary to more avant-garde representations, the plays collected in Tahrir Tales represent contemporary Egyptian drama at its most interesting, and, not coincidentally, most politically, committed.
£32.30
Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Barbarians' Return
Book SynopsisFor the past 50 years, Mircea Dinescu has been one of Romanian poetry's most provocative and obstinately singular poets. After starting out as a writer of highly musical poetry that he spun round in his fingers with the aplomb of a magician who refuted reality, he ended up stuck in free verse, impelled mainly because of the surrealism of a world in which the label and the content of any box seldom matched. After his first gratuitous exercises when he was 22 and striving to commit himself to love poetry, he was surprised to discover that he had created a poetry of sly political allusion. He was like that communist worker employed in a factory producing bicycle parts who, stealing a tiny wheel one day, a few nuts and bolts on another, a gear, then taking home a chain and a length of pipe, until finally realising to his amazement that however he assembled these parts, instead of a bicycle the result was a Russian machine gun. The dictator at whom Dinescu shot his metaphors was eventually shot with real bullets by his own henchmen. Unlike Dinescu, those men were able to see the difference between a bicycle and a machine gun: later on, disguising themselves as anti-communists, they pedalled their bicycles into the brave new consumer society. A quarter of a century and more since the fall of communism, Mircea Dinescu still hesitates to think of himself as witness, judge or defendant. Like an agile monkey, he jumps into and out of the handbook of literature, just as into and out of the handbook of history, where he is mentioned on page 16, in the chapter entitled Revolutions. In 1989, Dinescu was liberated from house arrest by a large crowd in Bucharest who carried him triumphantly to the national television building. There he announced to his country and the world, with actor Ion Caramitru, that the dictator had fled. The country changed almost overnight from communist to capitalist, but Dinescu carried on doing what he'd always done: writing necessary poems that challenge all systems.
£10.80
Nick Hern Books Slave Play
Book SynopsisA play that rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America. New edition published alongside the West End production in 2024.
£9.89
The New Menard Press Itinerary
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£8.54
Eland Publishing Ltd Arabia: A Thousand Years of Arabic Verse
Book SynopsisEven before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It spread and developed wherever the Arabic language came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo as well as in the Arabian heartland. This book takes us on a poetic journey through the Classical age of Arabic poetry, from about the year 600 AD to about 1000 AD. Poignant images of solitude, impossible love and the austere beauty of the desert pervade Arabic poetry from its beginnings, even when the poet lived in an urbane, courtly milieu. There are mystical poems, and blasphemous ones; war poems, political ones; satires, joke poems and overwrought if ingenious nature poems.
£6.64
Stewed Rhubarb Press Hunters Voices
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£13.50
Eyewear Publishing The Sight of a Goose Going Barefoot
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£10.44
Eyewear Publishing Ubu Trump: A Drama in Five Acts
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£10.44
Verve Poetry Press Deathless
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£10.79
Tara Books I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
Book SynopsisThis well-known folk poem from the 17th century is a form of trick verse. Included in classic anthologies of children's poetry, the verse appears nonsensical at first sight, but given a break in the middle of each line, begins to make perfect sense. At the simplest level, it is a lesson on grammar and punctuation. Even the youngest of readers will delight in the overturning of logic that nonsense entails, and the 'trick' with which meaning can be made to return. But as with most folklore, this poem is not just for children, it is meant for all ages. Adults will marvel at the ways it teases out the paths of meaning. Is the difference between fantasy and reality largely grammatical? Or are these inversions the very essence of poetry - by turns meaningless and profound - which overturn our habitual ways of perception? In this pioneering visual exploration of I Saw a Peacock, Gond tribal artist Ramsingh Urveti and book designer Jonathan Yamakami add a further layer of imagery and play to the poem's enigmas, reflecting and complicating its meanings in delicious ways.
