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Records the dichotomy of
human experience. This
book deals with break-up,
depression, illness and
death. It also reveals an
intense involvement with
nature and a capacity for
healing and love. There
are intimate personal
poems reflecting on
relationships with people
and creatures; poems
which enter the lives of
real and imaginary
characters.
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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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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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Between 1953-57, John
Betjeman read a series of
poems on The Faith in the
West program airing on
the BBC's West of England
Home Service. This
series, called Poems in
the Porch, was so
popular that Betjeman
received constant
requests to publish the
poems. This book features
an important discovery in
the canon of Betjeman's
poems.
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READ ME AT SCHOOL
contains a poem about
school for every day of
the year from the very
best modern and classic
poets. It includes poems
about the start and end
of each term, about
school trips, playtime,
lessons, lunch,
teachers, dinner ladies,
friends, sports days
and much much more. The
size of this book is 21cm
in height and 14cm wide
and has 461 pages.
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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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READ ME was first
published in August 1998
to tie in with the
National Year of Reading.
It was an immediate
success and sold over
180, 000 copies. We are
delighted to be
publishing this tenth
anniversary edition in
the Rhythm and Rhyme
month of the second
National Year of Reading.
'This book contains Emily
Dickinson, Wordsworth,
Gareth Owen, Ian
McMillan, Wes Magee,
William Blake and Seamus
Heaney - an excellent
acknowledgement of the
fact that some days we
feel wordy and broody,
and on other days we feel
as brash as the wind,
and no deeper than the
surface of our skins.' -
Michael Glover,
Independent on Sunday
'The poetic calendar
chosen by Gaby Morgan is
a delight: motley,
wide-ranging and
unpatronising.' Observer
'Great riches are to be
found between the covers
of this unassuming
paperback... this
treasure trove celebrates
the variety of English
verse.' - Beverley
Davies, The Lady. The
size of this book is
19.3cm in height and 13cm
wide and has 489 pages.
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Features many kinds of
equine characters from
war horses to cowboys'
trusty steeds, from
broken-down nags to
playful colts, from wild
horses to dream horses.
This book also features
the famous Trojan horse
in Virgil's Aeneid, only
to see it from a quite
different perspective in
Matthea Harvey's
whimsical Inside the Good
Idea.
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Read Me First is a fun
collection of poems that
will delight all five- to
seven-year olds and
includes everything from
nursery rhymes to longer
classics. All the very
best classic and modern
poets. A book packed with
gems for dipping into
time and time again.
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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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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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The Prophet is Gibran's
most mystical and
powerful book; its poetic
yet accessible essays on
everyday subjects offer
the reader inspiration
and comfort through the
author's timeless wisdom.
This beautiful edition is
illustrated with the
author's own enchanting
drawings.
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Twelve leading Scottish
poets were asked to
supply a selection of new
work appropriate to
Robert Burns' title
Poems, Chiefly in the
Scottish Dialect. This
anthology of contemporary
poetry contains the many
responses from John
Burnside, Robert
Crawford, Douglas Dunn,
Alasdair Gray, W N
Herbert, Kathleen Jamie,
Jackie Kay, and others.
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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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Explores the idealism and
reality of a
multicultural Britain.
The author, whose own
parents came to England
from the Punjab in the
1950s, conjures a jazzed
hybrid language to tell
stories of aspiration,
assimilation, alienation
and love, from a
stowaway's first
footprint on Dover beach
to the disenchantment of
subsequent generations.
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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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Gilgamesh is a born
leader, but in an
attempt to control his
growing arrogance, the
Gods create Enkidu, a
wild man, his equal in
strength and courage.
Enkidu is trapped by a
temple prostitute,
civilised through sexual
experience and brought to
Gilgamesh. They become
best friends and battle
evil together.
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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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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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Whether laugh-out-loud
funny or staring straight
into the abyss, Phil
Bowen's highly
distinctive poems are
written with great
originality, rhythm and
nerve. Here are poems
that pass 'the spelling
test' - casting a spell
that in turn creates a
distinct world whose
landscape readers can
inhabit for the poems'
duration.
