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As far back as there is history in Ireland, there is love poetry. From pre-Christian paganism to contemporary feminism, the poetry reflects Ireland's traditions and attitudes. In this collection, the...

'War Poems' covers the great expanse of human history, and the bloodshed which characterises it. It gives particular attention to the verse inspired by the conflicts of the 20th century...

The word crip was once used to discriminate. Today, it is reclaimed and celebrated. Crip Stories is a gathering of vibrant and diverse experiences from disabled people. Bringing together memoir,...

An outstanding collection of poetry examining art and appropriation, from the winner of the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize borrow or rob examines themes of place, appropriation and extraction...

'The best leave you with a renewed sense of how extraordinary it is that poetry can, over the course of one sentence, flood your circuit board with loss, or anger,...

Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor"...

These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in...

The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried...

The poetry selected for this volume comes from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), an era when the influence of Buddhism was at its strongest in China. The best loved and most...

The book titled Elizabethan Lyrics by the author Norman Ault. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

First paperback publication of this much-loved anthology of poems to take you from birth to death, and a little beyond ... Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the \"seven...

An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900 Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from...

The poets whom we call the Romantics - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns and Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Keats - belonged to an age that saw many other kinds of poetry written...

The Salamander Oasis Trust was founded in 1976 from among those who served in the Middle East during the Second World War, and took part in compiling the original Oasis...

Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English...

One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan Along with the Tale of Genji and...

First paperback publication of Sheers's inspired selection of Britain's best verse Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in...

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets,...

Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and...

Both works have had a powerful influence on later Western literature, inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost. The Satires of Horace...

This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CURE" "GREAT...

New to Penguin Classics, a selection of poetry from the early Islamic era Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing,...

Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular...

A rich selection of poetry from the golden age of English poetry. The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed...

Arthur Cooper's translations are accompanied by an introduction in which he discusses the lives and times of Li Po and Tu Fu, and the spiritual, social and aesthetic background to...

New to Black Classics from 20th C. (0141181001) 'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction...

First time in Black Classics for this celebrated and critically-acclaimed anthology This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their...

This edition contains the original poems in French, with elegant prose translations by William Rees This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry -...

Beginning in the year of Charles II's restoration to the throne, this work anthologizes the period of poetic activity following the years of the Puritan Commonwealth. It contains the work...

The universal and eternal subject of love has inspired most poets throughout the ages to put pen to paper in order to express its violent spectrum of emotions. Here in...

This December, Meanjin turns seventy. As Australia s second oldest literary journal, it has helped our nation develop a cultural identity, critiqued that identity and, more recently, saw globalisation threaten...

The book titled STEVIE SMITH A BIOGRAPHY CL by the author Frances Spalding. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains,...

Organized by theme and genre, this collection reveals unexpected connections and shared preoccupations, which should enable the reader to view the Romantics in a fresh light. Thus Blake, Wordsworth and...

The meaning of consciousness, the mechanics of the mind and otherworldly transition or disrupted states - such as trance, sleep-walking, amnesia and locked-in syndrome - are perennially fascinating issues. The...

I travel Country, like my Old People done. I see the Country, like my Old People done I burn Country, like my Old People done. I sing Country, like my...

In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers are encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is...

A new translation of one of the literary wonders of the medieval world and the greatest source of knowledge of Viking lore in existence Compiled by an unknown scribe in...

First paperback publication of Laura Barber's new selection Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply'...

A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William...

The book titled Occasional Poets: An Anthology by the author Richard Adams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The 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...

The 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...

In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the 'durability' of the sonnet is...

An anthology of unforgettable poems by, for and about parents

In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current...

Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into... Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always...

Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy...