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Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

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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...
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 One of the most imaginative minds alive retells the greatest stories in history - the Greek Myths The Greek...
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda

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Author: Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A dazzling collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time The perfect gift for Valentine's Day...
The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

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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,...
Planting Gardens in Graves

Planting Gardens in Graves

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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...
Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)

Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)

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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...
Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

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Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Originally commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD is an emotive...
Inferno: Popular Penguins

Inferno: Popular Penguins

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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...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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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...
Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

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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."...
to drink coffee with a ghost

to drink coffee with a ghost

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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...
September Love

September Love

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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...
DKMH: Poems by Dacre Montgomery

DKMH: Poems by Dacre Montgomery

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Author: Dacre Montgomery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Since its release as a small mixed-media podcast, DKMH has topped charts all over the internet. Written and produced...
Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In her new standalone poetry collection, Flower Crowns & Fearsome Things, bestselling & award-winning poetess Amanda Lovelace explores the complexity of...
The Collected Poems

The Collected Poems

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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...
Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet

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Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 84At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer...
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

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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';...
the mermaids voice returns in this one

the mermaids voice returns in this one

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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...
John Donne Selected Poems

John Donne Selected Poems

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Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A selection of poems by John Donne  
The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance

The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance

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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...
Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

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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...
The Gift of Everything

The Gift of Everything

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Author: Lang Leav Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 International best-selling author Lang Leav presents The Gift of Everything, a stunning hardcover gift book featuring her finest pieces to date,...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

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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...
The Iliad

The Iliad

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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...
shine your icy crown

shine your icy crown

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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...
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

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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...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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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...
Time Will Tell

Time Will Tell

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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,...
Love is Enough: Poetry Threaded with Love (with a Foreword by Florence Welch)

Love is Enough: Poetry Threaded with Love (with a Foreword by Florence Welch)

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Author: Andrea Zanatelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Drawing its inspiration from the past, Love is Enough references the decorative arts of a bygone era, and is a combination...
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

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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...
break your glass slippers

break your glass slippers

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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...
the princess saves herself in this one

the princess saves herself in this one

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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...
How Far You Have Come: Musings on Beauty and Courage

How Far You Have Come: Musings on Beauty and Courage

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Author: Morgan Harper Nichols Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Far You Have Come is an exquisitely illustrated collection of poetry and essays from bestselling artist and writer Morgan...
The Space Between Us: Poetry and Prose

The Space Between Us: Poetry and Prose

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Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Space Between Us explores the trials of love and what it's like to live a life separated by...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things

Waka and Things, Waka as Things

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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...
Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

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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...
Selected Poems 1966-1987

Selected Poems 1966-1987

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Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Between my fingers and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it. Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work...
Dropbear

Dropbear

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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...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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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...
The Prophet

The Prophet

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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,...
There are Girls like Lions

There are Girls like Lions

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Author: Cole Swensen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 For mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, partners, and friends, here are 30 stirring poems about the experience of being a woman. Rousing...
unlock your storybook heart

unlock your storybook heart

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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...
Birthday Letters

Birthday Letters

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Author: Ted Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 197 Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

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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...
Selected Poems 1988-2013

Selected Poems 1988-2013

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Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet Often considered to be the greatest poet of...
Marina Carr Plays 1: Love in the Dark; The Mai; Portia Coughlan; By the Bog of Cats...

Marina Carr Plays 1: Love in the Dark; The Mai; Portia Coughlan; By the Bog of Cats...

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Author: Marina Carr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Love in the...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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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...
The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

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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...