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The book titled Collected Poems of Herbert Read by the author Herbert Read. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

This cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness, the immigrant experience, and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of...

The book titled Melting into the Foreground by the author Roger McGough. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

Secondhand Poetry & Plays Bargain Book Box (21 Books) This box contains a curated selection of 20th-century verse and classic drama. The assortment heavily features vintage editions from the Penguin...

Everything You'll Ever Need You Can Find Within Yourself is a powerful and heartfelt book by Charlotte Freeman. As a non-fiction work, it falls under the categories of Assertiveness, Motivation...

The poems in this collection are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. The reader is shown the pain, the...

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...

The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years....

'They call me Jax, though my real name's Eva The whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious diva No.1 on the guest list, top of the charts When...

Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and private share the same tightrope. The...

Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was...

Omeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott. With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros...

Sharing Water by the River is a new series of poems by Uniting Church minister Denham Grierson who knows from his pastoral and teaching ministry the significance of metaphor, ambiguity...

'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read ' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A Guardian Book of the Year Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new...

The book titled The Aeneid by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this new collection Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' -a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are...

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a...

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a...

Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational...

'Exquisite' ( New Yorker ), 'breathtaking' ( Los Angeles Times ), 'baroque and moon-lit' ( Boston Globe ) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when...

Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone...

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' ( Daily Telegraph ) and 'a hymn to familial love' (Independent). Now,...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still...

Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of...

In his fifth book, Bakowski continues to explore the substrata of ordinary life in poems of crystalline beauty. His poems are tightly controlled lyrical explorations.

"Rejoicing" is a magnificent, celebratory gathering of Stanley Moss' poetry from six decades. He is one of America's finest poets and this collection demonstrates why. Marilyn Hacker wrote of his...

'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich,...

Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether...

Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus,...

Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who...

If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W.B. Yeats's remark that the only fit topics...

Gunter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to...

This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, while 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical...

The comprehensive collection of poetry by the world-renowned writer Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best...

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest ' SARAH MILLICAN 'Hollie McNish's words always sweep...

By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora . When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil's last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the...

THE RIVERED EARTH contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Lay down all hope, you that go in by me . . . Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles- godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks....

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore; In life and death, a chainless soul, With...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Over the course of six years,...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. In this inspirational, allegorical guide, Al...

New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received...

From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in theIliad, begins an incredible...

Milton's magnificent poem narrating Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition In Paradise Lost Milton produced a poem of epic scale,...

The most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life....