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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...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...
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...
Moy Sand and Gravel

Moy Sand and Gravel

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Author: Paul Muldoon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 107 Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the...
It's Fine, It's Fine, It's Fine: It's Not

It's Fine, It's Fine, It's Fine: It's Not

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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...
The Collected Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker

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Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...
Poems

Poems

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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...
Poems

Poems

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Author: Wang Wei Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Strikingly contemporary-feeling poems about Buddhism and luxury from Wang Wei, one of the greatest poets in Chinese literature Wang...
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 Black Unicorn

The Black Unicorn

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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...
A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year

A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year

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Author: Liz Ison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A beautifully packaged anthology of poems from around the world and throughout history, all especially selected for reading aloud, with one...
A Nature Poem for Every Winter Evening

A Nature Poem for Every Winter Evening

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Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A wonderful bedside companion on a winter's evening to enjoy our place in nature, even on a cold wintery night,...
She's Strong, but She's Tired

She's Strong, but She's Tired

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.
The Iliad

The Iliad

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...
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...
Winter Roses after Fall

Winter Roses after Fall

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 There's a harshness in the air; the season is changing its colors. The rain is chilled, icy to the...
Selected Poems 1968-2014

Selected Poems 1968-2014

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Author: Paul Muldoon (Princeton University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war." --The Times Literary Supplement Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers...
Beowulf: Volume 46

Beowulf: Volume 46

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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...
Our Isles: Poems celebrating the art of rural trades and traditions

Our Isles: Poems celebrating the art of rural trades and traditions

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Author: Angus D. Birditt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'They rise together in shoal of one. From shore of isle or coastal town, For these are our fishers of...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

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Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...
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 the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

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Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 In The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, Margaret Atwood rubs shoulders with Claudia Rankine; Lu Xun and Rabindranath...
The Aeneid

The Aeneid

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Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy,...
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...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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Author: John Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of...
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and...
New Names for Lost Things

New Names for Lost Things

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Author: Noor Unnahar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artist An all-new illustrated poetry collection from...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Derek Walcott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work....
Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey

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Author: Rupi Kaur Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 226 This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is...
Dogs: Stories and Poems

Dogs: Stories and Poems

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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)...
Vulnerable AF

Vulnerable AF

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Author: Tarriona Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak....
The Iliad

The Iliad

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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...
The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale

The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale

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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...
Falling Through Love

Falling Through Love

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Author: Akif Kichloo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Falling Through Love submerges readers into Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed...
The Poetry of Birds

The Poetry of Birds

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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....
Unfollowing You

Unfollowing You

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Author: Komal Kapoor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 After prolific growth on social media, Komal Kapoor is utilizing her perceptive understanding of romance in the digital age to present...
American Negro Poetry: An Anthology

American Negro Poetry: An Anthology

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Author: Arna Wendell Bontemps Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps...
A Doll for Throwing: Poems

A Doll for Throwing: Poems

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Author: Mary Jo Bang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and Elegy We...
The Exchange

The Exchange

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Author: Sophie Cabot Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 75 "Black's voice is startling, jagged and implacable, and [her poetry] is steep, precipitous and dazzling." --Los Angeles Times Book Review...
99 Poems: New & Selected

99 Poems: New & Selected

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Author: Dana Gioia (University of Southern California) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Now in paperback, a major career retrospective by the California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia So much of...
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...
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

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Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it...
The Odyssey

The Odyssey

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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,...
Selected Poems: Tennyson

Selected Poems: Tennyson

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Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...
The Erotic Poems

The Erotic Poems

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Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal...
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...
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems

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Author: Lewis Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer 'Twas brillig, and the...
She Felt Like Feeling Nothing

She Felt Like Feeling Nothing

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has...