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Book SynopsisArc New Voices from Europe and Beyond: 2Six Basque Poets is the second volume in a new series of bilingual anthologies which brings the work of contemporary poets from Europe and beyond to a wider English-language readership, a series which aims to keep a finger on the 'here and now' of international contemporary poetry.The six poets included in this collection have played a defining role in the development of Basque-language poetry in the last thirty years, since the arrival of what we have come to refer to as the 'democratic age' in Spain and the Basque Country. They represent the diversity of voices and poetic schools that populate the contemporary Basque literary scene, where a variety of tendencies has emerged in the recent decades: a range of different poetics, use of various narrative styles, a preference for a non-aesthetic approach that dwells within the quotidian and an emergence of female voices that reclaim other codes and other universes.Direct, moving and thought-provoking, the poetry in the present volume gives us insight into the preoccupations of a literary milieu which may be marginalized by its use of an ancient language not spoken outside its territory but which is as powerful and original in its production as any of the literary centres in today's Europe.The featured poets: Rikardo Arregi, Bernardo Atxaga, Felipe Juaristi, Miren Agur Meabe, Kirmen Uribe, Joseba Sarrionandia.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface/9, Introduction/10, Translator's note/27. Bernado Atxaga: Biography/31, The hedgehog/33, Adam and Life/35, Elegy/37, Death and the Zebras/37, The Days go by/41, Life/43, Life is Life/45, Silly Song/47, A Finnish Day/51. Felipe Juaristi: Biography/57, "It makes no difference, mixing West with East..."/59, Smoothy/59, Metropolis 2/61, The Isthmus of Panama/63, Vanity of Vanities/65, Nevsky Propsect/67, Auschwitz/69, Gardener/69, Geography/71, Rembrandt wants to paint infinity/73. Joseba Sarrionandia: Biography/79, Nautical Logbook/81, The Organist is Dead/81, Return Home/83, A Long Train/85, A Pile of Broken Shoes/85, The Ex-Prisoner's Mind/85, Literature and Revolution/87, A Runaway's Luggage/87, The Minotaur speaks/89, Poetic Proposal/91. Rikardo Arregi: Biography/97, Papers on the Pavement/99, The Sleeping Land III/99, 66 Lines from the City under Siege/103, The Moon Anywhere/107, Onassis Tavern/111, Territories of Music II/113, Telephone Promises/115, Love Poem I/117, Like Gilen of Aquitaine/119. Miren Agur Meabe: Biography/125, Code/125, Notes on How to avoid Memory Loss (2)/127, Brief Notes (1)/129, "Scoop the pale flow of my frozen half-moon..."/129, /131, Wild roses have gobbled up..."/131, Concrete Things/133, The Ant (II)/135, Water Dreams (III)/135, Aeolia (III)/137. Kirmen Uribe: Biography/141, The River/143, The Island/145, The Visit/145, Mahmud/147, The Cuckoo/151, Birds in Winter/153, Perfect Things/155, The Unsayable/155, Way Beyond/157, May/159. About the translator/161. About the editors/162

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Book SynopsisIncludes the ever popular If, along with the best of Kipling''s powerful, fluent poetry.

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Book SynopsisMacbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting meaning and theatrical ideas and themes, as well as an illustrated, lengthy introduction setting the play in its historical, theatrical and critical context and outlining the recent debates about Middleton's possible co-authorship of some scenes. A comprehensive and informative edition ideal for students and teachers seeking to explore the play in depth, whether in the classroom or on the stage.Trade ReviewThis is a splendid edition: it incorporates the most recent modern scholarship ... and it does so within a compass and format that is both readable and usable. -- Neil Rhodes, University of St. Andrews, UK * Around the Globe *A much needed third series edition of Macbeth, which provides the reader with a breath of fresh scholarship after over 30 years. * Jarrod DePrado, Sacred Heart University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction Macbeth Appendices Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of three collections bringing three poets together around the subjects of birth and war. The styles of these poets differ, but their imagery and intensity echo each other.

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Book SynopsisA highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400 years (14881902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Faubion Bowers provides a Foreword and many informative notes to the poems.

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Book SynopsisRich selection of 123 poems by 6 great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare’s combination of violence, introspection, dark humour and rich language in Hamlet is intoxicating. It remains the world's most widely studied and performed play, and is a cornerstone of world literature.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 renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and includes an introduction by Dr Robert Mighall.A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge until his apparent insanity begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.Trade ReviewThe most modern of Shakespeare's plays by some margin * Independent *Every 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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Book SynopsisAmong the most popular of all Shakespeare''s comedies, this play humorously celebrates the vagaries of love. With its several pairs of lovers, on-again, off-again romances, magic spells, fairies, and a bumbling troupe of would-be actors, the play continues to enchant audiences. Unabridged reprint of an authoritative British edition, complete with explanatory footnotes.

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Book SynopsisControversial book of verse, first published in 1857, presented in a handsome dual-language edition, together with superb selection of great French poet''s other works: prose poems from Spleen of Paris, critical essays on art, music, and literature, as well as personal letters. Line-by-line English translation, with original French text on facing page.

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Book SynopsisAuthoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English poetry. Housman probes, with poignant beauty, the nature of friendship, the passing of youth, the vanity of dreams, other themes.

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Book SynopsisInger Christensen (1935-2009) was one of Denmark's best-known poets. Her poetry reflects a complex philosophical background, yet it has enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a visionary quality, yet she is a paradoxically down-to-earth visionary, focusing on the simple stuff of everyday life and in it discovering the metaphysical, as if by chance.In alphabet, Christensen creates a framework of psalm-like forms that unfold like expanding universes, crystallizing into words both the beauty and the potential for destruction that permeate our world and our times. In this collection, she has created a system by combining the alphabet with Fibonnaci's numeric sequence, in which each number is equal to the sum of the two preceding numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc. alphabet is about the relationship between people and nature and, like it, is itself a form of creation. With the word exist as the pivot, the poems move -- from the first wondering confirmation, apricot trees exist -- out into the world to life and death, the planet and calamity.

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Book Synopsis"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air, felling trees and forests), there are poems here to alert and alarm anyone willing to read or listen. Other poems celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink. Earth Shattering's words of warning include contributions from many great writers of the past as well as leading contemporary poets from around the world, ranging from Wordsworth, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy, Rilke and Charlotte Mew to Wendell Berry, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin and Gary Snyder. This is the first anthology to show the full range of ecopoetry, from the wilderness poetry of ancient China to 21st-century native American poetry, with postcolonial and feminist perspectives represented by writers such as Derek Walcott, Ernesto Cardinal,Oodgeroo and Susan Griffin. Ecopoetry goes beyond traditional nature poetry to take on distinctly contemporary issues, recognising the interdependence of all life on earth, the wildness and otherness of nature, and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature. The poems dramatise the dangers and poverty of a modern world perilously cut off from nature and ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power. As the world's politicians and corporations orchestrate our headlong rush towards Eco- Armageddon, poetry may seem like a hopeless gesture. But its power is in the detail, in the force of each individual poem, in every poem's effect on every reader. And anyone whose resolve is stirred will strengthen the collective call for change.Trade ReviewAny poetry anthology, in any field, inevitably owes something to those anthologies that have gone before it. But with Earth Shattering, Neil Astley has set out to do something rather different – not just moving us well beyond the canon of "nature poetry" (which a number of other anthologies have also sought to do over the last few years), but by digging much deeper into the complexities of the historical relationship between humankind and the living Earth that sustains us, reflected in a highly contemporaneous and politically aware way. That will certainly appeal to environmental activists who will already be familiar with many of the poets featured in Earth Shattering. But they will discover a whole lot more than this in this astonishingly eclectic and wide-ranging anthology. -- Jonathon Porritt * Sofia *

