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Engaging above all with the matter of England in the here and now Simon Armitage focuses his attention on the conflicts within society today. The result is his wittiest, most...

Travelling Through the Family bring rural Australia to life through a clear-eyed and provocative vision of the way the land and our treatment of animals moulds the people who work...

There are wonderful animals and birds, volcanoes and tropical adventures. Narratives, traditional forms, poems about Sapphics on TV, fishing, working, and dreaming. With this comes a book-length section of new...

The wonderful new collection of poems, anecdotes and short verses from the inimitable Pam Ayres. With over fifty new poems from Britain's favourite poet, You Made Me Late Again! is...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names...

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...

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.

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This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. 'Tom was here before the...

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...

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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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This intriguing monograph of painter and printmaker Robert Kipniss is an intimate look at a memorable period in his life and career. Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950-1964 is the...

THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood s first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic...

R. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural...

Secondhand Literary Biography & Criticism Bargain Book Box Explore the lives and works of literary giants with this curated collection of secondhand biographies and critical analyses. These pre-loved books offer...

This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. 'Tom was here before the...

A stunning new collection from one of Australia's finest poets - her most impressive work yet. With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to...

A celebration of the unsung hero of the plant word and an immersive journey through the British wetlands Glowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . . Moss is...

Kerouac's famed freewheeling poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics 'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday' Freewheeling and...

46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit...

In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy...

Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. Book of Longing was twenty years in the making and written...

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of...

First published in the 1920's, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is the most famous work of religious fiction of the...

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse...