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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...

Author: Edgar Allan Poe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Poe has a pervading presence in popular culture. He has made appearances in various forms of modern media,...

Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 r.h. Sin returns with a force in Planting Gardens in Graves: a powerful collection of poetry that hones in...

Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 450 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld...

Author: Danielle Jawando Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several...

Author: Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin...

Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 "I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive."...

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale of her illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In the first...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Homer's The Odyssey is an epic that has endured for thousands of years, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated...

Author: Ted Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Cold, delicately as the dark snow A fox's nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that now And again...

Author, Lang Leav Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 224 Beautifully composed and written by international bestselling author Lang Leav, this new collection of poetry and prose will positively...

Author: Derek Walcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career He gives us more than himself or 'a world';...

Author: Robert Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards' Robert Graves No...

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The mermaid is known for her siren song, luring bedroom-eyed sailors to their demise. However, beneath these misguided myths...

Author: Edith Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 "Edith Grossman again demonstrates that she indeed is the Glenn Gould of translators." -Harold Bloom Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's...

Author: Geoffrey Bownas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Penguin Book of Japanese Versecontains over 700 poems from the third century to the twentieth, including both tanka...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's Iliad is the greatest and most influential epic poem ever written, telling of the tragic and bloody climax to...

Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways...

Author: Samuel Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy....

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 "make them rue the day they underestimated you." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are...

Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This story is for you. This story is a piece of you. This story is about how you emerged, stronger, brighter,...

Author: Robin Kirkpatrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume edition The Divine Comedy...

Author: Sappho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Aaron Poochigian's lyrical translations preserve the musical style of Sappho's songs. In his introduction he discusses the theories surrounding Sappho's...

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first...

Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit...

Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents a...

Author: Evelyn Araluen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene. I...

Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living,...

Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work...

Author: John Earle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium AD, Beowulf is an Old English...

Author: Frank Bidart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary...

Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Amanda Lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the 'women are some kind of magic' poetry series, presents unlock your storybook...

Author: Taz Alam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 276 A raw, honest and heartfelt poetry collection from Taz Alam - for the tough times, the great times, and everything in...

Author: Ocean Vuong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeWinner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First CollectionA Guardian...

Author: Mick Twister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 There is a young fellow named Mick Who's adapted the old limerick To cover, with mirth The whole history of Earth...

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, and framed as a storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury...

Author: N. Sandars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature...

Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried...

Author: Michel Faber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife,...

Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'I have been woman for...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca,...

Author: Eugenio Montale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 793 Hailed as one of the key poets of the modern era, Eugenio Montale changed Italian poetry forever and helped to create...

Author: Wilfred Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets. I mean the truth untold, The pity...

Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'If you travel a road where evil creatures dwell, be wary. ' Legends from the Ancient North Beowulf The...

Author: Mark Bryant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem...