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Faber & Faber Blood Wedding
Book SynopsisLorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted.
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Faber & Faber Three Dublin Plays
Book SynopsisThree early plays by Sean O''Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O''Casey''s ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly, throughout the known universe. In mirroring the lives of the Dublin poor, from the tenement dwellers in The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock to the bricklayer, street vendor, and charwoman in The Plough and the Stars, Sean O''Casey conveys with urgency and eloquence the tiny details that create a total character as well as the terrors, large and small, that the constant threat of political violence inevitably brings. As Seamus Heaney has written, O''Casey''s characters are both down to earth and larger than life . . . His democratic genius was at one with his tragic understanding, and his recoil from tyranny and his compassion for the oppressed were an essential as opposed
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Faber & Faber Heaven on Earth 101 Happy Poems
Book SynopsisIn this gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to prove that misery doesn''t have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which are unashamedly happy: poems about love, places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and solitude, music, food and drink, books, and the unadulterated pleasure of taking a shower.Among the more surprising items are the Chinese Po Chu-I on the advantages of baldness, the eighteenth-century John Dyer on the kindly behaviour of his ox, and an unusually cheerful Thomas Hardy enjoying the sight of seven women laughing as they stagger, arm in arm, down an icy hill. Catullus, Chaucer, Clare, Dickinson, Betjeman and Larkin are among the contributors who help to demonstrate that people who believe that ''happiness writes white'' have got it wrong.
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Faber & Faber Sweeney Astray Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisSweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney''s version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. The poetry spoken by the mad king, exiled to the trees and the slopes, is among the richest and most immediately appealing in the whole canon of Gaelic literature.Sweeney Astray not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.
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Faber & Faber The Slab Boys Trilogy Faber Drama
Book SynopsisSpanning the 1950s to the 70s, the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair.John Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre: the scams, the dreams, the aloof but gorgeous girl, the despair of life back home, the obligatory tormenting of the office ''weed'', and the mandatory boy chat and pranks all help the day to pass. Phil and Spanky explode onto the stage in a classic vaudeville double-act.Now considered one of Scotland''s defining literary works of the twentieth century, the Slab Boys Trilogy premiered at the Traverse back in the late 1970s and early 80s taking Scotland, then Britain, and then Broadway quickly by storm.The Traverse revived the Slab Boys Trilogy for the theatre''s fortieth anniversary in November 2003.
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell
Book SynopsisIn this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell''s poetic career. In his detailed and generous introduction, Porter makes the case for A Private Country as one of the most accomplished debut collections of the twentieth century, and traces Durrell''s preoccupations and poetic personality within the wider scene. The selection of poems makes its own strong case for the continuing power and originality of this attractive, metropolitan and wholly individual body of work.Trade Review"'As a lyrical poet... he is the equal of Auden.' Gavin Ewart"
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Faber & Faber Happy Days
Book SynopsisHappy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962.WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown grips - standing there gaping at me [...] - What''s she doing? he says - What''s the idea? he says - stuck up to her diddies in the bleeding ground - coarse fellow - What does it mean? he says - What''s it meant to mean? - and so on - lot more stuff like that - usual drivel - Do you hear me? He says - I do, she says, God help me - What do you mean, he says, God help you? (stops filing nails, raises head, gazes front.) And you, she says, what''s the idea of you, she says, what are you meant to mean?
