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Book Synopsis'With great pleasure Leyla & Joel Invite you to celebrate their marriage. Dress code is smart casual. Doors at 7.30 p.m., followed by the exchange of vows. And at the signal, the entertainment will begin. (This performance is being staged without a licence from the Ministry. We recognise the risk that each and every one of you is taking by attending and we salute your courage.)' A Mirror is an elusive, explosive play by Sam Holcroft, interrogating censorship, authorship and free speech. It premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2023, directed by Jeremy Herrin, and with a cast including Jonny Lee Miller, Tanya Reynolds and Micheal Ward.Trade Review'A beautifully crafted, mind-bending piece of work' * Evening Standard *'A Pirandellian wedding drama that achieves a series of satisfying surprises... delights in the theatrical trickery of dual identities and false realities to throw a final surprise punch' * Guardian *'Bold, inventive and original... a journey of discovery, a hall of mirrors, that takes us into a series of intricate boxes, of plays within plays, where nothing is quite as it seems... I loved it' * WhatsOnStage *'Intriguing, twisty, metatheatrical... an achievement: like nothing else you'll see on London's stages' * Independent *'Pirandello meets late Pinter meets Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, all sharing a bottle of something strong' * The Times *'Brilliantly mischievous... The joy of Holcroft's play is that it's subversive on so many levels... incendiary and mordantly funny... a triumph' * Time Out *'Undeniably genius: the kind of rare, vigorous writing that sets your head spinning' * The Stage *'A darkly comic, Orwellian affair... as punchy as it is political... a timely production packed with intrigue and passion' * Broadway World *

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Book SynopsisThe classic Persian poem of romance and tragedy captured as a sumptuous and richly colourful graphic novel, inspired by traditional art of the region. It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of times in Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages. It has influenced playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, modern popular language, the first opera of Islamic origin, and individuals as varied as Aleister Crowley and Eric Clapton. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qais and Layla were madly in love. So in love, it has been said, that the young man could not contain his passion for his beloved, singing to the winds with such fervour he was given the nickname “Majnun” — The Madman. But their love could not be, as the lovers were separated by fate and man, leading to a tragic end for these star-crossed souls. Experience the classic Persian poem as painted in the lush palette of artist Yann Damezin. Through his brush, we see a decadent and sensorial world, one as raw and vulnerable as the love between the Majnun and his Layla.Trade Review"Through a vibrant visual tapestry, French cartoonist and Angouleme’s Prix Orange debut comics winner Damezin reimagines a centuries-old Persian love poem." * Starred Publishers Weekly Review *Yann Damezin gives beautiful colors to this poetic story but above all gives it a modernity, already approached by the poet Nezâmi (12th century), by giving the female character as much space as the male! -- Benoit Gaboriaud (translated) * L'essentiART *...a brilliantly accomplished exercise in style, a hymn to tender, beautiful, subtle and luminous love. -- Jean-Charles Andrieu de Levis (translated) * ActuaLitté *...an undeniable success, both graphically and literary: all the pages of [Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave] seduce by their graphic inventiveness. -- Nicholas Michael (translated) * Jeune Afrique *With [Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave], whose very rich graphic work competes with a text of rare quality, Damezin offers an opus as surprising as it is exceptional in the field of contemporary comics. -- Lea Polverini (translated) * Middle East Eye edition francaise *

