Faces of Love: Hafez...Poets of Shiraz by Hafez; Dick Davis (Translator, Introduction by); Hafez; Jahan Malek Khatun; Obayd-e Zakani
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable liter ...Show more
The Tale of Ise (PB) by Peter Macmillan
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Category: Poetry
One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan.Along with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, The Tales of Ise is considered one of the three most important works of Japanese litera ...Show more
Islamic Mystical Poetry by Mahmood Jamal
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Category: Poetry
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbue ...Show more
My Alexandria by Mark Doty
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Category: Poetry
MY ALEXANDRIA comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes- mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, buts transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic skill and huge emotional power. 'The courage of this book is ...Show more
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
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Category: Poetry
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human ...Show more
The New Testament by Brown Jericho
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Category: Poetry
'To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius' Claudia Rankine Jericho Brown's The New Testament is a devastating meditation on race, sexuality and contemporary American society by one of the most important new voices in US poetry. In poems of immense clarity, lyricism and skill, Bro ...Show more
Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems (PB) by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry | Series: Threebies Ser.
Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing t ...Show more
Rendang by Will Harris
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Category: Poetry
A rising star of contemporary British poetry reflects on race, culture, memory and identity in his first full-length collection.
Selected Poems by Denise Riley
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Category: Poetry
'Wide-ranging, sometimes anguished, her poems are fascinating and often beautiful, and certainly more than usually thought-provoking.' Guardian Denise Riley has pursued her singular path with a determined disregard for poetic fashion: a poet of immense musical gifts and formal skill, as happy in traditi ...Show more
Jackself by Jacob Polley
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Category: Poetry
Jackself is the fourth collection from one of Britain's finest poets, and sees Jacob Polley at the height of his powers. In one of the most original books of poetry to appear in the last decade, Jackself spins a kind of 'fictionalized autobiography' through nursery rhymes, riddles and cautionary tales, ...Show more
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which ...Show more
Love in a Life by Andrew Motion
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Category: Poetry
Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to Motion's distinctive obliquities in a volume where the idea of marriage governs the architecture of each poe ...Show more