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Luljeta Lleshanaku is one
of Albania's foremost
younger poets with a
growing reputation in the
US and Europe. Haywire is
her first British
publication, and draws
on two editions published
in the States by New
Directions. Poetry Book
Society Recommended Tr
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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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A collection of poems
that reminds you of all
those long-forgotten
poems that you were
taught at school,
together with
mini-biographies and
introductions. It
includes: The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner; If;
Dulce et Decorum Est;
Song of Myself; Digging;
and Not Waving But
Drowning.
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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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A selection of poems by
Robert Browning. This
book is part of a series
aimed at the general
reader rather than the
specialist, and as such
carries no critical or
explanatory apparatus.
Other poets featured in
this series include
Christina Rossetti, John
Keats and Gerard Manley
Hopkins.
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Written between August
and December 1938, this
is a record of the
author's emotional and
intellectual experience
during those months; the
trivia of everyday life
set against the events of
the world outside, the
settlement in Munich and
slow defeat in Spain.
Originally published in
1996.
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Robert Burns (1759-96)
was born into a farming
family in Ayrshire,
Scotland. The publication
in 1786 of his first
book, Poems, Chiefly in
the Scottish Dialect,
made him famous
overnight, and saw him
feted by Edinburgh
society. But Burns made
no money from his writing
and quickly fell on hard
times, returning to
farming in Dumfries and,
when that failed, to
work as an Excise
officer. He devoted his
final years to writing
Scottish songs.
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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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'Neptune Blue' fizzes
with wit and invention,
opening beyond the galaxy
and zooming into the mind
and heart, dancing past
the planets as it goes.
Simon Barraclough's new
collection bursts with
crazy hearts and
boisterous planets and
sees the author at his
most playful and musical.
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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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Anne Claire Poirier,
filmmaker extraordinaire,
lost her daughter to
heroin. Yanne, aged
twenty-six, was
strangled. In this text,
Poirier unearths her
daughter's past in an
effort to understand her,
and to understand what
pushes young people to
risk their lives for the
drugs they believe will
set them free.
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From the sun-baked
pebbles and plastic
ice-cream spines that
bedeck the 'The Jetsam
Garden', to the swallows
that nest under the eaves
of a farmhouse in the
Cilento Hills in 'Stop',
this title takes us from
inky, restless seascapes
to the warmth of the
Mediterranean, examining
the connections between
man and 'our material
cousins' in nature.
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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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The Calder valley, west
of Halifax, was the last
ditch of Elmet, the last
British Celtic kingdom to
fall to the Angles. For
centuries it was
considered a more or less
uninhabitable wilderness,
a notorious refuge for
criminals, a hide-out
for refugees. This title
celebrates this area
where the author spent
his early childhood.
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Emily Bronte's poems
throw fascinating light
on both her life and her
work. Many were written
for inclusion in the
prose epic about the
mythical land of Gondal
that she co-authored with
her sister Anne and,
although the epic is
lost, the poems survive.
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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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Robert Burns is one of
the world's greatest
poets. Known as 'The
Ploughman Poet' or simply
'The Bard' in his native
Scotland, Burns
translated a life of
poverty and hardship into
lines of verse which
still touch everybody who
reads them. This
collection includes 'Tam
o' Shanter', 'A Red Red
Rose', 'To a Mouse',
'To a Haggis' and 'Auld
Lang Syne'. 'The facility
of address that makes
Burns great relies on a
skill that language and
rhythm alone cannot
manage: what he
possesses, for all the
perfection of accent and
precision of speech, is
a quality of empathy that
radiates from everything
touched by his
imagination.
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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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Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822) was born in
Sussex and died in Italy
when his sailing boat
overturned while
returning from a visit to
Byron. A radical thinker
and social campaigner,
Shelley wrote some of the
finest lyric verse in the
English language which
confirms his standing as
a major figure in
Romantic literature.
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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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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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Gathers some of the best
poetry by the author from
the mid-1980s onwards.
Ranging from graceful,
evocative lyrics and
mysterious dream-like
narratives through alert
cultural observations and
hilariously inventive
cut-ups, this work
explores poetry as way of
behaving in language that
is also a way of behaving
in the world.
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Summons the poet's past
selves in order of
appearance, as in an
autobiography. This title
includes childhood and
school time that offer up
the amateur theatricals
of themselves, in poems
of vertiginous
retrospect; and other
poems itemize the
professional selves of
the poet's actor-father
Hugh Williams.