£10.44
Penguin Books Ltd The Complete Saki
Book SynopsisThe complete works of one of England's greatest Edwardian writersSaki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer continued to grow long after his death. His work is humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, full of eccentric wit and unconventional situations. With his great gift as a social satirist of his contemporary upper-class Edwardian world, Saki is one of the few undisputed English masters of the short story and one of the great writers of a bygone era.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ReadersTable of ContentsThe Complete SakiI. THE SHORT STORIESReginaldReginald Reginald on Christmas PresentsReginald on the AcademyReginald at the TheatreReginald's Peace PoemReginald's Choir TreatReginald on WorriesReginald on House-PartiesReginald at the CarltonReginald on Besetting SinsReginald's DramaReginald on TariffsReginald's Christmas RevelReginald's RubaiyatThe Innocence ofReginald Reginald in RussiaReginald in RussiaThe Reticence of Lady AnneThe Lost SanjakThe Sex That Doesn't ShopThe Blood-Feud of Toad-WaterA Young Turkish CatastropheJudkin of the ParcelsGabriel-ErnestThe Saint and the GoblinThe Soul of LaploshkaThe BagThe StrategistCross CurrentsThe Baker's DozenThe MouseThe Chronicles of ClovisEsméThe Match-MakerTobermoryMrs. Packletide's TigerThe Stampeding of Lady BastableThe BackgroundHermann the Irascible - A Story of the Great WeepThe Unrest-CureThe Jesting of Arlington StringhamSredni VashtarAdrianThe ChapletThe QuestWratislavThe Easter EggFilboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That HelpedThe Music on the HillThe Story of St. VespaluusThe Way to the DairyThe Peace OfferingThe Peace of Mowsle BartonThe Talking-Out of TarringtonThe Hounds of FateThe RecessionalA Matter of SentimentThe Secret Sin of Septimus Brope"Ministers of Grace"The Remoulding of Groby LingtonBeasts and Super-BeastsThe She-WolfLauraThe Boar-PigThe BrogueThe HenThe Open WindowThe Treasure-ShipThe CobwebThe LullThe Unkindest BlowThe RomancersThe Schartz-Metterklume MethodThe Seventh PulletThe Blind SpotDuskA Touch of RealismCousin TeresaThe Yarkand MannerThe Byzantine OmeletteThe Feast of NemesisThe DreamerThe Quince TreeThe Forbidden BuzzardsThe StakeClovis on Parental ResponsibilitiesA Holiday TaskThe Stalled OxThe Story-TellerA Defensive DiamondThe Elk"Down Pens"The Name-DayThe Lumber RoomFurThe Philanthropist and the Happy CatOn ApprovalThe Toys of PeaceThe Toys of PeaceLouiseTeaThe Disappearance of Crispina UmberleighThe Wolves of CernogratzLouisThe GuestsThe PenanceThe Phantom LuncheonA Bread and Butter MissBertie's Christmas EveForewarnedThe InterlopersQuail SeedCanossaThe ThreatExcepting Mrs. PentherbyMarkThe HedgehogThe Mappined LifeFateThe BullMorlveraShock TacticsThe Seven Cream JugsThe Occasional GardenThe SheepThe OversightHyacinthThe Image of the Lost SoulThe Purple of the Balkan KingsThe Cupboard of the YesterdaysFor the Duration of the WarThe Square EggThe Square EggBirds on the Western FrontThe Gala ProgrammeThe Infernal ParliamentThe Achievement of the CatThe Old Town of PskoffClovis on the Alleged Romance of BusinessThe Comments of Moung KaII. THE NOVELSThe Unbearable BassingtonWhen William CameThe Westminster AliceIII. THE PLAYSThe Death-TrapKarl-Ludwig's WindowThe Watched Pot
£17.53
Random House USA Inc The Metamorphoses
Book SynopsisOvid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world—from Echo’s passion for Narcissus to Pygmalion’s living statue, from Perseus’s defeat of Medusa to the fall of Troy. Retold with Ovid’s irreverent flair, these tales are united by the theme of metamorphosis, as men and women are rendered alien to themselves, turned variously to flowers, trees, animals, and stones. The closest thing to a central character is love itself—a confounding, transforming, irrational force that makes fools of gods and mortals alike. The poem’s p
£26.25
Random House USA Inc The Complete Plays of John M Synge
Book SynopsisThis volume includes the complete texts of all the plays by J.M. Synge. Produced at the Abbey Theater which Synge founded. Represents one of the major dramatic achievements of the 20th century.