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Book SynopsisThis compact edition, designed for use in undergraduate courses, combines a substantial selection of Dickinson’s poems (including one complete fascicle) with a selection of letters and a range of contextual materials. In a number of cases several different versions of a poem are presented side by side. The texts are based on the handwritten manuscripts themselves, in the facsimile form in which the Emily Dickinson Archive now makes the vast majority of Dickinson’s manuscript versions available to the general public. The three major editions that are based directly on the manuscripts—those of Thomas H. Johnson (1955), R.W. Franklin (1998) and Cristanne Miller (2016)—have also been consulted; in many cases where the transcriptions of these editors differ from one another, this edition provides information in the notes as to those differences. Extensive explanatory footnotes are also provided, as is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to Dickinson and her work.The appendices include excerpts from numerous nineteenth-century reviews of Dickinson’s first published volume (including by William Dean Howells and Andrew Lang). Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s influential Atlantic Monthly article, “Emily Dickinson’s Letters,” is also included in its entirety.This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts. This edition departs from other editions in the series in one important respect—its format. The large page size of the edition facilitates the reproduction of manuscript pages in readable facsimile form, and the two-column format of the text facilitates comparison between different versions.Trade ReviewComments on The Broadview Anthology of American Literature“The expansion, diversification, and revitalization of the texts and terms of American literary history in recent years is made marvelously accessible in the … new Broadview Anthology of American Literature.” — Hester Blum, Penn State University“The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is, quite simply, a breakthrough. … Meticulously researched and expertly assembled, this anthology should be the new gold standard for scholars and teachers alike.” — Michael D’Alessandro, Duke University“So much thought has been put into every aspect of the Broadview Anthology of American Literature, from the selection of texts to their organization to their presentation on the page; it will be a gift to classrooms for years to come.” — Lara Langer Cohen, Swarthmore College “The multiplicity of early American locations, languages, and genres is here on wondrous display.” — Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University “Above all, this is a volume for the 21st century. … Its capaciousness and ample resource materials make for a text that is always evolving and meeting its readers in new ways.” — Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison“a rich collection that reflects the diversity of American literatures…. [and] that never forgets its most important audience: students. There is a wealth of material here that will help them imagine and reimagine what American literature could be.” — Michael C. Cohen, UCLA “The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is an instructor’s dream for introducing students to the diversity and complexity of American literature.” — Venetria K. Patton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“I am eager to teach with this anthology! It aligns with cutting-edge research through its selections, its introductions, and explanatory notes, and the texts are supplemented with primary documents that encourage teachers and students to think critically and dynamically.” — Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionSelected Poems [It’s all I have to bring today –] [I never lost as much but twice –] [I robbed the woods –] [These are the days when Birds come back ˎ] [alternative versions] [Success is counted sweetest] [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –] [alternative versions] [Besides the Autumn poets sing] [All overgrown by cunning moss,] [I’m “wife” – I’ve finished that –] [Title divine – is mine!] [Faith is a fine invention] [alternative version] [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –] [The Lamp burns sure – within –] [I came to buy a smile – today –] [I’m Nobody! Who are you?] [alternative version] [Wild nights – Wild nights!] [alternative versions] [Over the fence –] [I taste a liquor never brewed –] [alternative version] [There’s a certain Slant of light,] [alternative versions] [“Hope” is the thing with feathers –] [Your Riches – taught me – Poverty.] [I found the words to every thought] [I like a look of Agony,] [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,] [It was not Death, for I stood up,] [A Bird came down the Walk –] [I know that He exists.] [After great pain, a formal feeling comes –] [This World is not conclusion.] [I like to see it lap the Miles –] [The Soul selects her own Society –] [One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –] [They shut me up in Prose –] [This was a Poet –] [I died for Beauty – but was scarce] [The Malay – took the Pearl –] [Our journey had advanced –] [Because I could not stop for Death –] [alternative version] [I dwell in Possibility –] [He fumbles at your Soul] [It feels a shame to be Alive –] [This is my letter to the World] [I’m sorry for the Dead – Today –] [I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –] [The Brain – is wider than the Sky –] [There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House,] [I measure every Grief I meet] [Much Madness is divinest Sense –] [I started Early – Took my Dog –] [That I did always love] [What Soft – Cherubic Creatures –] [My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –] [“Nature” is what We see –] [I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to –] [Publication – is the Auction] [Truth – is as old as God –] [I never saw a Moor –] [Color – Caste – Denomination –] [She rose to His Requirement – dropt] [The Poets light but Lamps –] [A Man may make a Remark –] [Banish Air from Air –] [As imperceptibly as Grief] [The Heart has narrow Banks] [Could I but ride indefinite] [As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies] [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] [alternative versions] [The Bustle in a House] [A Spider sewed at Night] [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –] [alternative version] [To pile like Thunder to its close] [Apparently with no surprise] [A Word made Flesh is seldom] [My life closed twice before its close;] [To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,] Fascicle 13 [I know some lonely Houses off the Road] [I can wade Grief] [You see I cannot see – your lifetime –] [“Hope” is the thing with feathers –] [To die – takes just a little while –] [If I’m lost – now –] [Delight is as the flight –] [She sweeps with many-colored Brooms –] [Of Bronze – and Blaze –] [There’s a certain Slant of light,] [Blazing in Gold – and] [Good Night! Which put the Candle out?] [Read – Sweet – how others – strove – a] [Put up my lute!] [There came a day – at Summer’s full –] [The lonesome for they know not What –] [How the old Mountains drip with sunset] [Of Tribulation, these are They,] [If your nerve, deny you –] Dickinson’s Personal Correspondence To Abiah Root (29 January 1850) To Jane Humphrey (3 April 1850) To Abiah Root (7 and 17 May 1850) To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (April 1852) To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (27 June 1852) To Samuel Bowles (February 1861) To Unknown Recipient (circa 1861) Susan Dickinson to Emily Dickinson (1861) To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (1861) To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (15 April 1862) To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (25 April 1862) To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (7 June 1862) To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (July 1862) To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (October 1883) In Context The Reception of Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century from Alexander Young, “Boston Letter,” Critic (11 October 1890) from Anonymous, “From the Book Store,” St. Joseph Daily News (22 November 1890) from Anonymous, “New Books,” Boston Post (27 November 1890) from Kinsley Twining and William Hayes Ward, “Poems by Emily Dickinson,” Independent (11 December 1890) from William Dean Howells, “Editor’s Study,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (January 1891) from Anonymous, Springfield Daily Republican (23 January 1891) from Andrew Lang, “A Literary Causerie,” Speaker (31 January 1891) Laura Coombs Hills, Retouched image of Emily Dickinson (late nineteenth century) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Emily Dickinson’s Letters” (The Atlantic Monthly, October 1891)

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Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ?Heartbreaking...Go read the book, everyone.? Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process.?These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I've spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness,? says Fox. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you'll read all year.

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Book SynopsisEpic poem of survival, following a nameless main character lost in the woods.

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Book Synopsis'You know you act like you're not from here.' Entrenched in her picturesque Devonshire village, Ivy Tiller is preparing to wage a war. Her target: the invasive grey squirrel. Her goal: to oust the invaders and restore the native red squirrels as the 'rightful' inhabitants. Galvanised by her important mission, Ivy's determination swells to uncomfortable heights. Bea Roberts' blackly comic play Ivy Tiller: Vicar's Daughter, Squirrel Killer challenges our assumptions about who belongs and who thrives, and exposes the dark side of the rural idyll. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in October 2022.Trade Review'Clever, pointed writing' * The Times *'Snappy and subversive... horribly plausible... The writing is brisk and lively, and Roberts slips a few moments of real pathos in among a barrage of daft, sometimes pleasingly dark punchlines... challenging, and often very funny' * The Stage *'Echoes of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem and Simon Stephens' Herons... lands right in the heart of the Zeitgeist' * Broadway World *

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Book SynopsisAll disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making, and the practising of resistance and solidarity in the face of a hostile state. Here, the personal is political, and Kandasamy moves between sex, desire, family and wider societal issues of caste, the refugee crisis, and freedom of expression with grace and defiance. This is a bold, unforgettable collection by a poet who compels us to sit up and listen.Trade ReviewThis impassioned, compelling collection moves between rhythmically rich evocations of friendship, motherhood, love and sex. and urgent political topics: caste prejudice, freedom of expression, racism and the oppression of women and LGBTQ+ people. In the title poem, addressing the arrests of two human-rights activists in India in 2015, we see the violence of the corrupt state revealed: "Tomorrow someone will arrest you. The day after that, you / will be considered a 'terrorist' for life ... Long Live Silence." Kandasamy's writing is fierce and direct in its criticism of this deadening, suffocating silence, and those in power who perpetuate it. These vital, beautiful poems burn with a radically illuminating rage. * Rebecca Tamás, Guardian *Meena Kandasamy's lines of poetry cascade in an unstoppable poetic-surging into a rallying cry that denounces the injustices of caste and gender and right-wing state terror to reinvigorate those who "struggle & think & love together with THE POET". * Poetry Book Society *Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You is an extraordinary exploration into a deep vulnerability and truth; Meena Kandasamy is an incredibly beautiful poet, prophetic, powerful and empowering. * Salena Godden, author of MRS DEATH MISSES DEATH *Thank god for writing like this. For books like this. * Max Porter, author of Lanny on Exquisite Cadavers *Slyly funny and profoundly thoughtful... a work of brilliance. * Financial Times on Exquisite Cadavers *There is nothing Kandasamy can't do. * Zeba Talkhani, author of My Past is A Foreign Country *A brilliant but brutal punch to the guts. * Monisha Rajesh, author of Around the World in 80 Trains, on When I Hit You *

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Book SynopsisA classic textbook on the study of logicIn the Muslim East, logic was an integral part of the syllabus of schools and found to be especially helpful for legal studies. It was at this time that The Rules of Logic was composed by Najm al-Din al-Katibi, a scholar of the Shafi?i school of law.The Rules of Logic is the most widely read introduction to logic in the Arabic-speaking world. It has probably enjoyed a longer shelf-life than any other logic textbook ever written, having been in use by madrasah students from the early eighth/fourteenth century up until the present day. Building on the theories of Avicenna, al-Razi, and other pioneers of logic, al-Katibi discusses the many pitfalls of building arguments and setting out unambiguous claims in natural language. The enduring nature of the text is a testament to al-Katibi and his impact on concepts of formal discourse and argument. This new translation of The Rules of Logic brings to both an Ara

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Book SynopsisRemarkable products of a nation deeply implicated in the Atlantic slave trade, the seventeenth-century Spanish plays Juan Latino, The Brave Black Soldier, and Virtues Overcome Appearances appear together in English for the first time in this volume. The three protagonists not only defy the period’s color-based prejudices but smash through its ultimate social barrier: marriage into the white nobility. Michael Kidd’s fluid translations and extensive critical introduction, bibliography, and glossary are enhanced by Hackett’s title support webpage. Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain is essential reading for students of theater history, Spanish literature, and the African diaspora.Trade Review"Kidd’s book on Black protagonists in early 17th century Spain is a remarkable introduction to a little-known world of drama that explores the racial realities of a society of Christians, Muslims, and Africans. His three specimen plays include the slave Juan Latino, a Black scholar, whose learning earns him a noble white wife and a university chair. Juan de Merida is The Brave Black Soldier who captures Prince William of Orange, thus ending the war in Flanders. He is a free man and wins his woman. Filipo, the accidental prince of Virtues Overcome Appearances, is an aberration, the result of coitus during which his father, Lisandro, imagines the Ethiopian Queen Saba. Filipo, the Black prince, is immured until he frees himself and proves his worth by his virtue. The play ends with his becoming the king and acting like an absolute monarch. Kidd’s scholarly commentary is illuminating and his analyses are a great aid in understanding the complexities of the racial content of the plays. I found this an extraordinary eye-opening read that will be exciting to use in a classroom." —Lee A. Jacobus, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Connecticut

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Book SynopsisEileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include Pathetic Literature, For Now (an essay/talk about writing), Evolution, Afterglow (a dog memoir), I Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems and Chelsea Girls. The Trip, their super-8 puppet road film can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.

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Book SynopsisA companion volume to Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet and The Complete Works of Alberto CaeiroTrade Review"As searing as Rilke or Mandelstam." -- The New York Times"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output." -- William Boyd"Arguably, the four greatest poets in the Portuguese language were all Pessoa using different names." -- NPR

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Book SynopsisWeaving familial and queer traditions and archives, and stretching across generational perspectives, Amann Hyder's Self-Portrait With Family is an autobiographical collection about coming out to family and coming out into a gay community defined by whiteness.

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Book SynopsisFormed of sixty fifteen-line stanzas, this haunting and consistently entertaining collection can be read like a journal, tracking lines of thought through time and space, painting detailed, witty and moving pictures of a countryside and life that lie unchanged, even through periods of great upheaval political, ecological and cultural.

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Book SynopsisAUTHOR OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, JAMES AUTHOR OF ERASURE, now adapted for the screen as the OSCAR-WINNING FILM, AMERICAN FICTION Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY “Few writers pay more rapt attention to the fact that history is, fundamentally, storytelling. … A pebble in every shoe. It’s the Everett way.”—New York Times Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these sonnets leap and turn through philosophical musings accrued across a life well lived, with inventive language, crystalline imagery, and turns of phrase that lift off the page and glimmer. Everett’s sonnets soar through the musical scale, from A Minor to A Major, exploring relationships, spirituality, compassion, despair, and how the stories we tell ourselves shape our realities. Everett continuously defies convention with every creative expression and brings his literary audacity back to his poetic roots with this, his sixth collection with Red Hen Press. Sonnets for a Missing Key is a mesmerizing feat of language that reinforces Percival Everett as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.

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Book SynopsisCarl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's based on human memory.

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Book SynopsisTime Cleaves Itself by Jeda Pearl is a sonic meditation on memory, grief, disability, race, empathy and resilience from a Scottish womanof colour navigating belonging and claiming space.

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Book SynopsisTodd Almond is an acclaimed performer, songwriter, and playwright. His recent performance on Broadway in Girl from the North Country was called stunning by The Washington Post and roof-raising, uplifting, and invigorating by Hollywood Reporter. His musical The Odyssey, for which he wrote the book, music, and lyrics, was hailed as brash, funny and heart-stirring by The New York Times. His theater piece Kansas City Choir Boy was called awesome, slyly punk rock by Rolling Stone.Almond is known for his singular songwriting in addition to his work as an accomplished performer. He recently toured the US in his original musical Kansas City Choir Boy, starring alongside rock icon Courtney Love, and starred in three of his original musicals at the famed Delacorte Theater in Central Park (The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and The Odyssey). His musical Girlfriend based on the Matthew Sweet album o

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Book Synopsis"That one came alone, from some place else. He came slowly, following his own path. A white angel with jet-black wings!"Kostas Karyotakis is the poet most emblematic of the turbulent interwar period in Greece. Though traditional in form, usually with end-rhyme and regular metres, Karyotakis' poetry is modern in content, often pessimistic and bitingly satirical. His writing combines reverie with sarcasm, a stifling sense of every­day reality with poignant irony. This is verse that is both piercing and resonant.

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Book Synopsis'If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.' One of the most prolific and respected playwrights of the twentieth century, Bernard Shaw's legacy shows no signs of waning, and his beautifully written plays, laced with wry wit and invective alike, have seen countless performances over the years, their finest lines paraded in literary conversation and review. Meticulously selected by Simon Mundy, the Wit and Acid series collects the sharpest lines from Shaw’s oeuvre in small neat volumes, allowing the reader to sample some of the very best barbs and one-liners the twentieth century has to offer, and this, the first volume, covers lines from the great writer’s works published before 1911.Trade Review'He was a Tolstoy with jokes, a modern Dr Johnson, a universal genius who on his own modest reckoning put even Shakespeare in the shade.' (The Independent)

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Book SynopsisHarald Hardrada was the greatest warrior of his age. Wounded, aged 15, at Stiklestad (1030), the most savage battle ever fought on Norwegian soil, he went on to fight in Russia, Byzantium, Sicily, the Balkans, Asia Minor and Jerusalem. He returned to Norway in 1045 to contest and win the crown and was killed in the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. A man of ferocious energy, burning ambition, cunning, cruelty and vengefulness, and a man enormously attractive to women, Harald is a larger-than-life figure and one that has fascinated the poet Kevin Crossley-Holland. In this sequence of short poems, he assumes the persona of Harald during his formative years in Byzantium and writes about his engagement with warfare, leadership and love. Passionate, terse and often witty, these poems - revelations rather than narratives - contrast the glittering hard-edged northern world, still half in thrall to the old Norse gods, with the softer, more seductive south.

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Book SynopsisAgainst a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, Porteous's Northumberland poems explore issues of social and environmental change. These are followed by sequences on technological revolution autonomous systems, AI, and remote-sensing techniques used to measure Earth's changing climate in the Antarctic.

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Book SynopsisPoems 2016-2024 is effectively volume two of Prynne's Poems (2015) but this supplementary edition is bigger than his previous life's work retrospective, bringing together the complete texts of 36 collections from the late and most productive period of Prynne's writing, all previously only available in limited editions.

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Book Synopsis'A la lumiere d'hiver' (1977) is a central work in the writing of the Swiss French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021). Written in middle age, it forms a bridge between the poet's intricate early lyrics and his more expansive and meditative later work. Starting from a direct confrontation with the raw facts of mortality, its three poem-sequences strip away further layers of illusion until a glimmer of meaning starts to appear in the 'winter light' of the landscape of the Drome area of northern Provence, where Jaccottet made his home from 1953 until the end of his life. Tim Dooley's translation, 'In Winter Light', is the product of a long relationship with the original, which he first read at the time of its publication. His English version mirrors the tentative, scrupulous exploration of being he finds in Jaccottet's French, both its hesitancies and circular movements and, finally, its 'unblinking eyes'.Trade Review'In this fine translation of Phillipe Jaccottet's elegiac three-part collection Tim Dooley wonderfully combines the grace of his own attentive poetics with a clear intimacy of understanding. In his hands, In Winter Light relays Jaccottet's lucidly charged journey through loss and mourning in language that's as close to the ear as it is to the imagination and the heart' - Jane Draycott; 'Philippe Jaccottet often employs a negative theology in which attempts at simile are discarded in the imperative to arrive at the mot juste - considered both as language and as philosophical position. Tim Dooley is alert to this ascesis, and his translations seem to me quite excellent: they are chaste, rhythmically sound, and retain the constant decorum that is a chief quality of this quiet, essential voice' - Stephen RomerTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'In the old days it would be called song' The Lessons Songs from down there In Winter Light

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Book SynopsisAn enchanting new instalment in Carol Ann Duffy's Christmas poem series, complete with gorgeous illustrations.

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Book SynopsisOnce again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition. Tess Michaelson, Full StopAlice Notley, the author of more than 40 books of poetry, has delivered an expert array of discussions over the last three decades. Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018 offers a significant contribution to literature, reimagining the possibilities of writing in our time and the complicated business of how and why writers devote their lives to their craft. Whether she is writing about other poetsEd Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Homer, bpNichol, Douglas Oliver or William Carlos Williamsnoir fiction, the First Gulf War, dreams or giving us insight into her own work, Notley''s observations are original, sobering and always memorable. This collection often eschews the typical style of essay or lecture, resisting any categorization, and is consciously disobedient to academic structures in form. The results are thrilling new modes of thinking that may change the ways we read and write.Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945, and grew up in Needles, California. During the late 60s and early 70s she lived a traveling poet's life before settling on New York's Lower East Side. For 16 years there, she was an important force in the eclectic second generation of the so-called New York School. Notley is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, including At Night the States, the double volume Close to Me and Closer . . . (The Language of Heaven) and Désamère and How Spring Comes, which was a co-winner of the San Francisco Poetry Award. In 1998, Penguin published Mysteries of Small Houses, which was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. In 2015 she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry.

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Book SynopsisIn But I Don't Feel Empowered, poet and artist Suri Chan harnesses the power of beautiful language and whimsical illustrations to speak on both the lighthearted and heartbreaking experiences that bind us.But I Don’t Feel Empowered is Suri Chan’s debut collection of honest, free-verse and whimsically illustrated poems. She explores themes of heartbreak, womanhood, and trauma from the lens of a queer Asian woman coming of age.   This collection is earnest in its belief that healing is about accepting your emotions as they are. And in a world that asks you to be empowered at all times, it asks you to just be.   Deeply moving and thought-provoking, But I Don’t Feel Empowered solidifies Suri as an artist to watch and a voice to root for.

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Book Synopsis"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V." So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück's astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of autobiography. Here are the elements you'd expect to find in a story of infant twins: Father and Mother, Grandmother and Other Grandmother, bath time and naptime—but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself, of what is and what has been and what will be. "Outside the playpen there were day and night. What did they add up to? Time was what they added up to. Rain arrived, then snow." The twins learn to climb stairs, they regard each other like criminals through the bars of their cribs, they begin to speak. "It was evening. Rose was smiling placidly in the bathtub playing with the squirting elephant, which, according to Mother, represented patience, strength, loyalty and wisdom. How does she do it, Marigold thought, knowing what we know." Simultaneously sad and funny, and shot through with a sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book, following thirteen books of poetry and two collections of essays, is unlike anything Glück has written, while at the same time it is inevitable, transcendent.Trade Review'Gluck speaks to our time in a voice that is onstage, but heard from the wings' - Publishers Weekly

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Book Synopsis'I have to write. That's what I am. My sister Meg is beautiful, my sister Beth is good, my sister Amy is, well, she is what she is, but I'm the writer of the family. What shall I do?' Christmas Eve, 1862. With their father away on the frontline of the American Civil War, the four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – journey into adulthood, each determined to pursue a life on their own terms. But growing up means contending with love and loss, as well as the myriad twists of fortune that shape a life. Published in 1868, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was an immediate critical and commercial success, and remains one of the best-loved novels of all time. This joyful and spirited adaptation was first produced at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Watford Palace Theatre in 2022, directed by Brigid Larmour. An earlier version was staged at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2011. It provides rich opportunities for any amateur company looking for an uplifting version of a classic story that's guaranteed to delight audiences.Trade Review'Stylish, humorous and compassionate, this is a lovingly crafted adaptation of an American classic... re-establishes the book's evergreen credentials... a clean, crisp, faithfully episodic adaptation that successfully evokes both the love and the tensions between the four sisters' * Daily Telegraph *'Anne-Marie Casey's adaptation is pacey and full of life, trimming lots of the story's fat and focusing on key characters and incidents so as to keep things moving in only two hours of action' * WhatsOnStage *'A loving staging of the story... both wholesome and exhortatory... Casey bottles the story's magic, which sweeps us from the trials of the Civil War to the buzz of New York... charming' * Daily Mail *'A classic, charming retelling of the novel that doesn't seek to do anything other than celebrate the story... full of gentle humour, humanity and emotion... a bit of traditional charm, great storytelling and the perfect family show' * Reviews Hub *'A boldly traditional adaptation... carefully crafted... thoughtful and multilayered' * The Stage *'Heartbreaking... Anne-Marie Casey's script bounces along briskly, oscillating between quick-fire quips and moments of poignancy... as comforting and filling as Christmas dinner' * The Arts Despatch *'Beautiful... makes us look again at Louisa May Alcott's radical rite of passage classic' * Belfast Times *'A classic retelling of the beloved novel, celebrating the story in a manner which is true to the text... Anne-Marie Casey's adaptation hits all the big moments of the book... a well-presented, highly respectful interpretation of a classic tale... incredibly hard to resist' * No More Workhorse *

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Book SynopsisAn old pond;a frog jumps in:the sound of water — Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by renowned author and translator William Scott Wilson, the book features 26 poets and 550 haiku, exquisitely translated. Wilson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the works of the major Japanese poets from the fifteenth century up to the present.The poets include Basho, Shiki, Buson and Issa (the "Great Four") along with other well-known practitioners of the genre such as Ryokan, Kikaku and Chora. Wilson gives his own brand-new renditions of poems that are already known as classics, and also shares with us the delightful work of a number of poets who are rarely found in English translation, such as six female poets including Chiyojo and Hisajo, as well as novelist Natsume Soseki, who, unbeknown to many, also wrote haiku.The book is divided into sections, each starting with a 2-4 page introduction to each poet, followed by a selection of that poet's haiku, in Japanese script and English translation. Online audio files are available with recordings of the poems in both English and Japanese.

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Book Synopsis''I spring from the pages into your arms''Walt Whitman''s Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. Widely credited as the originator of free verse in English, Whitman put forward a radical new language of the body, the nation, and same-sex love. After the book''s initial publication in June 1855, Whitman revised and expanded the project a further seven times, with subsequent editions appearing at regular intervals until his death in 1892. His revisions to particular poems were often substantial, and the addition of new poems to each edition so extensive, that the books dimensions altered dramatically.This edition introduces Whitmans ongoing labour of revision and renewal his successive responses to the shattering years that encompassed the American Civil War and its aftermath. Beginning with the first edition of 1855, it moves chronologically, selecting and including the most substantial poems and clusters as Whitman first included them. In most cases, this means reprinting the often more politically and sexually daring beginning, rather than the revised end, of a particular poem''s journey. The present edition thereby provides a portrait of a poet who attempted to reshape his project in tandem with some of the most tumultuous decades in American history, and who in the process altered forever the parameters and possibilities of poetry itself.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Book SynopsisIn this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of stylessyllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poemsto express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson's first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice.

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Book Synopsis'There's somethin' about this house. Somethin' here. Somethin' in the walls. Its bones. Like DNA.' A family packs into a small house with a tangled history. Matt is here, yearning to reach someone he's lost. His cousin Jess is here, too; she just wants to feel something. Anything. And Aunt Monica and Jeff are still here, just about. Together, ferocious and funny, they laugh, they scrap, they remember. Tonight these four people, inextricably bound yet so far apart, will finally confront the old decisions that haunt them. How does a family make a future, when everything that holds it together lies in the past? Clive Judd's play Here is a tender, funny and utterly truthful story about family and feeling. It was premiered by Papatango at Southwark Playhouse, London, in November 2022 after winning the Papatango New Writing Prize, whose previous discoveries have gone on to win Olivier, Critics' Circle and OffWestEnd Awards and be performed worldwide.Trade Review'Creepy and captivating... there is something utterly invigorating about Judd's writing: it is funny, delicate, assured, pleasurably circuitous... a truly exciting discovery with what feels like a quietly radical new form of genre-defying theatre' * Guardian *'Engaging, empathetic and spooky, with a beautiful pattern of slow revelation... Papatango has once again identified a talent worth watching' * Evening Standard *'A hauntingly beautiful drama of family secrets... has a strange, captivating power... lyrical and elegiac... Judd deftly uses the uncanny to tell a very human, very flesh-and-blood story... unsettling and rather beautiful' * The Stage *'Full of humour and heart ... [Judd has] a great deal of writing talent' * Reviews Hub *'Excellent... an absorbing and moving play that deals intelligently with ideas of memory, seen and unseen connections, and the difficulties of articulating feelings... highly recommended' * Everything Theatre *

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Book Synopsis Celebrate love with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year. From well-known classics to modern fresh takes, Poetry of Love for Every Day of the Year explores love in all its forms. Love is such a uniquely human feeling which has made it an inexhaustible subject for writers across the ages. There are so many meanings for this one word - it can evoke friends, family, romance or a sense of home.Everyone has their own attachments and associations, which is what makes this collection so fascinating. Among the 366 poems are Shakespeare''s classic sonnets, Ocean Vuong''s experiences of young queer love, Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s ode to her dog, Charlotte Mew dealing with loss, and much, much more. With a wide range of voices spanning across the world through many centuries, this anthology explores how love can mean so many things and how it connects us all. This is the newest title in Batsford''s highly popular Poetry Anthology series, and is the perfect bedside companion for late night reading or morning meditation.

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'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William WordsworthNo generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this indispensable volume, Sir Jonathan Bate - prizewinning biographer of Wordsworth, Keats and John Clare - brings together the most loved poems of the age, together with many forgotten gems. Alongside classics such as Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' and 'Frost at Midnight', the odes of Keats and generous selections from Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude, the reader will discover the wit of Byron, the wildness of Blake, the passion of Shelley, a wealth of nature poems by Clare, and the distinctive voices of women Romantics such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Dorothy Wordsworth and Letitia Landon.

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