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Faber & Faber The Golden Gate
Book SynopsisThe Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California''s Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. It was awarded the 1986 British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
£13.49
Faber & Faber W. B. Yeats
Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin, and was educated in Ireland and England. He was instrumental in the development of a national Irish theatre - and in particular, the founding of the Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
£8.54
Faber & Faber Ezra Pound Poems Selected by Thom Gunn Poet to
Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past
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Faber & Faber The House of Bernarda Alba
Book SynopsisFinished just two months before the author''s murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco''s supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca''s great masterpiece of love and loathing.Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother. When the father of all but the eldest girl dies, a cynical marriage is advanced which will have tragic consequences for the whole family. Lorca''s fascinatingly modern play, rendered here in an English version by David Hare, speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does as domestic drama. The House of Bernarda Alba premiered at the National Theatre, London, in March 2005.
£999.99
Faber & Faber John Clare
Book SynopsisJohn Clare (1793-1864), the ''peasant poet'', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in his mental health saw him committed to an insane asylum. He published four volumes of verse, including Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820), and The Shepherd''s Calendar (1827).In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber Her Naked Skin
Book SynopsisLove is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive.The first original play by a living female playwright to be performed on the National Theatre''s main stage. London, 1913. The Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their fight to gain the vote. Amongst them is Lady Celia Cain, shackled by both the policies of the day and a frustrating marriage. Inside, she meets a young seamstress, Eve Douglas, and her life spirals into an erotic but dangerous chaos.Her Naked Skin premiered at the National Theatre, London, 2008.''Rebecca Lenkiewicz''s outstanding play is a remarkable testament to the courage of a band of sisters who were vilified and viciously repressed in their quest for representation and emancipation . . . Her Naked Skin marries epic public
£10.44
Faber & Faber Selected Poems 19301988
Book SynopsisIt was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This new selection, from Whoroscope (1930) to ''what is the word'' (1988), describes a lifetime''s arc of writing. It was as a poet moreover that Beckett made his first breakthrough into writing in French, and the Selected Poems represents work in both languages, including the sequence of brief but highly crafted mirlitonnades, which did so much to usher in the style of his late prose, and come as close as anything he wrote to honouring the ambition to ''bore one hole after another in language, until what lurks behind it - be it something or nothing - begins to seep through.'' Also included are several of Beckett''s translations from contemporaries - Apollinaire, Eluard, Michaux, Montale - in versions which count among his own poetic achievements. Edited by David Wheatley
£11.69
Faber & Faber John Betjeman
Book SynopsisSir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment as Poet Laureate in 1972 were universally welcomed.Other volumes in this series: Auden, Eliot, Plath, Hughes and Yeats.
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Faber & Faber New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore
Book SynopsisMarianne Moore scholar Heather Cass White has prepared an edition of poems that, for the first time, presents the full range of Moore's work in its published order, while honouring the complex textual lives of the poems.
£17.00
Faber & Faber SIX POETS HARDY TO LARKIN
Book SynopsisWriters like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail. Ranging from hidden treasures to famous poems, this is a collection for the beginner and the expert alike. Speaking with candour about his own reactions to the work, Alan Bennett creates profound and witty portraits of Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin, all the more enjoyable for being in his own particular voice.Anybody writing poetry in the thirties had somehow to come to terms with Auden. Auden, you see, had got a head start on the other poets. He''d got into the thirties first, like some
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Faber & Faber Shakespeare in Love Adapted for the Stage Faber
Book SynopsisI will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer''s block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws many others, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama and inspires Will to write the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.Based on Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard''s Oscar-winning screenplay, Lee Hall''s stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love premiered in July 2014 at the Noel Coward Theatre, London, in a co-production by Disney and Sonia Friedman Productions.
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Faber & Faber Christmas Poems
Book SynopsisFor more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems collects together her best festive poems, including anthology favourites such as 'The Christmas Life', together with new and previously unpublished work.
