A Kinder Sea by Felicity Plunkett
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
I run as fast as ink but we are both dissolving: when I reach you, we become a corner of the sea. A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences - love letters, elegies, narratives and odes - it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem - From Baudelaire to Anne Carson by Jeremy Noel-Tod
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Category: Poetry
'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer 'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily Telegraph This is t ...Show more
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World by Cleo Wade
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Category: Poetry
With her lyrical, stirring mantras and affirmations, Cleo Wade's second anthology of heartfelt poetry and prose builds on the wisdom of her bestselling book Heart Talk, encouraging you to remain hopeful and harness your personal power to bring positive change in our world. Where to Begin is perfect ...Show more
Poems from the Edge of Extinction by Chris McCabe
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Category: Poetry
One endangered language is dying out every two weeks. Of the 7, 000 languages spoken in the world, over half of these are endangered. By the end of the century, half of the world's current languages will be lost, which will also mean the loss of unique poetic traditions. This book will showcase a co ...Show more
The Making of Poetry - Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
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Category: Poetry
Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The Ancient Mariner and 'Kubla Khan', as well as Coleridge's un ...Show more
Selected Poems: Byron by Lord George Gordon Byron
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his lite ...Show more
The Music of Time - Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
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Category: Poetry
Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Weste ...Show more
Don't Read Poetry - A Book about How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt
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Category: Poetry
An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genreIn Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels pre ...Show more
Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy
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Category: Poetry
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice' its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search f ...Show more
Ladylike by Kate Lilley
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Category: Poetry
Ladylike is Kate Lilley's second volume of poetry, much awaited after her 2002 debut Versary (Salt Publishing). She mines the areas of her scholarly specialisation - the early modern period - as well as contemporary popular culture and matches it with some of the twentieth century's enduring interests s ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell, Various
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Category: Poetry
In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the universal expe ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
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Category: Poetry
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more