Poetry & Plays

Poetry is written to encourage the reader to visualize a story and explore emotions. Sometimes dark, often with a twist of humor, the reader can be transported into a world...

Trap Landscape charts a course, trick-riding through poetic topography. From cubist paddocks approaching Paris, past council roadworks, and on to the terraced slopes of Hvar, Nicholas Powell surveys the sacred...

Maggie Millner's seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from...

Writing apart from the mainstream of nineteenth-century poetry Emily Dickinson created a language of her own, and her work is both very varied and very consistent in its strength and...

Each text in its own way invites reflection and meditation. The theme running through the pieces is love - a love that is coloured with both tears and smiles. Gibran's...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Love's Labour's Lost...

This book is a Christian introduction to Shakespeare for high school students and includes analysis, questions, and reviw for six of Shakespeare's most meaningful (and enjoyable) plays. "Shakespeare was, as...

Coming Home to Her is a celebration of being human. It is a coming out journey, an exploration of sexuality, femininity, loving, and being loved. _____________________ "This book reads as...

The great poets are now accessible in beautifully produced, in low-priced volumes. Each collection provides a wonderful overview of the poet's major works.

"I have come to have a feeling, almost a superstition, that it is a kind of obligation laid upon me to testify for Rudyard Kipling whenever the opportunity presents itself",...

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')...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of...

This verse autobiography relates the story of the author's younger days set against the places and buildings that were significant in his youth - Highgate, Cornwall, Chelsea, Marlborough, Oxford quads,...

In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico-and directly from the Greek myth itself-Rita Dove explores this relationship...

This presents the original selection of poems as made by Sir Kingsley Amis, which appeared in the "Daily Mirror". One poem was published each day for a year and the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery In the Duke's absence from Vienna, his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient...

With fifty new poems from Britain s favourite poet Pam Ayres, New Poetry Collection is a treat. From wishing your husband was more dashing to becoming a gran for the...

Poetry. After 10 years, Michael Rothenberg is revisiting Paris, by himself, for 28 days. In this unique poetry journal, Rothenberg reflects daily on his trip, in the tradition of the...

M.M.Kaye, author of "The Far Pavilions", demonstrates in her foreword that Rudyard Kipling could seek no more convinced and sympathetic an advocate than herself. She introduces us to Kipling's India...

douard Glissant's most celebrated, scintillating philosophical work - which sets out a new poetic vision for the world 'We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we...

One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

Author: Leon RubinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Heinemann Educational Books, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded spine. This non-fiction account chronicles the monumental undertaking...

Author: Charles OsborneBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre Methuen, London , 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCharles Osborne's W. H. Auden: The Life Of A Poet presents a comprehensive biographical account...

Author: Ann BlaineyBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, London, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: SIGNED BY AUTHOR! Dust jacket has general wear and tear, bumps on bottom corners...

Author: Richard Perceval GravesBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRichard Perceval Graves's A.E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet chronicles the intricate life of the...

Author: George S. KaufmanBinding: HardbackPublished: St Martin's Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner name inside, page edges yellowed, dust jacket has minor wear to...

Author: Peter ForbesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Viking, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling anthology, Scanning The Century: The Penguin Book Of The Twentieth...

Author: Christian MorgensternBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Michigan Press, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition with light bumping on corners. Clean and sturdy copy....

Author: Alec H. ChisholmBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1982Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography chronicles the fascinating existence of C.J. Dennis, an iconic Australian poet...

Author: Ted Hughes; R.J. Lloyd (illustrator)Binding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light bumping on brown boards. Clean and sturdy copy.This collection of...

Author: Banjo Paterson & Henry LawsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Octopus, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn slipcase. Clean and sturdy copies. A Literary Heritage: Banjo Paterson & Henry...

Author: J. M. BarrieBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor marks and specks on boards. Light rubbing on edges. J....

Author: R.L. Brett And A.R. JonesBinding: PaperbackPublished: London: Methuen - University Paperbacks, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly edition of Lyrical...

Author: Katherine BrégyBinding: HardbackPublished: HERBERT & DANIEL, 1912Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light bumping on corners. Frontis loose. Clean...

Author: William Shakespeare; Illustrated by Ian PenneyBinding: HardbackPublished: Barrie & Jenkins, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWilliam Shakespeare's The Sonnets presents a timeless...

Author: John Macqueen And Tom ScottBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe authoritative The Oxford Book Of Scottish Verse presents a comprehensive...

Dorothea Mackellar's anthemic poem My Country captured the heart of the Australian nation when it was first published in 1908, and the love affair has continued for a hundred years....

A new translation by Anthony Esolen Illustrations by Gustave Dore Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic...

The book titled Edward Lear The Life of a Wanderer by the author Vivien Noakes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The plot, brilliant rhetoric and characterization of "Julius Caesar" have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. Introducing this reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides...

A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for...

The book titled Selected Poems and Four Plays of William Butler Yeats by the author M.L. Rosenthal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...