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Faber & Faber Girlhood
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers. Restlessly inquisitive, it exposes the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming and the forces that threaten to destroy them.Reading these poems, we have the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Lost, censored or disparaged voices speak out from secluded spaces and moments of hidden history: from within a professor's office and a deserted department store; from kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and upstairs windows; through changing weathers, fidgety shadows and the witching hour.Girlhood concludes with a sequence set in a psychiatric hospital that reimagines Jacques Lacan's treatment of his most famous case study, Marguerite Pantaine. This dramatic meeting of minds has us questioning who is the more delusional doctor or patient: like
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Faber & Faber Auguries of a Minor God
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONIn Auguries of a Minor God, her outstanding debut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the skin' David Wheatley, GuardianNidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's spellbinding debut poetry collection explores love and the wounds it makes. Its first half is composed of five sections, corresponding to the five arrows of Kama, the Hindu God of Love, Desire and Memory. From ''stunning'' and ''paralysing'' to ''killing'' and ''destroying'', each arrow has its own effect on some body a very real, contemporary body and its particular journey of love. The second is a long narrative poem, A is for [Arabs]', which follows a different kind of journey: a family of refugees who have fled to the West from conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. With an extraordinary structure, yoking abecedar
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Faber & Faber Quiet
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZEWINNER OF THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION''In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in these pages mix a technically assured, sonically resonant, surface with a profoundly evocative, scrupulously integrated core. This book is a seismic event; its vibrations will be felt for a long time to come.'' Kayo ChingonyiVictoria Adukwei Bulley's debut collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one's inner life' and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, your silence will not protect you'. The poems teem with grace and dignity, are artful in their shapes, sharp in their intelligence, and possessing of a good ear, finely attuned to the sonics that fascinate and motivate the w
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Faber & Faber Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2026
Book SynopsisThe Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list.Victoria Adukwei Bulley Simon ArmitageGeorge BarkerEmily BerryWilliam BlakeMary Jean ChanJohn ClareGillian ClarkeWendy CopeJulia CopusStephen CraneJohn DonneT.S. EliotMatthew FrancisLavinia GreenlawThomas HardySeamus HeaneyGerard Manley HopkinsTed HughesIshion HutchinsonBen JonsonJohn KeatsZaffar KunialPhilip LarkinD.H. LawrenceLachlan MackinnonAnge MlinkoDaljit NagraSylvia PlathCamille RalphsRichard ScottWilliam ShakespearePercy Bysshe ShelleyStevie SmithWislawa SzymborskaEdward ThomasDerek WalcottWalt WhitmanWilliam WordsworthW.B. Yeats
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Alfred A. Knopf PromiseThreat
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John Murray Press The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
Book SynopsisThe poems of one of Scotland's finest poets collected in a single volume.Trade ReviewExtraordinarily effective * Robert McCrum, The Observer *A brilliant writer * Spectator *George Mackay Brown really does possess the magician's touch * Observer *A dazzling writer * The Guardian *Undoubtedly the most important document of his work to be produced so far. * Shetland Times, Malachy Tallack. *George Mackay Brown has added uniquely and steadfastly to the riches of poetry in English: his sense of the world and his way with words are powerfully at one with each other * Seamus Heaney *The Collected Poems show the range and depth of his work, the beauty of it, "the undersong of terrible holy joy" * Scotsman *The reader embarks on a voyage - which is how Mackay Brown himself saw his work - through the elemental world of his cliff-girt, craggy isles. * The Times, Rachel Campbell-Johnston *Practically every poem has the bite of originality * TLS *'Mackay Brown was a bardic, celebratory poet who swathed all that he wrote about in a kind of caul of sacredness' * Independent, Michael Glover *'A must-have... [Mackay Brown] transforms the mundane with a luminous lyricism' * The Times, Rachel Campbell-Johnston *'The work has both a severe beauty and mischievous wit' * The Sunday Times *
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SelfMadeHero Othello
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Peripeteia Press The Art of Poetry Eduqas GCSE poems Volume 10
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Austin Macauley Publishers Where It Had All Escaped Too Soon
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M2M Books I Zig and I Zag
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The Hmm Foundation Y Dychryn Angenrheidiol The Necessary Terror
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Out-Spoken Press Stay Dead
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Earthquakes in London
Book SynopsisIt''s Cabaret, we''ve got our heads down and we''re dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn''t have guns and gas it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone.... You were the glimmer. At the end of the tunnel. And you went out.Earthquakes in London is a fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastrophe. The play deals, through amplified theatricality, with a range of contemporary issues from population growth to climate change.An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett''s epic rollercoaster of a play from 1968 to 2525 and back again.Earthquakes in London first published in 2010 and has subsequently become a much-produced and widely studied drama text. It is publishTrade ReviewThe theatrical equivalent of a thrilling roller coaster ride. It swoops and twists, rushes and soars, and provides a great shot of adrenaline-fuelled excitement ... the sheer energy and ambition of the piece are irresistible. * Daily Telegraph *Full of ideas and invention ... This demented carnival confirms Bartlett ... as one of our most exciting young playwrights. * Evening Standard *Table of ContentsChronology Commentary: Characters and Plot Climate Change Generation and Gender Gaps From the Personal to the Epic: Bartlett’s Political Theatre The play’s first production and reception: the National Theatre, Headlong, Rupert Goold, Miriam Buether. Interview with Mike Bartlett Play Text Further Reading Notes
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Telò, brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, Prometheus Bound, and Trojan Women, our experience is precariously refracted back in the formal worlds of plays named after and, to an extent, epitomized by tragic characters. Structured around four thematic clusters Air Time Faces, Communities, Ruins, and Insurrections this book presents timely interventions in critical theory and in the debates that matter to us as disaster becomes routine in the time-out-of-joint of a (post-)pandemic world. Violently encompassing all pre-existing and future crises (relational, political and ecological), the pandemic coincides with the queer Trade ReviewGreek Tragedy in a Global Crisis is an exciting experiment in thinking with and through ancient theater and contemporary theory. It stimulates, provokes, and consoles, and will be a powerful resource for readers of all kinds. -- Joshua Billings, Professor of Classics, Princeton University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reading Greek Tragedy through Pandemic Times I. Air Time Faces 1. Oedipus 2. Teiresias Cadmus Dionysus 3. Iphigenia II. Communities 4. Alcestis 5. The suppliant women III. Ruins 6. Antigone 7. Niobe IV. Insurrections 8. Prometheus 9. Hecuba 10. The Trojan women Epilogue
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC christopher oscar pena Three Plays
Book SynopsisTranscending 20th-century notions of race and culture, peña's work succeeds in simultaneously touching our hearts, stimulating our minds, and examining our society. - David Henry Hwang christopher oscar peña is a Latinx American playwright and screenwriter whose works frequently focus on stories that deal with bicultural identities, sexuality, and growing up in the modern world. In this first collected works, three of his plays are brought together, with an introduction by director Mark Armstrong. Together they offer a progressive and formally inventive collection of work to inspire theatre makers, actors and students alike. how to make an American Son: A Model Immigrant and business mogul, Honduran-born Mando's cleaning empire is bracing for a downturn at the exact same moment when he must rein in his over-privileged American son, Orlando. A moving coming-of-age comedy about the complexities of privilege, citizenship, sexual identity, and the mo
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nae Expectations
Book SynopsisCharles Dickens (1812-70) was an English writer, generally considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters. He continues to be one of the best-known and most read of English authors, with multiple adaptations of his work frequently being produced.Gary McNair is a multi-award-winning writer and performer from Glasgow who aims to challenge and entertain in equal measure. Previous shows include: Square Go, Donald Robertson is Not a Stand Up Comedian, A Gambler's Guide To Dying, Letters To Morrissey, and Locker Room Talk. He has three times won the Scotsman Fringe First Award and has toured the world with his plays. His work has been translated into multiple languages including Italian, Arabic and Japanese.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Book SynopsisIn one of Chris' productions, due to an ill-timed haircut Rapunzel had to be imprisoned in a bungalow. But now with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie's Christmas classic: Peter Pan!The inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present J. M. Barrie''s classic tale of Peter Pan, their most audacious production to date. Flying? Pyrotechnics? Sharp hooks? What ensues is two acts of hysterical disaster. You''ll laugh, they''ll cry. Something so wrong has never been so right.From the mischievous minds of the West End and Edinburgh hit The Play That Goes Wrong comes this highly original, chaos-filled re-telling of J.M. Barrie''s much-loved classic.Peter Pan Goes Wrong received its world premiere at the Pleasance Theatre, London, on 10 December 2013 and transferred to the West End on 4 December 2015. The show opened on Broadway on 19 April 2023, and this updated edition was publishe
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Every Brilliant Thing
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Austin Macauley Publishers Whispers in Time
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Arcturus Publishing Henry V
Book SynopsisWe few, we happy few, we band of brothers ...In Henry V, the ebullient and youthful Prince Hal of Henry IV Part I has matured into a stern warrior king, leading his outnumbered troops in battle against the French crown at Agincourt. As the battlefield becomes a stage for heroism, betrayal, and sacrifice, Shakespeare masterfully explores themes of honor, loyalty, and the timeless struggle between ambition and conscience.This edition is based on the First Folio and includes an extensive introduction that examines the origins of the work, the plot and the characters as well as notes on the text, a glossary and a timeline of Shakespeare''s life and work.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Shakespeare Editions series brings together many of Shakespeare''s celebrated plays, presented with striking contemporary cover designs. Each edition is based on the First Folio and includes an informative introduction, glossary and timel
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Saved
Book SynopsisA Student Edition of Bond's notorious play set in London in the 1960s reflecting a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estate.
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Lulu.com Ramblings Jottings Drivelings
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Little, Brown Book Group The Many Hundreds of the Scent
Book SynopsisA TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023''One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time'' GuardianShane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career; in addition to introducing his readers to ''the thin king / who eats the world,'' McCrae invites them to bear witness to his tangle of childhood memories. In brutal, sorrowful lines, he recounts being kidnapped by his white supremacist maternal grandparents from his Black father as a boy. ''O reader, listener, stay,'' McCrae writes. ''You are now evidence.''In The Many Hundreds of the Scent, Homeric figures mingle with those that populate the poet''s world. Helen weighs Paris''s spear in her hand and bloodies a raging Achilles; PenelTrade Review'In McCrae's hands, words are like tea leaves he will steep until every scent and flavour is extracted... This poet cannot be paraphrased; he must be read' * Guardian, Poetry Books of the Month *
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back
Book SynopsisSorry I haven’t texted you back, (I’ve been so anxious and depressed) I haven’t had time to catch my breath, you know how life gets!Returning to the form of Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately, Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back is a poetic mixtape dedicated to those who struggle or have struggled with their mental health. Divided into two parts, “Side A” holds 92 poems, titled as “tracks,” and “Side B” holds the “remixes,” or blackout-poetry versions, of those 92 poems. The book includes the evergreen themes of love, grief, and hope. Named after Cook’s viral Instagram poem, Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back lands in the crossroads of self-help and poetry.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Dress of Locusts
Book Synopsis''Safa Khatib's poems open my eyes, sharpen my ears'' SAFIA ELHILLO''With a meditative clarity, Khatib calls us to account for the ways we have and continue to turn eyes away from the historic now'' NIKI HERDAn electrifying debut collection exploring language and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talentWoven from threads of Aramaic, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Sumerian and Arabic, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another. Here, Safa Khatib journeys across the possibilities of language and self, asking us to dwell in the thresholds between the ''old'' and the ''new''.
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Pan Macmillan Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionized poetry. 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 has an introduction by Peter Harness.Selected Poems brings together some of Wordsworth’s most acclaimed and influential works, including an extract from his magnus opus, The Prelude, alongside shorter poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, ‘To a Skylark’ and ‘Tintern Abbey’. Wordsworth’s poems, often written at his home in Grasmere in the beautiful English Lake District, are lyrical evocations of nature and of spirituality. They have a force and clarity of language akin to everyday speech which was truly groundbreaking.Trade ReviewWordsworth is a figure of supreme interest -- James Fenton * New York Times *He has done more for the sanity of his generation than any other writer -- Ralph Waldo EmersonWordsworth may be trusted as a guide in everything -- John RuskinThe intrepidity with which Wordsworth explored his own inner life and the generosity with which he shared it remain more than convincing: even now, they continue to define the highest aspirations of modern poetry -- Adam Kirsch * New Yorker *Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Section - 1: ‘My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold’ Section - 2: We Are Seven Section - 3: ‘Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known’ Section - 4: ‘She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways’ Section - 5: ‘I Travelled Among Unknown Men’ Section - 6: ‘Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved’ Section - 7: Address to My Infant Daughter, Dora Section - 8: Airey- Force Valley Section - 9: Yew- Trees Section - 10: Nutting Section - 11: ‘She Was a Phantom of Delight’ Section - 12: To the Cuckoo Section - 13: ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’ Section - 14: ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ Section - 15: Resolution and Independence Section - 16: The Thorn Section - 17: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Section - 18: ‘It Is No Spirit Who From Heaven Hath Flown’ Section - 19: French Revolution Section - 20: To A Skylark Section - 21: To Sleep Section - 22: To Sleep Section - 23: To Sleep Section - 24: The Infant M— M— Section - 25: ‘Surprised by Joy – Impatient as the Wind’ Section - 26: ‘Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne’ Section - 27: ‘It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free’ Section - 28: ‘The World Is Too Much With Us’ Section - 29: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Section - 30: To—, in Her Seventieth Year Section - 31: The Solitary Reaper Section - 32: At the Grave of Burns Section - 33: Calais Section - 34: To Toussaint L’Ouverture Section - 35: September 1, 1802 Section - 36: Written in London, September, 1802 Section - 37: London, 1802 Section - 38: ODE Section - 39: Incident at Brugès Section - 40: Aix-la-Chapelle Section - 41: Mutability Section - 42: ‘The Sun Has Long Been Set’ Section - 43: Expostulation and Reply Section - 44: The Tables Turned Section - 45: Lines Written in Early Spring Section - 46: To My Sister Section - 47: Simon Lee Section - 48: A Poet’s Epitaph Section - 49: The Two April Mornings Section - 50: The Fountain Section - 51: A Night Thought Section - 52: SONNET Section - 53: To a Child Section - 54: PRELUDE Section - 55: The Two Thieves Section - 56: ‘There Is a Bondage Worse, Far Worse, To Bear’ Section - 57: Elegiac Stanzas Section - 58: Intimations of Immortality Section - 59: The Prelude: Book I Section - 60: The Prelude: Book II Index - ii: Index of First Lines
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Walker Books Ltd A Midsummer Nights Dream
Book SynopsisA captivating picture book retelling by Shakespeare''s Globe for very young readers.William Shakespeare's comedy about four lovers'' mishaps in an enchanted forest is unforgettably re-imagined by Shakespeare's Globe as a picture book for very young readers. With exquisite and detailed illustrations from the acclaimed artist Jane Ray, who has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, this captivating retelling is a magical way to introduce children to one of the best-loved works of the world's greatest playwright.
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Ebury Publishing The Letters I Will Never Send: poems to read, to
Book Synopsis'these letters thus far have remained unsent, i want you to change that for me.' Embrace honesty and heal beautifully.In the letters i will never send, TikTok poet Isabella Dorta urges you to leave nothing unsaid and take comfort in moving poems on love, heartbreak, mental health and self-discovery.With beautiful line illustrations and over 100 poems written in the form of confessional letters addressed to the most influential figures in your life:Your younger selfYour future selfYour loverYour bodyYour familyand moreTake the ultimate step. Read, rip out, burn or send the letters out into the world. Write your own and share them with the people in your life. Just don't hold back!
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Queer Mojo To Boys With Green Hair
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Theatre Communications Group Public Obscenities
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THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Aint No Mo
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Autumn House Press speculation, n.
Book SynopsisPoems that imagine a world beyond the prevailing public speculation on Black death. Shayla Lawz’s debut collection, speculation, n., brings together poetry, sound, and performance to challenge our spectatorship and the reproduction of the Black body. It revolves around a central question: what does it mean—in the digital age, amidst an inundation of media—to be a witness? Calling attention to the images we see in the news and beyond, these poems explore what it means to be alive and Black when the world regularly speculates on your death. The speaker, a queer Black woman, considers how often her body is coupled with images of death and violence, resulting in difficultly moving toward life. Lawz becomes the speculator by imagining what might exist beyond these harmful structures, seeking ways to reclaim the Black psyche through music, typography, and other pronunciations of the body, where expressions of sexuality and the freedom to actively reimagine is made possible. speculation, n. contends with the real—a refracted past and present—through grief, love, and loss, and it speculates on what could be real if we open ourselves to expanded possibilities. speculation, n. won the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Ilya Kaminsky.Trade Review"Lawz’s speculation, n. is a debut collection that could easily live on the walls of an art museum. An opening note, 'Instructions for Viewing,' informs us that 'some sections will require your reading, others will require your listening, and all will require your attention.' The book’s four sections are punctuated with sixteen media pieces accessible via QR code. We hear Kendrick Lamar’s 'XXX,' as well as other songs that fold us into the struggle for Black bodies—and in many cases the Black femme body in particular—to feel safe in the United States." * Harriet (Poetry Foundation) *“'sometimes i want to ask the earth, / was it beautiful here / without us’ writes Lawz in this virtuoso performance. Innovative, inimitable, endlessly urgent, speculation, n. is far more than just a collection of poems. It is a dazzling verbal and visual performance, a concerto, a book of our days that is as heart-wrenching as it is an accurate portrayal of what it means to live and sing in America today. ‘i've been seeing my body around // in the stairwell, in the house / and even at time in the mirror. in the news’ urging us to lift the veil and open our eyes. Some books you read and never forget. This is one of them.” -- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
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Button Poetry Cipota
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Dio Press Inc The Ecology of Me
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Scribner Book Company The Best American Poetry 2025
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Smokestack Books Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar
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Smokestack Books Mad Parade
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Central Avenue Publishing I Gave Myself The World
Book Synopsis“what is it that you want?”i want all this world can give me.“then you're going to have to give it to yourself.”i gave myself the world showcases the beauty of introspection and exploring personal conflict. Through a conversation with an inner voice, Catarine Hancock portrays and symbolizes the peaks, valleys, and plateaus of the journey toward recognizing self-worth. This collection of uplifting verse is a balm for the soul in need of peace and will help the reader grow into the person they’re meant to be.
