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Modern Women Poets: Companion Anthology to Consorting with Angels

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Report copyright infringementby Deryn Rees-Jones (Editor)Modern Women Poets is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Jones's pioneering critical study, Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets. While its selections illuminate and illustrate her essays, Deryn Rees-Jones's superb anthology works in its own right as the best possible introduction to a whole century of poetry by women.The anthology draws together the work of women poets from Britain, Ireland and America as one versio...

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Report copyright infringementby Janet Frame (Author)Janet Frame (1924-2004) was one of New Zealand's foremost modern writers, best-known for her prizewinning novels and for the three-volume autobiography later adapted by Jane Campion into her film "An Angel at My Table". Janet Frame called poetry 'the highest form of literature because you can have no dead wood in a poem'. Its attraction is abundantly evident in her novels where her already 'poetic' prose - intensely lyrical, heavily metaphor...

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Report copyright infringementby George Szirtes (Author)George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. This comprehensive retrospective of his work covers poetry from over a dozen collections written over four decades, with a substantial gathering of new poems. It is published on his 60th birthday at the same time as the first critical study of his work, "Reading ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Sears (Author)George Szirtes is a leading figure in contemporary poetry in England and in Hungary, the country of his birth. His poems explore - in a wide variety of complex, skilfully handled forms - his origins, his life, and his critical engagements with works by other poets and artists. They offer powerful and moving meditations on the roles and functions of the poet in the modern world. "Reading George Szirtes" offers the first sustained analysis of S...

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Report copyright infringementby Clare Pollard (Author)Ovid's Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as Heroines, and it's a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and Roman myth - including Phaedra, Medea, Penelope and Ariadne - addressed to the men they love. It has been claimed as both the first book of dramatic monologues and the first of epistolary fiction. It's also a radical text in its literary transvest...

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Report copyright infringementby Federico Bonaddio (Editor), Antonio Monegal (Contribution by), Chris Perriam (Contribution by)'A Companion to Federico García Lorca' provides a clear, critical appraisal of the issues and debates surrounding the work of Spain's most celebrated poet and dramatist. It considers past and current approaches to the study of Lorca, and also suggests new directions for further investigation. An introduction on the often contentious subject of Lorca's biography is foll...

Will There Really Be a Morning?: Life: A Guide - Poems for Key Stage 2 with Teaching Notes

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Sedgwick (Author)This is a book about the power of poetry to speak about the central themes of what it is to be a human being. The first part is an anthology of specially selected poems. The second part provides detailed notes for teachers on how to use these poems in the classroom. The poems in the book are about morality: how we get on, or don't get on, with each other; how we feel when we are alone; the destruction of the world we live in; childhood; ce...

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Report copyright infringementby Mildred Kiconco Barya (Author)The price of Memory is a collection of 63 poems. The poems in vivid imagery uncover what happens when the pleasurable thrill of being alive is lost in the pain that settles among the familiar and refuses to say goodbye, as in the poems 'Baggage' and 'Maybe.' The subject of memory, remembrance and forgetfulness resound throughout the collection, from the private nostalgic experiences in 'Wastelands, ' 'The Island, ' to the collectiv...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Quinn (Author)Examining the revolution wrought by Catullus in Latin poetry, this volume encapsulates the way in which principles of modern literary criticism could be applied to classical poetry, without ditching the sound philological scholarship of the classical tradition. In its day this book led the way in showing the philogically trained student how to be a critic; equally it can show the critically trained student the importance of a sound philogi...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Griffiths (Author), Alan Halsey (Editor)Reality Street published Bill Griffiths' Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010. This successor volume collects work from the following decade, bringing back into print poetry that appeared in hard-to-obtain small editions or was previously uncollected or unpublished. Bill Griffiths was a poet, Anglo-Saxon scholar, book designer, small press publisher, biker, pianist, archivist and social historian. He died in 200...

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Report copyright infringementby John James (Author)In this volume of James' major works, a number of rare poems are reprinted including "A Former Boiling" and "The Ghost of Jimi Hendrix at Stokesay Castle." Number of Pages: 380 Dimensions: 0.91 x 8.74 x 6.04 IN Publication Date: October 22, 2002

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Thomas (Author), Myfanwy Thomas (Author)Under Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote about the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the celebrated volumes As It Was and World Without End, her letters to Edward, and separate memoirs of her meetings with W.H. Davies, D.H.Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost and W.H.Hudson. The book has been assembled by Myfanwy, Edward's and Helen's youngest daughter. She includes her own e...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Feraca (Author), Robert Brustein (Foreword by)Author of the recent and critically acclaimed memoir, I Hear Voices, Jean Feraca is also an award-winning poet. Her second collection of poems, Crossing the Great Divide, has not been widely available until now but forms a fascinating counterpoint to the story of emergence she reveals in her memoir. Brilliant, passionate, sexual, these poems travel into mythic ancestral landscapes in southern Italy and Sicily...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Kasischke (Author)The poems in Fire & Flower are about the images that hold the world together in the mind of a child, a woman, and the mother she becomes. The metaphors used to describe their lives are mysterious and frightening, and they accumulate in this collection as a full expression of the awe that makes us all live. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.49 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1998 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Shaw (Author)In his gritty and explicit verbal stylings, Scott Shaw takes the reader into a deeply personal exploration of the consciousness of the male mind as its winds its way through a Tokyo night.Author BiographyScott Shaw is a prolific author, actor, artist, filmmaker, photographer, and composer. Shaw's poetry and literary fiction were first published by literary journals in the late 1970s. He continued forward to have several works of poetry and li...

The Wild Muse: The poetry of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, with translations into English

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Report copyright infringementby Marion Tymms (Author)Annette von Droste-Hülshoff has never been accorded the recognition given to other 19th century German poets, though interest in the literary world is now increasing, not least because of her enigmatic reputation as a woman who appears a mass of contradictions; sociable and open, yet almost crippled by introspection. An examination of the considerable work she completed during her short life reveals a fascinating mind and an exceptional tal...

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald Pies (Author)Ron Pies offers a rare poetic journey through his experience as a psychiatrist and as a man in this collection. Pies teaches at Tufts and Harvard Medical School and has published in medical and other journals. He has written widely on the therapeutic uses of poetry and the nature of poetic language. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Nancy Butters. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.5 x 5.5 I...

The Reptilian Interludes (and a Child's Prayer)

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Report copyright infringementby Ross Talarico (Author)C.P. Snow famously suggested that modern humanity had bifurcated itself into people who 'knew' either by way of science or by way of the humanities. Here comes Ross Talarico to heal that rift with exceptional skill, ambition and, to use a Coleridgean word, esemplastic knowledge-knowledge of which a person like me has too often been sadly deprived. Like many another, I predict, I find not only delight but also instruction in reading this lo...

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Report copyright infringementby Tatyana Apraksina (Author), James Manteith (Translator)In 1999, circumstances brought Petersburg artist and writer Tatyana Apraksina from Russia to the far reaches of the American West. On the Pacific's edge, in the natural isolation of the legendary Big Sur coast, Apraksina's cultural perspective required new forms. In the resulting poem cycle, "California Psalms," the internal events of a personal shift connect with the scale of the expansive universe and hum...

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Report copyright infringementby Shailja Patel (Artist)The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritude is a tour-de-force hybrid text that confounds categories and conventions. Part poetic memoir, part political history, Migritude weaves together family history, reportage and monologues to create an achingly beautiful portrait of women's lives and migrant journeys undertaken under the boot print of Empire. Patel, who was born in Kenya and educat...

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Report copyright infringementby Inua Ellams (Author)The second in the ground-breaking mouthmark series, 13 Fairy Negro Tales is a vibrant pamphlet of contemporary poetry. In language scooped directly from a paintbrush, Inua Ellams announced his arrival on the poetry scene, with what has become a runaway bestseller. Written in language that has roots in Keats, hip hop rhymes and Shakespearean narrative, 13 Fairy Negro Tales has sold over 2000 copies since its release. Number of Pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Nina Bahadur (Author)Feeling a way through the electric, breathless experiences of young adulthood, 'Every Single One' is the début pamphlet from Nina Bahadur. From New Year's Eve to the stretches of summer, dealing with prickly relationships and an exhaustive search for identity, these poems are an honest and unabashed exploration of youth, intimacy, and growth. Born in London in 1990, Nina Bahadur is a recent graduate of Princeton University, and an assistant...