£11.66
Penguin Putnam Inc Three Plays
Book SynopsisPublished together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand''s most compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, famous for its open-ended verdict, is presented here in its definitive text. Also included are two of Rand''s unproduced plays, Think Twice, a clever philosophical murder mystery, and Ideal, a bitter indictment of people''s willingness to betray their highest values-symbolized by a Hollywood goddess suspected of a crime.
£8.54
Dover Publications Inc. Wheatley P Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Book SynopsisBorn in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of 7 and sold into slavery. At 19, she became the first black American poet to publish a book, on which this volume is based. Wheatley''s elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses into the origins of African-American literary traditions.
£6.49
Random House USA Inc Blues for Mister Charlie
Book SynopsisAn award-winning play from one of America’s most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. • A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a roar of protest in its throat. —The New York TimesJames Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated—and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion. In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence, James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race.For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a boy like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.
£11.76
Random House USA Inc Three Plays
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£15.30
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays
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£14.24
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Say Uncle
Book SynopsisFilled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan''s poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan''s fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness and almost gleeful detachment that has delighted readers of her earlier books. Compact, searching, and oddly beautiful, these poems, in the words of Dana Gioia, take the shape of an idea clarifying itself. A poetry collection that marries wit and wisdom more brilliantly than any I know.... Poetry as statement and aphorism is rarely heartbreaking, but reading these poems I find myself continually ambushed by a fundamental sorrow, one that hides behind a surface that interweaves sound and sense in immaculately interesting ways. -- Jane Hirshfield, Common Boundary; The first thing you notice about her poems is an elbow-to-the-ribs playfulness. -- Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle.
£9.99
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Waiting for Godot By Samuel Beckett published May
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£11.39
Henry Holt & Company The Poetry of Robert Frost
Book SynopsisThis is the only comprehensive volume of Robert Frost''s published verse; in it are the contents of all eleven of his individual books of poetry-from A Boy''s Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). The editor, Edward Connery Lathem, has scrupulously annotated the more than 350 poems in this book.
£45.00
Schocken Books SloanKettering Poems
Book SynopsisIn this luminous collection of poems, Abba Kovner records his deep engagement with life during his last days, as he lay dying of cancer in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Kovner, the famed Jewish resistance fighter who led the Vilna ghetto uprising during World War II, was also a beloved master of Hebrew literature, and his work has seldom appeared in English. This translation brings us the fierce and humble gratitude of a visionary who has been a fighter not just for himself but for a whole people, as Kovner takes up his pen to say goodbye to a precious, if flawed, world. Weaving together his perceptions of the present moment (“How little we need/to be happy: a half kilo increase in weight,/two circuits of the corridors”); his sorrow at leaving the world (his wife knitting at his bedside, the chatter of his grandsons); the dramatic loss of his vocal cords (“Have I no right to die/while still alive?”); and memories of his heroic comrades in
£8.54
New Directions Publishing Corporation Poetry as Insurgent Art
Book SynopsisA manifesto, essay, and discourse on the value of poetic thought in the modern age.
£12.34
Wisdom Publications,U.S. Everything Yearned for Manhaes Poems of Love and
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£12.34
Enrealment Press Rhythms and Roads
Book SynopsisFollowing the success of her debut book, Edge of Wonder, author, Victoria Erickson, once again captures the heart''s attention in this enlivening collection of poetry and musing. While her writings in this book radiate a fresh and new wonder, they continue to showcase Erickson''s unforgettable and infectious zeal for life. The reader feels called away from the mundane and inconsequential by her trademark blend of poetic grace and electrifying enthusiasm. RHYTHMS AND ROADS will do more than enchant one''s soul and inspire - it promises to awaken memories long forgotten and to breathe into them a spirit of lively possibility. This exhilarating collection is the perfect companion for anyone ready to break cages and fall into a sea of deep, soulful, courageous living.