£9.50
Faber & Faber Travesties
Book SynopsisTom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday TimesIt is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches the sublime heights where mathematics merge with poetry, and the audacious juggling of a master conjuror.' Sunday Telegraph A dazzling pyrotechnical feat that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in marvellously judicious proportions. The text itself is a Joycean web of literary allusions; yet it also radiates sheer intellectual joie de vivre, as if Stoppard were delightedly communicating the fruits of his own researches.' GuardianTravesties was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in June 1974. This edition includes a new preface by the author, and revisions made
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Faber & Faber Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour Faber Drama
Book SynopsisListen, girls, if we stick together there's no ways we'll even get to the second round... Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls go wild for a day in the big city, the singing competition a mere obstacle in the way of sex, sambuca and a night back home with the submarine crew in Mantrap. Funny, sad and raucously rude, Lee Hall's musical play Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, adapted from Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos, premiered at the Traverse Theatre in August 2015, in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre and transferred to the National Theatre, London, in August 2016. The play won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 2017 and transferred to the Duke of York's, London, in May 2017 in a co-production with Sonia Friedman Productions.
£9.49
Faber & Faber Dancing in Odessa
Book SynopsisDescribed as a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance, humour and torment, and a distinctive, transcendent music. With his magical style in English, Kaminsky's poems in Dancing in Odessa seem like a literary counterpart to Chagall in which laws of gravity have been suspended and colors reassigned, but only to make everyday reality that much more indelible. His imagination is so transformative that we respond with equal measures of grief and exhilaration.' The American Academy of Arts and LettersDancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky tops the list because he is one of those rarest of finds in this or any century, a writer who establishes what poetry can be.' The N
£11.69
Faber & Faber Camp Siegfried
Book SynopsisI''m a killer I told youI told you that all alongYou were the dummy to believeI could ever be anything elseTwo teenagers fall in love on Long Island. There's fun and dancing, sports and team spirit, there's the woods and beer and physical hard work. But it's 1938, the world is on the brink of war, and their wholesome summer camp is exclusively for American youth of German descent. As their mutual attraction deepens, so they become intoxicated by the Nazi ideology that fuels the camp, an ideology that will culminate in global atrocity and genocide.Inspired by the real Camp Siegfried, Bess Wohl's play premiered at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in September 2021.
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Faber & Faber Penelope
Book SynopsisLet others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love.With an introduction by the author, this is Tom Stoppard in the voice of Odysseus's wife recalling how the Trojan War ''took away my husband for ten years, and ten more coming the long way home'', and Odysseus''s dramatic arrival back on Ithaca.Weaving Homeric tropes with the wry wit of a woman of our time, Penelope tells this still vibrant love story from the oldest poem in Western literature.
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Faber & Faber Second World War Poems
Book SynopsisThe Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the war Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell as well as by survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust Primo Levi, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan and civilians across Europe and beyond. It features work by important women poets Elizabeth Bishop, H.D., Anna Akhmatova exiles such as W. H. Auden and Berthold Brecht, and writers reporting from London, Paris, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, dealing with the terrifying impact and legacy of the conflict. Presented with a historical critical introduction and biographical notes, the result is a vital lyric testimony to the tragic global theatre of the war.
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
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Faber & Faber Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
Book SynopsisSince his debut, New Weather (1973), Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half-century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have consistently won him the the highest accolades. Here, from artichokes to zinc, he navigates an alphabet of image and history, through barleymen and Irish slavers to the last running wolf in Ulster. The search involves the accumulated bric-a-brac of a life, and a reckoning along the way of gains against loss. In the poet''s skilful hands, ancient maps are unfurled and brought into focus the aggregation of Imperial Rome and the dismantling of Standard Oil, the pogroms of a Ukrainian ravine and of a Belfast shipyard. Through modern medicine and warfare, disaster and repair, these poems are electric in their energy, while profoundly humane in their line of enquiry.
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Faber & Faber Never Let Me Go
Book SynopsisThe first stage adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's heartbreaking, bestselling novel. And as that day grows near, Kathy looks back at her life. Memory and reality collide in Suzanne Heathcote's gripping adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's bestselling novel.
