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The Complete Works of J.M. Synge by J. M. Synge
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World and, indeed, this was neither the first nor the last time that Synge's dramas incited passionate disagreements. But, one hundred years on, it's clear that his writings a ...Show more
The Dream of the Poem - Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 by Peter Cole (Translator)
Category: Activity | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense fa ...Show more
The Flaw in the Pattern by Rachael Mead
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 'This is an alive, refreshing and, quite literally, elemental book of water and skin, muscle and fire. Rachael Mead's poems are immediate and grounded whilst entwined with fragility and struggle. They don't shy from the diff ...Show more
The Forward Book of Poetry 2020 by VARIOUS
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Forward Book of Poetry 2020 brings together a selection of the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the 2019 Forward Prizes. In celebrating today's fresh voices alongside new work by familiar names, this anthology offers both an invaluable overview ...Show more
The Good Thief by Marie Howe
Category: Fiction | Series: The National Poetry Series
The heralded debut collection of poems by the author of What the Living Do (Norton, 1997). Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this unique collection was the first sounding of a deeply authentic voice. Howe's early writings concern relation ...Show more
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an a ...Show more
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
Category: Biography | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway...the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotion ready to dissolve into sleep. In The Importance of Mu ...Show more
The Little Edges by Fred Moten
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Poems that play in the sonic texture of discourses Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"--a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018. Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018. Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018. 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' - John Banville, Guardian A noir narrative written with the in ...Show more
The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry Ser.
Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford's hugely anticipated new collection of poetry, The Luckiest Guy Alive, is his first in over thirty years. These are poems as scabrous, wry and vivid as only John Cooper Clarke could deliver. Inimitable and iconic, this collection will be a complete joy for lifelo ...Show more
The Metaphysical Poets by Peter Harness
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Collector's Poetry Library
Is used to group a number of 17th century poets, the most influential of who are John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. They share common characteritstics of wit, inventiveness, and a love of elaborate stylistic manoeuvres. Their style is energetic, uneven and rigorous.