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Lyric Poems by John Keats
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
One of the greatest English poets, John Keats (1795-1821) created an astonishing body of work before his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 26. Much of his poetry consists of deeply felt lyrical meditations on a variety of themes -- love, death, the transience of joy, the impermanence of youth ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads (HB Clothbound) by William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
When it was first published, Lyrical Balladsenraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classicsedition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original con ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems by William Wordsworth
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield. Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and Coleridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic period an ...Show more
Mabinogi by FRANCIS MATTHEW
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Matthew Francis's poetic retelling of the first four stories of the Welsh national epic The Mabinogi captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world - now in paperback.
Madness by Sam Sax
Category: Education | Series: National Poetry Ser.
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine ...Show more
Men In The Off Hours by Carson Anne
Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry Ser.
Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents ...Show more
Milk Teeth by Rae White
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In the bright mirror morning, I scratchat flaked skin & peel lengthsof stringy flesh to exposecrackle quartz jutting from my neck. In this highly original debut collection, Rae White's edgy and playful poems challenge notions of category, identity, form and gender. Bodies transform, nature morphs an ...Show more
MoonFish by Harry Laing
Category: Children's | Series: Poetry
MoonFish is Harry Laing's sparky new collection of poems featuring eye-catching and fresh art by some of Australia's best known illustrators including Shaun Tan, Leigh Hobbs, Judy Watson and Anna Pignataro. Children will love the humour and catchy rhymes of the twenty-nine poems featuring manic TVs, mon ...Show more
Moonlight on Oleander - Prose Poems by Paul Hetherington
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Paul Hetherington has become a master of the prose poem form, creating intriguing yet hospitable pieces whose tonal, emotional and imaginative range are a delight. Each piece has been carefully wrought to become sharp and revelatory; his graceful cadences reach right into the heart of his subjects. This ...Show more
My Letter to the World and Other Poems (Visions in Poetry H/B) by Emily Dickinson
Category: Education | Series: Visions in Poetry
Visions in Poetry is an innovative and award-winning series of classic poems reinterpreted for today's readers by outstanding contemporary artists in distinctively beautiful editions. This is My Letter to the World and Other Poems by Emily Dickinson is brilliantly illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. The ...Show more
New Collected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry pleiade
Does history tell stories? Yes, if the poet listens carefully. Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created an abidingly popular body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental vigour, keeping her spirit attuned to her art and langua ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.