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Central Avenue Publishing From Sand to Stars
Book SynopsisDiscover the fourth collection by Shelby Leigh, the bestselling poet of Changing With the Tides and Girl Made of Glass, where she invites you to embrace the present, nurture self-growth, and discover hope in every moment of your journey through the sands of time.Ever feel like you’re running out of time? Feel lost thinking about the future? From Sand to Stars provides a reminder that every day is a new day to find joy and self-acceptance, no matter where you are in life’s journey. Exploring the concept of time and how it affects our mental health, From Sand to Stars will make you feel heard and seen, while inspiring you to embrace all life has to offer. Sand, section one, represents the hourglass—how time gets away from us and causes overthinking and anxiety. Soil, the second section, represents self-care, growth, and the joy that surrounds us when we look for it. Finally, Stars provides an uplifting final sec
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Shadow of Words
Book SynopsisAna Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country's strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. The Shadow of Words covers Blandiana's early collections published from 1964 to 1981, completing Bloodaxe's presentation of her collected poems to date in English translation.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Wrong Person to Ask
Book SynopsisWinner of the James Berry Poetry Prize. Marjorie Lotfi’s award-winning debut collection is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the idea of home, both the places we start and end up in our lives. Spanning a childhood in Iran dislocated by revolution, through years as a young woman in America, to her current home in Scotland, these poems ask what it means to come from somewhere else, what we carry with us when we leave, and how we land in a new place and finally come to rest. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.Trade ReviewThe Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi is a wondrous treasure – elegant poems of great tenderness and detail, vivid in heart and imagery, mesmerising in power. Whole worlds and people shimmer alive through scenes and stories of exile, departure, arrival, but most importantly, clear witness and remembrance. A deeply honouring book fully built of love. -- Naomi Shihab NyeIn this unforgettable and assured debut collection, Lotfi explores issues of belonging and identity – firstly the lost world of an Iranian childhood through the eyes of a young refugee and ultimately the found worlds of America and Scotland. She brilliantly illustrates the little tragedies of global politics by focussing on the luminous, ordinary rituals of daily life. These are poems built both to haunt and reaffirm us; poems of the living, breathing world and our overarching right to find a home in it. -- John GlendayTable of ContentsI 13 Refuge 14 On seeing Iran in the news, I want to say 15 The Wrong Person to Ask 16 Two Grandmothers 17 Maman Bozorg 18 The gun in its holster 19 Riding the Line 20 The Game 21 Crossing the street for mother’s cigarettes 22 Shut Out the Noise 23 Packing for America 24 Hope 25 To the Airport 26 Origin 27 The Last Thing 28 Alarm I 29 Alarm II 30 I Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014) 31 II Picture of Boy, Looking Away (Gaza, 2015) 32 Gabriella’s Dream 33 What You See in the Dark 34 Wishbone 35 Correction 36 Destruction of the Forty Martyrs Cathedral, Aleppo, Syria 37 Granddaughter, I entered your mother’s house 38 Checkpoint, Matveyev Kurgan 39 Khanoom 40 The End of the Road 40 i [There’s a moment every morning] 41 ii [Each breath in this place] 42 iii [Every blade against the cutting-board] 43 iv [She takes her boys back every summer] 44 v [Even in this lack of light, she sees] 45 vi [The boys carry her good looks] 46 vii [In her eightieth year, she sees her sisters] II 49 Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia) 50 Sunday on the Luing Sound 51 Number 9 Cullipool 52 Sunflower 53 Star of the Sea 54 Williamina Fleming 55 What Work Is 56 Omega Centauri 57 Drift 58 Say It’s Nothing, Say It’s Rust 59 Horizon 60 Out to Sea 61 When They Ask 62 The Trunk 63 After the Match 64 The first thing he doesn’t forget 65 The Unfinished House 66 Storm Light 67 The Last Keeper 68 Citizen 69 Moving 70 And this is how it begins 71 O Love! 72 Edward Thomas on His Last Night with Helen 73 Keep 74 The Hebridean Crab Apple 76 Acknowledgements
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