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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....
Love & Misadventure 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Love & Misadventure 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition

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Author: Lang Leav Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 An elegant hardcover collector's edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a...
American Melancholy: Poems

American Melancholy: Poems

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one...
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays

William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays

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Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of...
P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris

P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris

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Bayonet and Grass

Bayonet and Grass

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Nicander: The Poems and Poetical Fragments

Nicander: The Poems and Poetical Fragments

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The Drift of Things

The Drift of Things

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A Vision Splendid

A Vision Splendid

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The Golden Apple's of the Sun

The Golden Apple's of the Sun

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The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza

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Pharsalia

Pharsalia

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Propertius: The Poems

Propertius: The Poems

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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...
Selected Poems of John Updike

Selected Poems of John Updike

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Sputnik's Cousin

Sputnik's Cousin

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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...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

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Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
Risible Rhymes

Risible Rhymes

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Author: Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions...
Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

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Author: 'Abdallah ibn Sbayyil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the...
Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

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Author: Hmedan al-Shwe'ir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'),...
The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions

The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions

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Author: Stephen H. West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 408 This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations...
Dropbear: 2022 Stella Prize Winner

Dropbear: 2022 Stella Prize Winner

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Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman

Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman

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Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women

Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women

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Author: Harold Green III Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing...
break your glass slippers

break your glass slippers

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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 a new companion...
All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

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Author: Morgan Harper Nichols Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of...
Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Utter Beggaring of Belief

Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Utter Beggaring of Belief

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Author: Armando Iannucci Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation...
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho

Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho

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By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil's last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction. Amid...
Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind

Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind

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Author: N. Scott Momaday Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 "[Momaday] must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers."-American Scholar "Momaday's poems are rich with description, lush with...
Poems of Henry Lawson Volume 2

Poems of Henry Lawson Volume 2

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A Midsummer EveÕs Dream

A Midsummer EveÕs Dream

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The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough

The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough

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the witch doesn't burn in this one

the witch doesn't burn in this one

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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,...
The Political Works of Robert Browning Volume 1

The Political Works of Robert Browning Volume 1

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Serpentine Futures [RARE]

Serpentine Futures [RARE]

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The Verse of Christopher Brennan

The Verse of Christopher Brennan

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To Provide All People: A Poem in the Voice of the NHS

To Provide All People: A Poem in the Voice of the NHS

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Author: Owen Sheers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 July 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. Owen Sheers, the author of Pink Mist and the...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 An essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves's poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition restores...
Shallow Grave

Shallow Grave

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Author: John Hodge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Set in the appropriately Gothic surroundings of contemporary Edinburgh, Shallow Grave presents a trio of affluent characters whose feckless lives are...
Amnion

Amnion

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Author: Stephanie Sy-Quia Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Amnion is a contemporary lyric epic, journeying from the Philippines to Libya, through France, Spain, and the UK. This debut collection...
Philadelphia, Here I Come

Philadelphia, Here I Come

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Author: Brian Friel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's...
Frozen

Frozen

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Author: Bryony Lavery Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Four days ago phone call from the police They think they have some news for us Can they come over? A...
The House of Shades

The House of Shades

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Author: Beth Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Nothing cuts into us like the family knife. The Webster House. 1965. 1979. 1985. 1990. 2016. Death silences no one, least...
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

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Author: Dipo Baruwa-Etti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 This is bout those men who stripped him of his crown, treated that charcoal skin like concrete. Peace will only come...
The Home Place

The Home Place

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Author: Brian Friel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are...
The Nether

The Nether

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Author: Jennifer Haley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 I've read the studies. No one has been able to draw a conclusive correlation between virtual behaviour and behaviour in-world.The Nether...