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Family is the one thing
we all know about -
whether family gives you
strength, or breaks your
heart, whether your idea
of family stays steadfast
through generations, or
whether your family is a
million miles away from
kids or rosy-cheeked
grannies. This book helps
us think about and
celebrate family moments
and family members.
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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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A rich collection of his
best-loved poems and
stories, as well as
pieces he wrote for radio
and magazines, including
his play Under Milk Wood.
This selection spans
Thomas's writing
lifetime, and it shows
the full range of this
tempestuous and
meticulous artist who
once cheerfully claimed
that he had beast, angel
and madman within him.
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At the start of the
twentieth century,
Rainer Maria Rilke wrote
a series of letters to a
young officer cadet,
advising him on writing,
love, sex, suffering
and the nature of advice
itself; these profound
and lyrical letters have
since become hugely
influential for writers
and artists of all kinds.
This edition deals with
these letters.
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Who are the best young
poets today? Which new
poets are most likely to
become the defining
voices of their
generation? This book
sets out to answer these
questions. It introduces
21 of the young poets of
the 21st century. It
showcases the work of a
talented fresh wave of
poets from Britain and
Ireland.
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Inspired by the 1807
classic by the poet
William Roscoe, The
Butterfly Ball is retold
through delightful verses
composed by William
Plomer and accompanied by
detailed nature notes
from the wildlife expert
Richard Fitter. This
beautifully redesigned
edition contains all of
the original text and
pictures, including new
reproduction of Alan
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A book-length poem that
explores sexuality and
subjectivity as well as
the viability of
narrative itself. It
describes the events
leading up to the
narrator's and his
family's death. It is
ostensibly set outside
London in 1665, during
the bubonic plague.
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Is your life filled with
passionate escapades and
fashionable parties? And
do you look and feel
fantastic all the time?
This book contains all
men need to know about
the best places to pick
up girls, how to handle
illicit affairs, how to
look after a girlfriend
when she has a cold, how
to dress suavely and how
to make women jealous.
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A collection of three
hundred poems from the
Tang Dynasty (618-907) -
an age in which poetry
and the arts flourished.
It features poems about
love, war, the delights
of drinking and dancing,
and the beauties of
nature. It also includes
poems about travel,
grief, about the
frustrations of
bureaucracy, and about
the pleasures and sadness
of old age.
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From a fountain where
'all the roads in the
village unite',
concentric circles expand
into the distance: the
young and old, fields,
a river, a mountain -
the fountain's stone
counterpart, where the
roads end, human time
superimposed on
geological time. This
title evokes a
Mediterranean world with
luminous precision.
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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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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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Focuses on such
characteristic subjects
as: the Caribbean's
complex colonial legacy,
the Western artistic
tradition, the blessings
and withholdings of old
Europe (Andalucia, the
Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam),
the unaccomodating
sublime of the new world,
time's cunning passages,
and more.
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This is a collection of
some of the greatest love
letters of all time,
from 200 of the world's
most articulate lovers.
Love letters both
historic and fictional,
tragic and comic; love
letters written by both
poets and princes; and
each one enchanting.
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This memoir gives an
intimate account of
Rilke's poetic
development told by the
woman who was his guiding
star. From early
intimacy, through the
years in which their
lives radically diverged,
Rilke always turned to
Salome if his poetry was
at a point of change, or
if his personal affairs
were in a turmoil.
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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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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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Louis Simpson is one of
America's most
distinguished poets, the
winner of many literary
awards including a
Pulitzer Prize. Voices in
the Distance is the first
selection of his poetry
to be published in
Britain for over 25
years. His earlier books
were published in the UK
by Oxford University
Press and Secker and
Warburg.
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George Gordon was born in
London in 1788. He
succeeded to a baronetcy
in 1798, and as Lord
Byron he was soon to
become the most famous
poet of his age, as well
as one of its most
notorious characters. His
career spanned a
momentous period in
European history. He left
England in 1816, and
died in Missolonghi in
Greece (where he had gone
to join the forces
struggling for Greek
independence) in 1824.
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The Itchy Sea is an
extraordinarily vivid
collection of poems which
are, above all,
entertaining. The poems
each have a kind of
freshness and cut-through
that will hold the
general reader's
attention. Their concerns
are sex, death, the
soul and a chocolate car.
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This collection is by the
author of Brunizem.
Sujata Bhatt's poems talk
of her native India and
her native tongue -
Gujarati, about America
and Britain, and about
Germany, where she now
lives. Her poems deal
with language, issues of
politics and gender,
place and history.
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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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Elegant, intelligent,
charming and memorable,
these poems reinvent the
pastoral for dark times,
crossing the contemporary
English landscape from
the city to provincial
towns and villages. Their
stylish and original
treatments of the dreamy,
the nightmarish and the
absurd are both
accessible and striking,
both serious and very
funny.
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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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Features the poetry of
railways. This work
includes: Whitsun
Weddings, Night Mail,
Distant View of a
Provincial Town, Two
Wars, and The Branch
Line. Divided up into
chapters entitled
Navigation, Engineering,
Waiting, Travelling and
Musing, it is a pocket
companion for the waiting
room and the train
compartment alike.
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Wessex was the
'partly-real,
partly-dream' county that
formed the backdrop for
most of Hardy's writings
- named after an
Anglo-Saxon kingdom and
modelled on the counties
of Berkshire, Devon,
Dorset, Hampshire,
Somerset and Wiltshire.
The poems deal with Hardy
themes of disappointment
in love and life and the
struggle to live a
meaningful life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This authoritative
edition was formerly
published in the
acclaimed Oxford Authors
series under the general
editorship of Frank
Kermode. It brings
together a unique
combination of Donne's
poetry and prose - all
the major poems,
complemented by rarely
published letters and
extracts from Donne's
sermons - to give the
essence of his work and
thinking.
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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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Goethe has long been
enshrined as the greatest
German poet, but his
admirers have always been
uneasy with the idea that
he did not produce a
great epic poem. This
title proposes that
Goethe did compose an
epic poem, which has
been hidden in plain
view: Faust.
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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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A collection of poems
from a "tenderly
observant" poet who
writes about what all of
us can understand. The
title poem describes the
poet's journey by train
from Hull to London,
using the tones and
rhythms of ordinary
speech and focusing on
the urban landscape of
the industrial north.
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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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London Bridge, Simon
Smith's fourth collection
of poetry, is an
accessible, funny and
immediate book of poems
about life in the City
amidst the contingent
camera-shake and
confusions of the
everyday. The book
concentrates on the
experience of living in
London - a book which is
accessible, contemporary
and sassy.
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Covers English Romantic
poetry from its
beginnings and its
flowering to the first
signs of its decadence.
This title features poets
and their poems in order
of composition,
beginning with
eighteenth-century
precursors such as Gray,
Cowper, Burns and
Chatterton.
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Rimanelli and Serrao met
for the first time in
this scant collection of
sonnets written under the
aegis of the gaze, of
certain thematic and
stylistic preferences
that include the use of
dialect, of a marked
experimentalism and
transgressiveness always
undermining the classical
model of the sonnet.
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Includes 13-line poems
that cover three years of
Ludbrooke's day-to-day
life in multicultural
21st-century Britain: a
batch of near-love
affairs, worries about
the figure he cuts among
friends, battles with
work and alcohol - but
finally a determination
never to give up.
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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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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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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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Insight depends on
attentiveness, but can
also strike us
spontaneously as
revelation. This
collection features poems
that are unified by the
urge to look into things
and reflect on them, but
the responses they
represent are as varied,
and as revelatory, as
the subjects they
address.
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Completing the author's
cycle of family poems,
this book is at once
intense and harmonic,
playful with language,
and rich with
self-awareness and sense
of irony. The opening
poem, with its sequence
of fearsome images of
war, serves as a prelude
to poems of home in which
humour, anger, and
compassion sing together
with lyric energy.
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Poetry and the State sets
out to prove a truth we
hold to be self-evident:
that poetry is necessary
for a humane life. Some
states encourage their
poets, others ignore
them, others imprison
and murder them. We want
to document the varying
but never easy
relationship between
poetry and the state.
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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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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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An attempt to introduce
contemporary poetry to
the general reader by
publishing representative
work by each of three
modern poets in a single
volume, in each case the
selection has been made
to illustrate the poet's
characteristics in style
and form. This anthology
features Roger McGough's
work, alongside that of
Brian Patten and Adrian
Henri.
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