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House with a Dark Sky
Roof stands nearly
dead-center between the
traditional and
experimental schools of
the 20th century. The
poems are unashamedly
intellectual, often
complex, yet never
ungenerous, never
unnecessarily obscure.
This is the debut of one
of the most ambitious and
original emerging writers
in the English language.
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Discusses about voices
taking each other for
granted, saying 'etc
etc' and not listening,
nevertheless turning out
to duet. This title
contains double- and
multi-columned poems,
where each column can be
read in its own right (or
left), and also read
across the columns.
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Jill McDonough's first
book gives us fifty
sonnets, each about a
historical execution.
Headed meticulously with
name, date, place,
they are poignant with
the factual, with
eyewitness reports and
the words of the
condemned - so limpidly
framed that one forgets
the skill that
crystallizes all this
into authentic poetry.
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The three arts of poetry,
calligraphy and painting
are regarded in China as
the Triple Excellence,
and they are brought
together here in an
anthology of Chinese love
poems ranging from the
earliest-known works in
the famous Book of Songs
to the work of Chairman
Mao and other
20th-century poets.
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This volume testifies to
the need to protect the
remarkable ruins of the
Indigenous North American
city of Blood Run and the
sacred remains she guards
there in mounded tombs.
The persona poems herein
emanate its character
embraced in architectural
accomplishment designed
in accordance with the
sun and moon and
multitudes of stars
above.
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Ranging in extremes from
the melting tenderness of
unrequited love to the
bitter comedy of
political chaos, this
collection of poems
covering two centuries
includes work by
Lermontov, Tyutchev,
Fet, Annensky,
Mayakovsky, Bely,
Mandelstam, Akhmatova,
Tsvetaeva, Pasternak,
Brodsky and others less
celebrated but no less
extraordinary.
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A collection of poetry
that contains verses from
more than eighty of the
world's favourite poets,
from the thirteenth
century to the present
day. It includes such
leading lyricists as
Burns, Keats, Tennyson,
T S Eliot, Philip
Larkin and Seamus Heaney
- taking in the work of W
H Auden, Dylan Thomas,
Wilfred Owen, and many
others along the way.
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Jane Holland's third
collection, Camper Van
Blues, is a book of
journeys, both real and
imaginary. The title
sequence is a British
road movie told through
poems, one woman alone
in a camper van, the
tale of an addictive,
self-destructive
personality. With gritty
humour, her poems
explore relationships,
loss, folkore, and
ecology.
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This edition of Paradise
Lost is introduced by
Philip Pullman, author
of His Dark Materials,
whose debt to Milton he
acknowledges in his
personal tribute.
Beautifully illustrated
with the twelve
engravings from the first
illustrated edition of
1688, this is a special
edition of Milton's epic
poem.
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An anthology of
contemporary poetry from
Northern Ireland with an
introduction that gives
the reader historical
perspective into
political and cultural
contexts. It contains a
brief selection of
classic poems by
established authors that
introduces the featured
poets (born between 1956
and 1975).
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A collection of poems
from the winner of the
1995 Nobel Prize for
Literature. The poems
discover the possibility
of a new beginning in
many subjects and
circumstances. Private
memories, classical
scenes and humble
domestic objects are
endowed with talismanic
significance and friends
and relatives are invoked
for their promise and
steadfastness.
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In this second collection
of her poetry, Jean
Sprackland shows us the
vertigo and vulnerability
of human experience with
clarity. Her poems are
awash with water: a
flooded forest, acid
rain, an inland tidal
wave, jelly fish washed
up on the beach that lay
like saints/unharvested,
luminous.
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Lines up a chorus of over
two hundred poems
addressing environmental
destruction. Whether the
subject - or target - is
the whole earth or
landscapes, homelands
and cities (polluting
rivers and seas, fouling
the air, felling trees
and forests), there are
poems here to alert and
alarm anyone willing to
read or listen.
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In EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
POCKET POETS series,
this gift book with silk
ribbon markers is an
anthology of over one
hundred poems
encompassing the entire
spectrum of feelings
about war: pride,
compassion, courage,
anger, fear,
excitement, anguish,
even laughter. The poets
range from Horace and
Virgil to Stevie Smith,
from Ancient China to
Primo Levi.
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Simon Armitage is one of
the compelling figures in
contemporary literature,
conspicuously because of
his charismatic style,
but also because he has
brought into poetry an
irreverent, streetwise
gusto. This book is
organised thematically in
order to stress that
Armitage is a
considerable intellectual
who tackles a wide range
of issues.
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A collection of stories
that reconnects
storytelling with its
oral roots - each story
is designed to be read
aloud. It includes work
by influential
story-tellers, including
Louis De Bernieres,
Blake Morrison, Salman
Rushdie, Ian McEwan,
Hanif Kureishi, an
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Part of a series of small
hardcover volumes devoted
to the world's classic
poets, with silk ribbon
markers and headbands and
gold stamping on the
front and spine. This
book includes all
Shelley's celebrated
lyrics and substantial
extracts from the larger
dramatic poems.
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Accomplishes what has
proven to be so difficult
for poets across time: a
deeply satisfying balance
of the spiritual and
political. This book
focuses on both singular
and communal: the self on
its journey through the
world and our
responsibilities as a
people for the precarious
state of that world.
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Part of a series of small
hardcover volumes with
silk ribbon markers and
headbands and gold
stamping on the front and
spine, and devoted to
the world's classic
poets. This is a
selection of Rossetti's
work, from poems of
fancy to the famous
sonnets of unrequited
love to her intense,
devotional poet
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Rudyard Kipling, the
unrivalled poet laureate
of the common man, has
augmented the language
with his fragmented
phrases of diverse verse.
This book features over
700 pages of Gunga Din
and Danny Deever, Judy
O'Grady and the Colonel's
Lady, all of them
sharing a similar
resonance that made
Rudyard Kipling the
literary lion of the
Empire.
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A book of poems that is
at once personal and
political. It registers
the shock waves of global
tumult in the most
intimately domestic of
settings, while at the
same time constantly
feeling its way outward
through private
experience into the
larger arenas
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The bestselling poetry
anthology for GCSE and
A-Level! This popular
anthology for schools
contains poems,
extracts, historical
documents and
illustrations, as well
as differentiated oral
and written tasks. The
poems cover wars from the
late 18th
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A leader of the
20th-century Irish
nationalist movement,
William Butler Yeats is
also among that nation's
greatest poets. This
selection includes poetry
from every period of his
life, dealing with:
love, death, old age,
ambition, the poet's
craft, and the history
and destiny of Ireland.
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This delightful anthology
gives readers a teeming
litter of literary
tributes to the
ever-fascinating,
ever-mystifying cat. Some
of the characters
highlighted are Yeats's
Minnaloushe, Christopher
Smart's Jeoffry, Lewis
Carroll's Cheshire Cat,
and T.S. Eliot's Rum Tum
Tugger.
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Holding in balance the
ecological and the
technological, ancient
and modern, this work
sings languages and
cultures, people and
habitats burgeoning on
the brink of extinction.
Assured in its rhymes and
cadences, it is often
attentive to poetry in
other tongues, not least
Gaelic.
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A poem that travels
across seasons, through
a variety of Scottish
highland and island
landscapes, from dawn to
dusk, which is a long
walk, along the coast,
over mountain and
moorland, through pine
and birch forest, ending
on a shore where the sea
offers another
knowledge/wild and cold.
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Beginning with Dante's
liberation from Hell,
this work relates his
ascent to the Mount of
Purgatory. Dante observes
the sinners who are
waiting for their release
into Paradise, and
through these encounters
he is himself transformed
into a better man. The
second part of an epic
poem, it is a Christian
allegory of sin,
redemption and
enlightenment.
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A collection of poems
that deals with the
author's memories of Sri
Lanka: the rituals and
traditions, history and
geography, the smells
and tastes, and colours
of his first home. It
presents an elegy for
lost childhood, for a
culture and language lost
to the turmoil of
history.
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John Steffler has written
poems of profound
philosophical curiosity
grounded in the
landscapes of
Newfoundland, Southern
Ontario, Greece, and
New Zealand. This book
presents his work
together with a selection
from Steffler's three
previous much-praised
volumes: The Grey
Islands, The Wreckage of
Play, and That Night We
Were Ravenous.
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John Keats (1795-1821)
abandoned a career in
medicine to write poetry,
until his life was cut
tragically short by
tuberculosis at the age
of twenty-five. By that
time, he had published
three volumes of verse to
an unreceptive critical
response. But as the
nineteenth century wore
on Keats
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Bilingual selection of 50
of Pablo Neruda's best
poems, many newly
translated, with an
introduction by Lawrence
Ferlinghetti. This
edition results from an
initiative including the
Neruda Estate and leading
Neruda scholars and
translators to produce an
authoritative
introduction to his work.
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A tenth anniversary
edition of Chris Emery's
black comedy debut, Dr.
Mephisto, made
simultaneously available
in print and electronic
form. Flamboyant, funny,
poignant and excessive,
Emery's modernist work is
a picaresque, historical
road show of hell from
the brink of the 21st
Century.
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In a world where
everything has many
possible explanations,
Katy Evans-Bush examines
love, loss, art and
time itself under a
variety of lenses. With
humour and imagination
she shows that the core
of love remains the same
while everything around
it shapeshifts; and that
an egg is never just an
egg.
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At the centre of this
collection, which
includes groups of
elegies and love poems,
there is a short sonnet
sequence that
concentrates themes
apparent elswehere in the
book: individual
responsibility for
choices; the artist's
commitment to his
vocation; the
vulnerability of all in
the face of death.
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Joan Margarit is one of
Spain's major modern
writers, known for his
mastery of the Catalan
language, and has become
Spain's most widely
acclaimed contemporary
poet. This edition draws
on two collections
published since his 2006
Bloodaxe retrospective,
Tugs in the Fog: Selected
Poems.
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A collection of poems for
adults. Erotic,
physical, completely
open and fully engaged
with the mortal urgency
of life, it tackles the
author's themes robustly
and yet with great
sensitivity, constantly
defining and reimagining
what it is to be a man in
today's world, living
fully in the moment.
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Features a selection of
the works of W B Yeats,
which includes the
narrative poem The
Wanderings of Oisin. This
title also includes poems
in alternative versions;
and in many other cases
it provides significant
variants, so that Yeats'
struggle to revise his
poetry can be experienced
with unusual immediacy.
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An odyssey for the
twenty-first century.
Beginning on America's
East Coast, this poem
journeys restlessly
through the European
continent, exploring the
inheritance of the Old
World upon Walcott's
native St Lucia, and
sees the poet wondering
about his own sense of
abandonment, whether to
leave a place is to lose
it.
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Acknowledged as a crucial
influence on Burns,
Robert Fergusson was a
remarkable poet in his
own right. Published to
mark the 250th
anniversary of
Fergusson's birth, this
edition contains
Fergusson's finest poems
in both Scots and
English, and features an
introductory essay,
orthography, a section
of notes and a glossary.
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From diamonds hidden in a
grandmother's pantry to a
nun teaching a sex
education lesson,
Birdhouse is full of life
- and its flip-side. It
includes an award-winning
sequence of elegies for
the poet's family who
were victims of the
holocaust. Already widely
published, this is Anna
Woodford's first
full-length collection.
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Traces a journey, across
continents and from youth
to maturity. This book
moves from memories of
childhood in Guyana,
through a long elegiac
exploration of the
shootings at Virginia
Tech University in 2006,
to the reflective closing
section. It celebrates
how imagination and
memory enable us to cope
with violence and death.
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Starts 'in an age of bare
hands and cast iron' and
ends 'as the automatic
lock/clunks shut' in the
eerie conditions of a
menaced twentieth-first
century. This book
includes a number of
prose poems and
translations. It offers
resistance as the poet
gathers his staying
powers and stands his
ground in the hiding
places of love and
excited language.
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Charts the unique
literary talent of one of
Britain's most
influential poets and
social critics. Ranging
from protests against
police brutality to
eulogies for departed
friends and celebrations
of urban life, Linton
Kwesi Johnson's use of
Jamaican dialect to
tackle British subjects
contributed to a
revolution in the notion
of literary English.
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This is no tricks poetry
- it stands as witness,
chronicles of lives lived
without safety nets,
mostly from the point of
view of people living
them. You might not like
these people much, but,
after this, you'll know
them if you see them. And
one of them might be you.
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A comprehensive selection
of Kavanagh's poetry. It
includes selection that
range from initial
offerings such as
Tinker's Wife and
Inniskeen Road: July
Evening to his tragic
masterpiece The Great
Hunger (1942) and
celebratory verse, To
Hell with Common Sense
and Come Dance with Kitty
Stobling.
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A collection that starts
'in an age of bare hands
and cast iron' and ends
'as the automatic lock /
clunks shut' in the eerie
new conditions of a
menaced twenty-first
century. This title
images out of a childhood
spent safe from the
horrors of World War II -
railway sleepers, a
sledgehammer, the
'heavyweight silence' of
cattle out in rain.
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The original edition of
this work was entitled A
Student's Guide to Seamus
Heaney. It has been
revised throughout and
contains additional
chapters on each of
Heaney's poetry
collections published
since the first edition,
as well as separate
discussions of his work
as a translator and
essayist.
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Poems about maps, cats
and dim sum sit alongside
nature and landscape in
James Goodman's inventive
debut collection.
Claytown mixes a sense of
the awesome beauty of
nature with feelings of
loss, using the
devastated landscapes of
the mid-Cornwall clay
country to explore a
wider human relationship
with the natural world.
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A collection of poems on
the adventures, dreams,
hopes, and imaginings of
two singular characters:
Jaham, the Father of
Clouds, a semi-nomadic
poet and auto mechanic,
and his inseparable
sidekick Bald Adham,
also a virtuoso mechanic
as well as pillar of
Muslim piety.
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A selection of Tony
Harrison's poems, which
includes sixty-three
poems from his sonnet
sequence The School of
Eloquence and the long
poem 'v', a meditation
in a vandalized Leeds
graveyard, written
during the miners'
strike, which created
such a stir when it was
broadcast on television
in the late 1980s.
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Describes a world in
free-fall. This work
presents poems that
explore the ambivalence
and dark unease of
slippage and collapse,
and they also carry a
sense of the miraculous
made manifest amongst the
ordinary: the mating of
natterjack toads, ice on
the beach, or 'the fund
of life' in a used
contraceptive.
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Presents a collection of
poetry on a range of
subjects as diverse as
love letters, sheep,
and DIY. This anthology
is useful not only for
the diversity of subjects
that are included, but
also for the range of
literary styles and
devices that are used to
en
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Collects poems that
engage in a search for
meaning and order in the
everyday and in the
extraordinary - a locust
officer tracking swarms
in an African desert, a
hobbyist building a
replica of the world out
of matchsticks, and a
chance encounter with the
French mystic Simone Weil
playing video games in a
Torquay arcade.
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Goose Music is a
co-written by two notable
poets Andy Brown and John
Burnside. The poems are
intense lyrics paying
close attention to
natural detail, and
explore ideas of
identity, self, myth,
landscape and place in
these times of great
environmental change.
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A collection of poems
whose frontiers extend
between the fantastic
images of people from
remote cultures and the
indigenous poet in a
shared quarter of the
city; the glimpsed
frontiers between the
pasts and presents of
places; the virtual
boundaries between scenes
from across the world and
their instant arrival as
news.
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Includes poetry from We
Brits that gives an
outsider-insider view of
British life in poems
which both challenge and
cherish our peculiar
culture and hallowed
institutions. This book
also includes Weblines
that contains three
Caribbean myths of
transformation: the
steeldrum, the limbo
dancer, and Anansi, the
spider trickster god.
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Auden, Lewis, MacNeice
and other key poets of
the 'Thirties' were
children of the First
World War, obsessed by
war and by communalism
and by the
class-struggle. But from
within their strongly
defined unity of ideals,
a varied body of poetry
emerged. This book
arranges the poetry to
make a 'critical essay'
of the period.
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Features poems that
explore the life of the
real Alice Liddell
(1852-1934), who sat
still for Charles
Dodgson's camera and
inspired the Alice books
that prompted his rise to
fame as Lewis Carroll.
This work depicts the
emotional life of Alice
Liddell as girl and
woman.
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The haiku is a tiny poem
of Japanese origin,
usually only three lines
long and a total of
seventeen syllables,
that uses concrete images
to create a sensation one
can almost touch, smell
and taste. This anthology
features haiku from poets
- both ancient and modern
- from around the world.
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A painter, poet and
engraver, William Blake
(1757-1827) was born in
London. Poetical
Sketches, his first
volume of poetry, was
published in 1783 and was
followed by several of
his best-known works:
Songs of Innocence
(1789), The Book of
Thiel (1789), The
Marriage of Heaven and
Hell (1790-93), Songs of
Experience (1794) ad
Jeusalem (1804-20).
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Drawing on various
sources, this book
examines varieties of
love, faith, hope and
illusion, to suggest an
unusual possibility: that
when the search for what
we expected to find - in
the forest or in our own
hearts - ends in failure,
we can now begin the
hard and disciplined
quest for what is
actually there.
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A collection of poems in
which questions of belief
and trust, of identity
and knowledge, mingle
with more mundane
considerations, such as
the problems of owning a
dog, and the
vicissitudes of the job
market. Simon Armitage
was the 1993 Sunday Times
Young Writer of the Year.
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This collection of Seamus
Heaney's work,
especially in the series
of 12-line poems entitled
Squarings, shows he is
ready to re-imagine
experience and to credit
marvels. The title poem
is typical in that it
begins with memories of
an actual event, then
moves towards the
visionary.
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Using conversations with
people who live and work
on the River Dart in
Devon as a poetic census,
Alice Oswald creates a
narrative of the river,
tracking its life from
source to sea. The voices
are varied and idiomatic
- poacher, ferryman,
sewage worker, mill
worker, forester and
swimmers.
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The concept of the
Echoing Reflection is the
idea of constant self
examination, and finding
the same things time and
time again. These poems
are what I have found
within my personal
reflections and examining
the people and the world
around me. ISBN:
978-0-9559839-0-0
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In her second book of
poems Sinead Morrissey's
worlds grow more diverse,
encompassing the Orient,
the Antipodes, America
and an Ireland which
recent history has
changed and yet not
deeply, a country
observed through eyes
that travel and time have
made dispassionate and
disabused.
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Asks the essential,
answerless questions
about human existence:
What are we doing here?
Is it really here? And
why here? In this title,
the author states that it
is nearly always possible
to take notes, even if
these habitually
contradict each other.
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Brings together many
favourite poems from the
author's four collections
- The Adoption Papers,
Other Lovers, Off Colour
and Life Mask - as well
as some previously
uncollected poems, and
some lively poetry for
younger readers. The
poems draw on her own
life and the lives of
others to make a tapestry
of voice and communal
understanding.
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Function as experiments
in epistemology. The
poems in this work
explore the subject's
continuity with the
world, including the
world of artifice and
technology. By occupying
various shifting subject
positions, they seek to
address the cognitive,
spiritual and erotic
experiences, longings
and desires that come
with living in the
material world.
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I saw a tramp last night
the way the old dog
walked with dotted,
tired fur down nobody's
alley being nobody's dog.
..past the empty vodka
bottles past the peanut
butter jars, with wires
full of electricity and
the birds asleep
somewhere, down the
alley he went - nobody's
dog moving through it
all, brave as any army.
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This selection includes
poems from all stages of
Rainer Maria Rilke's
career, beginning with
the delicate works of his
early years, through the
poems he wrote in French,
and concluding with his
mature masterpieces
Sonnets to Orpheus and
the Duino Elegies.
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Distinguished as both a
great novelist and a
great poet, Thomas
Hardy's writing career
spanned more than 60
years. A master of the
short lyric and the vivid
narrative, Hardy is the
poet of remembrance and
tender regret; but he is
also an ironist with
sharp observations of
human frailty.
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Includes poems which
derives from the paradox
between immanence and
constancy of the spirit
that infuses daily life
and its provisional,
intractable nature.
Through these poems,
this title demonstrates
that we exercise our
aliveness when we reach
into the essence of
experience, attempting
to grasp exactly that
which our grasp cannot
contain.
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Haunting and enigmatic,
Virgil's Eclogues
combined a Greek literary
form with scenes from
contemporary Roman life
to create a work that
inspired a whole European
tradition of pastoral
poetry. For despite their
rustic setting and the
beauty of their phrasing,
the poems in Virgil's
first collection are also
grounded in reality.
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This poet blends
breath-taking imaginative
flights with an earthy
physicality. Essentially
love poems from first to
last page, Eleanor
Cooke's poetry is set
largely in England - the
England we'd like to
return to; but an England
where the dark is
ever-present, and
there's no escape from
the present or the past.
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Part of a series of small
volumes with silk ribbon
markers and headbands and
gold stamping on the
front and spine, and
devoted to the world's
classic poets. This is a
collection of love
poetry, ranging from
ancient China, Japan,
Greece and Rome to
contemporary Europe and
America.
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A poem-journal of
beekeeping that
chronicles the life of
the hive, from the
collection of a small
nucleus on the first day
to the capture of a swarm
two years later. It
observes the living
architecture of the comb,
the range and locality
of the colony; it
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Averno, a crater lake in
southern Italy, was for
the Romans the entrance
to the underworld, both
gateway and impassable
barrier between the
living and the dead. This
collection shows Averno
as the only source of
heat and light in a world
turned to icy winter.
Both epic and intimate in
scope, it explores the
enduring drama of love
and death.
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A collection of the lyric
verse, narrative verse
and letters of John
Keats. This volume
contains a selection of
sonnets and other short
poems, both versions of
Hyperion, extensive
sections from Endymion
and the complete texts of
Isabella, Lamia and The
Eve of St Agnes.
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Consolidating and
expanding on the vision
of his two previous
collections, Longley
takes the reader through
the various hells we have
made this century, from
the fields of Flanders,
through Terezin and
Auschwitz to the troubled
north of Ireland. In
images drawn from Italy,
America and Japan he
explores the fundamentals
of home and civilisation.
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Come on troops. Let's
take check: Finn Bar,
slightly ruffled but
still in fighting form.
Maggie, could do with a
full nights sleep but
otherwise all in order.
In a new flat, three
children play hide and
seek. Hiding from the
world, needing to be
found, their one shared
focus a mobile phone.
Will it ring? and who
will call?
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A collection of poems by
Ramprasand Sen, written
in Bengal in the 18th
century. The works
express his passionate
devotion for the Great
Mother Goddess,
primarily in her
manifestation as Kali,
the dark goddess and
gaurdian of the cycles of
birth and death.
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Features poems that are
concerned with navigation
and with choice; with how
to live in an
increasingly urbanised,
global, technological
world; how to orient
oneself as, for example,
a woman in a still
largely patriarchal
society; and with how to
make moral choices when
the options seem either
rich to embarrassment or
shamefully narrow.
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A collection of poems
that navigate through a
beguiling sequence of
interior and exterior
landscapes, whether
revisiting Ovid,
negotiating the perils of
one composer's attempt to
step into the shoes of
another or describing,
from shifting
perspectives, a
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Ruth Padel is an
award-winning poet who
has also become renowned
as a guide to reading
poetry. Here, she uses
poems by some of our
finest poets to look at
the idea of the journey,
through literature and
through life. In an
increasingly unstable
world, she argues, we
need poetry to help us to
see afresh and understand
the journeys of our
lives.
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Cellulose nitrate was
introduced in 1889, and
used until the 1950s as
the - frighteningly
flammable - basis of film
stock. This book of poems
presents a meditation
upon the birth of the
moving picture, the
allure of the film still,
the aesthetics of the
early horror film, and
the contemporary
'intermission' that moors
us out of time.
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Occupying a key position
in the history of western
art, this book allows
the author to communicate
with his readers as he
intended. It helps the
readers to experience the
mystery and beauty of his
poems as he first created
them, discovering for
themselves the intricate
web of symbol and meaning
that connects word and
image.
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C P Cavafy is one of the
most singular and
poignant voices of
twentieth-century
European poetry,
conjuring a magical
interior world through
lyrical evocations of
remembered passions,
imagined monologues and
dramatic retellings of
his native Alexandria's
ancient past. This title
includes selected poems
of Cavafy.
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Comprises of a study of
poetry produced in
Austria between the
demise of the Third Reich
and Austria's
re-attainment of
sovereignty in 1955. This
book demonstrates the
problems for modern
poetry in the handing of
historical events. It
offers the understanding
of Austrian poetry and
the reworking of an
Austrian literary
identity.
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When Edward Thomas was
killed at the Battle of
Arras in 1917 his poems
were largely unpublished.
But in the years since
his death, his work has
come to be cherished for
its rare, and sustained
vision of the natural
world. This title offers
an introduction to this
one of the resonant - and
relevant - of poets.
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Composed towards the end
of the first millennium
of our era, the
Anglo-Saxon poem
"Beowulf" is a Northern
epic and a classic of
European literature. In
this new translation,
Seamus Heaney has
produced a work that is
true, line by line, to
the original poem.
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Doris Kareva is Estonia's
leading female poet, and
her work has been
translated into over 20
languages. Her eleventh
collection, Shape of
Time, is more restrained
in style than her earlier
works, but its themes
are the same - love and
its great enemies, death
and time - and the poems
retain the romantic
bravado that makes her
work so compelling.
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Building on the
achievement of the
award-winning collection,
Between Here and There,
this collection of poems
addresses the theme of
imprisonment. It deals
with: the actual prisons
of eighteenth-century
Europe; the prison of our
own limited perceptions
of experience,
particularly of other
cultures; and the prison
of the mortal human body
itself.
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In this exuberant
anthology, Wendy Cope
attempts to prove that
misery does not have all
the best lines. Here is a
collection of poems which
is unashamedly happy:
poems about love,
places, the beauty of
the natural world, about
company and solitude,
music, food and drink
and books.
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With its roots in the
devotional verse of the
early Christian church
and the long lyric poems
of the Irish bards,
Irish poetry has a rich
and robust tradition both
of engagement and
self-reflection.
Thematically organized
and spanning many
centuries, this
selection features a
section of Gaelic poetry
in translation.
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Mantiq al-tayr (the
conference of the birds)
is an elaborate allegory
with many digressions. It
describes how all the
birds (human souls) set
out in search of the
Simurgh (the godhead).
All but 30 die and the
survivors realize that
they themselves are t
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