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Pan Macmillan Poems About Birds
Book SynopsisCountless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds – their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially our poetry, is full of them. This annotated edition of Poems About Birds selects the very best from H. J. Massingham’s original collection which was first published in 1922.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, Poems About Birds captures the enticing lives of birds through the eyes of classic poets. From John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ to Sylvia Lynd’s ‘The Return of the Goldfinches’, and from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Eagle’ to William Wordsworth’s ‘To The Skylark’, countless varieties of bird are celebrated here.
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Cornerstone That Reminds Me: Winner of the Desmond Elliott
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020___________________________________'A singular achievement.'Michael Donkor, Guardian'Heartbreaking, important and original.' Christie Watson, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS'Derek Owusu's writing is honest, moving, delicate, but tough. Once you lock on to his words, it is hard to break eye contact. A beautiful meditation on childhood, coming of age, the now, and the media. This work is heartfelt.' Benjamin Zephaniah 'Honest and beautiful.' Guy Gunaratne, author of IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY 'When writing is this honest, it soars. What an incredible use of language and truth.' Yrsa Daley-Ward___________________________________Anansi, your four gifts raised to nyame granted you no power over the stories I tell...This is the story of K.K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. He grows up in fields and woods, and he is happy, he thinks. When K is eleven, the city reclaims him. He returns to an unknown mother and a part-time father, trading the fields for flats and a community that is alien to him. Slowly, he finds friends. Eventually, he finds love. He learns how to navigate the city. But as he grows, he begins to realise that he needs more than the city can provide. He is a man made of pieces. Pieces that are slowly breaking apartThat Reminds Me is the story of one young man, from birth to adulthood, told in fragments of memory. It explores questions of identity, belonging, addiction, sexuality, violence, family and religion. It is a deeply moving and completely original work of literature from one of the brightest British writers of today.Trade ReviewA dreamy, impressionistic offeringof reassembled fragments of memories emerging through the misty beauty of a deliciously individualistic poetic sensibility with flashes of Twi and UK London ebonics to further remind us of what has been missing from British poetry... I can't tell you how impressed I was and how much I enjoyed reading this stunning book. -- Bernadine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, OtherWhen writing is this honest, it soars. I think that this is why the words in this collection fly around you and settle, as they have. What an incredible use of language and truth. Hope this reaches all the mandem. We need more.These are words that come from the heart, the lived life and owned observations. Powerful and moving. Social realism at its best.I hate Derek Owusu for the same reasons I love him: he is the sort of writer who makes me and other writers have doubts about whether we belong in this art. He is one of a kind. Truly a precious stone of a poet. His words evoke flawless empathy and leave me with either a strained face from smiling or a wet page from crying. I consider myself enlightened, lucky, intimidated and gripped when I read his words.Derek Owusu’s writing is honest, moving, delicate, but tough. Once you lock on to his words, it is hard to break eye contact. A beautiful meditation on childhood, coming of age, the now, and the media. This work is heartfelt.
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Theatre Communications Group Cambodian Rock Band
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Betting on the Muse
Book SynopsisBetting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.
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Omnidawn Publishing Borderland Apocrypha
Book SynopsisThe 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican—American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communities of color continues to the present day. Borderland Apocrypha centers around the collective histories of these terrors, excavating the traumas born of turbulence at borderlands. In this debut collection, Anthony Cody responds to the destabilized, hostile landscapes and silenced histories of borderlands. His experimental poetic reinvents itself and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin, the page, and the book in forms of resistance, signaling a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. The poems ask the reader to engage in searching through the nested and cascading series of poems centered around familial and communal histories, structural racism, and natural ecosystems of borderlands. Relentless in its explorations, this collection shows how the past continues to inform actions, policies, and perceptions in North and Central America. Rather than a proposal for re-imagining the US/Mexico border, Cody’s collection is an avant-garde examination of how borderlands have remained occupied spaces, and of the necessity of liberation to usher the earth and its people toward healing. Part auto-historia, part docu-poetic, part visual monument, part myth-making, Borderland Apocrypha unearths history in order to work toward survival, reckoning, and the building of a future that both acknowledges and moves on from tragedies of the past.Borderland Apocrypha won Omnidawn's 2018 1st/2nd Book Prize.
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Button Poetry Stunt Water
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Shambhala Publications Inc The Pocket Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisEmily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery have had a profound effect on twentieth-century literature. Over a hundred of Dickinson?s best poems are collected here. These unique and gemlike lyrics are pure distillations of profound feeling and great intellect. They contain a world of imagination, observation, and precisely articulated spiritual and emotional experience. As editor Brenda Hillman says, this small and succinct collection can serve as a guidebook to readers who are exploring the highs and lows of the human experience.
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Out-Spoken Press ...
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Smokestack Books Cromwell's Head
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Kids
Book SynopsisHannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are fictionalised portraits of ‘The Kids’, the students she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s, later bearing witness to her small son learning to negotiate contemporary London. Across these deeply felt poems, Lowe interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. Social class, gender and race – and their fundamental intersection with education – are investigated with an ever critical and introspective eye. These boisterous and musical poems explore the universal experience of what it is to be taught, to learn and to teach. The Kids – a Poetry Book Society Choice – won the 2021 Costa Poetry Award and went on to be named Costa Book of the Year, and was also shortlisted for the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize.Trade ReviewHannah Lowe’s The Kids is a book to fall in love with - it’s joyous, it’s warm and it’s completely universal. It’s crafted and skilful but also accessible... You will love it! -- Reeta Chakrabarti * Chair of Judges, 2021 Costa Book of the Year *A contemporary book that buzzes with life while re-energising the sonnet that Shakespeare would recognise. All readers will find something of themselves here. -- Costa Poetry Award Judges Rishi Dastidar, Ian Duhig and Maya JaggiHannah Lowe's brilliant and entertaining book of sonnets, The Kids, is one of the most humorous and tender collections of recent times. -- Seán Hewitt * The Irish Times (The year in verse: the best poetry of 2021) *Hannah Lowe’s The Kids, inspired by her time teaching in an inner London sixth form, is a series of sonnets full of joy. The book is generous in its compassion, and in love with the idea of learning, in the classroom and outside it. -- Rishi Dastidar * The Guardian (Best poetry books of 2021) *Hannah Lowe’s previous two collections, Chick and Chan, focused on her relationship with her Jamaican-Chinese father, alongside coming-of-age recollections. The Kids marks a departure: an introspective book of modern sonnets, it offers a glimpse into her experiences of teaching in an inner-city London sixth form. The collection includes homages to her own teachers, and concludes with a sequence lovingly written for her young son… This is a playful yet moving collection that will make the reader frown and laugh, sometimes both at once. -- Mary Jean Chan * The Guardian, best recent poetry *The poems in The Kids fizz and chat with all the vitality and longing of the classes they conjure. Funny, moving, sometimes painful and always questioning, they capture teachers and their students learning life from each other in profound and unexpected ways. A joy to read. -- Liz BerryThese sequences of stories are a refreshing update to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and To Sir with Love. Each of Lowe’s sonnets is a blackboard chalked with the tales of earnest teachers, of cheeky and lovable students, of being mentored to become a poet and of motherhood and learning to instruct again. Lowe makes the sonnet exciting for our age through its urgent, its compassionate, its wonderfully humorous address of the personal and the social. -- Daljit NagraAlways, we are in the hands of Lowe's singular, effortless voice, and reminded that all good education should be an education in class, in the legacies and histories of empire and in the self. -- Andrew McMillan * Poetry Book Society Bulletin *Table of Contents8 The White Dog I 11 The Register 12 Try, Try, Try Again 13 Queen Bee 14 The Art of Teaching I 15 The Art of Teaching II 16 The Art of Teaching III 17 Technology 18 Sonnet for Vlad 19 The Only English Kid 20 Notes on a Scandal 21 Boy 22 Simile 23 The Sixth-form Theatre Trip 24 Sonnet for the A Level English Literature and Language Poetry Syllabus 25 Red-handed 26 Sonnet for the Punched Pocket 27 Pepys 28 Janine I 29 Janine II 30 The Unretained 31 All Over It 32 Sonnet for Rosie 33 Something Sweet 34 7/7 35 Ricochet 36 British-born II 38 Mr Presley 39 Mrs Vanuka 40 Blocks 41 She 42 Bethena 43 Étudier 44 Martin and Pam 45 The Only Black Girl 46 Rain Dance 47 The Pitch 48 John I: Pink Humming Bird 49 John II: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf 50 Love 51 So Amazing 52 The Stroke 55 Sonnet for Noah 56 Welling 57 Dear Professor 58 White Roses 59 Daughter 60 House 61 The River 62 Players III 64 The Sky Is Snowing 65 Skirting 66 Scooting 67 Fire Scissors Drowning 68 The Size of Him 69 Sonnet for Boredom 70 Balloons 71 In H&M 72 Sonnet for Darren 73 Zoom 74 Aretha in the Bath 75 His Books 76 Anjali Mudra 77 Sonnet for Rory with Soap Bubbles 78 Nĭ hăo 79 Kathy, Carla
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Pit Lullabies
Book SynopsisThese intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through the darker days of new parenthood, teasing out the anxieties which plague us when night falls. Violence against women, the destruction of our environment, the poisons and pitfalls of 21st-century living are explored here in poems by turns lyrical and earthy, yearning and angry. They mine gold from the darkness and seek luminescence in the deepest oceans. Pit Lullabies is Jessica Traynor’s third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Ireland’s Dedalus Press. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.Trade ReviewVisionary, luminous and haunted, Jessica Traynor’s poems are home to a host of compelling characters: witches, changelings, the spirit of Hildegard of Bingen. In The Quick, even the grotesque is rendered with subtle delicacy – a woman whose “lungs fold like an origami bird”. These poems will give you goose-bumps. -- Helen Mort * on The Quick *Written with a lightness of touch, these poems are capable of dealing with the big themes – especially those of birth, death or illness…this poet [is] capable of creating canonical work which draws on a contemporary re-thinking of poetic traditions while finding a voice that is wholly her own. -- Siobhán Campbell * Poetry Ireland Review, on The Quick *Traynor is a master at delineating these almost imperceptible but vital changes…Traynor’s fine delicate lyricism belies a social consciousness that subtly bleeds through several poems. -- Martina Evans * The Irish Times, on The Quick *Table of Contents11 Pit Lullaby 12 Megalodon 13 Anatomy Scan 14 In the Birthing Room 15 Metaphysical Breast Milk Poem 16 Ophelia in Ballybough 19 Midwinter 20 Pit Lullaby II 21 A Plea for the Sanctification of the Ditches of Ireland 23 Child you cut me open 24 What It Takes 25 Patchwork Quilt 26 If You Can Tame a Wildcat, You Can Raise a Baby 27 Pit Lullaby III 28 On Poisons 37 Pit Lullaby IV 38 In the Wrong Place 39 Forecast 41 On Plastics 43 Supermoon Trifecta 45 Walrus 46 Men are Talking 47 Pit Lullaby V 48 An Island Sings 56 Pit Lullaby VI 57 The Signs 63 Pit Lullaby VII 64 Nureyev in Dublin 66 Holidaying with Dad During the Divorce 67 Dad Cars 69 Pit Lullaby VIII 70 Milk Teeth 71 Lessons 72 Zodiac 73 Rock Pool 74 Turbulence 75 Pit Lullaby IX 77 Hungry Ghost 80 Bilbea’s Response 81 Lock Years 83 Onion Poem 84 In the Bathroom Showroom 85 Hunting Lions 86 Hawthorn 87 Night Run 88 Pit Lullaby X 89 Lullaby 91 Notes 93 Acknowledgements
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Poetry Wales Press The Storms Flora
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Random House Southernmost Sonnets
Book SynopsisLeo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet, translator and educator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. His first collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Boix is the co-director of Un Nuevo Sol, a national scheme to nurture new Latinx writers in the UK. He is the editor of Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry (2025). He was the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize 2018, the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019 and a PEN Award in 2021.