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Report copyright infringementby Inua Ellams (Author)Candy-Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars is a document of transformations: the possibilities that walk the fine line between the real and the surreal, the mundane and the extraordinary. Contemporary culture clashes with mythology as Bruce Lee angles for space alongside Prometheus on pages where twin towers burn and yellow hues bleed into London sunsets. Yet is is also a text of conversations: the commerce of possibilities, the transforma...

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Report copyright infringementby Theo Dorgan (Author)rish poet Theo Dorgan's first two collections, The Ordinary House of Love and Rosa Mundi, went out of print quickly; they were never republished despite widespread and ongoing demand. This book gathers in the poems from those early books, and brings them to a new and wider audience. Theo Dorgan is a poet, prose writer, editor, scriptwriter, translator and sailor. His prose account of a transatlantic voyage under sail Sailing for Home (Pengui...

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Report copyright infringementby Remco Campert (Author), Donald Gardner (Translator), Jean Boase-Beier (Editor)Remco Campert is a writer of considerable standing in Holland who came to prominence in the 1950s. A chronicler of alternative Amsterdam life in fiction, as a columnist in a national newspaper, as a film-maker, and above all as a poet, Campert gained a following of English speakers through this translation of his quiet and quirky poetry. Number of Pages: 142 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Francois Jacqmin (Author), Philip Mosley (Translator)Francois Jacqmin is one of Belgium's most influential poets of the twentieth century. This twelfth collection of his poems is inspired by a bleak and beautiful natural landscape, where the falling snow gives rise to a sequence of 112 short poems which are both lyrical and suffused with irony, allusion and paradox. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Tannam (Author)These are poems that are inspiring, moving, sad and funny, poems that make us feel we are not alone, that help us to see what's possible and to be comforted. They explore the small things in life that make it special, but which we often neglect to see. It is a spiritual journey of sharing the oneness of life. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2011

Fun with Poems-A Collection of Poems for 7-11 Year Olds

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Report copyright infringementby Irene Yates (Editor)Fun with Poems contains over 70 poems specially written by well-known poets such as Moira Andrew, Gina Douthwaite, Irene Yates and Trevor Harvey. In addition the book contains some traditional poems so as to provide complete coverage of all types of poetry required by the National Literacy Strategy. All the poems may be photocopied, so you can make multiple copies, overhaead transparencies or even enlarge them to make your own big book! The ...

Grasshopper: The Poetry of M a Griffiths

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Ann Griffiths (Author), M. A. Griffiths (Author)Margaret Ann Griffiths (1947-2009) was born and raised in London and lived for some time in Bracknell then later moved to Poole. Rather than seek publication through traditional channels, she was content to share her work with fellow poets on various Internet forums. On the rare occasions she submitted work for publication, it was typically to online venues. Also known by the Internet pseudonyms 'Grasshop...

The Song of Myself: A New Verse Translation of the Bhagavad Gita

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Report copyright infringementby David Lindley (Author)The Song of Myself, whose title takes its cue from Walt Whitman's celebration of the self, Song of Myself, is a modern, free-flowing verse rendition of the classic Sanskrit text, The Bhagavad Gita. It provides a fresh reading of a much translated work that has become overlaid with both Eastern and Western ideas of spirituality which have obscured, and sometimes distorted, the central teaching: to know what the self is, what action is and w...

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Report copyright infringementby Roddy Lumsden (Editor), Eloise Stonborough (Editor)The Salt Book of Younger Poets showcases a new generation of British poets born since the mid-80s. Many of these poets have used new technologies such as blogs, social networking and webzines to meet, mentor, influence and publish each other. Some of the poets here were winners of the Foyle young poet awards when at school. Some have published pamphlets in series such as tall-lighthouse Pilot and Faber New Poet...

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Report copyright infringementby John Wilkinson (Author)Schedule of Unrest selects from John Wilkinson's collections of poetry published from 1974 to 2008. A growing readership is seeking ways into an impassioned and beautiful body of writing. The unfamiliarity of its surfaces and soundscapes have too long delayed its appreciation. This book, selected by a scholar of Wilkinson's work, will further enlarge his readership, as well as providing a convenient resource for teachers. In one volume, b...