£14.99
Enrealment Press Edge of Wonder Notes from the Wildness of Being
Book SynopsisIn this remarkably inspired collection of poems and musings, author, Victoria Erickson, calls us to the heart of our own aliveness with an invitation to inhabit a life fiercely lived. Weaving words like a vivid tapestry, Erickson reaches into the soul and invites us to swim in an ocean of hope, choosing love and aliveness over fear and resistance. Equal parts old soul and starry-eyed child, she encourages us to find the depth and meaning within our everyday lives, reminding us to stay true to our own paths while embracing both the pain and the beauty at the heart of reality. Keep this book close as a timeless reminder that wonder is everywhere. Your daily cup of universe.
£18.90
Random House USA Inc Risking Everything
Book Synopsis“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary OliverThis luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours.In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prize-winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson.The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housden’s “Ten Poems” series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart.
£16.80
UEA Publishing Project Rabbit
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited third collection from one of the UK’s finest, most virtuosic of modern lyric poets. These poems take the reader on surprising journeys of healing, hard-won amid personal and social vicissitudes – including triumph over addiction, and alcoholism -- and open spaces in which to share in emotional, quasi-spiritual transcendence despite. Who could ask for more?“When poetry is the centre of your life the strength of some poets will get fixed in the orbit of your day, their poems settled into the memory of mind and body. Sophie Robinson is one of my absolute favourites, her lines returning to me, visceral, unsettling, exacting, and stunning! If you read one book of poems this year, let it be this! She’s a gateway drug, keeping you wanting all books of poetry to be as genius to make part of your waking life.” – CA Conrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death.
£11.39
Ediciones Catedra S.A. Canto General
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Edaf Antillas Los Arboles Mueren de Pie
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Editorial Castalia, S.A. Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
Book SynopsisDe entre la extensa producción del chileno Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y Una canción desesperada es, sin duda, su obra más leída y conocida; pero, además, pocos libros –y menos aún de poesía– han alcanzado una difusión similar. Y es que con este poemario Neruda consiguió expresar los sentimientos colectivos de toda la juventud. Un maravilloso canto al amor perdido, un impulso amoroso que se debate entre la tristeza y la ausencia, el verso dedicado a la expresión de sentimientos universales y perennes. Esta obra, pese a haberse convertido con el curso de los años en una obra ya clásica, conserva intacta su magia secreta, contagiosa y peligrosa. La edición cuidada de Hugo Montes nos ayuda más, si cabe, a disfrutarla.
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Penguin Publishing Group The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set
Book SynopsisGripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world''s greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature''s greatest evocation of every man''s journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator''s task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox. about The Odyssey
£35.10
Columbia University Press Azaleas
Book SynopsisPresenting a translation of a collection of poems by Kim Sowol, this title recounts the journey of a young Korean as he travels from the northern P'yongyang area near to the cosmopolitan capital of Seoul. It describe the young man's actions as he leaves home, his experiences as a student and writer in Seoul, and his return north.Trade ReviewThis book is essential reading for anyone interested in Korea and Poetry. Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing "McCann's translation gives more details... than have ever been available in English." --Korean Quarterly -- Anne Holzman Korean Quarterly
£19.80
Penguin Publishing Group Poems by Robert Frost A Boys Will and North of
Book SynopsisA collection of two of Robert Frost’s most celebrated poems in their original form: A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. The publication of A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part of the American national heritage. This is the only edition to present these two classics in their original form. A Boy’s Will introduced readers to Frost’s unmistakable poetic voice, and in North of Boston, we find two of his most famous poems, “Mending Wall” and “The Death of the Hired Man.” With an introduction by distinguished critic and Amherst professor William H. Pritchard and an afterword by poet and critic Peter Davison, this ce
£5.90
The University of Michigan Press Having Once Paused
Book SynopsisThe influence of Zen Master Ikky (1394–1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. His work is allusion rich, and, as is common to his Tang poetic models, his verse makes frequent allusion to elements from the full range of China’s cultural history and literature. He draws as well from a variety of Buddhist texts in Chinese, including its koans.
£18.00