£12.34
Vintage Publishing New Boy
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£9.49
Bonnier Books Ltd Growing Brave Words to soothe fear and let in
Book SynopsisDonna Ashworth's new and updated collection TO THE WOMEN is coming soon. The book all women need by their side, To the Women is the perfect Mother's Day gift.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE 'Buy it for yourself, buy it for everyone you know - it's amazing.' DAVINA MCCALL, Instagram'Powerful and comforting ... Donna's words could change your life.' DAWN FRENCH'Absolutely beautiful ... whenever I'm feeling lost, I reach for Donna Ashworth's words and feel found.' BRYONY GORDON'Some people have the Bible by their bed. Others a self-help manual. I have Donna Ashworth.' SUSANNAH CONSTANTINEIn this powerful new collection of wisdom and poetry, Donna Ashworth helps us to find strength and courage on the days we feel lost, to pick ourselves up when times are hard, to soothe fear and self-doubt when we are in their grip, and to let in more life and love as we brave our challenges.Every day we are bombarded by thoughts, feelings and information that make us feel anxious and afraid. We worry we don't measure up, we are scared of failure and we find it hard to be ourselves. We also feel powerless watching the world getting messier. Fear is a limiting factor for many of us and if we don't challenge it we can find ourselves keeping out more of the good stuff in life than the bad.With poems such as 'One Day You'll See', 'Growing in Moonlight', 'The Comparing' and 'Always There', bestselling author Donna Ashworth helps us to see that whatever we are facing, no matter how small or afraid we feel, we make the biggest difference in this world and to our own happiness when we are brave enough to show up as ourselves.
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O'Brien Press Ltd BestLoved Irish Love Poems
Book SynopsisIn this delightful collection, some of Ireland's most celebrated writers capture the joy and pain of romantic love. Featuring Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, George AE' Russell and Ethna Carbery, Thomas Moore and Lady Gregory, Jonathan Swift, J.M. Synge and many more.
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Cinnamon Press Crown of Thorns
Book SynopsisWitty and self-reflexive take on the sonnet the latest pamphlet from the widely respected Scottish poet.
£6.23
Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Poetry of Oscar Wilde
Book SynopsisA brilliant writer, flamboyant playwright, and prominent journalist, Oscar Wilde was also an accomplished poet.This collection of his greatest poems features such essential works as "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" and "The Burden of Itys". By turns touching, optimistic, heart-breaking, and thought-provoking, the poems draw upon Wilde''s own experiences, and on his interpretations of Irish myths and legends. At times satirical and witty, yet also acutely observant, Oscar Wilde''s voice continues to captivate readers to this day.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Great Poets Library brings together moving and inspiring verse from some of the greatest poets in history, presented with beautiful new cover designs with graphic motifs.
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Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Poetry of Robert Burns
Book SynopsisQuintessentially Scottish, the poetry of Robert Burns has become famous across the world. With classics such as "Tam O''Shanter", "Auld Lang Syne", and "To a Louse", his work ranged seamlessly from powerful nationalist pieces to playful songs. His use of the vernacular gives a character to his verse that cannot be found anywhere else.Whether the subject is haggis or Halloween, Burns'' enthralling words bring to life the everyday, and the essential character of the Scottish people. His combination of Scottish folklore and literary tradition created some of the most remarkable poetry ever written.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Great Poets Library brings together moving and inspiring verse from some of the greatest poets in history, presented with beautiful new cover designs with graphic motifs.
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Chronicle Books Cats in Spring Rain
Book SynopsisNo one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa period, many artists turned their gaze toward an unlikely subject: their small feline companions. Closely observed portraits in words and ink elevate the everyday adventures of cats: taking a nap on a Buddha statue's lap, daintily eating a rice ball, courting the neighbor's cat. This curated collection of poems, prints, and paintings will leave you inspired to cultivate the serenity and wonder embodied by these creators - and by the cats themselves. Presented as a sweet, jacketed paperback with thoughtful design touches, this volume includes each poem in both English and Japanese.
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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.
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 276
Book SynopsisThe March-April 2024 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Polkadot Wounds
Book SynopsisMulti-award-winning poet Capildeo's new collection brings home the delight, frustration, restlessness and continuity of striving to live a connected human life in our fragmenting times.
£11.69
Carcanet Press Apple Thieves
Book SynopsisBeverley Bie Brahic's Apple Thieves delights in the pleasures of nature, art and the body.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Fathers Fathers Father
Book SynopsisDane Holt's debut collection confronts class, grief and the self-dramatising of masculinity in the aftermath of tragedy.
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CARCANET PRESS LTD Red Carpet
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Profile Books Ltd Haruko/Love Poems
Book SynopsisSelected by Seán Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan's spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. First published in 1994, Haruko/ Love Poems is a vitally important modern classic.Trade ReviewPraise for June Jordan: Jordan puts love and delight in her poems, not just vengeance and justice... Writing is an act of faith in a future where meaning is possible. -- Elisa Gabbert * The New York Times *A powerful voice for radical love and justice. June Jordan is a poet for the ages. * Poets.org *A wonderfully direct and heartfelt love poet... the poetry of June Jordan is fully alive, set free in brilliant, timeless flight. -- Carol Rumens * Guardian *A depth of feeling and a vibrancy which just sings out from the page ... lucid, strong, and accessible, singing of sexual desire and resistance against tyrannies * Buzz Books *
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Troubador Publishing The Future Too
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Troubador Publishing The Meaning of M
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Olympia Publishers Forevermore
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Nick Hern Books The Boy at the Back of the Class
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Carries War
Book SynopsisCarrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuees transported to the safety of the countryside in the 1940s. There they stay with Mr Evans; Auntie Lou, and Albert Sandwich and Mr Johnny, who speaks his own language, and Hepzibah, the witch at Druid's Grove who makes perfect mince pies. And then there's the ancient skull with its terrifying curse.
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd Richard II
Book SynopsisEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s national identity. Today, to some of us, Richard II may appear conservative; but, in Shakespeare’s day, it could appear subversive: ‘I am Richard II’, declared an indignant Queen Elizabeth. Numerous recent revivals in the theatre and on screen have demonstrated the enduring power and poignancy of this drama of the downfall of an egoistic but pitiable monarch. Richard II is the seventeenth volume in the Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, in which each volume has been freshly edited by Cedric Watts.
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Birlinn General Holy Boys
Book SynopsisThe new poetry collection from Andrés N. Ordorica (picked as anObserverBest Debut Novelists for 2024),Holy Boysseeks to address the echoes of adolescence and the pains of living a life in the shadows of unspeakable desires and all-consuming longing.This collection is for readers who appreciate language and the multilingual power of poetry.
