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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...
How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

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Author: Barbara Kingsolver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 The poems of How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living....
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 Odyssey

The Odyssey

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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...
Clarity & Connection

Clarity & Connection

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Author, Yung Pueblo Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 256 From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how...
She Just Wants to Forget

She Just Wants to Forget

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 She Just Wants to Forget is the follow up to the New York Times bestselling poetry collection She Felt...
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...
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 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 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,...
The Saga of the Volsungs

The Saga of the Volsungs

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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...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

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Author: Matthew George Walter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains- the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect...
The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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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...
The Penguin Book of Haiku

The Penguin Book of Haiku

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Author: Adam L. Kern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 First Penguin volume of best Japanese haiku vivid translations. Gaze I shall! 'til the very blossoms become a...
Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith

Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith

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Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' - William Blake...
The Aeneid

The Aeneid

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Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III

Whiskey Words & a Shovel III

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion and vigor of...
Inferno The Divine Comedy I

Inferno The Divine Comedy I

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Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...
The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things

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Author: Lucretius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

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Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...
The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

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Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

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Author: Philip Terry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for...
The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book

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Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament

The Song of Kieu: A New Lament

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Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
Penguin's Poems for Weddings

Penguin's Poems for Weddings

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Author: Laura Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: William Yeats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few...
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

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Author: Christopher Reid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 I've rounded up a rowdy assembly Of my own Consequential Dogs As counterparts to Eliot's mogs. Mine are a rough and...
The Poetry of Horses

The Poetry of Horses

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Author: Various Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to...
The Prophet

The Prophet

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Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A stunning new hardcover edition--linen with copper stamping-of one of the world's most beloved and popular spiritual classics, featuring a new...
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene

Songs of Mihyar the Damascene

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Author: Adonis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan...
Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

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Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA...
The Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The verses have influenced artists from the Renaissance onwards, from Botticelli to Shelley and Tennyson, Andre Gide and Stravinsky. Composed...
A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening

A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening

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Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 136 Poems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems...
Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every Woman

Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every Woman

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Author: Kirsty Gunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 A beautiful and thought-provoking collection of poetry from the world's most inspiring female writers. From the vivid, contemporary voices of Fiona...
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump

The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump

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Author: Rob Sears Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing...
You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead

You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead

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Author: Morgan Harper Nichols Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Sometimes it's difficult to take that first step into your future and embrace the unknown. This illustrated collection of poetry...
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

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Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme...
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

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Author: Jonathan Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of...
Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew

Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew

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Author: Max Egremont Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all...
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

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Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like...
The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad

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Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become...
The Duchess (of Malfi)

The Duchess (of Malfi)

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Author: Zinnie Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 You should know: I sing at parties, I wear colourful dresses, I am headstrong, I won't wear my hair up because...
And Still I Rise

And Still I Rise

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Author: Dr Maya Angelou Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying,...
She Fits Inside These Words

She Fits Inside These Words

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you've been fighting for. Yourself, a peace of mind,...
RENDANG

RENDANG

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Author: Will Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. With an unflinching yet...
Beowulf

Beowulf

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Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who...
Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2

Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2

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Author: Tom Stoppard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The three plays tell the story of the Russian radical opposition in the years before and after the European...