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Book SynopsisLithuania's Tomas Venclova is one of Europe's greatest living poets. His work speaks with a moral depth exceptional in contemporary poetry. Venclova's poetry addresses the desolate landscape of the aftermath of totalitarianism, as well as the ethical constants that allow for hope and perseverance. "The Junction" brings together entirely new translations of his most recent work as well as a selection of poems from his 1997 volume "Winter Dialogue".Trade ReviewEvery major poet has an idiosyncratic inner landscape against which his voice sounds in his mind… [Venclova’s] landscape is that of the Baltic in winter, a monochromatic setting dominated by damp and cloudy hues – the light of the skies condensed into darkness. -- Joseph BrodskyVenclova is a lyric poet of magisterial allure, committed to philosophical meditations… Part exile, part seer, he is the artist as witness and a living example of a literary elite that evolved in crisis yet remained true to the dictates of art. -- Eileen Battersby * The Irish Times *If in Venclova's volume, Winter Dialogue, there is a concern with endurance, and a search for absolutes in the face of adverse conditions both in Lithuania and in exile, in his most recent work, The Junction, we find the figure of a poet returning from exile, surveying what has occurred, what buildings still stand, and the fates of those one loved. And while these poems are filled with melancholy at the passage of time, there is also a sense of affirmation. For despite everything, each element that is salvaged constitutes a form of victory - a testimony to all that can be, and is, preserved from the vicissitudes of History. -- Ellen Hinsey

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Book SynopsisAn Cailleach Bhearra, or the Hag of Beara, is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of western Ireland and Scotland, particularly in the Beara Peninsula in West Cork where Leanne O'Sullivan comes from. The Cailleach's roots lie in pre-Christian Ireland, and stories of her relationship with that rugged landscape and culture still abound. Central to these narratives is the story of her love affair with a sea god. A large stone rests on the ridge overlooking Bally crovane Harbour, and it is said to be the petrified body of the Cailleach; she has had several lives, beginning each life with a birth from her stony form - and returning to stone at the end.The supernatural and superhuman feature strongly in traditional stories of the Cailleach (pronounced Ca-lockor Cay-luck) - feats such as her creating mountains or leaping vast distances that place the tales firmly into the world of myth. While still recognising the Cailleach as a figure of extraordinary power and influence, Leanne O'Sullivan's poems explore the human origins from which the legend grew. She still forms the landscape, yet at the same time is intrinsically part of it, close to it, rather than gigantically above it; and her husband is not the sea god of legend, but a fisherman. And for all her strength, she is vulnerable.Trade ReviewLeanne O’Sullivan’s first collection, Waiting for My Clothes, was published when she was just 21 and was justifiably acclaimed for the extraordinary power of its language and the maturity of vision. It was also an intensely confessional work; it is therefore not surprising that O’Sullivan should eschew further revelations in Cailleach: The Hag of Beara, her second collection, and plough, instead, the furrows of Irish mythology in her exploration of the eternal feminine... O’Sullivan’s vision continues to be deeply romantic in its trust that nature is a panacea for human suffering; these poems catch one’s breath with their exquisite rendering of the Irish landscape... O’Sullivan’s imagery is always precise, yet utterly dazzling in its originality... she is reclaiming her landscape, as all poets must, and she does so with the steadiness and gravity of a writer who has already found her way home. -- Nessa O'Mahony * Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisJules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay, afflicted by ill health and financial ruin. His poems are dreamlike, often gently fantastical, imbued with an appealing surface clarity. His work stands apart from much 20th-century French poetry, and he has been characterised as a writer of Basque descent who wrote in French but in the Spanish tradition, with a strong affinity for the open spaces of his South American childhood and nostalgia for a cosmic brotherhood of men. In many respects he seems our contemporary, a writer of highly personal poems as well as poems concerned with war and the environment. Moniza Alvi writes: ‘I have been making versions of Supervielle’s poems for several years, strongly drawn to his style of writing, while also finding coincidental parallels with my own life, such as his birth “elsewhere” on another continent. My aim has been to retain the spirit of the French poems, and as many of their implications as I can, while making a poem that has a life in English. I thought he was an enchanting, inspiring poet who deserved to be so much better known in this country.’Trade ReviewIn her striking versions of poems by the French poet Jules Supervielle, written against the backdrop of wartime France, Moniza Alvi has found a soul-mate, a poet companion. -- Penelope Shuttle * Poetry London *

