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Playing with Matches

Playing with Matches

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Author: Michael Faudet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Playing with Matches is the ultimate collector's edition by internationally best-selling poet, Michael Faudet. A beautiful hardcover gift book that has...
Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

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Author: Bruce Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain...
A Casual Penance

A Casual Penance

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: John Foulcher Format: Paperback...
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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Author: Jane Campion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion,...
Faust, Part I

Faust, Part I

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Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a...
Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

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Author: Edmond Rostand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman...
The Aeneid

The Aeneid

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Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life...
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...
Black Book of Poems II

Black Book of Poems II

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Author: Vincent Hunanyan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This collection offers a refreshingly honest approach to life and love that is realistic and relatable to everyone. Written...
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...
The Poems

The Poems

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Author: Caius Valerius Catullus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic...
Arthurian Romances

Arthurian Romances

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Author: Chretien Troyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien...
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...
Selected Poems: Blake

Selected Poems: Blake

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Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757 1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell

The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell

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Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...
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...
Nature Poems: Treasured classics and new favourites (National Trust)

Nature Poems: Treasured classics and new favourites (National Trust)

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Author: Deborah Alma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated book Seven chapters touch on different aspects of the British...
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...
Toxicon & Arachne

Toxicon & Arachne

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Author: Joyelle McSweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is...
DROPKICKromance

DROPKICKromance

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Author: Cyrus Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 "dropkick this broken heart and make it feel again." From pro-wrestler-turned-poet Cyrus Parker comes a poetic memoir that tells...
Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation: Bilingual Edition

Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation: Bilingual Edition

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Author: Seamus Heaney (Harvard University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of...
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...
Rest in the Mourning

Rest in the Mourning

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and...
The History Boys

The History Boys

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Author: Alan Bennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and...
Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen: An American Lyric

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Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Abraham Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The works of three seventeenth century poets, Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller and John Edmund, brought together in one volume.
Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

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Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose...
Don Juan

Don Juan

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Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age...
The Cinder Path

The Cinder Path

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Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love...
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,...
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...
Granta 160: Conflict

Granta 160: Conflict

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's...
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...
Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

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Author: Coleman Barks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds-erotic, divine, friendship-and Coleman Barks...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo

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Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the...
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 Rupi Kaur Boxed Set

The Rupi Kaur Boxed Set

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Author: Rupi Kaur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Global sensation and internationally renowned author - Rupi Kaur's milk and honey celebrates the challenges and triumphs facing the modern woman....
And Yet: Poems

And Yet: Poems

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Author: Kate Baer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 From Kate Baer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, comes her much anticipated second full-length...
Poems

Poems

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Anywho, I Love You

Anywho, I Love You

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Author: Samantha King Holmes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a collection of poetry, prose,...
Rebus: Long Shadows: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

Rebus: Long Shadows: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

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Author: Ian Rankin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES The stage debut for the legendary detective John Rebus...
Please Love Me at My Worst

Please Love Me at My Worst

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Author: Michaela Angemeer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Notable TikTok creator Michaela Angemeer explores connecting with your inner child, loving the worst parts of yourself, coming out...
In Real Life: An English-Spanish Novel in Poems

In Real Life: An English-Spanish Novel in Poems

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Author: Leticia Sala Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Real love is light The rest is electricity When her love interest surprises her by moving to Spain, it...
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...
Canopy: Poems

Canopy: Poems

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Author: Linda Gregerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from "a contemporary master"*-a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our...
Chameleon Couch: Poems

Chameleon Couch: Poems

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Author: Professor of English Yusef Komunyakaa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry An intimate...
Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl

Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl

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Author: Elmer Rice Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 239 Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre....