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Each generation discovers anew the philosophical poetry and wisdom of the Prophet, as he addresses many aspects of our daily lives.For decades this has been one of America's bestselling books....

A unique collection of the finest poems and songs from the Scottish Bard This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and...

'In The Drink' is the unflinching second poetry collection from Emily Crocker. Poems stream through ' In The Drink ', collecting hauntings of desire and futures lost. Visceral and at...

From the author of Citizen, a powerful meditation on life and death in the 21st Century Here, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which...

Powerful debut presenting a bold new female voice in Australian poetry. The poems in this collection draw upon the sounds, colours and quirks of urban and suburban Australia. Personal perceptions...

More Than These Bones is an epic and intercontinental poetry work detailing the author's journey through heartbreak and self-discovery. The book is rooted in place. Pieces land in multiple settings...

The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and...

These days we feel almost as young at fifty as we did at thirty - give or take the odd twinge. However, we are also becoming increasingly aware that the...

A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry An intimate collection from one of America's most important poets The latest collection from...

' It is a whimsical piece of work...a sort of writing very like tickling' Alexander Pope WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable...

Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Big Red Book is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling...

From the highly acclaimed novelist, comes a new collection of poetry. She is 'the quiet Mata Hari' of poetry - Michael Ondaatje THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of...

A breathtaking new poetry volume from one of Australia's literary luminaries n Parts of Us, Thomas Shapcott demonstrates why he remains one of the country's leading poets. Poetic styles in...

Mitchell Welch's debut collection is an inventive tour de force that sets forth, in the words of Dominique Hecq, 'a poetic universe full of provocation, seeings-into and ludic energy'. In...

A collection of poetry. Alison Wong writes with gentle cynicism and sharp accuracy, but above all with love, about family members old and new. With new candour she explores her...

This is the final compilation of Gwen Harwood's poetry. It is a meditation on life and death, the passing of old friends, the moments in her life that have left...

Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longings, partings; of Saturday night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom...

Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's 'Faust' is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for...

That Silent Evening I will go back to that silent evening when we lay together and talked in silent voices, while outside slow lumps of soft snow fell, hushing as...

Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review , "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and...

But what difference does the looking of a finite terrestrial neurally aglow mammal really make? Deep space. Jupiter. Medellin. Olympic Sydney. Europa. Northern Territory. Other worlds where "The Monkey's Mask"...

War Music collects the first three volumes of Christopher Logue's account of Homer's Iliad.

'The Divine Comedy' tells of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman through the three realms of the Christian...

In her second major collection, Claire Gaskin dismantles language to explore theemotional and intellectual integrity of experience and liberates the power of imagery in moments of pure surprise. Spare yet...

Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-54 BC) is one of the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation reflects...

Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the fifth Gospel, "the Divine Comedy" is central to the culture of...

Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals...

This text is one of the volumes in the New Poets in Translation series. It focuses on the epic poems of Homer, one of the most translated authors in literature.

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Life-changing wisdom from the popular Persian sage and poet This is a collection of inspirational wisdom for living a meaningful and productive life. The selection of quotations is chosen to...

From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic. Rumi's...

When TLC was between albums, I had no way to release my creativity. One night, feeling put-out by my boyfriend and wondering about how much women had to go through...

The "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume. Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems...

Paris Rosemont's debut collection, Banana Girl, traverses topics that are at once deeply personal, yet universal explorations of love, loss and heartbreak, lust, sex and violence, the complexity of shifting...

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PETRARCH FOR THE MODERN EAR, by the translator of a Dante edition that 'ranks with the very best available in English'. Francesco Petrarch's Canzoniere (translated in English as 'Scattered Rhymes')...

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