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Nick Hern Books Apologia
Book SynopsisA disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children. Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As a young mother she followed her politics and vocation, storming Parisian barricades and moving to Florence. Her birthday should be a time for celebration but, when her two sons deliver their versions of the past, everyone must confront the cost of Kristin‘s commitment to her passions. Alexi Kaye Campbell's play Apologia premiered at The Bush Theatre, London, in 2009. It was revived at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in 2017, directed by Jamie Lloyd.Trade Review'A fascinating play that tackles, head on, the subject of women, ageing and motherhood… eviscerating and funny' * The Times *'Raw and very funny... confirms Campbell's standing as a fresh and sensitive voice' * Evening Standard *'Sharp, funny, wise and humane, Alexi Kaye Campbell is a writer to cherish' * Telegraph *
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Nick Hern Books Chimerica
Book SynopsisA powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe – a young American photojournalist – captures a piece of history. New York, 2012. Joe is covering a presidential election, marred by debate over cheap labour and the outsourcing of American jobs to Chinese factories. When a cryptic message is left in a Beijing newspaper, Joe is driven to discover the truth behind the unknown hero he captured on film. Who was he? What happened to him? And could he still be alive? A gripping political examination and an engaging personal drama, Chimerica examines the changing fortunes of two countries whose futures will shape the whole world. Lucy Kirkwood's play Chimerica was first performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2013 before transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End.Trade Review'Gloriously rich, mind-expanding... if we see a better new play this year, we'll be extremely lucky' * Guardian *'Hurtles along with a mixture of humour, dramatic tension and terrific visual ingenuity... a hugely entertaining and at times deeply affecting play... I cannot recommend it too highly' * Telegraph *'A gripping, multilayered and meticulously researched thriller... like an expansive HBO mini-series expertly compacted into an evening at the theatre... Kirkwood's sharp, incisive dialogue is splendid' * Time Out *'A tremendously bold piece of writing... topical without being gimmicky and well-informed without being showily so... a landmark production' * Evening Standard *'Ambitious, sprawling, morally fascinating, as gripping as a good novel' * The Times *'A taut, complex and nuanced thriller with [an] exhilaratingly ambitious scope' * Exeunt Magazine *'Rich, riveting and theatrically ambitious... fizzing with wit and intelligent ideas... a work of real brilliance' * The Arts Desk *'Absolutely riveting... an important, far-reaching drama' * The Stage *
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Gomer Press Cyfres Clasuron: Dail Pren
Book SynopsisA new edition of the poems of Waldo Williams, with an introduction by Mererid Hopwood. Originally published in 1956. ISBN of previous edition: 9780863837111.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Staying Alive
Book SynopsisStaying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times, whether for consolation in loss or affirmation in love, or when facing other extremes and anxieties. Staying Alive includes many of the great modern love poems and elegies, but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle, taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems. A strong poem is not just for crisis. Such a poem is there for all times, helping us face or embrace daily change and disruption. It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening, when the poem's importance is in helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry. It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing. The first in a series, Staying Alive was followed by a sequel, Being Alive (2004), a companion anthology, Being Human (2011), and by a fourth volume, Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive (2020). These anthologies have been welcomed not only by poets but by a wide range of well-known people respected for their work in fields other than poetry – all avid readers of poetry. They want to recommend these books above all other anthologies of contemporary poetry.Trade Review‘These poems distil the human heart as nothing else… Staying Alive celebrates the point of poetry. It’s invigorating and makes me proud of being human’ – Jane Campion ‘Truly startling and powerful poems’ – Mia Farrow ‘Staying Alive is a blessing of a book. The title says it all. I have long waited for just this kind of setting down of poems - and the way they work together is wonderful - all come together to talk at the same table. Has there ever been such a passionate anthology? These are poems that hunt you down with the solace of their recognition' – Anne Michaels ‘Staying Alive is a book which leaves those who have read or heard a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive’ – John Berger ‘Staying Alive is a magnificent anthology. The last time I was so excited, engaged and enthralled by a collection of poems was when I first encountered The Rattle Bag. I can’t think of any other anthology that casts its net so widely, or one that has introduced me to so many vivid and memorable poems’ – Philip Pullman ‘Usually if you say a book is “inspirational” that means it’s New Agey and soft at the center. This astonishingly rich anthology, by contrast, shows that what is edgy, authentic and provocative can also awaken the spirit and make its readers quick with consciousness. In these pages I discovered many new writers, and I’ve decided I’m now in love with our troublesome epoch if it can produce poems of such genius’ – Edmund White ‘A vibrant, brilliantly diverse anthology of poems to delight the mind, heart and soul. A book for people who know they love poetry, and for people who think they don’t’ – Helen Dunmore 'Staying Alive is a wonderful testament to Neil Astley's liftetime in poetry, and to the range and courage of his taste. It's also, of course, a testament to poetry itself: to its powers to engross and move us, to its ability to challenge and brace us, and to its exultation. Everyone who cares about poetry should own this book.' - Andrew Motion ‘When you choose your book for Desert Island Discs, this should be it. Staying Alive proves that poetry is the most sustaining and life-affirming of literary forms. A triumph’ – Helena KennedyTable of ContentsVarious 18 Poets on poetry Neil Astley 19 Introduction Mary Oliver 28 Wild Geese 1 Body and soul Denise Levertov 31 Living Andrew Greig 31 Orkney / This Life Alistair Elliot 32 Northern Morning Raymond Carver 33 Happiness James Merrill 33 My Father’s Irish Setters Vernon Scannell 35 Legs Lucille Clifton 36 homage to my hips Gwen Harwood 36 Naked Vision Thom Gunn 37 The Hug Tess Gallagher 38 The Hug Elizabeth Bishop 39 Chemin de Fer Alden Nowlan 40 He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded Les Murray 41 An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Michael Longley 43 A Prayer Carol Ann Duffy 43 Prayer Czesław Miłosz 44 Encounter Rainer Maria Rilke 44 from The Tenth Duino Elegy Denise Levertov 45 Variation on a Theme by Rilke Gjertrud Schnackenberg 46 from A Gilded Lapse of Time Kevin Hart 47 Dark Angel Nina Cassian 48 Temptation Sylvia Plath 48 Poppies in October Osip Mandelstam 49 ‘Eyesight of Wasps’ David Constantine 49 The Wasps Charles Simic 50 The Old World Robert Bly 50 Watering the Horse Chase Twichell 51 Saint Animal Carol Rumens 51 Jarrow Stephen Dobyns 52 Where We Are 2 Roads and journeys Robert Frost 55 The Road Not Taken James K. Baxter 55 The Bay Elizabeth Garrett 56 Tyranny of Choice Stevie Smith 57 Not Waving but Drowning Simon Armitage 57 Poem Carl Sandburg 58 Choose Vladimír Holan 58 Meeting in a Lift E.E. Cummings 58 ‘i thank You God for most this amazing’ Dennis O’Driscoll 59 You Brendan Kennelly 60 Begin Louis MacNeice 60 Entirely Adrienne Rich 61 Integrity Galway Kinnell 63 The Bear Delmore Schwartz 66 The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me John Berryman 67 from Dream Songs Tracey Herd 67 from Some mangled dream songs for Henry Freda Downie 68 Window Miroslav Holub 69 The door Kapka Kassabova 70 The Door Robert Frost 71 Directive Gillian Allnutt 72 The Road Home Robert Frost 73 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Louis MacNeice 74 Snow Paul Muldoon 74 History Maura Dooley 75 History Vladimír Holan 75 Snow Lawrence Sail 76 The Cablecar Galway Kinnell 77 That Silent Evening Mary Oliver 78 The Journey Helen Dunmore 79 When You’ve Got Muriel Rukeyser 80 Yes Stephen Dunn 81 Happiness Michael Donaghy 81 Machines Tomas Tranströmer 82 Alone Menna Elfyn 83 Couplings William Stafford 84 Traveling through the Dark John Burnside 84 Penitence W.N. Herbert 86 Slow Animals Crossing Elizabeth Bishop 87 The Moose Thomas Lux 92 Wife Hits Moose 3 Dead or alive Jaan Kaplinski 95 ‘To eat a pie and to have it…’ Louise Glück 95 Trillium Elizabeth Daryush 96 ‘I saw the daughter of the sun…’ Frieda Hughes 97 Stonepicker Marin Sorescu 97 The Arrow Christopher Logue 98 Be Not Too Hard Charles Simic 99 Modern Sorcery Vona Groarke 99 Tonight of Yesterday Hayden Carruth 100 Sonnet James Wright 100 Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm William Empson 101 Missing Dates Weldon Kees 101 Villanelle Gjertrud Schnackenberg 102 Signs Galway Kinnell 103 from When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone Brendan Kennelly 103 My Dark Fathers Kit Wright 104 Hoping It Might Be So Charles Wright 105 Clear Night Robert Bly 106 Defeated Theodore Roethke 106 The Waking Kapka Kassabova 107 Mirages Eibhlín Nic Eochaidh 108 How to kill a living thing Anne Michaels 109 from Sublimation Chase Twichell 110 Horse Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 111 Swineherd Kathleen Jamie 111 The way we live Connie Bensley 112 Apologia Rosemary Tonks 113 Addiction to an Old Mattress Fleur Adcock 113 Things Elma Mitchell 114 Thoughts After Ruskin Elizabeth Bartlett 115 Themes for Women Maura Dooley 116 What Every Woman Should Carry Ruth Fainlight 116 Handbag Jenny Joseph 117 Warning Theodore Roethke 117 Dolor Elizabeth Bishop 118 One Art Louise Glück 119 Lamium May Sarton 119 A Glass of Water Stephen Dunn 120 Sadness Stephen Dunn 121 Sweetness Alden Nowlan 122 The Execution James Wright 123 A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack Bertolt Brecht 124 Epistle on Suicide Stevie Smith 124 Harold’s Leap Anne Sexton 125 Her Kind Tracey Herd 126 Anne Sexton’s Last Letter to God Robert Frost 128 My November Guest Edward Thomas 128 She Dotes R.S. Thomas 129 The Cry Vachel Lindsay 130 The Leaden-Eyed Ezra Pound 130 And the Days Are Not Full Enough Douglas Dunn 130 A Removal from Terry Street 4 Bittersweet Matthew Sweeney 133 Tube Ride to Martha’s Peter Reading 133 from Ukulele Music Ken Smith 135 Against the grain Wislawa Szymborska 135 The One Twenty Pub Izet Sarajlic 137 Luck in Sarajevo Michael Longley 137 All of These People Muriel Rukeyser 138 Waking This Morning Douglas Dunn 138 I Am a Cameraman Philip Gross 140 from The Wasting Game Leontia Flynn 143 Brinkwomanship Ken Smith 144 Here U.A. Fanthorpe 144 The Unprofessionals Stewart Conn 145 Visiting Hour Carole Satyamurti 145 from Changing the Subject Nick Drake 150 The Cure Charles Simic 150 Past-Lives Therapy Adrienne Rich 151 Diving into the Wreck Richard Wilbur 153 April 5, 1974 Michael Longley 154 At Poll Salach Edward Thomas 154 Thaw Michael Longley 154 Thaw Fleur Adcock 155 Kissing Leland Bardwell 155 How my true love and I lay without touching Basil Bunting 156 ‘You idiot!…’ Randall Jarrell 157 90 North E.J. Scovell 158 Listening to Collared Doves David Constantine 159 Watching for Dolphins Jo Shapcott 160 Goat Peter Didsbury 161 The Drainage Helen Dunmore 162 Three Ways of Recovering a Body Ted Hughes 163 Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days Sylvia Plath 164 Mushrooms Derek Mahon 166 A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford John Burnside 167 Unwittingly 5 Growing up Ken Smith 171 Being the third song of Urias Sujata Bhatt 172 White Asparagus Alden Nowlan 173 It’s Good To Be Here Kathleen Jamie 174 Ultrasound Helen Dunmore 178 Safe period Kona Macphee 178 IVF Jane Duran 180 Miscarriage Maura Dooley 181 Freight Sharon Olds 181 First Birth Sharon Olds 182 Her First Week Anne Stevenson 183 The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument Gavin Ewart 184 Sonnet: How Life Too Is Sentimental Anne Stevenson 184 Poem for a Daughter Ellen Bryant Voigt 185 Daughter Adrian Mitchell 186 Beattie Is Three W.D. Snodgrass 186 from Heart’s Needle Gjertrud Schnackenberg 191 Supernatural Love Brendan Kennelly 193 Poem from a Three Year Old Roger McGough 194 Cinders Kenneth Rexroth 195 A Sword in a Cloud of Light János Pilinszky 197 On the Back of a Photograph Fleur Adcock 197 The Video P.K. Page 197 Young Girls Adrian Mitchell 198 A Puppy Called Puberty Adrian Mitchell 199 A Dog Called Elderly Paul Muldoon 199 Cuba Michael Donaghy 200 My Flu Charles Simic 201 ‘We were so poor…’ Robert Hayden 201 Those Winter Sundays Julia Copus 202 The Back Seat of My Mother’s Car Louise Glück 203 Mirror Image Sylvia Plath 203 Mirror Anne Carson 204 Father’s Old Blue Cardigan Philip Larkin 205 This Be the Verse Caitríona O’Reilly 205 Possession Randall Jarrell 206 A Night with Lions Joseph Brodsky 207 from A Part of Speech Edward Thomas 209 Old Man Randall Jarrell 211 Thinking of the Lost World Paul Muldoon 213 Quoof Hart Crane 214 Forgetfulness Billy Collins 214 Forgetfulness W.S. Merwin 215 Unknown Forbear David Scott 216 Groundsmen 6 Man and beast Les Murray 218 Pigs Dennis O’Driscoll 218 Experimental Animals Alden Nowlan 219 Weakness Stephen Dobyns 220 Spiritual Chickens James Dickey 221 The Heaven of Animals Nina Cassian 222 Sacrilege Elena Shvarts 223 Remembrance of Strange Hospitality Julie O’Callaghan 224 Federal Case Frank O’Hara 224 Animals Charles Simic 225 ‘The city had fallen…’ Robert Adamson 225 The stone curlew Polly Clark 226 My Life with Horses Seán Ó Riordáin 227 Switch James Wright 227 A Blessing Michael Longley 228 The Horses Seamus Heaney 229 The Skunk Thom Gunn 229 Considering the Snail Fleur Adcock 230 For a Five-Year-Old Ted Hughes 231 Full Moon and Little Frieda Frieda Hughes 231 Birds John Montague 232 The Trout Susan Wicks 233 Night Toad Sheila Wingfield 233 A Bird John Kinsella 234 Emu Hunt Lavinia Greenlaw 234 Night Parrot Ted Hughes 235 The Thought Fox Michael Longley 236 Swans Mating Michael Ondaatje 236 The Strange Case Selima Hill 237 Cow Katrina Porteous 238 Seven Silences Jo Shapcott 239 Lies Vicki Feaver 240 Glow Worm Jorie Graham 241 Salmon Richard Murphy 242 Seals at High Island Chris Greenhalgh 243 Of Love, Death and the Sea-Squirt Caitríona O’Reilly 244 Octopus Pablo Neruda 245 Fable of the mermaid and the drunks Stephen Knight 245 The Mermaid Tank Edwin Morgan 246 The Loch Ness Monster’s Song Gwendolyn MacEwen 247 The Death of the Loch Ness Monster Seamus Heaney 248 Oysters 7 In and out of love Paul Durcan 250 My Belovèd Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout Deborah Randall 251 Finney’s Bar Tracy Ryan 252 Bite Selima Hill 252 Desire’s a Desire Marge Piercy 253 Raisin Pumpernickel C.K. Williams 254 Love: Beginnings Pauline Stainer 255 The Honeycomb Michael Longley 255 The Linen Industry Sharon Olds 256 Last Night János Pilinszky 257 Definition of Your Attraction Michael Ondaatje 257 The Cinnamon Peeler Sharon Olds 259 True Love W.H. Auden 259 Lullaby Julia Copus 261 In Defence of Adultery Rita Ann Higgins 261 The Did-You-Come-Yets of the Western World C.K. Williams 263 The Mistress Sharon Olds 263 Ecstasy D.H. Lawrence 264 New Year’s Eve Salvatore Quasimodo 265 Only if Love Should Pierce You Jo Shapcott 265 Muse Jo Shapcott 266 Life Philippe Jaccottet 267 Distances David Constantine 268 ‘As our bloods separate’ Judith Wright 268 Woman to Man Gjertrud Schnackenberg 269 Snow Melting Esta Spalding 270 August Kevin Hart 274 The Room Selima Hill 274 Don’t Let’s Talk about Being in Love Katie Donovan 275 Yearn On Carolyn Kizer 276 Bitch Eleanor Brown 277 Bitcherel Katherine Pierpoint 278 This Dead Relationship Stephen Dunn 280 Each from Different Heights Rosemary Tonks 280 Badly-Chosen Lover Anne Stevenson 281 After the End of It János Pilinszky 282 Relationship Louise Glück 282 Hesitate to Call Nina Cassian 282 Lady of Miracles Fleur Adcock 283 Advice to a Discarded Lover Kit Wright 284 The All Purpose Country and Western Self Pity Song James McAuley 286 Because P.K. Page 287 Cross Conrad Aiken 288 The Quarrel Kapka Kassabova 289 And they were both right Micheal O’Siadhail 290 Between W.B. Yeats 290 When You Are Old Kate Clanchy 291 Spell Zbigniew Herbert 291 Conch W.H. Auden 292 ‘O tell me the truth about love’ Meg Bateman 293 Lightness James Fenton 294 In Paris with You 8 My people Jaan Kaplinski 297 ‘The East West border…’ Kona Macphee 297 My People Anna Akhmatova 298 Our Own Land Richard Wilbur 299 A Summer Morning Stuart Henson 299 The Heron Jo Shapcott 300 A Letter to Dennis Tony Harrison 301 Turns David Constantine 301 The Door Peter Reading 302 from Going On Peter Didsbury 303 In Britain Anne Rouse 304 England Nil Joanne Limburg 304 Barton-in-the-Beans Esther Morgan 305 The Reason Philip Pacey 306 Charged Landscape: Uffington Edward Thomas 307 The Combe Norman Nicholson 307 Windscale John Heath-Stubbs 308 The Green Man’s Last Will and Testament Robyn Bolam 309 Kith G.F. Dutton 310 passage Roddy Lumsden 311 An Outlying Station Peter Reading 311 from Evagatory Ken Smith 315 After Mr Mayhew’s visit Roy Fisher 315 The Nation Kit Wright 316 Everyone Hates the English Andrew Salkey 317 A song for England Tom Leonard 317 The Voyeur W.N. Herbert 318 The King and Queen of Dumfriesshire R.S. Thomas 319 Reservoirs Harri Webb 319 Synopsis of the Great Welsh Novel Bernard O’Donoghue 320 Westering Home Gillian Clarke 321 Overheard in Co. Sligo Patrick Kavanagh 321 Inniskeen Road: July Evening Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 322 The Language Issue Colette Bryce 323 Break Seamus Heaney 323 The Toome Road Paul Muldoon 324 The Sightseers Charles Simic 324 Dream Avenue E.E. Cummings 325 ‘ “next to of course god america i” ’ Langston Hughes 326 I, Too Fred Voss 326 Making America Strong Imtiaz Dharker 327 They’ll say, ‘She must be from another country’ Jackie Kay 329 In my country Shirley Geok-lin Lim 329 Modern Secrets Moniza Alvi 330 Exile Sophia de Mello Breyner 331 Exile Jane Griffiths 331 Emigrants Grace Nichols 332 Epilogue Carol Ann Duffy 332 In Your Mind Sophia de Mello Breyner 333 Homeland Jo Shapcott 333 Motherland Anna Akhmatova 334 ‘That city that I have loved’ Anne Michaels 335 from What the Light Teaches Czeslaw Milosz 336 My Faithful Mother Tongue Adam Zagajewski 337 Betrayal Glyn Maxwell 338 We Billion Cheered C.P. Cavafy 339 Waiting for the Barbarians W.H. Auden 340 Gare du Midi Weldon Kees 340 The Coming of the Plague George Szirtes 341 Death by Meteor Jamie McKendrick 342 Ancient History 9 War and peace Kate Clanchy 345 War Poetry Carl Sandburg 345 Grass Miroslav Holub 346 The fly Wilfred Owen 347 Anthem for Doomed Youth Freda Downie 347 For Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon 348 Everyone Sang Isaac Rosenberg 348 Returning, we hear the Larks Edward Thomas 349 As the team’s head-brass Michael Longley 350 Ceasefire Paul Durcan 351 The Bloomsday Murders, 16 June 1997 Gwendolyn MacEwen 352 from The T.E. Lawrence Poems Keith Douglas 354 Vergissmeinnicht Mairi MacInnes 355 The Old Naval Airfield Geoffrey Hill 356 September Song Bertolt Brecht 356 There is no greater crime than leaving W.H. Auden 357 September 1, 1939 Bruce Weigl 360 On the Anniversary of Her Grace Carolyn Forché 361 Selective Service James Fenton 361 Cambodia Jo Shapcott 362 Phrase Book Robert Graves 363 The Persian Version Tony Harrison 364 Initial Illumination Ingeborg Bachmann 365 Every Day César Vallejo 366 from Spain, take away this cup from me Wislawa Szymborska 367 The End and the Beginning Thomas Lux 368 The People of the Other Village 10 Disappearing acts Frances Horovitz 371 Rain – Birdoswald Michael Longley 371 Björn Olinder’s Pictures Thomas Blackburn 372 Now Light Congeals Charles Simic 372 Psalm Dennis O’Driscoll 373 Someone Philip Larkin 374 Aubade Jaan Kaplinski 375 ‘Death does not come from outside…’ A.E. Housman 376 ‘Good creatures…’ Carolyn Kizer 376 Thrall Tony Harrison 377 Bookends (I) Ellen Bryant Voigt 378 For My Mother Dylan Thomas 379 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Anon 379 ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’ W.H. Auden 380 Funeral Blues Michael Hartnett 381 Death of an Irishwoman Michael Longley 381 Water-burn Miroslav Holub 382 The dead Gösta Ågren 382 Death’s Secret G.F. Dutton 383 Death in October David Constantine 383 ‘Pity the drunks’ David Scott 384 Scattering Ashes Thom Gunn 384 The Gas-poker David Constantine 386 Boy finds tramp dead John F. Deane 387 On a Dark Night Pamela Gillilan 388 Four Years Caroline Smith 388 Metamorphosis Liz Lochhead 389 Sorting Through Alden Nowlan 389 This Is What I Wanted to Sign Off With Tess Gallagher 390 Wake P.K. Page 390 About Death Howard Nemerov 391 The Vacuum Jeanne Willis 392 Inside Our Dreams Thom Gunn 392 The Reassurance Theodore Roethke 392 She Brendan Kennelly 393 A Glimpse of Starlings Pablo Neruda 394 Dead Woman Tess Gallagher 395 Yes Andrew Motion 395 Close Sophia de Mello Breyner 396 Inscription E.E. Cummings 397 ‘Buffalo Bill ’s’ Billy Collins 397 The Dead Tadeusz Rozewicz 398 Proofs Anne Carson 398 On Walking Backwards Stephen Dobyns 399 Cemetery Nights Stephen Dunn 400 Father, Mother, Robert Henley who hanged himself in the ninth grade, et al Vladimír Holan 400 Resurrection Charles Causley 401 Eden Rock Jo Shapcott 402 When I Died Dana Gioia 402 All Souls’ Philippe Jaccottet 403 from Lessons August Kleinzahler 405 Where Souls Go Brad Leithauser 405 A Mosquito Louise Glück 406 The Wild Iris Derek Mahon 407 Antarctica Paul Muldoon 407 Why Brownlee Left Matthew Sweeney 408 Sleep with a Suitcase Derek Mahon 409 As It Should Be Amanda Dalton 409 How to Disappear Vona Groarke 410 Folderol Weldon Kees 411 Robinson Sophia de Mello Breyner 411 Night and the House Miroslav Holub 412 Distant Howling 11 Me, the Earth, the Universe János Pilinszky 414 Homage to Isaac Newton Robin Robertson 414 New Gravity Adam Zagajewski 414 Moment Yannis Ritsos 415 Morning Moniza Alvi 415 The Other Room Miroslav Holub 416 Brief reflection on accuracy Simon Armitage 417 Zoom! Seamus Heaney 418 from Lightenings Ellen Hinsey 418 On the Uncountable Nature of Things Amy Clampitt 420 The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews James Harpur 421 ‘I stretch my arms’ James Merrill 421 A Downward Look Charles Causley 422 I Am the Song Vasko Popa 422 from Games Derek Walcott 423 Earth Sheila Wingfield 423 Waking Ivan V. Lalic 424 Places We Love R.S. Thomas 424 Moorland Robin Robertson 425 Three Ways of Looking at God Kerry Hardie 426 The Avatar Alden Nowlan 426 Sacrament T.S. Eliot 427 Journey of the Magi Wallace Stevens 428 The Snow Man Patrick Kavanagh 428 Sanctity R.S. Thomas 429 Via Negativa Charles Simic 429 To the One Upstairs Tomas Tranströmer 430 Tracks Elizabeth Jennings 431 Delay Norman MacCaig 431 Summer farm Iain Crichton Smith 432 Tinily a star goes down Carol Rumens 432 Star Whisper Gwyneth Lewis 433 from Zero Gravity Jane Cooper 434 Rent Elinor Wylie 435 Full Moon Kapka Kassabova 435 Preparation for the big emptiness Elizabeth Bishop 436 The Shampoo Alice Oswald 437 Mountains Kit Wright 437 The Other Side of the Mountain 12 The art of poetry Philippe Jaccottet 440 from Songs from Below Archibald MacLeish 441 Ars Poetica W.S. Graham 442 The Beast in the Space Alden Nowlan 443 An Exchange of Gifts Helen Ivory 443 Note to the reader: this is not a poem Robert Hass 444 Meditation at Lagunitas Jaan Kaplinski 445 ‘Once I got a postcard…’ Tomas Tranströmer 445 From March 1979 Chase Twichell 446 Animal Languages Vasko Popa 446 The Story of a Story Wallace Stevens 447 Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself Eamon Grennan 448 Detail Rita Dove 448 Ö Mark Strand 449 Eating Poetry Howard Nemerov 450 The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House Robert Lowell 453 Epilogue Galway Kinnell 454 Oatmeal Patrick Kavanagh 455 Consider the Grass Growing Joan Brossa 455 Note Seamus Heaney 456 Postscript Raymond Carver 456 Late Fragment Neil Astley 458 The Sound of Poetry 464 Glossary 471 Further reading 473 Acknowledgements 480 Index of writers 486 Index of titles and first lines
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds
Book Synopsis"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide-ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver, as well as by many lesser-known writers from all periods and places. The anthology opens with a series of poems on human life and spiritual sustenance, starting with Rumi: 'This being human is a guest house./Each morning a new arrival...'. The poems which follow explore many ways of keeping body and soul together, offering food for thought on knowing yourself, living with nature, who or what is God...All are universal illuminations of the meaning of life, speaking to readers of all faiths as well as to searchers and non-believers. "Soul Food" shows how poetry can help feed our hunger for meaning in times of spiritual starvation.Trade Review'These poems illuminate the path of life.' - Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times 'These poems will reconnect you with happiness, kindness, beauty and joy. They will teaqch you how to be here, now, fully aware and alive... Buy this book! You will be investing in happiness for days - and even dark lonely nights - to come.' - Anne Ashworth, Universalist: The Journal of the Quaker Universalist Group 'A friend gave me a copy of Soul Food as a gift... I thought it was so good that I gave it away to another friend within a matter of days, and bought myself a new copy, which I also gave away... I continue to buy copies for friends... I have read this book through from beginning to end a number of times now, and each time I am left with my spirit uplifted and a wondrous sense of warm joy in my soul. Not only is each poem fine, but reading the whole collection reads feels like the privilege of sharing another human's spiritual journey for a while.' - Henry Morgan, The Merton Journal 'Soul Food is an extremely attractive book. Of all the books lying about my house, more visitors have been drawn to wanting to borrow this than any other... It contains work by many of my favourite poets, but more importantly it whets my appetite with new discoveries... I recommend buying copies to keep and give away.' - Chris Kinsey, Envoi ‘Soul Food, like another Bloodaxe anthology, Do Not Go Gentle: poems for funerals, captures the elusive overlapping oval in the Venn diagram of poetry-that-is-serious and poetry-that-breaks-your-heart.’ – Martin Wroe, Church TimesTable of ContentsSoul Food includes Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Coleman Barks, William Blake, John Burnside, Paul Celan, Chuang-Tzu, Emily Dickinson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jane Hirshfield, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kabir, Jane Kenyon, Lal Ded (Lalla), DH Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, Czeslaw Milosz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Oliver, Amrita Pritam, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, St John of the Cross, Edith Södergran, Anna Swir, Wislawa Szymborska, Shinkichi Takahashi, RS Thomas, and many others…
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Being Human
Book SynopsisBeing Human is the third book in the Staying Alive series of anthologies. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is a companion volume to those two books – a world poetry anthology offering poetry lovers an even broader, international selection of 'real poems for unreal times'. It was followed by a fourth volume, Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive (2020). The range of poetry here complements that of the first two anthologies: hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world; poems that touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit; poems about being human, about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and wonder. There are more great poems from the 20th century as well as many recent poems of rare imaginative power from the first decade of the 21st century. But this book is also rare in reflecting the concerns of readers from all walks of life. Such has been the appeal of Staying Alive and Being Alive that many people have written not only to express their appreciation of these books, but also to share poems which have been important in their own lives. Being Human draws on this highly unusual publisher's mailbag, including many talismanic personal survival poems suggested by our readers.Trade ReviewA book that makes the heart sing, which shows that the best of today's poetry…is a joy to behold, "charged", as Ezra Pound said, "with meaning to the utmost degree". Being Human, which runs to more than 500 pages, offers a glut of poetry from across the globe and, in so doing, renders redundant the "difficult" tag which so dogs the art. Above all it is a celebration of our capacity to embrace whatever's thrown at us… But subjects do not make poems, poets do. Astley's taste is catholic and inclusive and drawn to those who write with lyrical clarity and a keen eye… Being Human is not easy to summarise. It is a poetic Babel, a library in one volume. -- Alan Taylor * The Herald (Scotland) *Astley is wonderful at selecting poems with the kind of talismanic lines that really speak to people... Not only are the poems clustered by broad theme, with a lively introduction to each section by Astley, but within those groupings they speak to each other, in substance or across time…This collection certainly continues the excellent work of its predecessors, bringing new work and poets to audiences, and drawing new readers to poetry, and at a mere £12 for 500 poems, no one will be deterred from taking a risk. Being Human is stimulating, inspiring, intelligent, witty and life-affirming, the perfect companion on a journey, literal and otherwise. -- Peggy Hughes * Scotland on Sunday *Where Staying Alive and Being Alive were filled with poems that felt exigent, essential (even, in the case of Mary Oliver's subsequently much-quoted "Wild Geese", talismanic), the atmosphere of Being Human, as its title suggests, is more contemplative. Time – its passage and our relationship to it – is the overarching subject, and the section that tackles it specifically, "About time", sits at the heart of the book. Trains and rivers wind their way through the poems, memory is interrogated, and the moments of suspension in which, as Louis MacNeice has it, "Time was away and somewhere else", are rejoiced in… That act of noticing is what poetry ought to do, and what many of the superb poems in this anthology achieve. Let's hear it for modern verse. -- Sarah Crown * Guardian *Neil Astley's indispensable, endlessly surprising trilogy… The newest and last of these contains all the manifold virtues of the earlier two: another startlingly varied, unexpected and entirely accessible collection of contemporary poems - 500 per volume, no small undertaking - exploring the stuff of life, what Louis MacNeice called "this mad weir of tigerish waters/A prism of delight and pain". -- Catherine Lockerbie * The Scotsman *Table of ContentsNeil Astley 17 Introduction 1 Being Human Doris Kareva 22 from Shape of Time Anna Kamienska 23 Funny Kerry Hardie 23 Humankind Rumi 24 The Guest House Micheal O’Siadhail 25 Human Adrian Mitchell 25 Human Beings Julie O’Callaghan 27 The Sounds of Earth Raymond Queneau 28 The Human Species Vernon Scannell 29 Here and Human Ruth Stone 30 Being Human Stephen Edgar 30 Another Country Anna Swir 31 Happiness John Montague 32 To Cease Elizabeth Alexander 33 Ars Poetica #100: I Believe T.S. Eliot 34 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Dennis O’Driscoll 38 The Vigil 2 The stuff of life Michael Blumenthal 40 What I Believe Selima Hill 41 What Do I Really Believe? Sujata Bhatt 42 What Is Worth Knowing John Burnside 43 Anniversary Bei Dao 44 The Answer Julius Chingono 45 As I Go Thomas A. Clark 46 In Praise of Walking Ruth Stone 49 Train Ride Galway Kinnell 50 The Road Between Here and There Rosemary Tonks 51 The Sofas, Fogs and Cinemas Adam Zagajewski 52 To Go to Lvov Jack Gilbert 54 A Brief for the Defense Jane Hirshfield 55 Burlap Sack Edip Cansever 56 Table Oktay Rifat 56 Table Laid Pablo Neruda 57 The great tablecloth David Scott 58 A Long Way from Bread Brendan Kennelly 60 Bread E.A. Markham 61 Don’t Talk to Me about Bread Nikki Giovanni 62 Quilts Ruth Stone 63 Second-Hand Coat Kerry Hardie 64 Helplessness Olav H. Hauge 64 Don’t Give Me the Whole Truth Izumi Shikibu 64 ‘Although the wind’ Didem Madak 65 Sir, I Want to Write Poems with Flowers Charles Brasch 66 Winter Anemones Tracy K. Smith 67 Duende Derek Mahon 69 Thunder Shower Derek Mahon 70 Kinsale Jen Hadfield 71 Daed-traa Raymond Carver 72 Where Water Comes Together with Other Water Vona Groarke 73 The Local Accent Greta Stoddart 74 Counting Bei Dao 74 Midnight Singer Frances Leviston 74 Moon Nâzim Hikmet 76 Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Linda Pastan 79 Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Louis MacNeice 81 Sunlight on the Garden Peter Didsbury 81 Pastoral (after Ralf Andtbacka) John F. Deane 82 The Colours Lavinia Greenlaw 83 Blue Field Anne Stevenson 84 On Harlech Beach Rainer Maria Rilke 85 Archaic Torso of Apollo Mark Doty 85 A Green Crab’s Shell Coral Bracho 87 Wasp on Water Tua Forsström 87 Amber Jane Hirshfield 88 The Weighing Stanley Kunitz 89 The Layers William Stafford 90 The Way It Is Fernando Pessoa 90 ‘To be great, be whole…’ Toon Tellegen 91 I drew a line Robert Frost 91 The Armful Gregory Corso 92 The Whole Mess… Almost James Fenton 93 The Skip 3 Life history Agha Shahid Ali 96 A Lost Memory of Delhi Sharon Olds 97 I Go Back to May 1937 Anna Swir 98 Woman Unborn Thomas Lux 99 Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child Kate Clanchy 100 Infant Kevin Young 100 Crowning Maura Dooley 104 The Weighing of the Heart Helen Dunmore 105 All the Things You Are Not Yet Louise Glück 106 Lullaby María Negroni 107 The Baby Thomas Lux 107 A Little Tooth Kevin Griffith 108 Spinning Naomi Shihab Nye 108 Shoulders Dan Chiasson 109 Man and Derailment Evan Jones 109 Generations Langston Hughes 110 Mother to Son Terrance Hayes 111 Mother to Son Lorna Goodison 112 I Am Becoming My Mother A.K. Ramanujan 112 Self-portrait Samuel Menashe 113 Autobiography Rebecca Edwards 113 The Mothers Catherine Smith 114 The Fathers Rita Ann Higgins 115 Grandchildren Penelope Shuttle 116 Delicious Babies Anna T. Szabó 117 She Leaves Me Linda Pastan 118 To a Daughter Leaving Home Norman MacCaig 119 Small boy Paul Farley 119 Monopoly Natasha Trethewey 120 Mythmaker Eavan Boland 121 The Pomegranate Imtiaz Dharker 123 How to Cut a Pomegranate Susan Wicks 123 Persephone Robert Wrigley 124 Moonlight: Chickens on the Road Simon Armitage 126 ‘My father thought it bloody queer’ Anthony Lawrence 127 The Drive Robyn