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Faber & Faber So What
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Samuel French Ltd Cup Final Acting Edition S
Book SynopsisThe Polden Players have just left the stage after performing in a local drama festival. The production was a disaster and there is plenty of wit and repartee as sparks fly while they vent their feelings about the performance. It is apparent that each is using the theatre to escape from a humdrum life. When the Adjudicator arrives, they are surprised to get their just desserts.3 women, 4 men
£12.55
Samuel French Ltd King Liz
Book SynopsisSports agent Liz Rico has money and an elite client roster but a woman in a man''s industry has to fight to stay on top. She''s worked twice as hard to get where she is and wants to take over the agency that she''s helped build. Enter Freddie Luna, a high school basketball superstar with a troubled past. If Liz can keep this talented yet volatile young star in line, she just might end up making not only his career, but her own as well. But at what price?
£13.49
Harvard University Press The Sea of Separation
Book SynopsisThe Sea of Separation, a new free verse translation of Tulsidas’s beloved Rāmcaritmānas, presents renowned episodes from the Ramayana epic, including Ram’s battles with demons, the kidnapping of his wife Sita, and the god Hanuman’s heroic journey to Lanka to find her.Trade ReviewThis perceptive and accessible edition brings Tulsidas’s version [of the Ramayana], the most widely read across Northern India, to English-speaking audiences, giving readers a fresh glimpse into the tale’s impressive energy. * Publishers Weekly *Philip Lutgendorf’s excellent translation of the Rāmcaritmānas is a treat for all readers. We are fortunate to have a rendering of this hugely important text that captures the rhythms and excitement of the original work from the pen of a scholar who has dedicated decades to the study of Tulsidas and his works. -- Daisy Rockwell, International Booker Prize–winning translator of Tomb of SandMyriad versions of the story of Rama have influenced many civilizations across South and Southeast Asia. Lutgendorf’s elegant translation of Tulsidas’s telling is an important step, expanding our appreciation of the great epic in all its forms. -- Tiffany Tsao, winner of the 2023 PEN Translation Prize
£16.10
John Murray Press NOW WE ARE SIXTY SIGNED
Book SynopsisFor those turning sixty, this new edition of Christopher Matthew''s tribute to A. A. Milne''s classic poems contains fresh material as well as the old favourites.''A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds'' Auberon Waugh, Daily TelegraphWhen Christopher was six, the poems of Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and naughty and silly as he was, and that grown-ups could be even sillier. When he turned sixty, he decided it was high time there was an equally reassuring volume for those of his generation who were not only more confused than ever, but were losing their teeth, their hair and, all too often, their car keys. What he did twenty years ago was to take some of Milne''s best-loved poems from Now We Are Six for an older audience, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising one is not as young as one once Trade ReviewA wonderful present to sixty-year-olds -- Auberon Waugh * Daily Telegraph *Very funny and very clever -- Simon Hoggart * Guardian *I absolutely love it -- Sheridan Morley * Daily Express *Hilarious -- Valerie Grove * Oldie *A charming book * Herald *
£10.44
Orion Publishing Co Alice Walker Collected Poems
Book SynopsisThe collected poems of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.''I am the womanoffering two flowerswhose roots are twin.Justice and HopeHope and JusticeLet us begin''Alice Walker has been writing poetry since the summer of 1965, when she travelled to East Africa and began the collection ONCE while sitting beneath a tree facing Mount Kenya.Encompassing the collections ONCE, REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS & OTHER POEMS, GOOD NIGHT WILLIE LEE I''LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING, and HORSES MAKE A LANDSCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL as well as other poems, this is a wonderful, surprising, entertaining collection that offers a historical perspective on the evolution of both the poetry itself and the political and spiritual inspiration behind it.
£11.69
McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Natural Hustle
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£15.29
Beacon Press Jimmys Blues and Other Poems
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£14.39
New Directions Publishing Corporation A Fierce Green Place
Book SynopsisA fearless collection by a trailblazing writer whose poems represent the people, culture, and topography of the Caribbean in multidimensional, complex ways (Tanya Shirley)Trade Review"One of the most brilliant and witty of our poets." -- Kamau Brathwaite"What to say of Pamela’s poetry? Juicy. The salt juice of living blood. The sweet, liquid whispers of desire dripping from full lips. The acid venom of righteousness spat in the eye of the wicked." -- Nalo Hopkinson"Mordecai illuminates the challenges of life at the crossroads of race, class and gender. Her subjects are diverse, her storytelling immediate—especially in her use of a vibrant, dynamic language that superbly articulates an irrepressible Jamaican spirit." -- The Star"Mordecai has created motion from epiphanic moments which reject dominant discourses and frameworks…She writes violence, sex, love, mothering, God, landscape, colonialism, racism—no subject is off-limits." -- Alina Stefanescu - BOMB
£17.09
The Swedenborg Society Hereafter
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£11.66
The Islamic Texts Society The Way of Abu Madyan
Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of works attributed to Abu Madyan, a seminal figure of Sufism in Muslim Spain and North Africa. The Arabic text accompanying the English translation also represents the first scholarly edition of these works in the original language. The variety of Abu Madyan''s oeuvre, which includes doctrinal treatises, aphorisms, and poetical works in the ode, qasida, style, provides a unique opportunity for students of Arabic and Sufism, as well as the interested layman, to experience several of the most important genres of religious writing in the Islamic Middle Period.The Arabic texts have been extensively vocalised in order to aid the student. The work as a whole is well-suited for use as a reader for advanced level classes in the Arabic language. In addition, notes have been provided in the English translation. The Arabic parallel text, set by DecoType, Amsterdam, marks the debut of a new form of calligraphic typesetting in the classical Nashk style, combining state-of-the-art computer technology with unique faithfulness to the great calligraphic tradition of the Islamic world.
£21.24
Peepal Tree Press Ltd Highway in the Sun and Other Plays
Book SynopsisThe first Indian indentured labourers arrived in the Caribbean over 150 years ago. But how are the Indian characters in these plays to live in 20th century Trinidad? These plays explore their experiences as traditional values confront a rapidly changing world. Highway in the Sun tells the story of Tiger and Urmilla's first year of marriage away from their extended family. How are they to relate to Joe and Rita, their new Afro-Creole neighbours? In Home Sweet India, Johnny, dismayed by his and his family's loss of culture, plans to return to India. But will this solve his problems? In Turn Again Tiger, Tiger learns that he cannot turn his back on the Indian past if he is to lay the ghosts of the past to rest and face the future whole. In Harvest in Wilderness, the traditional cane-cutting world of Balgobin confronts the new technology of his creolised nephew, Romesh, but the past continues to spring surprises. These plays, originally broadcast by the BBC in the 1970s, bring together S
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith Scotnotes Study
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£8.18
SelfMadeHero King Lear
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£9.49
The Poetry Translation Centre Beginning to Speak
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£6.00
Books on Creating Understanding Once Upon A Pretty Pencil
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£9.36
Smokestack Books New Boots and Pantisocracies
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£8.54
Elise Maynard Virago A Poetic Manifesto
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£12.85
Austin Macauley Publishers O.N.E Opportunities Never End
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Beside a Stranger
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£5.99
Austin Macauley Publishers Quick Wheres The Exit
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers D.A.N.s Little Book of Everyday Poetry Stories
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£7.59
Austin Macauley Publishers Painting with Words
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Austin Macauley Publishers Compendium of Poetry
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£6.99
Silver Press Memory
£12.59
Les Fugitives Ltd The Step of Isis
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£10.00
Out-Spoken Press I Sugar The Bones
Book SynopsisThrough the porosity of the US/Mexico border, Freudian slippages, and toxic relationships, poet Juana Adcock interrogates what it means to cross from one country into another the gradient spaces that inhabit the nexus between life and death, and the people and languages that sit either side of it. Ghostly glitches, the role of rivers, and the character of Lisa Simpson as voiced for the Latin American market all empower I Sugar the Bones to stand as a polyvocal display; one where revelatory restlessness is underpinned by predicaments and realities which work to complicate the vistas of the interpersonal.
£10.79
