Roger Mc Gough is one of Britains best loved poets & this collection charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poets winning wit accessibility & abiding readability Independent ---------------------------------- Time has confirmed.. .that Mc Goughs talent was much more substantial than many of his long-forgotten detractors suspected. If he was a pop poet it was not in any ephemeral sense. A shy extrovert.. .he has given voice to poetry & found a voice of his own which is humourful introspective irreverent easy on the ear conversational. It is also memorable & enduring & fresh. Age has not withered [his lines] nor diminished their potency. Of how much modern poetry can you say that? Sunday Herald ...

Though sometimes classified with Owen Rosenberg & Sassoon as a war poet he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war & whose main subjects were the English countryside & its people & the solitude of the observing self. The present edition offers the complete poems together with detailed editorial apparatus in what has become acknowledged as the standard edition by R. George Thomas. It also

Includes:: Thomass remarkable prose War Diary of 1917.

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Allan Ahlbergs five poetry books written over a period of twenty-five years
- Please Mrs Butler" " Heard it in the Playground"
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The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarkes first full collection of poems The Sundial in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved & most widely read writers of Wales well-known for her readings for her radio work & her workshops. Gillian Clarke is a severe critic of her own poems--Collected Poems

Includes:: all that she wishes to preserve of her work to date.

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This title offers a unique 15 CD box set of Seamus Heaney reading his 11 poetry collections in their entirety produced by Radio Telefis Eireann the Irish national broadcasting corporation. These include Death of a Naturalist" " Door Into The Dark" " Wintering Out" " North" " Fieldwork" " Station Island" " The Haw Lantern" " Seeing Things" " The Spirit Level" " Electric Light" & " District & Circle"." ...

This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young progressing to the poems in Under the North Star" & " What is the Truth?" & ending with " Season Songs" which Hughes remarked was written within hearing of children. Raymond Briggs brings to the collection two hundred original drawings that capture the wit gentleness & humanity of these poems & make this a book any reader
- child & adult
- will return to again & again."

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Wilde glamorous & notorious more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown & intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years

Includes:: the haunting elegy to his young sister & the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires pays homage to the great theatre stars & poets of his day observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece The Ballad of Reading Gaol tells the painful story of his own prison experience & calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wildes verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.

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This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Includes:: all the poems contained in the Definitive

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The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also

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Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson & Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later when Eliot & Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina & a consistent individuality of style & vision made him a survivor immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness humanity & humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike. ...