This trade paperback reprints issues 13-15 of the magazine for Kirby fans &

Includes:: a new special section

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This seventh trade paperback completes the compilations of the first thirty regular-size issues of The Jack Kirby Collector the critically acclaimed magazine about Kirby's life & career This volume reprints Jack Kirby Collector 27-30 with in-depth looks at Jack's 1970s Marvel Comics work & his '80s work in comics & animation plus a special two-part focus on how widespread Kirby's influence is! It features rare interviews with Kirby himself plus new interviews with Watchmen's Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Neil Gaiman Bone's Jeff Smith Mark Luke Skywalker Hamill & others! See page-after-page of rare Kirby art including a new special section with over 30 pieces of Kirby art never before published & more! ...

' Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened more astonished more humble' Ted Hughes Poet dramatist critic & editor T S Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962

Includes:: his verse from Prufrock & Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943) &

Includes:: such literary landmarks as The Waste Land & Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats



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The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh&s birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland&s greatest poets From a harsh humble background that he himself described so brilliantly Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry
- a poetry appropriate for a fully independent country both politically & culturally Moving beyond Irish verse&s preoccupation with history national politics & identity he turned to the land & scenery of his native Inniskeen portraying the closely-observed minutiae of everyday rural & urban life in an uninhibited groundbreaking style Lucid various direct & engaging Kavanagh&s poems have a unique place in the canon & a unique accessibility This major new edition is the culmination of many years of work by Antoinette Quinn in creating authoritative texts for Kavanagh&s poetry
- from his early works such as & Inniskeen Road July Evening& to his masterpiece the epic & The Great Hunger& allowing us to see the development of Kavanagh&s genius as never before

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This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath&s mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963 The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive The Colossus as well as from posthumous collections Ariel Crossing the Water & Winter Trees The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes & followed by notes & comments on individual poems There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath&s juvenilia This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry& For me the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication eighteen years after her death of Sylvia Plath&s Collected Poems confirming her as one of the most powerful & lavishly gifted poets of our time& A Alvarez in the Observer ...

With an Introduction by Donald Mc Farlan Robert Burns the most celebrated of all Scottish poets is remembered with great devotion
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Introduction & Notes by RT Jones Honorary Fellow of the University of York This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Includes:: all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940 In his lifetime Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate & he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 His poetry is striking for its many rhythms & popular forms of speech & Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues & extended ballads He is often thought of as glorifying war militarism & the British Empire but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems first published in 1942 & generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling

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It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris & as a poet that he ended his career The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry & verse translations ever to be published as well as the first critical edition It establishes a significant new canon & the commentary draws on a wide range of published sources manuscripts & Beckett's extensive correspondence The notes place each poem in context detailing the history & circumstances of its composition; they indicate significant variants & help explain obscure turns of phrase & allusions (frequently sourced to Beckett's notebooks); they also identify resonances between poems & across Beckett's work as a whole The commentary is written in a lively & engaging style & is intended equally for the general reader the student of modernism & the Beckett specialist ...

The first of the monumental definitive two-volume edition of Williams's Collected Poems for the twenty-first century reader 608 pages Williams William Carlos ...

The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems 18 POEMS TWENTY-FIVE POEMS THE MAP OF LOVE DEATHS & ENTRANCES & IN COUNTRY SLEEPDylan Thomas wrote passionately about life in all its moods & moments from the first thrilling moments of childbirth to the darker moments of death & loss COLLECTED POEMS is introduced by the poet himself with a passionate seashore ' Prologue' in which the self-styled Noah of poetry builds his ark against ruin This edition

Includes:: his last unfinished poem ' Elegy' & the opening of ' In Country Heaven'
- an ambitious project conceived after the dropping of the atom bomb


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