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Book SynopsisCarolyn Forché is one of America’s most important contemporary poets – renowned as a ‘poet of witness’ – as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. Over four decades, she has crafted visionary work that has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, enquiries and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. In the Lateness of the World is a dark book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history. Forché imagines a place where 'you could see everything at once… every moment you have lived or place you have been'. The world here seems to be steadily vanishing, but in the moments before the uncertain end, an illumination arrives and 'there is nothing that cannot be seen'. In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today. Her meditative poetry has a majestic sweep, with themes ranging from life on earth and human existence to history, war, genocide and the Holocaust. In the Lateness of the World is her first new collection in seventeen years, and follows three other collections published by Bloodaxe in Britain, The Country Between Us (1981/2018), The Angel of History (1994) and Blue Hour (2003). Jane Miller called Blue Hour ‘a masterwork for the 21st century’. According to Joyce Carol Oates (New York Times Book Review), Forché’s ability to wed the “political” with the “personal” places her in the company of such poets as Pablo Neruda, Philip Levine and Denise Levertov.Trade ReviewIt has been 17 years since Carolyn Forché published a book of poems, and In the Lateness of the World announces she is back. Coming fast on the heels of her memoir of last year this book is bursting with poems of migration, crossing, and looking back. It is as if the poet is standing, one foot in the river, wondering which way the next crossing will go. Drawing on her own travels and periods of reporting, on the world’s seemingly endless upheaval, these poems move beyond disquiet and creates the charged ethical field in which we all live, all the time, especially at that moment we move. -- John Freeman * Lit Hub *Carolyn Forché makes a complex voice for all the mute victims of our destructive world as the killing goes on and the patterns of our lives continue our committed self-destruction. Hers is the heroism which still cares. -- Robert CreeleyPart of poetry’s tragic knowledge is that elegy is endless. Yet in its power to recall and to memorialise, elegy also effaces time and reinvests loss, the lost, with life. It is a form of overcoming, essential to our knowing of, and dwelling in, the present and to our becoming human… Carolyn Forché is one of the contemporary masters of that form, that act. -- Michael PalmerAgain Carolyn Forché hovers above the lacerated landscape of history filling the holes “between saying and said”. Blue Hour does not console but emboldens. The fear we share is never dodged. This singular voice is writ in bone, snow, coal, stone and sorrow. -- C.D. WrightTable of Contents15 Museum of Stones 16 The Boatman 17 Water Crisis 18 Report from an Island 19 The Last Puppet 21 The Lightkeeper 22 The Crossing 23 Exile 24 Fisherman 25 For Ilya at Tsarskoye Selo 26 The Lost Suitcase 28 Last Bridge 30 Elegy for an Unknown Poet 32 Letter to a City Under Siege 33 Travel Papers 38 The Refuge of Art 40 A Room 45 The Ghost of Heaven 48 Ashes to Guazapa 49 Hue: From a Notebook 50 Morning on the Island 51 A Bridge 52 The End of Something 53 Early Life 54 Tapestry 55 Visitation 56 In Time of War 57 Lost Poem 58 Charmolypi 59 Souffrance 60 Sanctuary 61 Uninhabited 62 Clouds 63 Passage 64 Light of Sleep 65 Theologos 67 Mourning 68 Transport 69 Early Confession 70 Toward the End 72 What Comes 75 Dedications and notes 76 Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisImtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between Bombay and London. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings. "Leaving Fingerprints" is her fourth book of poems and drawings from Bloodaxe. In these poems, the only thing that is never lost is the Bombay tiffin-box. All the other things which are missing or about to go missing speak to each other - a person, a place, a recipe, a language, a talisman. Whether or not they want to be identified or found, they still send each other messages, scattering a trail of clues, leaving fingerprints.Trade ReviewImtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary film-maker, and has published six books with Bloodaxe, Postcards from god (including Purdah) (1997), I Speak for the Devil (2001), The terrorist at my table (2006), Leaving Fingerprints (2009), Over the Moon (2014) and Luck Is the Hook (2018). All her poetry collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of the books; she is one of very few poet-artists to work in this way. She was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2014, presented to her by The Queen in spring 2015, and has also received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Over the Moon was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2014. Her poems are on the British GCSE and A Level English syllabus, and she reads with other poets at Poetry Live! events all over the country to more than 25,000 students a year. She has had a dozen solo exhibitions of drawings in India, London, Leeds, New York and Hong Kong. She scripts and directs films, many of them for non-government organisations in India, working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children. In 2015 she appeared on the iconic BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs.‘Hers is a strong, concerned, economical poetry, in which political activity, homesickness, urban violence, religious anomalies, are raised in an unobtrusive domestic setting, all the more effectively for their coolness of treatment’ – Alan Ross, London Magazine. ‘Here is no glib internationalism or modish multiculturalism… Displacement here no longer spells exile; it means an exhilarating sense of life at the interstices. There is an exultant celebration of a self that strips off layers of superfluous identity with grace and abandon, only to discover that it has not diminished, but grown larger, generous, more inclusive’ – Arundhathi Subramaniam, Poetry International. ‘Her lucid and quiet, but strong, voice provides new insights into these troubled areas…living in a world, not just an adopted city, that is beset by terror, religious fundamentalism and the distrust/fear of the other’ – Nilufer Bharucha, Wasifiri ‘Her poems are strongly personal: intimate yet international …This wise and sensitive book shows poetry’s place in political debate, when it is crafted with skill and the intrigue of understatement’ – Martyn Halsall, Church Times. 'Were there to be a World Laureate, Imtiaz Dharker would be the only candidate' – Carol Ann Duffy.

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Book SynopsisThe beauty and strangeness of inner landscapes is reflected in these powerful poems. As each poem tends to the intricacies of human experience, their focus on the fractal patterns within familiar structures the tree within the leaf, the series of recurrences that unfold to create a fugue add an element of discovery and revelation to the poems, modulating and rendering strange these musings on what is ostensibly human. "

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Book Synopsis"There is an Anger That Moves" is written by a poet from the Caribbean.

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Book SynopsisThe second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author. Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman from Dublin newly moved into the area... 'A spellbinder that transfixes you... No praise in fact is too high' Guardian Dublin Carol is set on Christmas Eve, when a Dublin undertaker is visited by his estranged daughter urging him to face up to the past. 'McPherson writes like a dream.... The play works an ingenious spell' Daily Mail Port Authority tells of three interwoven lives: a boy leaves home for the first time; a man starts a job for which he is unqualified; a pensioner is sent a mysterious package... 'Overwhelmingly poignant... desolate, searing eloquence' Evening Standard And in Come on Over, published here for the first time, a Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before. 'Piercingly evocative, powerfully exploring the tension between human and divine love' Daily Telegraph The volume also contains an Afterword by the author. Trade Review'Already heir to the great Irish tradition of absorbing tale-telling' * Guardian *'The finest dramatist of his generation' * Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisA striking play from Northern Ireland about two women and the childhood tragedy they'll never be allowed to forget. For Emma and Clare, 1980 was the summer they met at the swings, the summer they built a tree house and stole from Dennis O'Donnell's shop. The summer a young mother and her infant daughter moved into number 14... Now in their thirties, Emma and Clare struggle to come to terms with the chain of devastating events that began that summer, to understand what they did, what they became and how they were judged. Lisa McGee's play Girls and Dolls was first performed by Tinderbox Theatre Company on a tour of Northern Ireland in 2006. It won the Stewart Parker Trust Award in 2007.Trade Review'Lisa McGee adds a new twist to a well-worn genre in this upsetting and powerful play about repressed memories' * Guardian *'Beautifully written and sensitively observed' * Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisThe extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia. A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life: office workers bickering, a couple committing adultery, grannies complaining about their husbands. But the scenes unfold to reveal the mistrust and dysfunction that have become the norm, in Russia and elsewhere. Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers was first performed, in this English translation by Sasha Dugdale, at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2003.Trade Review'A play with this title has an obvious resonance right now. But the extraordinary thing about this deft and brilliant piece by Siberia's Presnyakov Brothers is the way it extends... This is a play about the breakdown of society in contemporary Russia. What astonishes is the cool, sardonic wit that the Presnyakov brothers bring to their task... beautifully realised in Sasha Dugdale's translation... Russian society may be in disarray, but, on the evidence of this and the recent work of Vassily Sigarev, a sense of dislocation yields first-rate drama' * Guardian *'A bitter, funny, penetrating look at the toxic effects of living with fear... Terrorism shrugs off more ideas in quarter of an hour's wit than most political debating plays do in an evening' * Observer *

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Book SynopsisIncludes sequential and serial poems which demonstrate ideas and inventions in writing, and how one writing invention leads to the next.Trade Review"Scalapino is shown in this welcome overview to have developed a distinctive idiom." Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsCollected in Considering how exaggerated music is From hmmmm in The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs Instead of an Animal From This eating and walking at the same time are associated all right Considering how exaggerated music is How Phenomena Appear to Unfold: Note on My Writing that they were at the beach From that they were at the beach -- aeolotropic series A Sequence From Chameleon Series From The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion/A Trilogy From the Five Series Poem way, 3 Series in Sequence Bum Series The Floating Series Delay Series How Phenomena Appear to Unfold Fin de Siecle 1 Fin de Siecle 2 Fin de Siecle 3 From Crowd and not evening or light From New Time From The Front Matter, Dead Souls The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence From Resting lightning that's night, Friendship Zither & Autobiography From Zither From The Tango From It's go in / quiet illumined grass /land Day Ocean State of Stars' Night From 'Can't' is 'Night' From The Forest is in the Euphrates River -- From DeLay Rose Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisPresents a readable translation of a poem that is crucial to the history of ancient thought. This title offers an elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology. It argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas.Trade Review"[A] fresh, musical rendering." BookforumTable of ContentsTranslator's foreword the nature of things Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI

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Book SynopsisDrama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other. Ben Jonson's classic comedy The Alchemist was first performed by the King's Men in 1610. This edition of the play in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is edited by Simon Trussler, with an introduction by Colin Counsell.Trade Review'Ben Jonson's comedy of dupes and conmen couldn't be more contemporary' * Time Out *

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Book SynopsisA valuable fresco is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. As international and local art historians argue over who should claim ownership, the fate of the painting becomes a metaphor for the future of the emergent nations of Eastern Europe. David Edgar's play Pentecost was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in October 1994. The production transferred to the Young Vic, London, with performances from 31 May 1995. It went on to win the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Play. Pentecost is part of David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe, which also includes The Prisoner's Dilemma and The Shape of the Table.Trade Review'One of those rare works that makes you want to climb on to roof tops to shout about its merits' * Daily Telegraph *'Dazzlingly ambitious' * Observer *'Edgar's superb play about language, people, art and culture... a richly enjoyable script' * Daily Telegraph *'Plenty to get your teeth into... fascinating' * The Times *

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Book SynopsisEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, between sexual repression and decadence, and between political vigilance and social manipulation. These problems remain topical, and, in Measure for Measure, they are given immediacy by vivid character-conflicts and memorably intense poetry. This is one of Shakespeare's most probing and powerful works.

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Book SynopsisLyrical, resonant, strange and imaginative, these poems echo in the mind and leave an indelible impression of the mysterious atmosphere of the redwood trees in California. The collection points towards another facet of the poet''s gift, an intense feeling for the natural world, allied with a personal response to historical incidents and to other lands.

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Book SynopsisStephane Mallarme (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valery, W B Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. This title presents the oeuvre of this European master.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION POESIES FIRST POEMS / PREMIERS POEMES FROM THE SATIRICAL PARNASSUS / DU PARNASSE SATYRIQUE FROM THE CONTEMPORARY PARNASSUS / DU PARNASSE CONTEMPORAIN OTHER POEMS / AUTRES POEMES ALBUM LEAVES / FEUILLETS D'ALBUM STREET SONGS / CHANSONS BAS SEVERAL SONNETS / PLUSIEURS SONNETS HOMAGES AND TOMBS / HOMMAGES ET TOMBEAUX OTHER POEMS AND SONNETS / AUTRES POEMES ET SONNETS POEMES EN PROSE UN COUP DE DES COMMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisApollinaire - Roman by birth, Polish by name, Parisian by choice - died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless, he became one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the work of the Surrealists. This title presents Apollinaire's poems.Trade Review"Greet's English is an excellent guide to Apollinaire's French. A modern classic long overdue in this form." * Los Angeles Times *“What we have in these poems, instead of politics, is a subjective and affective chronicle in which the wilder imaginative flights are constantly pinned down by immediate detail. A consistent governing sensibility expands then retracts with impressive suppleness - it's rather like a genie returning to its bottle.” * The Guardian *"This impressive edition presenting the original French texts facing the English translations deserves high praise on numerous counts. The successful duplication in English of the complex typography of these word-drawings is in itself a feat. . . . The enduring value of this edition will derive from its completeness and the tools it offers the competent but inexpert reader of French for fuller understanding of Apollinaire's rich, but often abstruse vocabulary and imagery." * CHOICE *"The reader new to Apollinaire will be led into the fascinating labyrinth, the specialist will find it both stimulating and invaluable as a work of reference. . . . This is an authoritative and complete edition and will remain so for a long time to come." * Modern Language Review *"Any study, any appreciation, not only of French poetry early in [the 20th] century but of French painting—Picasso, the Cubists, Delaunay—and of Apollinaire's personal vision can begin with this excellent book." * The Antioch Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Ondes Waves Etendards Banners Case d'Armons Flutchel Lueurs des Tirs Flash of Gunfire Obus Couleur de Lune Moon-Colored Shells La Tete Etoilee The Starry Head Commentary Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe author (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected his most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work.Trade Review"An ideal choice of the poet." -- Benjamin Ivry Forward NewspaperTable of ContentsForeword 2013 by C. K. Williams Foreword 1996 by Chana Bloch PART ONE edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell From Now and in Other Days (1955) God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner's House in Jerusalem Autobiography, 1952 The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose Six Poems for Tamar Yehuda Ha-Levi Ibn Gabirol When I Was a Child Look: Thoughts and Dreams From We Loved Here From Two Hopes Away (1958) God's Hand in the World Sort of an Apocalypse And That Is Your Glory Of Three or Four in a Room Not Like a Cypress Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass Half the People in the World For My Birthday Two Photographs Poems for a Woman Children's Procession Ballad of the Washed Hair Sonnet from the Voyage The Visit of the Queen of Sheba From In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains From Poems, 1948-1962 As for the World In the Middle of This Century Farewell, Such as Sorrow Jerusalem Before And as Far as Abu Ghosh You Too Cot Tired The Place Where We Are Right Mayor Resurrection From Summer or Its End In the Full Severity of Mercy Too Many Poem for Arbor Day Jacob and the Angel Here Elegy on an Abandoned Village The Elegy on the Lost Child From Now in the Storm, Poems 1963-1968 Jerusalem, 1967 The Bull Returns A Luxury To Bake the Bread of Yearning National Thoughts A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention Elegy Threading Now in the Storm Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela PART TWO edited and translated by Chana Bloch From Not for the Sake of Remembering (1971) Jews in the Land of Israel Wildpeace The Way It Was Instead of Words Gifts of Love Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires Psalm From Behind All This a Great Happiness Is Hiding (1976) Seven Laments for the War-Dead Like the Inner Wall of a House Love Song I've Grown Very Hairy A Dog After Love A Bride Without a Dowry The Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail To a Convert My Father in a White Space Suit A Letter of Recommendation On the Day I Left A Letter In a Leap Year A Quiet Joy A Mutual Lullaby From Songs of Zion the Beautiful From Time (1978) Songs of Continuity At the Monastery of Latroun When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once To My Love, Combing Her Hair The Diameter of the Bomb When I Banged My Head on the Door You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks Advice for Good Love You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain A Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem When a Man's Far Away from His Country The Eve of Rosh Hashanah I've Already Been Weaned In the Garden, at the White Table From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home Near the Wall of a House From A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers (1980) You Can Rely on Him You Mustn't Show Weakness Lost Objects Forgetting Someone "The Rustle of History's Wings," as They Used to Say Then 1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma'ayan Harod An Eternal Window There Are Candles That Remember On the Day My Daughter Was Born No One Died All These Make a Dance Rhythm In the Morning It Was Still Night A Child Is Something Else Again When I Have a Stomachache I Feel Just Fine in My Pants Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews Ecology of Jerusalem In the Old City Tourists An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion A Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve The Parents Left the Child Love Is Finished Again End of Summer in the Judean Mountains Relativity Poem Without an End A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers From The Hour of Grace (1983) 1924 Half-Sized Violin A Pace Like That The Box The Last Word Is the Captain Statistics The Hour of Grace What a Complicated Mess I Lost My Identity Card On Mount Muhraka Summer Begins Hamadiya At the Seashore On Some Other Planet You May Be Right Autumn Rain in Tel Aviv A Flock of Sheep Near the Airport Almost a Love Poem They Are All Dice A Precise Woman Jasmine Kibbutz Gevaram History The Real Hero At the Maritime Museum Try to Remember Some Details A Man in His Life From From Man Thou Art and Unto Man Shalt Thou Return (1985) My Mother Comes from the Days Now She's Breathing My Mother Died on Shavuot The Body Is the Cause of Love Orchard Late Marriage Inside the Apple North of Beersheba I Guard the Children North of San Francisco Fall in Connecticut Sandals Jerusalem, 1985 Evidence The Course of a Life From The Fist, Too, Was Once the Palm of an Open Hand, and Fingers (1989) What Kind of Man The Greatest Desire Two Disappeared into a House I Know a Man Between Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains At the Beach The Sea and the Shore Autumn Is Near and the Memory of My Parents Yom Kippur Beginning of Autumn in the Hills of Ephraim Ruhama Huleikat- The Third Poem about Dicky The Shore of Ashkelon Fields of Sunflowers First Rain on a Burned Car We Did What We Had To Notes Acknowledgments Index of Titles

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Book SynopsisRobert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. This compact little book contains an illustrated selection of Burns' most acclaimed and best loved poems and songs. The book also contains a biography, a guide to the key landmarks 'in the land of Burns', a brief introduction to each poem, a glossary of Scots words, and an index of titles and first lines.

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Book SynopsisDrama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Molière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish. Set in Sicily, Moliere's play retells the famous myth of Don Juan, the womaniser with no morals and a scorn for religion. It charts his relationship with his servant Sganarelle, his romantic philandering, his false conversion and his ultimate punishment. Don Juan was first performed in 1665 in the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, with Molière playing the role of Sganarelle. This version in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

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