Rowland 128 Ausculta Molly Peacock 129 Say You Love Me Pascale Petit 131 Self Portrait with Fire Ants Carol Ann Duffy 132 We Remember Your Childhood Well A.D. Hope 132 Crossing the Frontier Nii Ayikwei Parkes 134 The Makings of You Kathleen Jamie 135 Crossing the Loch Lynda Hull 136 At Thirty Adrian Blevins 136 Life History Lucille Clifton 138 ‘the thirty-eighth year…’ Mary Stanley 140 The Wife Speaks Donald Justice 141 Men at Forty David Campbell 141 Mothers and Daughters Patricia Beer 142 Middle Age Bernard O’Donoghue 143 Nel Mezzo del Cammin Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 143 Approaching Fifty Marie Howe 144 The World Randall Jarrell 144 The Woman at the Washington Zoo Franz Wright 145 Untitled Francesc Parcerisas 146 Shave Kwame Dawes 147 Fat Man Sharon Olds 148 Self-portrait, Rear View Elaine Feinstein 149 Getting Older Arun Kolatkar 149 An Old Woman Dom Moraes 151 from After the Operation Paul Durcan 153 Golden Mothers Driving West Elizabeth Jennings 154 Rembrandt’s Late Portraits Mark Strand 155 Old Man Leaves Party W.S. Merwin 156 Still Morning Samuel Menashe 156 Salt and Pepper Jorge Luis Borges 157 In Praise of Darkness Derek Mahon 158 Ignorance (after Philippe Jaccottet) Yehuda Amichai 159 A Quiet Joy Samuel Menashe 159 Voyage Samuel Menashe 160 The Niche Salvatore Quasimodo 160 And Suddenly It’s Evening Lars Gustafsson 160 The Girl 4 About time Samuel Menashe 162 The Shrine Who Shape I Am Fleur Adcock 162 Water C.D. Wright 163 Our Dust Luljeta Lleshanaku 165 Vertical Realities Elizabeth Bishop 166 In the Waiting Room Moya Cannon 168 The Train Dan Pagis 169 Ein Leben Patricia Hampl 170 This Is How Memory Works Seamus Heaney 171 A Sofa in the Forties Julia Copus 173 Raymond, at 60 Luljeta Lleshanaku 174 from Monday in Seven Days Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 174 The Bend in the Road Luljeta Lleshanaku 175 Memory Ruth Stone 176 Memory Keith Althaus 177 Ladder of Hours Stuart Henson 177 The Price Michael Hartnett 178 The Killing of Dreams Langston Hughes 179 Harlem [2] Rodney Jones 179 Salvation Blues Jorge Luis Borges 180 Matthew XXV: 30 Francis Harvey 181 News of the World George Seferis 181 from Mythistorema Jaan Kaplinski 182 ‘The washing never gets done…’ Yehuda Amichai 183 A Man in His Life Stewart Conn 184 Carpe Diem Emma Lew 185 Riot Eve Carole Satyamurti 185 Sathyaji Rita Dove 187 Dawn Revisited Adam Zagajewski 187 Lava Wisława Szymborska 188 Could Have Yusef Komunyakaa 189 Thanks Philip Gross 190 Caught Iain Crichton Smith 191 Listen Louis MacNeice 192 Meeting Point Rosemary Dobson 193 The Three Fates Philip Hodgins 194 Leaving Alan Gillis 195 Progress Alice Oswald 196 The mud-spattered recollections of a woman who lived her life backwards Sheenagh Pugh 198 Pause: Rewind Vasko Popa 199 The Little Box Yehuda Amichai 199 Inside the Apple Jean Follain 200 Life Dana Gioia 201 Nothing Is Lost Toeti Heraty 201 A Woman’s Portrait 1938 Thom Gunn 202 In Santa Maria del Populo Matthew Sweeney 203 Black Moon Roberto Juarroz 204 ‘Life draws a tree’ John Glenday 205 Etching a Line of Trees Sarah Holland-Batt 206 The Art of Disappearing Rainer Maria Rilke 207 Childhood Peter Handke 208 Song of Childhood Peter Handke 210 Angels talking in Wings of Desire George Szirtes 213 Cerulean Blue: Footnote on Wim Wenders Robert Hass 214 Privilege of Being Harry Clifton 216 God in France Czesław Miłosz 217 A Confession Adam Zagajewski 218 Fruit Wisława Szymborska 218 A Note Christine Evans 219 Callers Nissim Ezekiel 220 Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher Henri Thomas 221 Audides Pablo Neruda 221 Keeping quiet Rumi 223 Quietness Lynne Wycherley 223 Apple Tree in Blossom Robert Frost 224 The Oven Bird Frances Horovitz 224 Flowers Denise Levertov 225 The Life Around Us Leslie Norris 226 Burning the Bracken Eeva-Liisa Manner 227 ‘The trees are bare…’ Elizabeth Jennings 227 Song at the Beginning of Autumn Stanley Kunitz 228 The Snakes of September John Burnside 229 September Evening: Deer at Big Basin W.B. Yeats 230 The Wild Swans at Coole Samuel Menashe 231 Autumn Tess Gallagher 231 Blue Grapes Robert Frost 231 Nothing Gold Can Stay Eamon Grennan 232 A Few Facts Edwin Morgan 232 Trio John F. Deane 233 Canticle Margaret Avison 234 New Year’s Poem Norman MacCaig 235 February – not everywhere Tomas Tranströmer 235 April and Silence Paula Meehan 236 Seed Esther Morgan 236 This Morning Louise Glück 237 Matins Eamon Grennan 237 What It Is Kerry Hardie 238 May Katha Pollitt 239 The Old Neighbors Derek Walcott 240 Midsummer, Tobago Norman MacCaig 240 So many summers Mark Wunderlich 241 Amaryllis (after Rilke) Louise Glück 242 Screened Porch Faustin Charles 243 Landscape Jaan Kaplinski 244 ‘Every dying man…’ 5 Fight to the death Jane Kenyon 246 Having It Out with Melancholy Jane Kenyon 249 Back Susana Thénon 250 Nuptial Song Ravi Shankar 251 Plumbing the Deepening Grove Lucia Perillo 252 Shrike Tree Miller Williams 253 Thinking About Bill, Dead of AIDS Mark Doty 254 Faith Joan Margarit 257 Dark Night in Balmes Street Joan Margarit 258 The eyes in the rear-view mirror Joan Margarit 259 Young partridge Bill Manhire 259 Kevin Raymond Carver 260 What the Doctor Said Philip Hodgins 260 Death Who Anna Swir 262 Tomorrow They Will Carve Me Jo Shapcott 263 Procedure Nissim Ezekiel 263 Process Janet Frame 264 The Suicides Sylvia Plath 265 Fever 103° Ted Hughes 266 Fever Sylvia Plath 268 The Rabbit Catcher Ted Hughes 269 Life after Death Stanley Kunitz 271 The Portrait Ruth Stone 272 Turn Your Eyes Away Grace Paley 273 This Life Kenneth Patchen 274 I Feel Drunk All the Time Robert Wrigley 274 Heart Attack Roger McGough 275 Defying Gravity Sharon Olds 276 The Race Lawrence Sail 278 At the Bedside John Burnside 279 Marginal jottings on the prospect of dying Rebecca Elson 280 Antidote to the Fear of Death Richard Blessing 281 Directions for Dying Andrew Motion 281 The Cinder Path Marin Sorescu 282 Pure Pain Marin Sorescu 282 ‘What hurts the most’ Marin Sorescu 283 Balance Sheet Marin Sorescu 283 A Ladder to the Sky Marin Sorescu 284 ‘So this is it’ Patricia Pogson 284 Breath Lauris Edmond 285 The pace of change Larry Levis 285 The Morning After My Death William Matthews 286 My Father’s Body Tony Harrison 288 Timer Tony Harrison 288 Marked with D. U.A. Fanthorpe 289 Only a Small Death David Constantine 290 Common and Particular Julia Kasdorf 291 What I Learned from My Mother Amjad Nasser 292 The House After Her Death Douglas Dunn 293 Dining Christopher Reid 294 from The Unfinished Norman MacCaig 297 Memorial R.S. Thomas 298 Comparisons Herman de Coninck 299 Ann Mary Jo Bang 300 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Mary Jo Bang 301 You Were You Are Elegy Mary Jo Bang 302 Ode to History R.S. Thomas 302 No Time Ken Smith 303 Years go by Adrian Mitchell 304 Death Is Smaller Than I Thought Jackie Kay 305 Darling Susan Mitchell 305 The Dead Billy Collins 306 No Time Susan Wicks 306 Branches 6 War and survival Heather McHugh 308 What He Thought Czesław Miłosz 310 Campo Dei Fiori W.H. Auden 312 The Fall of Rome Anthony Hecht 313 ‘More Light! More Light! Irena Klepfisz 314 Dedications to Bashert Paul Celan 316 Deathfugue C.K. Williams 317 Jew on Bridge Carolyn Forché 321 The Visitor Robert Hass 321 I Am Your Waiter Tonight and My Name Is Dimitri Laurie Lee 324 The Long War Miklós Radnóti 324 Letter to My Wife Paul Celan 326 Aspen Tree Ho Thien 326 The Green Beret Doug Anderson 328 Night Ambush Keith Douglas 328 How to Kill Brian Turner 329 Here, Bullet Dunya Mikhail 330 The War Works Hard Yehuda Amichai 331 The Place Where We Are Right Tatjana Lukic 332 nothing else Sarah Maguire 333 The Pomegranates of Kandahar Mourid Barghouti 334 A Night Unlike Others Brian Turner 336 16 Iraqi Policeman Mourid Barghouti 336 Silence Aharon Shabtai 337 War Ronny Someck 337 A Poem of Bliss Taha Muhammad Ali 338 Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower Paul Muldoon 339 Truce Alan Gould 339 A U-Boat Morning, 1914 Gillian Clarke 341 The Field-Mouse Robert Adamson 342 The Goldfinches of Baghdad Lam Thi My Da 343 Garden Fragrance Michael Coady 343 Though There Are Torturers Michael Longley 344 The Ice-Cream Man Andrew Motion 344 To Whom It May Concern Michael Longley 345 Wreaths X.J. Kennedy 346 September Twelfth, 2001 Deborah Garrison 347 I Saw You Walking Alan Smith 348 Kidding Myself in Kuta, Bali: A Pantoum Gyula Illyés 349 While the Record Plays Charles Simic 350 Fear Heberto Padilla 351 In trying times Nâzim Hikmet 352 On Living Tony Curtis 354 Soup Irina Ratushinskaya 355 I will live and survive Jack Mapanje 356 Skipping Without Ropes Priscila Uppal 357 Sorry I Forgot To Clean Up After Myself Nâzim Hikmet 358 It’s This Way Else Lasker-Schüler 358 My Blue Piano David Constantine 359 Soldiering On Ernesto Cardenal 360 ‘For Those Dead, Our Dead…’ Martín Espada 361 Sleeping on the Bus Sargon Boulus 362 News About No One Chenjerai Hove 363 You Will Forget 7 Living in hope John Hewitt 366 from Freehold Patrick Kavanagh 368 Epic Patrick Kavanagh 369 Shancoduff Liam Ó Muirthile 369 The Parlour Ikkyu 370 My real dwelling Adélia Prado 371 Denouement James Merrill 372 The Broken Home Ko Un 375 Back Home Ko Un 375 Hometown Richard Hugo 376 Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg Paul Batchelor 377 Conurbation Olav H. Hauge 378 Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses George Oppen 379 Street Louis Simpson 379 An American Classic Jimmy Santiago Baca 380 from Poem VI Dennis O’Driscoll 382 Them and You John Ormond 383 Cathedral Builders Geoff Page 384 Grit Ali Cobby Eckermann 385 Intervention Pay Day Harry Martinson 389 Cable-ship Martín Espada 389 Imagine the Angels of Bread Nick Makoha 391 Beatitude Dunya Mikhail 392 I Was in a Hurry Nadia Anjuman 393 The Silenced Nora Nadjarian 393 Mother Tongue Partaw Naderi 394 My Voice Partaw Naderi 394 The Mirror Anne Stevenson 395 It looks so simple from a distance… Henrik Norbrandt 395 Local Stanisłav Baranczak 396 A Second Nature Carol Ann Duffy 397 Foreign Farzaneh Khojandi 397 Must Escape Mohja Kahf 398 Hijab Scene #7 Karen Press 399 Application for Naturalisation Imtiaz Dharker 400 Front door James Berry 401 Englan Voice Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze 402 from The arrival of Brighteye Grace Nichols 404 Wherever I Hang Daljit Nagra 405 Look We Have Coming to Dover! John Agard 406 Half-caste Moniza Alvi 407 Half-and-Half Gustavo Pérez Firmat 408 Bilingual Blues Linda Hogan 409 The Truth Is Katia Kapovich 410 Painting a Room Philip Levine 411 The Mercy Seamus Heaney 412 Miracle Hans Magnus Enzensberger 413 Optimistic Little Poem Ivan V. Lalic 413 The Spaces of Hope Lisel Mueller 414 Hope Edith Södergran 415 Hope Imtiaz Dharker 415 Living Space Ruth Bidgood 416 Little of Distinction Pablo Neruda 417 Emerging Brendan Kennelly 418 Yes Adrian Mitchell 419 Yes James Wright 419 Yes, But Langston Hughes 420 Dreams 8 Body and soul Henri Cole 422 Ape House, Berlin Zoo Stephen Dunn 423 With No Experience in Such Matters Lars Gustafsson 424 Elegy for a Dead Labrador Oktay Rifat 426 Looking at the Invisible Stephen Dunn 426 From Underneath Roderick Ford 428 Giuseppe Vicki Feaver 429 The Gun Chase Twichell 430 City Animals Robert Lowell 432 Skunk Hour Elizabeth Bishop 433 The Armadillo Brigit Pegeen Kelly 434 Song Philip Larkin 436 The Mower Judith Beveridge 437 The Caterpillars Ruth Stone 438 Another Feeling Larry Levis 438 The Oldest Living Thing in LA Thomas Lux 439 Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy Eugenio Montale 440 The Eel Les Murray 441 The Cows on Killing Day Gottfried Benn 443 Little Aster David Huerta 443 Poem by Gottfried Benn C.P. Cavafy 444 Body, Remember… Osip Mandelstam 444 ‘A body is given to me…’ Eleanor Ross Taylor 445 Disappearing Act Padraic Fallon 446 Body A.K. Ramanujan 446 A Hindu to His Body Sarah Holland-Batt 447 Pocket Mirror John Updike 448 Mirror Sonnet L’Abbé 448 Theory My Natural Brown Ass Sarah Holland-Batt 449 The Idea of Mountain Brendan Kennelly 450 Proof Wisława Szymborska 451 View with a Grain of Sand R.S. Thomas 452 The Bright Field Mark Strand 453 Keeping Things Whole Alex Skovron 453 Almost Alastair Reid 454 Oddments, inklings, omens, moments Pedro Serrano 455 Feet A.D. Hope 455 The Gateway William Stafford 456 The Gift Kerry Hardie 457 Flesh Julia Hartwig 457 Toward the End C.P. Cavafy 458 The God Abandons Antony Jane Hirshfield 459 Tree Harry Clifton 459 The Garden Olga Broumas 460 Sweeping the Garden John Burnside 461 from Of Gravity and light Michael Laskey 462 Nobody Kenji Miyazawa 462 Strong in the Rain Arundhathi Subramaniam 463 Prayer Dana Gioia 464 Prayer 9 More to love Kim Addonizio 466 You Don’t Know What Love Is Kim Addonizio 466 Like That Jericho Brown 467 Track 1: Lush Life Edwin Morgan 468 Strawberries Arda Collins 469 Low Dorianne Laux 470 The Shipfitter’s Wife W.R. Rodgers 470 The Net Thom Gunn 471 Tamer and Hawk Eliza Griswold 472 Tigers Tony Hoagland 473 Romantic Moment Faiz Ahmed Faiz 474 Before You Came Norman MacCaig 474 True Ways of Knowing E.E. Cummings 475 i carry your heart with me Dana Gioia 476 The Song (after Rilke) W.B. Yeats 476 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Langston Hughes 477 The Dream Keeper Michael Donaghy 477 The Present Sharon Olds 478 This Hour Garrison Keillor 479 Supper Sinéad Morrissey 479 & Forgive Us Our Trespasses Maram al-Massri 480 from A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor Norman MacCaig 482 Sounds of the day Pablo Neruda 483 ‘If I die…’ Annabelle Despard 483 Should You Die First Grace Paley 484 Anti-Love Poem Eavan Boland 485 Love Herman de Coninck 485 For Each Other Lorraine Mariner 486 Say I forgot Alan Dugan 486 Love Song: I and Thou Michael Blumenthal 487 A Marriage Anna Swir 488 Thank You, My Fate 489 Acknowledgements 496 Index of writers 503 Index of titles and first lines
£11.69
Enitharmon Press Collected Poems
Book SynopsisGathers together the finest of Ruth Pitter's poems.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Duchess of Malfi
Book SynopsisThe Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences for centuries. This new Arden edition offers readers a comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the play's historical, critical and performance history. The text is modernised and edited to the highest scholarly standards, with textual notes and commentary notes on the same page for ease of reference. This is the lead title in the launch of The Arden Early Modern Drama Series, a series which offers all the depth and quality of thinking long associated with the Arden. The edition will be valued by students, teachers and theatre professionals.Trade Review'I found it more exciting than I should probably admit to at seeing the Shakespeare-rich layer of annotation underpinning the text on the page of a play - The Duchess of Malfi - that simply hasn't been treated in that way before, especially in terms of introductory matter.' Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter (December 2009)
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Enitharmon Press Selected Poems
Book SynopsisU. A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public and at the same time very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her originality, wit and humanity. Since her death, much of her work has been out of print. Selected Poems, chosen from over thirty years of Fanthorpe's distinctive and accessible writing by her partner R V Bailey, will delight all her existing fans as well as those who come to her poems for the first time.Trade ReviewSTEPHEN FRY: The peerless U. A. Fanthorpe roots herself in the very earth of English poetry, connecting herself to Hughes and Browning, but also and more pertinently to the real experience of English living... so clear-eyed and so, well, completely poetic. CAROL ANN DUFFY: U. A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public at the same time as being very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her originality, wit and humanity ... I am only one of many poets who owe her a great debt and who is glad, always, to have her wonderful, warm, wise poems close.
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Sheep: Volume Two
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Pan Macmillan Macbeth
Book SynopsisDark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. 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.Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions are realized. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war and witchcraft, Macbeth also explores the relationship between husband and wife, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.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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Two Rivers Press Transitional Spaces
Book SynopsisTransitional Spaces, Kate Behrens's fourth collection, is concerned with inner lives and the secret doings of damage and repair. Touching on politics, sickness, sex, art, global warming and the messages of fantasy and dream, it looks at the lost and the longed-for, and at what happens when the bonds between us rupture. Nature appears as mirror, pointer or consolation. Creativity is explored in lines that include poets, a painter, a pattern-cutter and tapestry-maker, but also in our instinctual methods of surviving trauma. Behrens does not attempt an answer, rather she maps the trackways of feeling.
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Stewed Rhubarb Press In Wolfs Skin
£6.00
Arc Publications Selected Poems 1972 2024
Book SynopsisPrize-winning poet Kevin Crossley-Holland has been described by Philip Pullman as a master, a magician and commander of the language', a view that this eagerly-awaited Collected Poems will undoubtedly support.
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